Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 203, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1925 — Page 8

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TAR Z A N 1 of THE APES By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

BEGIN HERE John Clayton. Lord Oreyatoke. is appointed to a British post In Africa. May. 1888, he and Lady Alice Rutherford. bis wife, sail from Dover. During- mutiny all offioera on the Fuwaida are killed and the Claytons are landed with their belongings on isolated ningle shores. Clayton records their strange life. A year afte* their son is bom Lady Alice dies. Clayton is killed by Kerch ak. an ane. Kala, a mother ane steals the Clayton child and droDS her own dead babe n the cradle. Kerchak flees from the Clarton hut when a gun discharges mid the door springs shut behind him. Kala nurses the white babe, and at ten years Tar/an (meaning white skin) climbs as well as the apes. Tarzan unlocks the door of • the Clayton cabin and from the Dietures in a child's Drtmer learns that he is a man. a different tribe than the apes; that the little apes are monkeys. Sabor a lioness. Histah a snake, Tantor an elephant—and so he learns to read. The apes hold a Dum-Dum ceremony and Tarzan tries to get a share of a great beast the apes are devouring. GO ON WITH THE STORY At last he reached the fast disappearing feast and with his sharp knife slashed oft a more gene* aus portion than he had hoped for, an entire hairy forearm, where it protruded from beneath the feet of the mighty Kerchak, wha was so busily engaged in perpetuating the royal prerogative of hogging that he failed to note the act of lese-majeste. So little Tarzan wriggled out from beneath the struggling mass, clutching his grizzly prize close to his breast. Among those circling futilely the outskirts of the banqueters was old Tublat. He had been among the first at the feast, but had retreated with a goodly share to eat in quiet, and was now forcing his way back for more. So it was that he spied Tarzan as the boy emerged from the clawing, pushing throng with that hairy forearm hugged firmly to his body. Tublat’s little, close-set, blood-shot, pig eyes shot wicked gleams of hate as they fell upon the object of his loathing. In them, too, was greed for the toothsome dainty the boy carried. But Tarzan saw his arch enemy as quickly, and divining what the great beast would do he leaped nimbly away toward the women and children, hoping to hide himself among them. Tublat, however, was close upon his heels, so that he had no opportunity to seek a place of concealment, but saw that he would be put to It t oescape at all. Swiftly he sped toward the surrounding trees .and with an agile bound gained a lower limb -with one hand, and then, transferring his burden to his teeth, he Climbed rapidly upward, closely followed by Tublat. Up, up he went to the waving pinnacle of a lofty monarch of the forest where his heavy pursuer dared not follow him. There he perched, hurling taunts and Insults at the raging,, foaming beast fifty feet below him. And then Tublat went mad. With horrifying screams and roars he rushed to the ground, among the females and young, sinking his great fangs into a dozen tiny necks and tearing great pieces from the backs and breasts of the females Who fell into his clutches. In the brilliant moonlight Tarzan witnessed the whole mad carnival of rage. -He saw the females and the young scamper to the safety of the trees. Then the great bulls in the center of the arena felt the mighty fangs of their demented fellow, and With one accord they melted into the black shadows of the overhanging forest. TJhere was but one in the amphitheater besidh Tublat, a belated fe‘male running swiftly toward the tree where Tarzan perched, and close behind her came the awful Tublat. It was Kala, and as quickly as Tarzan saw that Tublat was gaining on her he dropped with the rapidity of a falling stone, from branch to branch, toward his foster mother. Now she was beneath the over-

