Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 217, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1931 — Page 7

JAN. 19, 1931

TANAR OF PELLUCIDAR By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS “TARZAfTo? THeT APES'*

BTNOFSIS , , _ . , T*.a*r 1* a vounjt warrior of Barl, a ; eauanrr In Pelludicar. a atranga inner world Somewhere beneath the earth# r.nut, A horde of savager. calling tbemeelver Koriare, and coming from across , an unknown aea. lnr-ide pellueldar. and ■•hough repulsed, *a!i away with many I prisoners. Including Tanar. Tanar, In return for a promise to ahow the Korsar* how to make better weapons and gunpowder, is given more or less freedom eboardeblp. Stouare. suposedlv the daughter of Tne Cld, chief of the Korsirs. makes friends with him. A terrific storm cornea up which fills the Korsars with psaic. CHAPTER THREE (Continued) THE wave receded and the ship, floundering, staggered upward, groaning. The smile left Tanar’s Ups as his eyes gazed down upon the lower deck. It was almost empty now. A few broken forms lay huddled in the scuppers, a dozen men, clinging here and there, showed signs of llfe. The others, all but those who had reached safety below deck, were gone. The girl clung tightly to the man. "I did not think she could live through that, she said. “Nor I,” said Tanar. “But you were not afraid,” she said- “You seemed the onl&one who was not afraid. “Os what use w T as Bohar’s screaming?” he asked. “Did it save him?” “Then you were afraid, but you hid it?” He shrugged. “Perhaps,” he said. “I do not know what you mean by fear. I did not want to die, if that js what you mean.” “Here comes another!" cried Stellara, shuddering, and pressing closer to him. Tanar’s arm tightened about the slim figure of the girl. It was an unconscious gesture of the protective instinct of the male. “Do not be afraid,” he said. “I am not—now,” she replied. At the Instant that the mighty comber engulfed the ship the angry hurricane struck, suddenly with renewed fury—struck at anew angle -and the masts, already straining even to the minimum of canvas that had been necessary to give he ship headway and keep its nose into the storm, snapped like dry hones and crashed by the board in a tangle of cordage. The ship’s head fell away and she rolled in the trough of the great seas, a hopeless derelict. a a a ABOVE the screaming of the wind rose Bohar’s screams. “The boats! The boats!” he repeated like a. trained parrot gone mad from terror. As though sated for the moment and worn out b3’ its own exertions, the storm abated, the wind died, but tire great seas rose and fell and the great ship rolled, helpless. At the bottom of each watery gorge, it seemed that it must be engulfed by the gray green cliff toppling above it and at the crest of each liquid mountain certain destruction loomed inescapable. Bohar, still screaming, scrambled to the lower deck. He found men, by some miracle, still alive in the open, and others cringing in terror below deck. By dint of curses and blows and the threat of his pistol,

he gathered them together and, though they whimpered in fright, he forced them to make a boat ready. There were twenty of them and their gods or their devils must have been with them, for they lowered a boat and got clear of the floundering hulk in safety and without the loss of a man. The Cid, seeing what Bohar contemplated, had tried to prevent tfie seemingly suicidal act by bellowing orders at him from above, but they had no effect and at the last moment the Cid had descended to the lower deck to enforce his commands, but he had arrived too late. Now he stood staring unbelievingly at the small boat riding the great seas in seeming security, while the dismasted ship, pounded by the stumps of its masts, seemed doomed to destruction. CHAPTER FOUR FROM comers where they had been hiding came the rest of the ship’s company. When they saw Bohar’s boat and the semmingly relative safety of the crew, they clamored for escape by the other boats. With the idea once implanted in their minds, there followed a mad panic as the halft brutes fought for places in the remaining boats. “Come!” cried Stellara. “We must hurry or they will go without us.” She started to move toward the companionway, but Tanar restrained her. “Look at them,” he said. “We are safer at the mercy of the sea and the storm.” Stellara shrank back close to him. She saw men knifing one another—-

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those behind knifing those ahead; men dragging others from the boats and killing them on deck or being killed. She saw The Cld pistol a seaman In the back and leap to his place In the first boat to be lowered. She saw men leaping from the rail in a mad effort to reach boat and falling Into the sea, or being thrown In IX they succeeded In boarding the tossing shell. She saw the other boats being lowered and men crushed between them and the ship’s side—she saw the depths to which fear can plunge the braggart and the bully as the last of the ship’s company, falling to win places in the last boat, deliberately leaped into the sea and were drowned.

