Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 214, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 January 1931 — Page 7

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TANAR OF PELLUCIDAR By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS “TARZAN OP THE APES ’

PROLOG (Continued) “We may not abandon them while * single avenue of pursuit remains open to us. Here is that avenue/’ He waved his hand across the broad wean. "And here the means of traversing it.’ He pointed to the small boat "It would carry scarce twenty **en," cried one. ‘‘lt need carry but threereplied David, ‘‘for it will sail to rescue, not by force, but by strategy; or perhaps only to locate the stronghold of the enemy, that we may return end lead a sufficient force upon It to overwhelm It." “I shall go,’’ concluded the JEmPeror. "Who will accompany me?” Instantly every man within hearing of his voice, saving the prisoners only, pressed forward to offer his services. David smiled. “I knew as much," he said, "but I can not take you all. I shall need only one and that shall be Ja of Anoroc, the greatest sailor of Pelluddar.'’ A great shout arcse, for Ja, the Wng of Anoroc, who Is also chief officer of the navy of Pellucldar, is .vastly popular throught the empire, But two Is too small a number hope for success,” argued Ghak, ‘‘*nd I, the father of Tanar, should be permitted to accompany you.”MM*' NUMBERS, such as we might crowd in that little boat, would avail us nothing,” replied David, “so why risk a single additional life. If twenty could pass through the unknown dangers that he ahead of us, two may do the same, while with fewer men we can ( arry a far greater supply of food and water against the unguessed extent of the great sea that we face ” ‘‘But two are too few to man the boat,” expostulated another, “and Ghak is right—the father of Tanar should be among his rescuers.” ‘‘Ghak is needed by the empire,” replied David. “He must remain to command the armies for the empress until I return, but there shall be a third who will embark with us.” “Who?” demanded Ghak.-. “One of the prisoners,” replied David. “For his freedom we readily should find one willing to guide us to the country of the enemy.” Nor was this difficult, since every prisoner volunteered when the proposal was submitted to them. David chose a young fellow who said his name was Pitt and who seemed to possess a more open and honest countenance than any of his companions. And then came the provisioning oi the boat. Bladders were filled with fresh water, and quantities of corn and dried fish and Jerked .r.eat, as well as vegetables and fruits, were packed into other bladders, and all were stored in the boat until It seemed that she might carry no more. As the three men were about to embark, David had a last word with Ghak. ;M M have seen the size and X armament of the enemy ships, Ghak,” he said. “My last injunction to you is to build at once a fleet that can cope successfully with those great ships of the enemy, and while the fleet is building—and it must be built upon the shores of this sea—send expeditions forth to search:, {or a waterway from this ocean to our own. Can you find it, all our ships can be utilized and the building of the greater navy accelerated by utilizing the shipyards of Anoroc. “When you have completed andmanned fifty ships, set forth to our rescue. Do not destroy those prisoners, but preserve them well, for they alone can guide you to their country.” ud then David I, emperor of ■- ider, and Ja, king of Anoroc, the prisoner Pitt, boarded the boat; friendly hands pushed Ihcrr. out upon the long oily swells of a Pellucidarian sea; ten thousand throats cheered them upon their' way and ten thousand pairs of eyes watched them until they had melted into the mist of the upcurvlng distance of a Pellucidarian seascape. David had departed upon a vain but glorious adventure, and, in the distant capital Os the Empire, Dian ( the Beautiful would be weeping. CHAPTER ONE THE g r tat ship trembled to the recoil of the cannon; the rattle of muskevy. The roar of the guns aboard her sister ships and the roar of her ovn were deafening. Below decks the air was acrid with the fumes f burnt powdef. >