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hanging limbs and close above her crouched Tarzan, waiting the outcome of the race. 3he leaped into tfye air grasping a low hanging branch, but almost over the head of Tublat, so nearly had he distanced her. She should have been safe now but there was a rending, tearing sound, the branch broke and precipitated her full upon the head of Tublat, knocking bim to the ground. Both were up in an instant, but as quick as they had been Tarzan had been quicker, so that the infuriated bull found himself facing the man-child who stood between him and Kala. Nothing could have suited the fierce beast better, and with a roar of triumph he leaped upon the little Lord Qreystoke. But his fangs never closed in that nut brown flesh. A muscular hand shot out and grasped the hairy throat, and another plunged a keen hunting knife a dozen times into the broad breast. Like lightning the blows fell, and only ceased when Tarzan felt the limp form crumple beneath him. As the body rolled to the ground Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his life-long enemy and raising his eyes to the full moon threw back his fierce young head and voiced the wild and terrible cry of his people. One by one the tribe swung down from their arboreal retreats and formed a circle about Tarzan and his vanquished foe. When they had all come Tarzan turned toward them. “I am Tarzan,” he cried. “I am a great killer. Let all respect Tarzan of the Apes and Kala, his mother. There be none among you as mighty as Tarzan. Let his enemies beware.” Looking full Into the wicked, red eyes of Kerchak, the young Lord Greystoke beat upon his mighty breast and screamed out once more his shrill cry of defiance.* CHAPTER VIII The Tree-Top Hunter The morning after the Dum-Dum the tribe started slowly back through the forest toward the coast. The body of Tublat lay where it had fallen, for the people of Kerchak do not eat their own dead. The march was but a leisurely search for food. Cabbage palm and gray plum, pisang and scitamlne they found in abundance, with wild pineapple, and occasionally small mammals, birds, eggs, reptiles and insects. The nuts they cracked between their powerful jaws, or, If too hard, broke by pounding between stones. *

Once old Sabor, crossing their path, sent them scurrying to the safety of the higher branches, for if she respected their number and their sharp fangs, they on their part held her cruel and mighty ferocity in equal esteem. Upon a low hanging branch sat Tarzan directly above the majestic, supple body as it forged silently through the thick jungle. He hurled a pineapple at the ancient enemy of his people. The great beast stopped and, turning, eyed the taunting figure above her. With an angry lash of her tail she bared her yellow fangs, curling her great lips in a hideous snarl that wrinkled her bristling snout in serried ridges and closed her wicked eyes to two narrow slita of rage and hatred. With back-laid ears she looked straight into the eyes of Tarzan of the Apes and sounded her fierce, shrill challenge. And from the safety of his overhanging limb the ape-child sent back the feaisome answer of his kind. For a moment the two eyed each other in silence, and then the great cat turned into the jungle, which swallowed her as the ocean engulfs a tossed pebble. But into the mind of 'lh.rzan a great plan sprang. He had Killed the fierce Tublat, so was he not therefore a mighty fighter? Now would he track down the crafty Sabor and slay her likewise. He would be a mighty hunter, also. At the bottom of his little English heart beat the great desire to cover his nakedness with clothes, for he had learned from his picture books that all men were so covered, while monkeys and apes and every other living thing went naked. f Clothes, therefore, must be truly a bodge of greatness; the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things. Many moons ago, when he had been much smaller, he had desired the skin of Sabor, the lioness, or Numa, the lion, or Sheeta, the leopard, to cover his hairless body that he might no longer resemble hideous Histah, the snake; but now he was proud of his sleek skin, for it betokened'his descent from a mighty race, and the conflicting desires to go naked in 'prideful proof of his ancestry, or to conform to the customs of his own kind and wear hideous and uncomfortable apparel found first one and then the other in the ascendency. As the tribe continued their slow way through the forest after the passing of Sabor Tarzan’s head was filled with his great scheme for slaying his enemy,, and for many days thereafter he though of little else. On this day, however, he presently had other and more immediate interests to attract his attention. ' Os a sudden it became as midnight; the noises of the Jungle| How Fat Actress Became Slender Many stage people now depend entirely upon Marmola Prescription Tablets for reducing and controlling fat. One clever actress tells that she reduced steadily and easily by using this new form of the famous Marmola Prescription. Now, by taking Marmola Prescription Tablets several times a year, she Seeps her weight just right. All drugssts sell Marmola Prescription Tabled at one dollar for a. box or If | you prater you can secure them direct from tEh Marmola Cos., General Motore | Bldg., rwtrol.t Mich. If you have not tried theiMk do so. They are pleasant to taka auntteptlve.—Advertisement.

