Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 206, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1925 — Page 8

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TARZAN 1 -I of THp APES By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

BEGIN HERE John Clayton. Lord Greystoke. 1* appointed to a British post in Africa. May, 1888. he and Lady Alice Rutherford. bin wife, sail from Dover. During mutiny all officers on the Fuwalda are killed and the Claytons are landed with their possessions* on isolated jungle shores. Clayton records their strange life. A year after their son is bora. Lady Alice dies. Clayton is killed by Kerchak, an ape. Kala. a mother ape. s.eals the Clayton child and drops her own dead babe in the cradle. Kala nurses the white child mid 10 years Tarzan (meaning white skin), dim!}* 'as well as the apes. He gains access to the Clayton hut and from pictures in a child s primer learns that he is a man. a different tribe than the apes, that Sabor is a lioness, etc. He copies the letters with pencils found in an old drawer. At 18 he understands nearly all he reads in his father's books, but never having seen a white iuan, cannot speak the English language. Savages escaping from white officers invade territory near Tarzan’s home. Kulonga. son of Mbonga. their king, kills Kala with a poisoned arrow. At the edge, of Mbonga's village Tarzan strangles Kulonga with a lasso and strips him of his belongings. He surveys the village from a high tree ana steels a supply of arrows, leaving the headgear of Kulonga as evidence of hl ® GO It ON WITH THE STORY The tribe continued to find the hunting good in the vicinity of the beach, and so Tarzai of the Apes varied his archeryi practice with further Investigation of his father’s choice though little , store of books. It was during this period that the young English lord found hidden in the back of one of the cupboards in the cabin a small metal box. The key was in the lock, and a few moments’ investigation and experimentation were rewarded with the successful opening of the receptacle. In it he found a faded photograph of a smooth-faced young man, a golden locket studded with diamonds, linked to a small gold chain, a few letters and a small book. Tarzan examined these all minutely. The photograph he liked most of all, for tfie eyes were smiling and the face was open and frank. It was his father. The locket, too, took his fancy, and he placed the chain about his neck In Imitation of the ornamentation he had ~spen to be so common -among the black men he had visited. The brilliant stones gleamed strangely against his smooth, brown hide. The letters he could scarcely decipher, for he had learned little or nothing of script, so he put them back in the box with the photograph and turned his attention to the book. This was almost entirely filled with fine script, but while the little bugs were all familiar to him, their arrangement and the combinations in which they occurred were strange and entirely incompresensible. Tarzan had long since learned the use of the dictionary, but much to his sorrow and perplexity it proved of no avail to him emergency. Not a word of all trat was writ in the book could he find, and so he put It back in the metal box, but with a determination to work out the mysteries of it later on. Poor little ape-man! Had he but known It, that tfny, baffling mystery held between its seal covers the key to his origin, the answer to the strange riddle of his strange life. It was the diary of John Clayton, Lord Greystoke—kept In French, as had always been his custom. 'Porzan replaced the box In the cupboard, but always thereafter he carried the features of the strong.

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smiling face of his father In his heart, and in his head a fixed determination to solve the mystery of the strange words in the black book. At present he had more important business in hand, for his supply of arrows was exhausted, and he must needs Journey to the black men’s village and renew it. Early the following merning he set out, and, traveling rapidly, he came before midday to the clearing. Once more he took up his position In "the great tree, and, as before, he saw the women In the fields and the village street, and the cauldron of bubbling poison directly beneath him. For hours he lay awaiting his opportunity to drop down unseen and gather up the arrows for which he had come; but nothing now occurred to call the villagers away from their homes. The day wore on, and still Tarzan of the Apes crouched above the unsuspecting woman at the iiauldron. Presently the workers in the fields returned. The hunting warriors emerged from <he forest, and when all were within the palisade the gates were closed and barred. Many cooking pots were now in evidence about the village. Before each hut a woman presided over a boiling stew, while little cakes of plantain, and cassava puddings were to be seen on every hand. Suddenly there came a hall from the edge of the clearing. Tarzan looked. It was a party of belated hunters returning from the north, and among them they half led, half carried a struggling animal. As they approached -the village the gates were thrown open to admit them, and then, as the people saw the victim of the chase, a savage cry rose to the heavens, for the quarry was a man.

