Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 231, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1931 — Page 6

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TANAR OF PELLUCIDAR

By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS •TARZAN^OF*THeT APES"

SYNOPSIS i J * warrior of Sari, a country in Pellueidar, a strange world somevhere beneath the earth's crust tn *n invasion of a horde of savages called Korrars, Tanar is carried away, on one of their ships. Stellar*. supposedly the daughter of the Korsar chieftain. The Cid, makes friends with him. A terrific storm comes up. The Korftars aNapdon the vessel, leaving Tanar end Sttalara behind. Tanar learns that Stellar* is not the daughter cf The C!d The Korsar chief had kidnaped her mother from the lslrnd of Amiocap previous to the birth of Stellara, but her mother had told her that her father wai *r Amlocapian chief named Kcdol. The derelict, ship drifts to the shore:. Os Amiocap Tanar and Stellara. after many vicissitudes, find Stellara's father, who takes them to his village of Paraht A band of Korsars. led by Bohar the Bioody. kidnap Stellara. "tanar pursues them. . They fire upon him and think they nave killed him In reality, he has tal’en unlniured into deep well. He find*, himself in the underground world of the Buried People, or Corlpie:;, creatures who live under the earth and emerge only to reek human fiesh for food. Tanar falls Into their clutches, but escapes with another human captive named Jude Meanwhile. Stellara has been carried by the Korsars to the seashore, where they build a boat to tr.ke them back to Korsar. She escapes and flees Into the forest. Bohar pursues her. but she ha; climbed Into tne trees, where he can not see her. He lies down In a glade to rest, when suddenly he sees Stellara drop from the lower branches of a tree, and come toward him without seeing him CHAPTER EIGHTEEN AS Stellara came abreast of his hiding place, Bohar the Bloodv leaped to his feet and confronted her. With a stifled exclamation of dismay, Stellara turned and sought to escape, but the Korsar was too close and too qttick and, reaching forth, he seized her roughly by the hair. "Will you never learn that you can not escape Boher the Bloody?” he demanded. “You are mine and for this I shall cut, off both your feet at the ankles when I get you into the boat, so that, there will be no chance whatever that you may again run away from rne. But come, mate willingly with me, and lit will go less hard with you,” and jhe drew her slim figure into his ler'brace. "Never.” cried Stellara. and she struck hint in the face with her two clenched fist*. With an oath, Bohar seized the girl by the throat and shook her. "You she-ryth,” he cried, "if I did not want you so badly, I should kill you, and. by the god of Korsar, if ever you strike me again, I shall kill you.” "Then kill me,'* cried Stellara, "for I should rather die than mate with you,” and again she struck him with all her strength full in the face Bohar frothed with rage as he closed his fingers more tightly upon the girl's soft neck. “Die, then, you ” The words died upon his lips and he wheeled about as there fell upon his ears a man's loud voice raised in anger. As he stood there, hesitating and looking in the direction of the sound, the underbrush at the upper end of the glade parted and a warrior, leaping into the clearing, ran swiftly toward him Bohar blanched as though he had seen a ghost, and then, hurling the girl roughly to the ground, he faced the lone warrior. "Go away!’’ shouted Bohar. “Go eway and leave us alone. This is my mate.” "You lie,” growled Tanar of Pellucidar as he leaped upon the Korsar a a a DOWN went the two men, the Sarian on top, and as they fell, each sought a hold upon the other’s throat, and, failing to secure it. they struck blindly at one another. Tanar was mad with rage. He fought like a wild beast, forcetting all that David Inness had taught him. His one thought was to kill; it mattered not how, just so long as he killed, and Bohar, on the defensive, fighting for his life, battled like a cornered rat. Stellara slowly opened her eyes as she recovered from the swoon into which she had passed beneath ♦he choking fingers of Bohar the Bloody. At first she did not recognize Tanar, seeing only two warriors battling to the death on the sward of the glade and guessing that she would be the prey of him who was victorious. But presently, in the course of the duel, the face of the Sarian was turned toward her. “Tanar!” site cried. "Heaven Is merciful. I thought you were dead, and you have been given back to me.” At her words the Sarian redoubled his efforts to overcome his antagonist, but Bohar succeeded in getting his fingers upon Tanar’s throat. Horrified, Stellara looked about her for a rock or a stick with which to come to the succor of her champion, but before she had found

