Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 222, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1925 — Page 8

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TARZAN 1 of THE APES By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

BEGIN HERE After the death In 1890 of John Clayton, Lord Greytrtoke, and his wife, Lady Alice, in the African jungles, a mother ape steals their infant son Tarzan. and drops her own dead babe in the cradle. At 18 years Tarzan has learned to read English books in his father's cabin, but can speak 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 his strange life. Mbonga and his trible of savages invade territory near Tarzan’s home. A ship bearing white passengers anchors near-by. Tarzan saves the lives of William .Cecil Clayton, son of the then Lord GrVystoke his companion. Jane Porter, and her colored maid, “s----meralda. Prof. Archimedes Q. Porter. Jane’s father, and his secretary. Samuel T. Philander, bury the skeltons found in the cabin and notice the tiny one is not human. They ascertain from a crest ring and John Clayton’s name in his books that the bones are of Lord and Lady Greystoke. Tarzan watches mutineers of the Arrow bury a treasure chest. He secretly ■ unearths and reburies it He reads a letter written by Jane to Hazel Strong, saying her father has borrowed $lO,000 from Robert Canler and gone In search of buried treasure. After finding It the sailors mutiny and leave Jane and her father in Africa. Tarzan leaves a love note for Jane, but she is stolen by an ape. before finding it. Signal fires bring a rescue boat and the crew, headed by Lieut. D’Arrot, search the jungle for Jane. Half starved survivors of the Arrow tell of the buried chest. Jane embraces Tarzan ardently when he kills the ape to save her. She notices Tarzan’a resemblance 4o <he miniature in his locket and he insist* she wear it. He carries hey safely to the cabin. Mbonga’s wartlers attack the search party, and D’Arnot is captured.

GO ON VTTH THE STORY There was but one thing to do, make, camp -where they were until cay light. Lieutenant Charpentier ordered a clearing made, and a circular abatis f underbrush constructed about the camp. Thi* work was not completed until long after aark, the men building a huge fire in the center of the clearing to give them light to work by. . - When all was safe as could be made from the attack of wild beasts and savage men, Lieutenant Charpentier placed sentries about the little camp and the tired and hungry men threw themselves upon the round to sleep. The groans of the wounded, mingled with the roaring and growlling of the great beasts which the noise and firelight had attracted, kept sleep, except in Its most fitful form, from the tired eyes. It was a sad and hungry party that lay through the long night praying for dawn. The blacks who had seized D’ ixpot had not waited to participate in the fight which followed, but instead had dragged their prisoner a little way through the jungle and then struck the trail further on beyond the scene of the fighting in which their fellows were engaged. They hurried him along, the sounds of battle growing fainter and fainter as they drew away from the contestants until there suddenly broke ixm D’Arnot vision a good sized Hearing at one end of which stood thatched and palisaded village.

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It was no dusk, but the watchers at the gate saw the approaching trio and distinguished one as a prisoner ere they reached the portals. And then began for the French officer the most terrifying experience which man can encounter upon earth the reception of a white prisoner into a village of African cannibals. They fell upon D’Amot tooth and nail, beating him with sticks and stones and tearing at him with clawlike hands. Every vestige of clothing was torn from him and the merciless blows fell upon his bare and quivering flesh. But not once did the Frenchman cry out in pain. A silent prayer rose to his Master that" he be quickly delivered from his torture. Presently they gained the center of the village. There D’Arnot was bound securely to the great post from which no live man had ever been released. The festivities were delayed awaiting the return of the warriors who had remained to engage in the skirmish with the white men, so that it was quite late when all were in the village, and the dance of death commenced to circle around the doomed officer. The savage, whirling bodies circled nearer. Now a spear sprang forth and touched his arm. The sharp pain and the-feel of hot. trickling blood assured him of the awful reality of his hopeless position. Another spear and then another touched him. He closed his eyes and held his teeth firm set —he would qgt cry out.

He was a soldier of France, and he would teach these beasts how an oflficfer and a gentleman died. Tarzan of the Apes needed no Interpreter to translate the story of those distant shots. With Jane Porter’s kisses still warm upon his lips he was swinging with incredible rapidity through the forest trees straight toward the village of Mbonga. Many times had Tarzan seen Mbonga’s black raiding parties return from the northward with prisoners, and always were the same scenes enacted about that grim stake, beneath the flaring light of many fires. On he sped. Night had fallen.and he traveled high along ths upper terrace where the gorgeous tropic moon lighted the dizzy pathway through the gently undulating branches of tho tree tops. Id. a few minutes more Tarzan swung into the trees above Mbogna’s village. Ah, he was not quite too late! Or was he? He could not tell. The figure at the stake was very still, yet the black warriors were but pricking it. In another instant Mbonga’s knife would severe one of the victim’s ea-r—that would mark the beginning of the end, for very shortly after only a writhing mass of mutilated flesh would remain. The stake stood forty feet from the nearest tree. Tarzan coiled his rope. Then there rose suddenly above the fiedish cries of the dancing demons the awful challenge of the ape-man. The dancers halted as though turned to stone. The rope sped with singing whir .high above the heads of the blacks. It was quite invisible in the flaring lights of the camp fires. D’Arnot opened his eyes. A huge black, standing directly before him, lunged backward as though felled by an invisible hand. Struggling and shrieking, his body rolling from side to side, moved quickly toward the shadows beneath the trees.

