Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 216, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 January 1925 — Page 8

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Tarzan of THE APES By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

BEGIN HERE , v Alter the death in 1890 of John Clayton. Lord Greystoke and his wife Lady Alice, in the African j uncles, their infant son. Tarzan. is reared by an ape, which placed her own dead babe in the cradle. At 18 years Tarzan Hat* learned to read English hooka in his father's cabin, hut can sneak only ape language. He finds his father's photo diary and a locket. As the diary is in French. Tarzan does , not learn the riddle of hiß strange life. Mbogna and hi stribe of savages invade territory hear Tarzans home. He keeps them alarmed with his secret prar ks. A ship bearing white passengers anchors near by. On his cabin Tarzan posts a notice forbidding destruction of his treasurers. Without revealing his identity. Tarzan saves the lives of William Cecil Clayton, son of the then Lord Greystoke. his companion Jane Porta - gnd her colored maid. Esmeralda, from death k bv lions. Tarzan leads Prof. ArchiK modes Q. Porter, the girl s father and . his secretary. Samuel T. Philander. B safely out of the forest after they ! had lost their way. The professor B buries the skeletons found in the m Clayton cabin and notices the tiny I one is not human. A ring on one W bears the crest of the house of GreyBtoke. They ascertain from this and John Clayton’s name in his books that V the bones are of Lord and Lady Greystoke. Tarzan watches mutL neers of the Arrow bury a treasure chest. The balance of the loose earth was thrown far and wid#, and a mass of dead undergrowth spread 5n as natural a manner as possible over the nev - madae grave to obliterate all sig-is of the ground havI ing been disturbed, f Their work done, the sailor returned to the small boat and pulled off rapidly toward the Arrow. The breeze had Increased considerably, and as the smoke upon the | horizon was now plainly discernible fin considerable volume, the mutl- | neers lost no time In getting under [full sail and bearing away toward f the southwest. Tarzan, an Interested spectator of all that had taken place, sat speculating on tho strange actions of : these peculiar creatures. Tarzan wondered what the chest they had burled contained. If they did not want It, why did they not merely throw It into the water? Ah, he thought, but It. They have hidden it here because they intend returning for It later. Tarzan dropped to the ground and commenced to examine the earth about the excavation. He was looking to see If these creatures had dropped anything which he might like to own. Soon he discovered a spade hidden by the underbush which they had laid upbn the grave. He seized It and attempted to use It as he had seen the sailors do. It was awkward work and hurt his bare feet, but he persevered until he had partially uncovered the body. This he dragged from the grave and aid to one side. Then he continued digging until he had unearthed the chest. This also he dragged to the side of the corpse. Then he filled in the smaller hole below the grave replaced the body and the earth around and above it; covered it over with underbrush and returned t<* the chest. Four sailors had sweated beneath the burden of its weight—Tarzan of the Apes picked it up as though it had been an empty packing case, and ’ with the spade slung to his back by a piece of rope, carried It off into the densest part of the jungle. For several hours he traveled a The Fight Is Won by HaleyVM-O

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little north of east until he came to an impenetrable wall of matted and tangled vegetation. Then he took to the lower branches, and in another fiftene minutes he emerged / into the amphitheater of the apes, where, they met in council, or to celebrate the rites of the Dum-Dum. Near the center of tha clearing, and not far from the drum, or altar, Jie commenced to dig. This was harder work than turning up the freshly excavated earth at the grave, but Tarzan of the Apes was persevering and'so he kept at his labor until he was rewarded by seeing a hole sufficiently deep to receive the chest and effectually hide it from view. Why had he gone to all this labor without knowing the valufe of the contents of the chest? Tarzan of the Apes had a man's figrure and a man’s brain, but he was an ape by training and environment. His brain told him that the chest contained something valuable, or the men would not have hidden It; his training had taught him to imitate whatever was new and unusual, and now the natural curiosity, which Is as common to men as to apes, prompted him to open the chest and examine its contents. But the heavy lock and massive iron bands baffled both his cunning and his immense strength, ao that he was compelled to bury the chest without having his curiosity satisfied. By the time Tarzan had hunted his way back to the vicinity of the cabin, feeding aa he went, it was quite dark. Within the little building a light was burning, for Clayton had found' an unopened tin of oil which had stood Intact for twenty years; a part of the supplies left with the Claytons by Black Michael. The lamps also were still useable, and thus the Interior of the cabin appeared as bright as day to the astonished Tarzan.- * t

