Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 207, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1925 — Page 8

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TARZAN 1 of THE APES By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

BEGIN HERE May, 1888. John Clayton. Lord Greystoke, and Lady Alice Rutherford, hie wife. Bail from Dover for a British post in Africa. During mutiny all officers on the Fuwalda are killed and the Claytons are landed on Isolated jungle shores. A year after their son Is horn. Lady Alice dies. Clayton la killed by an ape. A mother ape steals the Clayton child and drops her own dead babe In the cradle. She nurses the white child and at 10 years Tarzan (meaning white skin), climbs like an ape. He gains access to the Clayton hut and from pictures In a child’s primer learns that he is a man. At 18 he understands nearly all he reads in his father's hooks, but cannot speak English. He finds a metal box containing his father's photo, diary and a locket which he places about his neck. As the diary Is written In French Tarzaz. does not learn the riddle of his strange life. Savages escaping from white officers invade territory near Tarzan's home. He strangles Kulonga. son of Mbonga. their king. On a visit to their village to steal arrows he sees them kill a man and prepare to eat him. Tarzan keeps the savages alarmed with his secret pranks. ~ GO ON WITH THE STORY But tho seed of fear was deep sown, and had he but known it, Tarzan of the Apes had laid the foundation for much future misery for himself and his tribe. That night he slept in the forest not far from the village, and early the next morning set out slowly on his homeward march, hunting as he traveled. Only a few berries and an occasional grub worm rewarded his search, and he was half famished when, looking up from a log he had been rooting beneath, he saw Sabor, the Jioness, standing in the center of the trail not twenty paces from him. The great yellow eyee were fixed upon him with a wicked and baleful gleam, and the red tongue licked the longing lips as Sabor crouched, worming her stealthy way with belly flattened against the earth. Tarzan did not attempt to esoape. He welcomed the opportunity for which, in fact, he had been searching for days past, not now armed only with a rope of grass. Quickly he unslung his bow and fitted a well-daubed arrow, and as Sabor sprang, the tiny missile leaped to meet her in mid-air. At the same instant Tarzan of the Apes jumped ro one side, and as the great cat sti-uck the ground beyond him another death-tipped arrow sank into Sahor’s loin. With a mighty roar the beast turned and charged once more, only to be met with a third arrow full in one eye; but this time she was too close upon the ape-man for-the latter to sidestep the on-rushing body. Tarzan of the Apes went down beneath the great body of his enemy, but with gleaming knife drawn and striking home. For a moment they lay there, and then Tarzan realized that the inert mass lying upon him

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was beyond power ever - again to injure man or ape. With difficulty he wriggled from beneath the great weight, and as he stood erect and gazed down upon the trophy of his skill, a mighty wave of exultation swept over him. With swelling breast he placed a food upon the body of his powerful enemy, and, throwing back his fine young head, roared out the awful challenge of the victorious bull ape. The forest ecAoed to the savage and triumphant paean. Birds fell still, and the larger animals and beasts of prey slunk stealthily away, for few th§r® were of all the jungle who sought for trouble with the great anthropoids. And in London another Lord Greystoke was speaking his kind in the House of Lords, but none trembled at the sound of his soft voice. Sabor proved unsavory eating, even to Tarzan of the Apes, but hunger served as a most efficacious dlsguisie to toughness and rank taste, and ere long, with well-filled stomach, the ape-man was ready to sleep again. First, however, he must remove the hide, for it was as much for this as for jmy other purpose that he had desired to encompass {he destruction of Sabor. Deftly he. removed the great pelt, for he had practiced often on smaller animals. When the task was finished he carried his trophy to the fork of a high tree, and there, curling himself securely in a crotch, he fell into deep and dreamless slumber. What with loss of sleep, arduous exercise and a full belly, Tarzan of the Apes slept the sun around, awakening about noon of the following day. He straightway repaired to the carcass of Sabor, but was angered to find the bones picked clean by other hungry denizens of the jungle.