Once beneath the trees, the body rose straight Into the air, and as it disappeared into the foliage above, the terrified negroes, screaming with fright, broke into a mad race for the village gate. D’Arnot was left alone. He was a brave man, but had felt the short hairs bristle upon the of his neck when that uncanny cry rose upon the air. As D’Arnot watched'' the spot where the body had entered the tree .ie heard the sounds of movement there. The branches swayed as though under the weight of a man’s body—there was a crash and the black came sprawling to earth again—to lie very quietly where he had fallen. Immediately after him came a white body, but this one alighted erect. ' : D ArntSt saw a clean-limbed young giant emerge from the shadows into the firelight and come quickly toward him. D Amot wailed. His eyes never left the face of the advancing man. Nor did those frank, clear eyes waver beneath his fixed gaze. Without a word Tarzan of the Apes cut the bonds which held the Frenchman. Weak from suffering and loss of blood, he would have fallen but for the strong arm that caught him. He felt' himself lifted from the ground. There was a sensation as of flying, and then he lost consciousness. CHAPTER XXII The Search Party When dawn broke upon the little camp of Frenchmen in the heart of the jungle it found a sad and disheartening group. As soon as it was light enough to see their surroundings Lieutenant Charpentier sent men in groups of three in several directions to locate the trail, and in ten minutes it was found and the expedition was hurrying back toward the beach. Charpentier had decided to return too camp for reinforcements, and then make an attempt to track dowr the natives and rescue D’Arnot. It was late in the afternoon when the exhausted men reached the clearing by the beach. As* the little party emerged from the jungle the first person that Professor Porter and Cecil Clayton saw was Jane Porter, standing by the cabin door. Clayon, wishing to leave father and daughter alone, joined the sailors arid remained 'talking with the officers until their boat pulled away toward the cruiser whither Lieuten-

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ant Charpentier was bound to, report the unhappy outcome of his adventure. Then Clayton turned back slowly toward the cabin. His heart was filled with happiness. The woman he loved was safe. As he approached the cabin he saw Jane Porter coming out. When she saw him she hurried forward to meet him. “Jane!” he cried, “God has been good to us, indeed. Tell me how escaped what form Providence took to save you for—us." “Mr. Clayton,” she said quietly, extending her hand, “first let me thank you for your chivalrous loyalty to my dear father. He has told me how noble and self-sacrificing you have been. How can we ever repay you!” “I am already repaid,” he said. “Just to see you and Professor Porter both safe, well, and together again. I do not think that 1 could much longer have endured the pathos of his quiet and uncomplaining grief. “It was the saddest experience of my life. Miss Porter; and then, added to it, there was my own grief —the greatest I have ever known. But his was hopeless—it was pitiful. It taught roe that no love, not even that of a man for his wife, may be so deep and terrible and self-sacrificing as the love of a father for his daughter.” “Where is the forest man who went to rescue you? Why did he not return?" , “I do not understand,” said Clayton. '“Whom do you mean?” “He who has saved each p# us—who saved me from the gorilla." “Oh,'' cried Clayton, in surprise. “It was he who rescued you? You have not told me anything of your adventure, don’t you know; tell me, do.” * “But the wood man,” she urged. “Have you not seen him? When we heard the shots in the jungle, very faint and far away, he left me. We had Just reached the clearing. I 1 now he went to aid you.” Her tone was almost pleading—her manner tense with suppressed emotion. Clayton could not but notice it, and he wondered, vaguely, why she was so deeply moved—so anxious to kriow the whereabouts of this strange creature. He did not suspect the truth, for how could he? “We did not see him,” he replied quietly. “He did not join us.” And then after a moment of thoughtful pause; “Possibly he joined his own 1 tribe—the men who attacked us." He did not know why he had said

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it, for he did not believe it; but love is a strange master. The girl looked at him wide eyed or a moment. “No!” she exclaimed vehemently, nuch too vehemently he thought. ‘lt could not be. They were negroes —he is a white man—and a gentlenan.” “He 1b a strange, half-savage creature of the jungle, Miss Porter. We know nothing of him. He neither speaks nor understands any European tongue—and bis ornaments and weapons are those of the West Coast savages.” * “There are no other human beings than savages within hundreds of miles. Miss Porter. He must belong to the tribes which attacked us, or to some other equally savage—he may even be a cannibal.” Jane Porter blanched. "I will not believe it,” sho half whispered. “It is not true. You shall see,” she said, addressing Clayton, “that he will come baca and that he will prove that you are wrong. You do not know him as I 10. I tell you that he is a gentleman.” “Possibly you are right, Miss Porter,” he said, “but I do not think that any of us need worry about rur carrion-eating acquaintance. The chances are that he is some half-demented castaway who will forget us more quickly, but no more surely, than we shall forget him. He is only a beast of the Jungle, Miss Porter.” Slowly she turned and walked back to the cabin. She tried to imagine her wood-god by her side In the saloon of an ocean lirter. She saw him eating with his hands, tearing his food like a beast of prey, anJ 4viping his greasy fingers upon his thighs. She shuddered. She saw him as she introduced him to her friends—uncouth, illiterate —a boor; and the girl winced. She had reached her room now, and as she sat upon the edge of her bed of ferns and grasses, with one hand resting upon her rising and falling bosom, she felt the hard outlines of the man’s locked beneath her waist. She drew it out, holding it In the palm of her hand for a moment with tear-blurred eyes bent upon it Then she raised it to her dips and crushing it there buried her lace in the soft ferns, sobbing. “Beast?” she murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours,” The next morning Clayton left early with the rel es expedition in fiearch of Lieutenant D'Axnot, There

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