He had often wondered at the exact purpose of the lamps. His reading and the pictures had told him what they were, but he had no idea of how they could be made to produce the wondrous sunlight that some of his pictures had portrayed them as diffusing upon all surrounding objects. As he approached the findow nearest the door he saw that the cabin had been divided into two rooms by a rough partition of boughs and sailcloth. In the front room were the three men; the two older deep In argument, white the younger, tilted ba'ck against the wall on an Improvised stool, was deeply engrossed In reading one of Tarzan’s books. Tarzan was not particularly interested in the men, however, so he sought the other window. There girl. How beautiful Irer features - ! How delicate her - snowy 1 skin! * if

She was writing at Tarzan’g own table beneath the window. Upon a pile of grasses at the far side 'at the room lay the negress, asleep. * For an hour Tarzan feasted his eyes upon her while she wrote. HoW. he longed to speak to her, but he dared not attempt it, for he was convinced that, like the young men, she would not understand him, and he feared, too, that he migtrt frighten her away. At length she arose, leaving her manuscript upon the table. She went *to the bed upon which had been spread several layers of soft grasses. These she rearranged. Then she loosened the soft mass of golden hair which crowned her head. Like a shimmering waterfall turned to burnished metal by a; dying sun it fell about her oval face; in waving lines, below her waist it tumbled. Tarzan was spellbound. Then she extinguished the lamp and all within the cabin was wrapped in Cimmerian darkness. Still Tarzan watched / without. Creeping close beneath the window, he waited, listening, for half an hour. At last he was rewarded by! the sounds of the regular breathing within which denotes sleep. Cautiously he Intruded his hand between the meshes of the lattice until his whole arm was within the cabin. Carefully he felt upon the desk. At last he grasped the manuscript upon which Jane Porter had been writing, and as cautiously withdrew his arm and hand, holding the precious treasure. Tarzan folded the sheets into a small parcel which he tucked into the quiver with his arrows. Then he melted away into the jungle as softly and as noiselessly as a shadow.

CHAPTER XVIII ___ The Jungle Toll f ARLY the following morning Tarzan and the first i—J thought of the new day, as the last of yesterday, was of the wonderful writing which lay hidden in his quiver. At the first glance he suffered the bitterest disappointment of bis whole life; never before had he so yearned for anything as now he did for the ability to interpret a message from that golden-haired divinity who had come so suddenly and so unexpectedly into his life. What If the message were not Intended for him? It was an expreSf sion of her thoughts, and that wi* all sufficient for Tarzan qf the Apes. - And now to be baffled by strange, uncouth characters tl\e like of whicli he had never seen before! Why; they even tipped In the opposite direction from* all that he had ever examined either in printed books or the difficult script of the few letters he had found. For twenty minutes he poured over them, when suddenly they commenced to take familiar though distorted shapes. Ah, they were Ills old friends, but badly crippled. In another half hour he was progressing rapidly, and, but for an ex, ceptional word now and again, he found it very plain sailing. Here Is what he read: WEST COAST OF AFRICA., ABOUT 10 DEGREES SOUTH LATITUDE. (So Mr. Clayton says.) ' Feb. 3 (?), 1009. ‘ DEAREST HAZEL: ,

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letter that you may never see, but I simply must tell somebody of our awful experiences since we sailed from Europe on the ill-fated Arrow. If we never return to civilization, as now seems only too likely, this will at least prove a brief record of the events which led up to our. final fate, whatever it may be. m As you know, we were sunposed to have set out upon a scientWc expedition to the Congo. 1 Papa was presumed to entertain some wondrous theory of an unthinkably ancient civilization, the remains of which lay buried somewhere in the Congo valley. But after we were well under sail the truth came out. It seems that an old bookworm who has a book and curio shop in Baltimore discovered between the leaves of a very old Spanish manuscript a letter written in 1550 detailing the adventures of a crew of mutineers of a Spanish galleon bound from Spain to South America with a vast treasure of "doubloons” and “pieces of eight,” I suppose, for they certainly sound weird and piraty. I The writer had been one of the crew, and the letter was to his son, who was, at the very time the letter was written, master of a Spanish merchantman. Many years had elapsed since the events the letter was narrated had transpired, and the old man had become a respected citizen of an obscure Spanish town, but the love of gold was still so strong upon him that he risked all to acquaint his son with the means of attaining fabulous wealth fpr them both. The writer told how when but a week out from Spain the crew had mutinied and murdered every officer and man wh oopposed them; but they defeated their own ends by this very act, for there was none left competent to navigate a ship at soa. They were blown hither and thither for two months, until sick and dying of scurvv, starvation and thirst, they had been wrecked on a small islet. The galleon was washed high upon the beach where she went to pieces; but not before the survivors, who numbered but ten souls; had rescued one of the great chests of treasure. This they buried well up on the island, and for three year* they lived there in constant hope of toeing rescued. One by one they sickened and died, until only one man was left, the writer of the letter. The men had built a Boat from the wreckage of ih4 galleon, but having no idea whei-e the island was located they had not dared to put to sea. ■W-hea all ware dead fciw-

