Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 223, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1931 — Page 8

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TANAR OF PELLUCIDAR By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS ‘TARZAn' I OF > THE APES”

_ . STNOPSIS .*• 5. warrior of Sort, & gjatry to Pollucldar. a strange world oeneath the earth's crust. In an In* r?>°n of 8 horde of savages called Korrs. Tar.ar is carried aav on one of ■Jjr ahlDs Stellara. supposedly the ■Shthtor of the Kortar enteftaln. The CJd. makes friends with him. ..Terrlflc storm comes un. The Korsars abandon the battered vessel, leaving A? n ar and Stellara behind. TanarTeams Jhat gtellara is not the daughter ct The Old. The Koraar chief had kidnaped her mother. Allara. from the Wand of Amlocap previous to the birth of Stellara. hut her mother had told her that her father was an Amiocapian named *ede!. Tha derelict ship dlrfta to the shores ft Amlocap but native warriors, believing that Tanar and Stellara are Koraara. make prisoners of them. Brought before Zural. chief of the village of bar. Stellara tells him the storv of r.er birth, but he refuses to believe her. The two prisoners are doomed to be burned to death, but they escajy. and flflee through dense forest. They have a terrifying encounter with a horrible creature—half beast, half man—whom Stellara recognizes as one of the "Burled People," but Tanar succeeds in killing the thing, and they proceed on their wav. I CHAPTER NINE ( Continued) "Yes,’' he said, “until I have capons I wish to see no more of them.” "They are horrible creatures’’ said Btellara "and If there had been two of them we should both have been lost." “What are they?” asked Tanar. “You seem to know about them. Where had you ever seen one before?" ‘‘l never have seen one until just now,” said she, "but my mother told me about them. They are feared and hated by all Amiocapians. They are Coripies and they Inhabit dark caverns and tunnels beneath the surface of the ground. That is why we call them the Buried People. “They live on flesh and wandering about the jungle they gather up the remains of our kills and devour the bodies of wild beasts that have died in the forest, but being afraid of our spears they do not venture far from the openings that lead down into their dark world. "Occasionally they waylay a lone hunter and less often they come to one of our villages and seize a woman or child. No one ever has entered their world and escaped to tell about it, so that what my mother has told me about them is only what our people have imagined as to the underworld where the Buried People dwell. There never has been any Amiocapian warrior brave enough to venture into the dark recesses of one of their tunnels. If there has been such, he has not returned to tell of it." “And if the kindly Amiocapians had not decided to burn us to death they might have given us to the Buried People?” asked Tanar, “Yes, they would have taken us and bound us to trees close to one of the entrances to the underworld. But do not blame, my mother’s people for that, as they would have been doing only that which they considered right and proper.” “Perhaps they are a kindly people,” sfdd Tanar, with a grin, "for it was certainly far more kindly to accord us death by burning at the stake than to have left us to the horrid attentions of the Coripios. But, come, we will take to the trees again, for this spot does not look as beautiful to me now as it did when we first looked upon it.” CHAPTER TEN ONCE more Tanar and Stellara took up their flight among the branches and, just as they were commencing to feel the urge tor sleep, Tanar discovered a small deer in a game trail beneath them. Making his kill, the two satisfied their hunger, and then, with small branches and great leaves, Tanar constructed a platform in a tree—a narrow couch—where Stellara lay down to sleep while he stood guard. After she had slept, he slept, and then once more they resumed their flight. Strengthened and refreshed by food and sleep, they renewed their journey in high spirits and greater hopefulness. The village of Lar lay far behind and since they had left it they had seen no other village nor any sign of man. While Stellara had slept, Tanar had busied himself in fashioning crude weapons against the time when he might find proper materials for the making of better ones. A slender branch of hard wood, gnawed to a point by his strong, white teeth, must answer him for a spear. His bow was constructed of another branch and strung with tendons taken from the deer he had killed, while his arrows were slender shoots cut from a tough shrub that grew plentifully throughout the forest. He fashioned a second, lighter spear for Stellara, and thus armed

