Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 213, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1931 — Page 9

JAN. 14, 1931

T ANAR OF PELLUCIDAR By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS “TARZAN OF* THE APES”

(Continued from Page One) pert in the Intricacies of code, but l had no difficulty in understanding the Simple signal of two letters, repeated in groups of three, with a pause after each group: “D. 1., D. 1., D, I.” pause, “D. 1.. D. I-, D. IV pause The signals ceased and Jason touched his own key, sending his initials, J. 0.. J. G, J. G. in the same grouping that we had received the D. I. signal. Almost Instantly he was interrupted—you could feel the excitement of the sender. D. 1., D. 1., £>• I-, Pellucidar,” rattled against our eardrums like ■ machine gun fire. Jason and I sat "in dum amazement, staring at each other. “It is a hoax!” I exclaimed, and Jason, reading my lips, shook his head. “How can it be a hoax?” he asked. “There is no other station on earth equipped to send or receive over the Gridley wave, so there can be no means of perpetrating such a hoax.” a a a OUR mysterious station was on the air again: “If you got this, repeat my signal," and he signed off with D. 1., D. 1., D. I. “That would be David Innes,” mused Jason. ' “Emperor of Pellucidar," I added. Jason sent the message, “D. 1., D. 1., D. 1.,” followed by “what station is this, and who is sending?” “This is the Imperial observatory at Greenwich, Pellucidar; Abner Perry sending. Who are you?” “This is the private experimental laboratory of Jason Gridley, Tarzana, Cal. Gridley sending,” replied Jason. “I want to get into communication with Edgar Rice Burroughs; do you know him?” “He is sitting here, listening in with me," replied Jason. “Thahk heaven, if that is true, but hoiv am I to know that it is true?" demanded Perry. I hastily scribbed a note to Jason: “Ask him if he recalls the fire in his first gunpowder factory, and that the buildings would have been destroyed had they not extinguished the fire by shoveling his gunpowder on to it?"

Jason grinned as he read the note, and sent it. “It was unkind of David to tell of that,” came back the reply; "but now I know that Burroughs is indeed there, as only he could have known of that incident. I have a long message for him. Are you ready?” “Yes,” replied Jason. “Then stand by.” And so the message that Abner Perry sent from the bowels of the earth, from the Empire of Pellucidar came to us. a a a IT must be some fifteen years since David Innes and I broke through the inner surface of the earth’s crust and emerged into savage Pelluciaar, but when a stationary sun hangs eternally at high noon and there is no restless moon and there are no stars, time is measureless and so it may have been a hundred years ago or one. Who knows? Os course, since David returned to earth and brought back many of the blessings of civilization, we have had the means to measure time, but the people did not like it, so David issued an edict abolishing time in Pellucidar. When I came here I knew nothing of radio, but when David came back from the outer world he brought many scientific works and form these I learned all. that I .know of radio, which has been enough to permit me to erect two successful stations; one here at Greenwich and one at the capital of the Empire of Pellucidar. But, try as I would, I never could get anything from the outer world, end after a while I gave up trying, convinced that the earth’s crust was Impervious to radio. But sometimes I played with it and upon several occasions I though that I heard voices and other sounds that •■vee not of Pellucidar. They were too faint to be more than vague suggestions of intriguing possibilities, but yet they did suggest something more alluring, and so I set myself to making changes and adjustments until this wonderful tiling that has happened but now was made possible. And my delight in being able to talk with you is second only to my relief in being able to appeal to you for help. David Is in trouble. He is a. captive in the north, or what he and I call north, for there are no points of compass known to Peiluctdarians.

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I have heard from him, however. He has sent me a message and In It he suggests a startling theory that would make aid from the outer cmst possible If—but first let me tell vou the whole and then you will be In a better position to Judge as to the practicability of sending succor to David from the outer crust. a a a THE whole thing dates from our victories over the Mahars, the once dominant race of Pellucidar. When, with our w r ell-organized armies, equipped with firearms and other weapons unknown to the Mahars or their gorilla-like mercenarias, the Sagoths, we defeated the reptilian monsters and drove their slimy hordes from the confines of the empire, the human race of the inner world for the first time in its history took its rightful place among the orders -of creation. But our victories laid the foundation for the disaster that has overwhelmed us. For a while there was no Mahar within the boundaries of any of the kingdoms that constitute the empire of Pellucidar; but presently we had word of them here and there—small parties living upon the shores of sea or lake far from the haunts of man. They gave us no trouble—their old power had crumbled beyond recall; their Sagoths now were numbered among the regiments of the Empire. Yet we did not want them among us, so David sent a force against them, but with orders to treat with them first and attempt to persuade them to leave the Empire peacefully. *