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one, she realized that he needed no outside assistance. With a single Herculean movement, he tore himself loose from Bohai and leaped to' hi.i feet. Instantly the Korsar sprang to an upright position and, lowering bis; head, he charged the Sarian—l charged like a mad bull. Now Tanar was fighting with cool calculation. Tire madness of the first moment following the sight of Stellara in the choking, murderous fingers of the Korsar had passed. He awaited Bohar’s rush, and as they came together he clamped an arm around the Korsar’s head and, turn-: ing swiftly, hurled the man over his; shoulder and heavily to the ground. Then he waited. Once more Bohar, shaking his; head, staggered to his feet. Once; more he rushed the Sarian, and once more that deadly arm was; locked bout his head, and once more | he was huried heavily to the ground. ] This time he did not arise so quickly j nor so easily. He came up stag- \ gering. "Prepare to die,” growled Tanar. "For the suffering you have inflicted! upon Stellara you are about to die.” n n n \X7TTH a shriek of mingled rage ’ ' and fright, Bohar, gone mad, charged the Sarian again, and for the third time his great body flew through the air, to alight heavily 1 upon the hard ground, but this time , it did not arise, it did not stir, for I Bohar the Bloody lay deaa with a ' broken neck. For a mgjnent Tanar of Pellucidar j stood ready over the body of his j fallen fee, but when he realized that! Bohar was dead he turned away j with a sneer of disgust. Before him stood Stellara, her, beautiful eyes filled with incredulity ! and with happiness. "Tanar!” It was only a whisper, I but it carried to him a world of meaning. "Stellara!” he cried, as he took ! the girl in. his arms, "Stellara, 1 1 love you.” Her soft arms stole around his neck and drew his face to hers. His i mouth covered hers in a long kiss, and, as he raised his face to look ; down into hers, from the depths of j her ha If-closed eyes burned a supreme love. "My mate,” he cried, as he pressed j her to him. "My mate,” breathed Stellara, j “while life remains in my body and : after life, throughout death, for- ; ever.” Suddenly she looked up and drew away. "Who is that, Tanar?” she asked. As Tanar turned to look in the j direction indicated by the girl, he i saw Jude emerging from the forest! at the upper end of the glade. "It Is Jude,” he said to Stellara, j “who escaped with me from the j country of the Buried People.” S a a a JUDE approached them, his sullen' countenance clouded by his nat- i ural scowl. “He frightens me,” said Stellara, | pressing closer to Tanar. "You need not fear him,” said the Sarian. "He is always scowling and unhappy.” "I do not like him,” whispered Stellara. Jude approached and stopped before them. His eyes wandered for a moment to the body of Bohar and then came back and fastened themI selves in a steady gaze upon Stel- j lara. There was a crafty boldness! | in his gaze that disturbed Stellara | | even more than his sullen scowl. "Who is the woman?” he dej manded. "My mate,” replied Tanar. "Then she is going with us?” asked Jude. “Os course,” replied the Sarian. "And where are we going?” demanded Jude. "Stellara and I will return to Paraht, where her father, Fedol, Is chief,” replied Tanar. “You may come with us if you wish. We will see that you are received as a friend and treated well until you can find the means to return to the island of Hime.” "Is he from Hime?” asked Stellara, and Tanar felt her shudder. “I am from Hime,” said Jude, “but I do not care if I never return there, if your people will let me live | with them.” “That,” said Tanar, "is something that must be decided by Fedol and his people, but I can promise you that they will let you remain with them, if not permanently, at least until you can find the means of returning to Hime. And now, before we set out for Paraht, let us renew I our strength with food and sleep.”

■fTFITHOUT weapons it was not i ’ * easy to obtain and they had; traveled up the mountain slopes for j some distance before the two men , "ere able to bnng down a brace of l&rge birds, which they knocked over with welf-aimed stones. The birds closely resembled wild turkeys, whose prototypes doubtless were the progenitors of the wild turkeys of the outer crust. The hunt had brought them to a wide plateau, just below the summit of the hills. Beside a small stream, which rippled gayly downward toward the sea, they halted to eat and sleep. Jude gathered firewood while Tanar made fire by the primitive method of rapidly revolving a sharpened stick in a tinder-filled hole in a large piece of dry wood. As these preparations were going forward, Stellara prepared the birds and it was not long before the turkeys were roasting over a hot fire. Their hunger appeased, the urge to sleep took possession of them, and now Jude insisted that he stand the first watch, and so Stellara and the Sarian lay down beneath the shade of a tree while the scowling Hi* mean stood watch. Even in the comparative safety of Amiocap, danger always might be expected to lurk in the form of carnivorous beast or hunting man. but the watcher cast no solicitous glances beyond the camp. Instead, he squatted v.pon his haunches, devouring Stellara with his eyes. Not once did he remove them from the beautiful face of the girl except occasionally to glance quickly at Tanar, where <,he regular rising and falling of his breast denoted undisturbed slumber. Presently the Himean arose noiselessly and gathered a handful of soft grasses, which he rolled into a small ball. Then he crept stealthily to where Stellara lay and kneeled beside her. Suddenly he leaned over her and grasped her by the throat, the same time clamping his other hand, in the palm of which lay the ball of grass, over her mouth. a a a 'T'IIUS rudely awakened from deep slumber, her first glance revealing the scowling features of the Himean, Stellara opened her mouth to scream for help, and, as she did so, Jude forced the ball of grass between her teeth and fa.- into her mouth, dragged her to her feet, and, throwing her across his shoulder, bore her swiftly downward across the table-land. Stellara struggled and fought to free herself, but Jude was a powerful man and her efforts were of no avail against his strength. He held her in such way that both her arms were confined. The ball of grass expanded in her mouth and she could not force it out with her tongue alone. A single scream she knew would awaken Tanar and bring him to her rescue, but she could not scream. Down across the rolling table-land the Himean carried Stellara to the edge of a steep cliff that overhung the sea. at the upper end of a deep cove which cut far into the island at this point. Here Judge lowered Stellara to her feet, but he still clung tightly to one of her wrists. “Listen, woman,” he growled, “you are coming to Hime to be the mate of Jude. If you come peaceably, no harm will befall you and if you will promise to make no outcry, I shall remove the gag from your mouth. Do you promise?” (To Be Continued) i Copyright. 1931. by Metropolitan Newspaper Feature Service. Inc.: Copyright, 1929. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.)

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