Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1931 — Page 18

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

< TSs,* r ’* • v *rrtor of Bari, a country in Pelluddar. a strange world somewhere beneath the earth's crust. In an Invasion of a horde of savages called Korsars, Tanar Is carried away on one Os their shins. Stellara. supposedly the daughter of the Korsar chieftain. The Cld, makes friends with him. A terrific storm comes up. The Koraars abandon the battered vessel, leaving Tanar and Stellara behind. Tanar **2l? t * ,Bt Stellara is not the daughter of The Cld. The Korsar chief had kidnaped her mother from the Island of Amlocap previous to ths birth of Stellara, but her mother had told her that her father was an Amlocaplan chief named Fedol. derelict ship drifts to the shores of Amlocap. Tanar and Stellara, after many vicissitudes, eventually find stellara s father, who takes them to hts village. A band of Korsars. led by Bohar the Bloody, kidnap Stellara. Tanar. In Bursulng them, fall* into a deep well. * ,? n himself In the underground w< jrld of the dread Burled People. .?* lpto their clutches, but later •scapes to the outer world with another a man from the island of Htme ..e rescues Stellara from the Korsars killing Bohar the Bloodv. f* e end Stellara declare their love for each other and avow themselves mates. Almost Immediately afterward, Jude ■ steals Stellara and carries her off In a canoe, bound for Htme Tanar pursues in a second canoe, sees Jude and Stellara land on Hlme. and Is himself drawing close to the Island when he runa Into trouble. CHAPTER NINETEEN Well aware of his small experience and great deficiency as a paddler, Tanar held no expectation of being able to overhaul the canoe manned by the experienced Jude. The best that he could hope was that he might keep It In view until he could mark th spot upon Hime where It landed. And once upon solid ground again, even though it was an island peopled by enemies, the Sarian felt that he would be able to cope with any emergency that might arise. Gradually the outlines of Hlme took definite shape before him, while those of Amlocap became correspondingly vague behind. And between him and the island o? Hime the little dot upon the surface of the sea told him that his quarry had not yet made land. The details of the shoreline grew more distinct. He saw coves and inlets and wooded hills and then he saw the canoe that he was following disappear far ahead of him beyond the entrance of a cove. Tanar marked the spot well In his mind and redoubled his efforts to reach the shore. And then—fate arose in her inexorable perversity and confounded all his hopes and plans. CHAPTER TWENTY A SUDDEN flurry on the surface of the water far to his right gave Tanar his first warning of danger. And then, like the hand of a giant, the wind caught his frail craft and turned it at right angles to the course he wished to pursue. The waves rolled; the wind shrieked; the storm was upon him in great fury and there was naught to do but turn and flee before it. Down the coast of Hime he raced, parallel to the shore, farther and farther from the spot where Jude had landed with Stellara, but all the time Tanar was striving to drive his craft closer to the wooded slopes of Hlme. Ahead of him, and upon his right, he could see wha'. appeared to be the island. Should he be carried past this he realized that all would be lost, for doubtless the storm would carry him on out of sight of land, Straining every muscle, continuously risking being capsized, Tanar strove to drive inward toward the shore, and though he saw he U'as gaining he knew that it was too late, for already he was almost abreast of the Island’s extremity, and still he was a hundred yards off shore. But even so he did not despair. He saw the island slip past him, but there was yet chance, for in its lee he saw calm water, and if he could reach that he would be saved. The Sarian bent to his crude paddle. Suddenly the breeze stopped and he shot out into the smooth water in the lee of the island, but he did not cease his strenuous efforts until the bow of the canoe had touched the sand of Hime. Tanar leaped out and dragged the craft ashore. He hid it beneath the foliage of nearby bushes, and, alone and unarmed, set forth to face the dangers of an unknown country in what appeared even to Tanar as an almost hopeless quest for Stellara. To the Sarian it seemed wisest to follow the coast-line back until he found the spot at which Jude had landed and then trace his trail Inland, and this was the plan that he proceeded to follow. Being in a strange land and unarmed, Tanar was forced to move with great caution; yet constantly he sacrificed caution to speed. Natural obstacles Impeded his progress. A great cliff running far out into the sea barred his way and it was with extreme difficulty