Standing there upon the high poop of the rolling derelict, Tanar and Stellara watched the Iran tic efforts of the oarsmen in the overcrowded small boats. They saw one boat foul another and both founder. They watched the drowning men battling the sea and the shriek of the wind as the storm returned as though fearing that some might escape its fury. “We are alone,” said Stellara. “They have all gone.” “Let them go,” replied Tanar. “I would not exchange places with them.” “But there can be no hope for us”.said the girl. “There as no more for them,” replied the Sarian, “and at least we are not crowded into a small boat filled with cutthroats.” “You are more afraid of the men than you are of the sea,” she said. “For you, yes,” he replied. “Why should you fear for me?” she demanded. “Am I not also your enemy?” He turned his eyes quickly upon her and they were filled with surprise. “That is so,” he said; “but, somehow, I had forgotten it—you do not seem like an enemy, as the others do. You do not seem like one of them, even.” Clinging to the rail and supporting the girl upon the lurching deck, Tanar’s lips were close to Stellar’s ear as he sought to make himself heard above the storm. a a a A SEA struck the staggering ship, throwing Tanar forward so that his cheek touched the cheek of the girl and as she turned her head his lips brushed hers. Each realized that it was an accident, but the effect was none the less surprising. Tanar, for the first time, felt the girl’s body against his and consciousness of contact must have been reflected in his eyes, for Stellara shrank back and there was an expression of fear in hers. Tanar saw the fear in the eyes of an enemy, but it gave him no pleasure. He tried to think only of the treatment that would have been accorded a woman of his tribe had one been at the mercy of the Korsars, but that, too, failed to satisfy him as it only could if he were to admit that he was of the same ignoble clay as the men of Korsar. But whatever thoughts were troubling the minds of Stellara and

Tanar temporarily were submerged by the grim tragedy of the succeeding few moments, as another tremenous sea, the most gigantic that yet had assailed the broken ship, hurled its countless tons upon hc shivering deck. To Tanar is seemed, indeed, that this must mark the end, since it was inconceivable that the unmanageable hulk could rise again from the smother of water that surged completely over her almost to the very highest deck of the towering poop, where the two clung against the tearing wind and the frightful pitching of the derelict. But, as the sea rolled on, the ship slowly, sluggishly struggled to the surface like an exhausted swimmer, who, drowning, struggles weakly against the inevitability of fate and battles upward for one last gasp of air that will, at best, but prolong the agony of death. As the main deck slowly emerged from the receding water, Tanar was horrified by the discovery that the forward hatch had been stove in. That the ship must have taken in considerable water, and that each succeeding wave that broke over it would add to the quantity, affected the Sarian less than knowledge of the fact that it was beneath this hatch that his fellow prisoners ware confined. u n tt THROUGH the black menace of his alm>jst hopeless situation had shone a single bright ray of hope that, should the ship weather the storm, there would be aboard her a score of his fellow Pellucidarians and that together they might find the means to rig a makeshift sail and work their way

back to the mainland from which they had embarked; but with the gaping hatch and the almost certain conclusion to be drawn from it, he realized that it would, indeed, be a miracle if there remained alive aboard the any other than Stellara and himself. The girl was looking down at the havoc wrought below and now she turned her face toward his. “They must all be drowned,’' she said, “and they were your people. I am sorry.” “Perhaps they would have chosen it In preference to what might have awaited them in Korsar,” he said. “And they have been released only a little sooner than we shall be,” she continued. “Do you notice how low the ship rides now and how sluggish she is? The hold must be half filled with water—another such sea as the last one will founder her.” For some time'they stood in silence, each occupied with his own thoughts. The hulk rolled in the trough and momentarily it seemed that she might not roll back in time to avert the disaster of the next menacing comber, yet each time she staggered drunkenly to oppose a high side to the hungry waters. “I believe the storm has spent itself,” said Tanar. “The wind has died and there has been no sea like the great one that stove the forward hatch,” said Stollara, hopefully. The noonday sun broke from behind the black cloud that had shrouded it and the sea burst into a blaze of blue and silver beauty. The storm had passed. The seas diminished. The derelict rolled heavily upon the great swells, low in the water, but temporarily relieved of the menace of immediate disaster. a a a 'T'ANAR descended the companionway to the lower deck and approached the forward hatch. A single glance below revealed only what he could have anticipated—floating corpses rolling with the roll of the derelict. All below were dead. With a sigh he turned away and returned to the upper deck. The gi#l did not even question him, for she could read in his demeanor the story of what his eyes had beheld. “You and I are the only living creatures that remain aboard,” he said. She waved a hand in a broad gesture that took in the sea about them. “Doubtless we alone of the entire ship’s company have survived,” she said. “I see no other ship nor any of the small boats.” Tanar strained his eyes in all directions. “Nor I,” said he; “but perhaps some of them have escaped.” She shook her head. “I doubt it.” “Yours has been a heavy loss,” sympathized the Sarian. “Beside so many of your people, you have lost your father and your mother.” Stellara looked up quickly into

his eyes. “They were not my people,” she said. “What?” exclaimed Tanar. “They were not your people? But your father, The Cid, was chief of the Korsars.” “He was not my father,” replied the girl. (To Be Continued) (Copyright. 1931, by Metropolitan Newspaper Feature Service, Inc.: Copyright, 1929. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Inc.)

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