Sagoths accompanied the expedition, for they alone of all the creatures of Pellucidar can converse in the sixth-sense, fourth-dimension language of the Mahars. The story that the expedition brought back was rather pitiful and aroused David’s sympathies, as stories of persecution and unhappiness always do. After the Mahars had been driven from the Empire, they had sought a haven where they might live in peace. Far away upon the shores of a mighty ocean, where there were no signs of men, they settled, but their peace was not for long. A great ship came, reminding the Mahars of the first ships they had seen—the ships that David and I had built—the first ships, as far as we knew, that ever had sailed the silent seas of Pellucidar. a a a Naturally it was a surprise to us to learn that there was a race within the inner world sufficiently far advanced to be able to build ships, but there was another surprise in store for us. The Mahars assurred us that these people possessed firearms and that because of their ships and their firearms they were fully as formidable as we and they were much more ferocious; killing for the pure sport of slaughter. After the first ship had sailed away, the Mahars thought they might be'allowed to live in peace, but this dream was short lived, as presently the first ship returned and with it were many others manned by thousands of bloodthirsty enemies against whose weapons the great reptiles had little or no defense. Seeking only escape from man, the Mahars left their new home and moved back a short distance toward the Empire, but their enemies hunted them, and when they found them the Mahars were again forced to fall back. Eventually they took refuge within the boundaries of the empire, and scarcely had David’s expedition to them returned with its report when we had definite proof of the veracity of their tale through messages from our northernmost frontier bearing stories of invasion by a strange, savage race of white men. Frantic was the message from Goork, king of Thuria, whose farflung frontier stretches beyond the Land of Awful Shadow. Some of his hunters had been surprised and all but a few killed or captured by the invaders. He had sent warriors, then, against them, but these, too, had met a like fate, and so he sent a runner to David, begging the emperor to rush troops to his aid. Scarcely had the first runner arrived when another came, bearing tidings of the capture and sack of the principal town of the kingdom of Thuria; and then a third arrived from the commander of the invaders demanding that David come with tribute or they would destroy his country and slay the prisoners they held in hostage. In reply David dispatched Tamar, son of Ghak, to demand the release of all prisoners and the departure of the Invaders.

TMMEDIATELY runners were * tent to the nearest kingdoms of the Empire and ere Tanar had reached the land of Awful Shadow, 10,000 warriors were marching along the same trail to enforce the demands of the Emperor and drive the savage foe from Pellucidar. As David approached the Land of Awful Shadow, a great column of smoke was observable in the horizonles distance ahead. It was not necessary to urge the tireless warriors to greater speed, for all who saw guessed that the invaders had taken another village and put it to the torch. And then came the refugees—women and children only—and behind them a thin line of warriors striving to hold back swarthy, bearded strangers, armed with strange weapons that resembled ancient arquebuses with bell-shaped muzzles. Loud were the shouts of joy when ! the first of the refugees discovered and recognized the force that had come to their delivery. The effect upon the enemy of the appearance of 10,000 well-armed warriors was quickly apparent. They halted, and, as we advanced, they withdrew, but though they retreated they gave us a good fight. David learned from Goork that Tanar had been retained as a hostage, but though he made several attempts to open negotiations with the enemy for the purpose of exchanging some prisoners that had fallen into our hands, for Tanar and other Pellucidarians, he never was able to do so. Our forces drove the invaders far beyond the limits of the empire to the shores of a distant sea, where, with the loss of many men, they at last succeeded in embarking their depleted forces on ships that were afi archaic in design as were their ancient harquebuses. From some of the last prisoners he took during the fighting at the seashore, David learned that Tanar still was alive and that the chief of the invaders had determined to take him home with him, in the hope that he could learn from Tanar the secrets of our superior weapons and gunpowder. When David saw the eneifiy ships sailing away with Tanar, he was sick with grief, for Tanar always has been an especial favorite of the emperor and his gracious empress, Dian the Beautiful. We had no ships upon this sea and David could not follow with his army; neither, being David, could he abandon the son of his best friend to a savage enemy before he had exhausted every resource at his command in an effort toward rescue. a a a IN addition to the prisoners that had fallen into his hands, David had captured one of the small boats that the enemy had used in embarking his forces, and this it was that suggested to David the mad scheme upon which he embarked. David turned toward his people. “Those departing ships have borne perhap a score more of the young away Tamar ,the son of Ghak, and men of Pellucidar. It is beyond reason to expect that the enemy ever will bring our comrades back to us, but it is easy to imagine the treatment they will receive at the hands of this savage, bloodthirsty race. (To Be Continued!

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