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each felt a sense of security that had been entirely wanting before. On and on they went. Three times they ate and once again they slept, and still they had not reached the seacoast. The great sun hung overhead; a gentle, cooling breeze moved through the forest; birds of gorgeous plumage and little monkeys unknown to the outer world flew or scampered, sang or chattered as the man and the woman disturbed them in their passageIt was a peaceful world and to Tanar, accustomed to the savage, carniverous beasts that overran the great mainland of his birth, it seemed a very safe and colorless world; yet he was content that nothing was Interfering with their progress toward escape, Stellara had said no more about desiring to return to Korsar, find j the plan that always hovered among his thoughts included taking Stellara back to Sari with him. a b t 1 THE peaceful trend of Tanar’s thoughts suddenly was shattered by the sound of shrill trumpeting. So close it sounded that It might almost have been directly beneath him, and an instant later as he parted the foliage ahead of him he saw the cause of the disturbance. The jungle ended here upon the edge of open meadowland, dotted with small clumps of trees. In the foreground there were two figures—a warrior fleeing for hlf. life and behind him a hugo tandor, which, though going upon three legs, was sure soon to overtake the man. Tanar took the entire scene in at a glance and was aware that here was a lone tandor hunter who had failed lo hamstring his prey in both hind legs. It is seldom that man hunts the great tandor single-handed and only the bravest or 4he most rash would essay to do so. Ordinarily there are several hunters, two of whom are armed with fieavf, stone axes. While the others make a noise to attract the attention of the tandor and hide the sound of the approach of the ax men, the latter creep cautiously through the underbrush from the roar of the great animal until each is within striking distance of a hind leg. Then simultaneously they hamstring the monstor, which lying helpless, they dispatch with heavy spears and arrows. He who alone would hamstring a tandor must be endowed not only with great strength and courage, but must be able to strike two unerring blows with his ax in such rapid succession that the beast is crippled almost before it realizes that it has been attacked. It was evident to Tanar that this hunter had failed to get in his second blow quickly enough and now he was at the mercy of the great beast. Since they had started upon their flight through the trees Stellara had overcome her fear and now was able to travel alone with only occasional assistance from Tanar. She had been following the Sarian and now she stood at his side, watching the tragedy being enacted below them. “He will be killed,” she cried. “Can we not save him?” This thought had not occurred to Tanar, for was the man not an Amiocapian and an enemy? But there was something in the girl’s tone that spurred the Sarian to action. Perhaps it was the instinct in the male to exhibit his prowess before the female. Perhaps it was because at heart Tanar was brave and magnanimous, or perhaps it was because, among all other women in the world, it was Stellara who had spoken. Who may know? Perhaps Tanar did not know himself what prompted his next act. a u a SHOUTING a word familiar to all tandor hunters and which is most nearly translatable into English as “Reverse!” he leaped to the ground almost at the side of the charging tandor and simultaneously he carried his spear hand back and drove the heavy shaft deep into the beast’s side, just behfhd Its left shoulder. Then he leaped back into the forest, expecting that the tandor would do precisely what it did do. With a squeal of pain, it turned upon its new tormentor. The . vmiocapian, who still clung to his heavy axe, had heard, as though it was a miracle from the gods, the. familiar signal that had burst so suddenly from Tanar’s lips. It had told him what the other would attempt and he was ready, with the result that he turned back

toward the beast at the instant that it wheeled to charge after Tanar, and as It crashed into the undergrowth of the jungle in pursuit of the Sarian, the Amiocapian overtook it. The great axe moved swiftly as lightning and the huge beast trumpeting with rage, sank helplessly to the ground and rolled over on its side. “Down!” shouted the Amiocapian, to advise Tanar that the attack had been successful. The Sarian. returned and together the two warriors dispatched the great beast, while above them Steilare remained among the concealing verdure of the trees, for the women of Pellucidar do not rashly expose themselves to view of enemy warriors. In this instance she knew that it would be safer to wait and discover the attitude of the Amiocapian toward Tanar. Perhaps he would be* grateful and friendly, but there was the possibility that he might not. The beast dispatched, the two men faced one another. "Who are you?” demanded the Amiocapian, “who came so bravely to the rescue of a stranger? I do not recognize you. You are not of Amlocap.” “My name is Tanar and I am from the Kingdom of Sari, that lies far away on the distant mainland. I was captured by the Korsars, who invaded the empire of which Sari is a part. They were taking me and other prisoners back to Korsar when the fleet was overtaken by a terrific storm and the ship upon which I was confined was so disabled that it was deserted by its crew. “Drifting helplessly with the wind and current it finally bore us to the shores of Amlocap, where we were captured by warriors from the village of Lar. They did not believe our story, but thought that we were Korsars and they were about to destroy us when we succeeded in making our escape a a a “TF you do not believe me,” continued the Sarian, “then one of us must die, for under no circumstances will we return to Lar to be burned at the stake.” "Whether I believe you are not,” replied the Amiocapian, "I should be beneath the contempt of all men were I to permit any harm to befall one who just has saved my life at the risk of his own.’’ “Very well,” said Tanar. “We shall go our way in the knowledge that you will not reveal our whereabouts to the men of the village of Lar.” “You say ‘we,”‘ sadi the Amiocapian. “You are not alone then?” “No, there is another with me,” replied Tanar. "Perhaps I can help you,” said the Amiocapian. "It is my duty to do so. In /what direction are you going and how do you plan to escape from Amiocap?” “We are seeking the coast, where we hope to be able to build a craft and to cross the ocean to the mainland.” The Amiocapian shook his head. “That will be difficult,” he said. “Nay, impossible.” “We may only make the attempt,” said Tanar, “for it is evident that we can not remian here among the people of Amlocap, who will not believe that we are not Korsars.” "You do not look at ail like the Korsars,” said the warrior. "Where is your companion? Does he look like one?” "My companion is a woman,” replied Tanar. "If she looks no more like a Korsar than you, then it were easy to believe your story and, I, for one, am willing to believe it and willing to help you. There are other villages upon Amiocap than Lar and other chiefs than Zural. We are all bitter against the Korsars, but we are not all blinded by our hate as is ZouraL “Fetch your companion, and if she does not appear to be a Korsar, I will see that you are well treated. If I am in doubt, I will permit you to go your way*, nor shall I mention the fact to others that I have seen you.” “That is fair enough,” said Tanar, and then, turning, he called to the girl. Come, Stellara! Here is a warrior who would see if you are a Korsar.” BBC THE girl dropped lightly to the ground from the branches of the tree above the two men. As the eyes of the Amiocapian fell upon her, he stepped back with an exclamation of shock and surprise. “Gods of Amiocap!” he cried. “Allara!” The tw*o looked at him in amazement. “No, not Allara,” said Tanar, “but Stellara, her daughter. Who are you that you so quickly should recognize the likeness?” “I am Fedol,” said the man, “and Allara was my mate.” “Then this is your daughter, Fedol,” said Tanar. (To Be Continued) (■Copyright. 1931. by Metropolitan Newspaper Feature Service. Inc.; Copyright. 1929. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Inc.)

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