Half ab hour’s leisurely progress through the forest brought to sight a young deer, and before ever the little creature knew that an enemy was near a tiny arrow had lodged in its neck. So quickly the virus worked that at the end of a dozen leaps the deer plunged headlong into the undergrowth, dead. Again did Tarzan feast well, but this time Jffe de did not sleep. Instead, he hastened on toward the point where he had left the tribe, and when he had found them proudly exhibited the skin of Sabor, the lioness. “Look!” he cried, “Apes of Ker chak. See what Tarzan, the mighty killer, has done. Who else among you has ever killed one of Numa’s people? Tarzan is mightiest among you, for Tarzan is no ape. Tarzan is ” But here he stopped, for in the language of the anthropoids there no word for man, and Tarzan could only write the word In English; he could not pronounce it. The tribe had gathered about to look upon the proof of his wondrous prowess, and to listen to his words. Only Kerchak hung hack, nursing his hatred and his rage. Suddenly something snapped in the wicked little brain of the anthropoid. With a frightful roar the great beast sprang among the assemblage. Biting, and striking with his huge hands, he killed and maimed a dozen ere the balance could escape to the upper terraces of the forest. Frothing and shrieking; In the insanity of his fury, Kerchak looked about for the object of his greatest hatred, and there, upon a nearby limb,-he saw him sitting. “Come down, Tarzan, great killer," crjed .Kerchak. “Come down and feel the fangs of a greater! Do mighty fighters fly to the trees at the first approach of danger?" And then Kerchak emitted the volleying challenge of his kind.

Quietly Tarzan dropped to the ground. Breathlessly the tribe watched from their lofty perches as Kerchak, still roaring, charged the relatively puny figure. Nearly seven feet stood Kerchak on his short legs. Hia enormous shoulders were bunched and rounded with huge muscles. The back of his short neck was as a single lump of iron sinew which bulged beyond the base of his skull, so that his head seemed like a small ball protruding from a huge mountain of flesh. His back-drawn, snarling lips exposed his great fighting fangs, and his little, wicked, bloodshot eyes gleamed In horrid reflection of his madness. Awaiting him stood Tarzan, himself a mighty muscled animal, but his six feet of height and his great •rolling sinews seemed pitifully Inadequate to the ordeal which awaited them. His bow and arrows lay some distance away, where he had dropped them while showing Sabor’s hide to his fellow apes, so that he con-

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fronted Kerchak now with only his hunting knife and his superior intellect to offset the ferocious strength of his enemy. As his antagonist came roaring toward him. Lord Greystoke tore his long knife from Its sheath, and with an answering challenge as horrid and blood-curdling as that of .the beast he faced, rushed swiftly to meet the attack. He was too shrewd to allow those long, hairy arms to encircle him. and Just as their bodies were about to crash togei.ier, Tarzan of the Apes grasped one of the huge wrists of his assailant, and, springing lightly to pne side, drove his knife to the hilt Into Kerchak's body, below the heart. Before he could wrench the blade free again, the bull’s quick lunge to ‘seize him In those awful arms had torn the weapon from Tarzan’s grasp. Kerhcak aimed a terrlfio blow at the ape-man’s head with the flat of his hand,-’’a blow which, had it landed, might easily have crushed In the side of Tarzan’s skull. The man was too quick, and, ducking beneath it, himself delivered a mighty one, With plenched fist, in the pit of Kerchak’s stomach. The ape was staggered, ahd what with the mortal wound in his side had almost collapsed, when, with one mighty effort, he rallied for an

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Instant—just long enough to enable him to wr est his arm free from Tarzan’s grasp and close In a terrific clinch witty his wiry opponent. Straining the ape-man close to him, his great Jaws sought Tarzan’s throat, but the young lord’s sinewy fingers were at Kerchak’s own before the cruel fangs could close on the sleek brown skin. Thus they struggled, the one to crush out his opponent’s life with those awful teeth, the other to close forever the windpipe beneath his strong grasp, the while he held the snarling mouth from him. The greater strength of the ape was slowly prevailing, and the teeth of the straining beast were scarce an inch from Tarzan’s throat when, with a shuddering tremor, the great body stiffened' for an instant and then sank limply to the ground. ' Kerchak was dead. Withdrawing the knife that had so often rendered him master of far mightier muscles than his own, Tarzan of the Apes placed his foot upon the neck of his vanquished enemy, and once again, loud through the forest rang the fierce, wild cry of the conqueror. And thus came the Greystoke Into the kingship of the Apes. ’ Copyright, A. C. MeClurg ft Cos., 1914. (Continued In Next Issue)

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