Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 198, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 December 1924 — Page 8

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TARZAN ± of THE APES By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

BEGIN HERE TODAY John Clayton. Lord Greystone. is appointed to a post tn British West . Africa. In May. 1888. he and Lady Alice Rutherford, his bride of three month* s* t sail from Dover At Freetown a month later, they charter the Fuwalda. a small sailing vessel, for the last leg of their journey. During mutiny all the officers a£ the boat are killed and the Claytons are landed with the-ir belongings on tropical shores Clayton keeps a record of their strange life. Several months later Ladv Acre is attacked by a huge ape and the shock leaves her mentally unbalanced That night a little son is born. A year later Lady Alios passes quietly sway. While off guard. , Clayton is killed by an infuriated ana and his companions. Kala a mother ape whose babe had died, seized the little son of Lord and Ladv Clayton I ami drops her own dead babe in tha cradl". Off to the woods she goes and cares for the white child as her own. GO ON WITH THE BTOKY Once satisfied Clayton was j dead. Kerchak turned his attention to the thing which lay upon the bed, : covered by a piece of sailcloth. Gingerly he lifted one corner of the shroud, but when he saw the body of the woman beneath he tore the cloth roughly from her form and seized the still, white throat in his huge, hairy hands. A moment he let his fingers sink deep into the cold flesh, and then, realizing that she was already dead, he turned from her, to examine the i contents of the room; nor' did he ( again molest the body of either Lady Alice or Sir John. The rifle hanging upon tlio wall caught his first attention; it was for this strange, death-dealing thunderKtick that he had yearned for, months; but now that it was within j his grasp he scarcely had the j temerity to seize It. Cautiously he approached the thing, ready to flee precipitately' should it speak In Its deep roaring j tones, as he had heard it speak before, the last words to those of his kind who, through ignorance or rashness, had attacked the wonderful white ape that had borne it. l>eep in the beast’s intelligence was something which assure*! him that the thunder-stick was only dangerous when in the hands of one who could manipulate it, but yet it was several minutes ere he could bring himself to touch it. Instead, he walked back and forth along the floor before it. turning his head so that never once did his eyes leave the object of his desire. Using his long arms as a man uses crutches, and rolling his huge carcass from side to side with each stride, the great king ape paced to and fro, uttering deep growls, occasionally punctuated with that ear-piercing scream, than which there is no terrifying noise in all the jungle. Presently' he halted before the rifle. Slowly he raised a huge hand until it almost touched the shining barrel, only to withdraw it once more and continue hia hurried pacing. It was as though the great brute by this show of fearlessness, and through the medium of his wild voice, were endeavoring to holster up his courage to the point which would permit him to take the rifle in his hand. Again he stopped, and this time succeeded in forcing his reluctant hand to the cold steel, only to snatch it away almost immediately and resume his restless beat. Time after time this strange ceremony was repeated, but on each occasion with increased confidence, until. finally, the rifle was torn from its hook and lay in the grasp of the great brute. Finding that it harmed him not, Kerchak began to examine it closely. He felt of it from end to end. peered down the black depths of the muzzle, fingered the sights, the breech, the stock, and finally the trigger. During all these operations the apes who had entered sat huddled near the door watching their chief, while those outside strained and crowded to catch a glimpse of what transpired within. Suddenly Kerchak’s finger closed upon the trigger. There was a deafening roar in the little room and the apes at and beyond the door fell over one another in their wild anxiety to escape. Kerchak was equally frightened; so frightened, in fact, that he quite forgot to throw aside the author of that fearful noise, but bolted for the door with it tightly clutched in one hand. As he passed through the opening, the front sight of the rifl? caught upon the edge of the in-swung door with sufficient force to close it tightly after the fleeing ape. When Kerchak came to a halt a short distance from the cabin and discovered that he still held the rifle, he dropped it as he might have dropped a red-hot iron, nor did he again essay to recover it—the noise was too much for his brute nerves; hut he was now quite convinced that the terrible stick was quite harmless by itself if left alone. It was an hour before the apes could again bring themselves to approach the cabin to continue their investigations, and when they finally did so, they found to their chagrin that the door was closed and so securely fastened that they could not force it. The 'cleverly constructed latch which Clayton had made for the door had sprung as Kerchak passed