As he was dragged, still resiting, into the village street, the women and children set upon him with sticks and stones, and Tarzan of the Apes, young and savage beast of the jungle, wondered at the cruel brutality of his own kind. Sheta, the leopard, alone of all the jungle folk, tortured his prey. The ethics of all the others meted out a quick and merciful death to their victims. Taraan had learned frdm his books but scattered fragments of the ways of human beings. When he had followed Kulonga through the forest he had expected to come to a city or strange houses on 'wheels, puffing clouds of black smoke from ahuge tree stack In the rof of one of them—or to a sea covered with mighty floating buildings which he had learned were called, variously, ships and boats and steamers and craft. He had been sorely disappointed with the poor little village of the blacks, hidden away In his own Jungle, and ■with not a single house as large as his own cabin upon the distant beach. He saw that these people were more wicked than his own apes, and as savage and cruel as Sabor, herself. Tarzan began to hold his own kind in but low esteem. Now they had tied theta, poor victime to a great post near the center of the village, directly before Mbongu s hut, and here they formed a dancing, yelling circle <jf warriors about him, alive with flashing knives and menacing spears. In a larger circle squatted the women, yelling and beating upon drums. It reminded Tarzan of the Dum-Dum, and so he knew what to expect. He wondered if they would spring upon their meat while it was still alive. The Apes did not do such thingS as that. The circle of warriors about the cripging captive drew closer and closer to their prey as they danced in wild and savage abandon to the maddening music of the drums. Presently a spear reached odt and pricked the victim. It was the signal for fifty others. Eyes, ears, arms and legs were pierced; every Inch of the poor writhing body that did not cover a vital organ became the target of the cruel lancers. The women and children shrieked their delight. The warriors licked their hideous lips in anticipation of the feast to come, and vied with one another in the savagery and loathesomeness of the cruel Indignities with which they tortured the still conscious prisoner. \ Then it was that Tarzan of the Apes saw his chance. All eyes were fixed upon the thrilling spectacle at the stake. The light of day had given place to the darkness of a moonless night, and only the fires in the Immediate vicinity of the orgy had been kept alight to cast a restless glow upon the restless scene. Gently the lithe boy dropped to the soft earth at the end of the village street. Quickly he gathered up the arrovrs—all of them this time, for he had brought a number of long fibers to bind them into a bundle. Without haste he wrapped them securely, and thftn, ere he turned to leave, the devil of capriciousness en-

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tered his heart. He looked about for some hint of a wild prank to play upon these strange, grotesque creatures that they might be again aware of his presence among them. • Dropping his bundle of arrows at the foot of the tree, Tarzan crept among the shadows at the, side of the street until he came to hut he had/entered on thfe occasion of his first visit. Inside all was darkness, but his groping hands soon found the object for which he sought, and without further delay he turned again toward the door. He had taken but a step, however, ere Ms quick ear caught the sound of qjjproaching footsteps immediately without. In another instant the figure of a woman darkened the entrance of the hut. Tarzan drew back silently to the far wall, and his hand sought the long, keen hunting knife of his father. The wonfan came quickly to the center of the hut. There she paused for an Instant feeling about with her hands for the thing she sought. Evidently it Was not in its accustomed place, for she explored ever nearer and nearer _ the wall where Tarzan stood. So close was she now that the ape-man felt the animal warmth of her naked body. Up went the hunting knife, and then the woman

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turned to one side and soon, a guttural “ah" proclaimed that her search had at last beA Successful. Immediately she turned,and left the hut, and as she passed through the doorway Tarzan saw that she carried a cooking pot in her hand. He followed closely after her, and as ( he reconnoltered from the shadows of the doorway he saw that all the women of, the village were hastening to and from the various huts with pots and kettles. These they were filling with water and placing over a number of fires near the stake where the dying victim now hung, an inert and bloody mass of suffering. Choosing a moment when none seemed near, Tarzan hastened to his bundle of arrows beiteath the great tree at the end of the village street. As on the former occasion he overthrew the cauldron before leaping, sinuous and catlike, lr to the lower branches of the forest giant. Silently he climbed to a great height until He found a point where he could look through a leafy opening upon the scene beneath him. The women were now preparing the prisoner for their cooking pots, while the men stood about resting after the fatigue of their mad revel. Comparative quiet reigned in the village. Tarzan raised aloft the thing he had pilfered from the hut, and, with aim made true by years of fruit and cocoanut throwing, launched it toward the group of savages. Squarely among them it fell, striking one of the warriors full upcfri the head apd felling him to the ground. Then it rolled among the women and stopped beside the half butchered thing they were preparing to feast Jifion. All gazed In consternation at it for an instant, and then, with one accord, broke and ran for their huts. It was a grinning human skull which looked up at them from the ground. The dropping of the thing out of the open sky was a miracle well aimed to work upon their superstitious fears. Thus Tarzan of the Apes left them filled with terror *tt this new manifestation of the presence of some unseen and unearthly evil power which lurked In the forest about their village. Later, when they discovered the overturned cauldron, and that once more their arrows had been pilfered, it commenced to dawn upon thens that they .had offended some great god who ruled this part of the jungle by placing their village there without propitiating him. From then

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