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Tanar of Pellucidar, chained below with other prisoners, heard these sounds and smelled the smoke. He heard the rattle of the anchor chain; he felt the straining of the mast to which his shackles were bent and the altered motion of the hull told him that the ship was under way. Presently the firing ceased and the regular rising and falling of the ship betokened that it was on its course. In the darkness of the hold, Tanar could see nothing. Sometimes the prisoners spoke to one another, but their thoughts were not happy ones, and eo; for the most part, they remained ailent—waiting. For what? . . They grew very hungry and very thirsty. By this they knew that the ship was far at sea. They knew nothing of time. They only knew that they were hungry and thirsty and that the ship should be far at sear-far out upon an unknown sea, setting its course fbr ah unknown port. ’• Presenetly a hatch w;as raised and men came with food and waterpoor. rough food and water that smelled badly and tasted worse; but it was water and they, were ttilnsty. One of the men said:- “Where is he who is called Tanar?” “I am Tanar,’ replied the son of Ghak. “You are wanted on deck,” said the man and with a huge key he unlocked the massive, handwrought lock that held Tanar chained to the mast. “Follow me!” M M M THE bright light of Pellucidar’s perpetual day blinded the Sarian as he clambered to the dock from the dark hold in tfhlch he had been confined and It'was a full minute before his eyes could endure the light, but his guard hustled him roughly along and Tanar already was stumbling up the long stairs leading to the high deck at the ship’s stem before he regained the use of his eyes. As he mounted the highest deck, he saw the chiefs of the Korsar hordo assembled and with them were two women. One appeared elderly and ill favored, but the other was young and beautiful, but for neither did Tanar have any eyes—he was itnerested only in the enemy men, for those he could fight, those he might kill, which was the sole interest that an enemy could hold for Tanar, the Sarian. Being what he was, Tanar could not fight women, not even enemy women; but he could ignore them and did. He was led before a huge fellow whose bushy whiskers almost hid his face—a great, blustering fellow with a scarlet scarf bound about his head. But for an embroidered, sleeveless jacket, open at the front, the man was naked above the waist, about which was wound another gaudy sash into which were stuck two pistols and as many long knives, while at his side dangled a cutlass, the hilt of which was ornamented richly with inlays of pearl and semi-precious stones. A mighty man was the Cid chief of the Korsars—a burly, blustering, bully of a man, whose position among the rough and quarrelsome Korsars might be maintained only by such as he. Surrounding him upon the high poop of his ship wks a company of beefy ruffians of similar mold, while far below, in the waist of the vessel, a throng of lesser cutthroats, the'common sailors, escaped from the dangers and demands of an arduous campaign, relaxed according to their various whims, . Stark brutes were most of these, naked but fpr the shorts and the inevitable gaudy sashes and the head cloths—an unlovely. company, yet picturesque. M M ’ AT the Cid's side stood a younger man, who well could boast as hideous a countenance as any sun ever shone upon, for across a face that might have taxed even a mother’s love, ran a repulsive scar from above the left eye to below the right-hand corner of the mouth, cleaving the hose with a deep, red gash. The left eye was lidless and gazed perpetually upward and outward, as a dead eye might, while the upper lip was permanently drawn upward at' the right side in a sardonic sneer that exposed a single fang-like tooth; No, Bohar the Bloody was not, beautiful. . before these two, The Cid and The Bloody One, Tanar was dragged roughly. “They call you Tanar?” -bellowed The Cid. Tanar nodded.

“And you are the son of a-king!” and he laug.-ed loudly. “With a ship's company I could destroy your father's entire Kingdom and make a slave of him, as I have of his son.” •“You had many ships’ companies,” replied Tanar; "but I did not see any of them destroying the kingi dom of Sari. The army that chased them Into the ocean was commanded by my father, under the emperor,’’ The Cid scowled. “I have made men walk the plank for less than i that,", he growled. “I do not know what you mean," Said Timer. “Yqu shall,” barked The Cid, “and then, by the beard of the sea god, you’ll keep & civil tongue in i your head. Hey!” he shouted to one of his officers, “have a prisoner fetched and the plank run out. We’ll show this son of a king who The Cid is and that he is among real' men now.” “Why fetch another?” demanded Bohar the Bloody. “This fellow can walk and learn his lesson at the same time.” “But he could not profit by it,” replied The Cid. “Since when did The Cid become a dry nurse to an enemy?” demanded Bohar, with a sneer. M M M VirITHOUT a word The Cid ▼ wheeled and swung an ugly blovr to Bohar’s chin and as the •mkr went down, the chief whipped a great pistol from his sash and stoed over him, the muzzle pointed at Bohar’s head. “Perhaps that will knock your crooked face straight or bump some brains into your thick head,” roared The Cid. Bohar lay on his back glaring up at his chief. “Who is your master?” demanded the Cid. “JTou are,” growled Bohar. “Then get up and keep a civil tongue in your head,” ordered The Cid. As Bohar arose, he turned a scowling face upon Tanar. It was as though his one good eye had gathered all the hate and rage and venom In the wicked heart of the man and was concentrating them upon the Sarian, the indirect cause of his humiliation. Prom that Instant Tanar knew that Bohar the Bloody hated him with a personal hatred distant from any natural antipathy that he might lave felt for an alien and an enemy. On the lower deck were eagerly running a lpng plank out over the starboard rail and making the inboard end fast to cleats with stout lines. Prom an opened hatch others were dragging a strapping prisoner from the kingdom of Thuria, who had been captured in the early fighting in the Land of Awful Shadow. The primitive warrior held his head high and showed no terror in the present of his rough t captors. Tanar, looking down upon him from the upper deck, was proud of this fellow man of the Empire. The Cid was watching, too. ' That tribe needs taming,” he said. The younger of the two women, both of whom had stepped to the edge of the deck and were looking down upon the scene in the waist, turned to The Cid. (To Bo Continued) (Copyright. 3931. by Metropolitan Newspaper Feature Service. Inc.: Copyright, 1939. Kdsar Rice Burrouc-hs. Inc.i

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