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out; nor could the apes find means of ingress through the heavily barred windows. After roaming about the vicinity for a short time, they started back for the deeper forests and the higher land from whence they had come. Kala had not once come to earth with her little adopted babe, but now Kerchak called to her to descend with the rest, and as there was no note of anger in Ills voice she dropped lightly from branch to branch and joined the others on their homeward march. Those of the apes who attempted to examine Kala’s strange baby were repulsed "with bared fangs and low menacing growls, accompanied by words of warning from Kala. When they assured her that they meant the child no harm she permitted them to come close, but would not allow them to touch her charge. It was as though she knew tlxat her baby was frail and delicate and feared lest the rough hands of her fellows might injure the little thing. Another thing she did, and which made traveling an onerous trial for her. Itemembering the death of her own little one. she clung desperately to the new babe, with one hand, whenever they were upon the march. The other young rode upon their mothers’ hacks; their little arms tightly clasping the hairy necks be fore them, while their legs were locked beneath their mothers’ arm pits. Not so with Kala; she held the small form of the little Lord Greystoke tightly to her breast, where the dainty hands clutched the long black hair which covered that portion of her body. She had seen one child fall from her back to a terrible death, and she would take no further chances with this. CILVPTER V Tlio White Ape T r ~~~~ HXDERhV Kala nursed her little waif, wondering silently why it diii not gain strength and agility as did the little apes of | other mothers. It was nearly a year I from the time the little fellow came ; into her possession before he would ' walk alone, and as for climbing—my, i but how stupid he was! Kala sometimes talked with the : older females about her young hope- | ful, hut none of them could uni derstand how a child could he so i slow and backward in learning to care for itself. Why, It could not even find food alone, and more than twelve nioons had passed since Kala had come upon it. Had they known that the child ! had 6een thirteen moons before it i had come into KaJa's possession they | would Rave considered iLs case as ; absolutely hopeless, for the little ! apes of their own tribe were as far i advanced in two or three moons as was this little stranger after twentyfive. Tublat, Kala’s husband, was sore- | ly vexed and hut for the female’s ! careful watching would have put the | child out of the way. "He will never he a great ape,” he argued. “Always will you have jto carry him and protect him. What \ good will he be to the tribe? None; | only a burden. j "Let us leave him quietly sleeping among the tall grasses, that you may i bear other and stronger apes *to ! guard us in our old age.” “Never. Broken Nose,” replied | Kala. "If I must carry him forj ever, so be it.” And then Tublat went to Kerchak ito urge him to use his authority j with Kala, and force her to give up I little Tarzan, which was the name j they had given to the tiny Ivord Greystoke, and which meant “White- [ Skin.” But when Kerchak spoke to her j about it. Kala threatened to run '■ away from the tribe if they did not leave her in peace with the child; and as this is one of the inalienable rights of the jungle folk, if they be dissatisfied among their own peo- | pie. they bothered her no more, for Kala was a fine clean-limbed young female, and they did not wish to lose her. As Tarzan grew he made more rapid strides, so that by the time he was 10 years old he was an excellent climber, and on the ground could do many wonderful things which were beyond the powers of his little brothers and sisters. In many ways did he differ from them, and they often marveled at his superior cunning, but in strength and size he was deficient; for at 10 the great anthropoids were fully grown, some of them towering over six feet in height, while little Tarzan was still but a half-grown boy. Yet such a boy! From early infancy he had uihd his hands to swing from branch to branch after the manner of his giant mother, and as he grew older he spent hour upon hour daily speeding through the tree tops with his brothers and sisters. He could spring twenty feet across space at the dizzy heights of the forest top, and grasp with unerring precision, and without apparent jar, a limb waving wildly in the path of an approaching tomad.o He could drop twenty feet at a stretch from limb to limb in rapid descent to the ground, or he could

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JHRISTMAS was good to Mayor James Burrows and t___J Police Capt. O. L. Main at I Kokomo. Stork made both of them | grandfathers. i Marion fire department was called | out at midnight with the temperai ture 10 below zero. It was a large J fiery cross made of logs which had fallen to the ground and gave the appearance of a house being on fire. Muncle Malleable Foundry gave SIO,OO to its employes as a Christmas gift. Avon Burk, president of the Decatur Industrial Association, has appointed C. E. Bell, O. L. Vance and H. J. Yager as a committee to nominate directors for the organization. It was a sad Christmas for the family of John Sullivan at Lafayette. He fell and was killed en route home Christmas eve with a load of Christmas packages. M” UNCIE has a “king of the mouth harp.” Harry Swan, t- .J fireman, entertains citizens at the fire station. Miss Wanda Wyatt at Portland had a Christmas tree that didn’t cost her anything. Someone put it in her parked auto. She couldn’t And the owner. William Hershey of Dayton is suffering from a swollen eye received when a piece of wood he was chopping flew in his face. Joseph Meihl, school boy, did a “slide kelley slide” on the ice at Attica. Fell and broke his arm. N J . I AMES is names. Frank Honeycut of Seymour found LT.,.m. twenty-five pounds of wild honey in a tub in a fence corner. W. LI. Thom, Wabash High School coach, is a newly-wed. • Married Miss Ruby Fann Brumley. CABIN BURNS; ONE DIES Farmer Loses Life in Pioneer Ix>g Home. By Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind., Dec. 27.—Funeral services were held today for William Nay, 76, pioneer farmer, who burned to death Friday in a fire that destroyed his log cabin. James Nay, a brother, and William Jr., a nephew, escaped.

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