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ceased - the trees stood motionless as though in paralyzed expectancy of some great and imminent disaster. All nature waited—but not for long. Faintly, from a distance, came a low, sad moaning. Nearer and nearer it approached, mounting louder and louder In volume. The great trees bent in unison as though pressed earthward by a mighty hand. Further and further toward the ground they inclined, and still there was no sound save the deep and awesome moaning of the wind. Then, suddenly, the jungle giants whipped back, lashing their mighty tops in angry and deafening protest. A vivid and blinding light flashed from the whirling, inky clouds above. The deep canonade of roaring thunder belched forth Its fearsome challenge. The deluge came—all hell broke loose upon the jungle. The tribe huddled, shivering from the cold rain, at the bases of great trees. The lightning darting and flashing through the blackness, showed wildly waving branches, whipping streamers and bending trunks. Now and again some ancient patriarch of the woods, rent by a flashing bolt, would crash in a thousand pieces among the surrounding trees, carrying down numberless branches and many smaller neighbors to add to the tangled confusion of the tropical jungle. Branches, great and small, tom ; away by the ferocity of the tornado, hurtled through the wildly waving verdure, carrying death and destruction to countless unhappy denizens of the thickly peopled world below. For hours the fury of the storm continued without surcease, and still the tribe huddled close in shivering fear. In constant danger from filling trunks and branches and paralyzed by the vivid flashing of lightning and the bellowing of thunder 'they crouched in pitiful misery until the storm passed. The end was as sudden as the beginning. The wind ceased, the sun shone forth—nature smiled once more. The dripping leaves and branches, and the moist petals of gorgeous flowers glistened in the splendor of the returning day. And, so—as Nature forgot, her children forgot, also. Busy life went on as it had been before the darkness and the fright. But to Tarzan a dawning light had come to explain the mystery of clothes. How snug he would have been beneath the heavy coat of Sa-

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bor! And so was added a further incentive to the adventure. For several months the tribe hovered near the beach where stood Tarzan’s cabin, and bis studies took up the greater portion of his time, but always when journeying through the forest he kept his rope in readiness, and many were the smaller animals that fell into the snare of the quick thrown noose. Once it fell about the short neck of Horta, the boar, and his mad lunge for freedom toppled Tarzan from the overhanging limb where he had lain In wait and from whence he had launched his sinuous coil. The rtilghty tucker turned at the sound of his falling body, and, seeing only the easy prey of a young ape, he lowered his head and charged madly at the surprised youth. Tarzan, happily, was uninjured by the fall, alighting catlike upon all four far outspread to take up the shock. He was on his feet in an instant and, leaping with the agility of the monkey he was, he gained the safety of a low limb as Horta, the boar, rushed futilely beneath. Thus It - was that Tarzan learned by experience the limitations as well as the possibilities of his strange weapon. He lost a long rope on this occasion, but he knew that had it been Sabor, who had thus dragged him from his perch the outcome might have been very different, for he would have lost his life, doubtless, into the bargain. It took him many days to braid a new rope, but when, finally, it was done he went forth purposely to hunt, and lie in wait among the dense foliage of a great branch* - right above a well-beaten trail that led to water. Several small animals passed unharmed beneath him. He did not want such insignificant game. It would take a strong animal to test the efficacy of his new scheme. At last came she whom Tarzan sought, with lithe Sinews rolling beneath shl) imering hide; fat and glossy came Sabor, the linoness. Her great padded feet fell soft and noiseless on the narrow trail. Her head was high in ever alert attention; her long tail moved slowly in sinuous and graceful undulations. Nearer and nearer she came to where Tarzan of the Apes crouched uponfhis limb, tne coils of- his long rope poised ready in his hand. (Continued in Next Issue) Copyright, A. C. McClurg & Cos., 1914.

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