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self, however, the awful loneliness .so weighed upon the mind of the sole survivor that he could endure it no longer, and choosing, to risk death upon the open sea rather ness on the lonely isle, he set sail in his little boat after nearly a year of solitude. Fortunately he sailed duo north, and within a week was in the track of the Spanish merchantrqent plying between the West Indies and Spain, and was picked up by one of these vessels homeward bound. The story he told was merely one of shipwreck in which all but a few had perished, the balance, except himself, dying after they reached the island. He did not mention the mutiny or the chest of buried treasure. The master of the merchantman assured him that from the position at which they had picked him up, and the prevailing winds for the past week he could have been on no other Island than one of the Cape Verde group, which lie off the west coast of Africa In about 16 or 17 degrees north latitude. His letter described the Island minutely, as well as the location of the treasure, and was accompanied by the crudest, funniest little old map you ever saw,. with trees and rocks ail marked by scrawly Xs to show the exact spot where the, treasure had been buried. When papa explained the real nature of the expedition, my heart sank, for I know so well how visionary and impractical the poor dear has always been that I feared he had again been duped, especially when he told me that he had paid a thousand dollars for the letter and map. To add to my distress, I learned that he had borrowed SIO,OOO more from Robert Canler, and had given his notes for the amount. Mr. Canler had asked for no security, and you know, dearie, what that will mean for me if papa .cannot meet them. Oh, how I detest that man! We all tried to look on the bright side of things, but Mr. Philander and Mr. Clayton—he joined ps lh London Just for the adventure—both felt as skeptical as I. Well, to make a long story short, we found the island and the treasure—a great Iron-bound oak chest, wrapped in many layers of oiled sail cloth, and as strong and firm as when it had been buried nearly two hundred years ago. It was simply filled with, gold coin, and wgsjso heavy that four men

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to those who have to do with It, for three dags after we sailed from the Cape Verde Islands our own crew mutinied and killed every one of :heir officers. Oh, It was the most terrifying experience one could Imagine—l cannot even write of it. They were going to kill us, too, but one of them, the leader, a man named King, would not let them, and so they sailed south along tlfe coast to a lonely spot where they found a good harbor, and here they landed and have left us. They sailed away with the treasure today, but Mr. Clayton says they will meet with a fate similar to thb mutineers of the ancient galleon, because King, the only man aboard who knew aught of navigation, was murdered on the beach by one of the men the day we landed. I wish you could know Mr. Clayton; he is the dearest fellow imaginable, and unless I am mistaken he has fallen very much In love with poor little me. He is the only son of Lord Greystoke, and some day will inherit the title and estates. In addtiion, he is wealthy in his own right, but the fact that he is going to be an English lord makes me very sad—you know what my- sentiments have always been relative to American girls who married titled foreigners. Oh, if he were only a plain American gentleman! But It isn’t his fault, poor fellow, and lr\ everything except birth, he would dd credit to my darling old country, and that is the greatest compliment I know how to pay any man. "We have had the most weird experiences since we were landed here. Papa and Mr. Philander lost in the jungle, and chased by a real lion. Mr. Clayton lost, and attacked twice by wild beasts. Esmeralda and I cornered in an old cabin by a perfectly awful man-eating lioness. Oh, it was simply “terrlfical,” as Esmeralda would say. But the strangest part of it all is the wonderful creature who rescued us. I have not seen him, but Mr. Clayton and papa and Mr. Philander have, and they say that he Is a perfectly god-like white man tanned to a dusky brown, with the strength of a wild elephant, the agility of a monkey and ther bravery of a lion. He speaks no English and vanishes as quickly and as mysteriously after he has performed some valorous deed, as though he were a disembodied spirit. % Then we have another weird neighbor, wb, printed a beautiful

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