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ithat he found a path up the face |of the frowning escapement and then only after traveling inland for a considerable distance. a a a BEYOND the summit rolled a broad tableland dotted with trees. A herd of thags grazed quietly in the sunlight. At sight of the man passing among them, these great-homed cattle became restless. An old bull bellowed and pawed the ground, and Tanar measured the distance to the nearest itree. But on he went, avoiding the beasts as best he could and hoping ; against hope that he could pass [ them successfully without further ; arousing their short tempers. But ! the challenge of the old bull was ; being taken up by others of his ! sex, until a score of heavy-shoul-I dered mountains of beef were converging slowly upon the lone man, stopping occasionally to paw or gore the ground, while they bellowed forth their displeasure. There was an opening among l them just ahead of him, and Tanar accelerated his speed, but just at that instant one of the bulls took it into his head to charge and then the whole twenty bore down upon the Sarian. There was naught to do but 6eek the safety of the nearest tree and ; toward this Tanar ran at full speed. With scarcely more than Inches to spare, Tanar swung himself into the branches of the tree Just as the leading bull passed beneath him. A moment later the bellowing herd congregated beneath hie sanctuary. For a while they milled around beneath him and then several deliberately lay down beneath the tree as though to prevent his escape. But the Sarian possessed a certain philosophic outlook upon life that permitted him to accept his fate with marked stoicism and to take advantage of the enforced delay by fashioning a bow, arrows, and a spear from the material afforded by the tree in which he was confined. The tree gave him everything that he needed except the cord for his bow, and this he cut from the rawhide belt that supported his loin cloth—a long, slender strip of rawhide which he inserted in his mouth and chewed thoroughly until it was entirely impregnated with saliva. Then he bent his bow and stretched the wet rawhide from tip to tip. While it dried, he pointed his arrows with his teeth. In drying the rawhide shrunk, bending the bow still further and tightening the string until it hummed to the slightest touch. a a a '“|~'HE weapons were finished and 1. yet the great bulls still stood on guard, and while Tanar remained helpless in the tree, Jude was taking Stellara toward the interior of the island. But all things must end. Impatient of delay, Tanar sought some plan whereby he might rid himself of the short-tempered beasts beneath him. He hit upon the plan of yelling, and throwing dead branches at them, and this did have the effect of bringing them all to their feet. A few wandered away to graze with the balance of the herd, but enough remained to keep Tanar securely Imprisoned. A great bull stood directly beneath him. Tanar jumped up and down upon a small branch, making its leafy end whip through the air, and at the same time he hurled bits of wood at the great thags. And then, suddenly, to the surprise and consternation of both man and beast, the branch broke and precipitated Tanar full upon the broad shoulders of the bull. Instantly his fingers clutched its long hair as, with a bellow of surprise and terror, the beast leaped forward. Instinct took the frightened animal toward the balance of the herd and when they saw him with a man sitting upon his back, they, too, became terrified, with the result that a general stampede ensued, the herd attempting to escape their fellow, while the bull raced to be among them. Stragglers, that had been gazing at a considerable distance from the balance of the herd, were stringing out to the rear and it was the presence of these that made it impossible for Tanar to slip to the ground and make his escape. The thag, now thoroughly frightened because of his inability to dislodge the man-thing from his shoulders, was racing blindly forward, and presently Tanar found himself carried into the very midst of the lunging herd as it thundered across the tableland toward a distant forest.

THE Sarian knew that once they reached the forest he would I doubtless be scraped from the back of the thag almost immediately by some low hanging limb, and if he were not killed or injured by the blow he would be trampled to death by the thags behind. But as escape seemed hopeless, he only could await the final outcome of this adventure. When the leaders of the herd approached the forest, hope was rekindled in Tanar’s breast, for he saw that the growth was ho thick and the trees so close together that it was impossible for the beasts to enter the woods at a rapid gait. Immediately the leaders reached the edge of the forest their pace was slowed down and those behind them, pushing forward, were stopped by those in front. The herd slowed down and contented itself with pushing steadily onward toward the woods with the result that when the beast that Tanar was astride arrived at the edge of the dark shadows his gait had been reduced to a walk, and as he passed beneath the first tree Tanar swung lightly into its branches. He had lost his spear, but his bow and arrows that he had strapped to his back remained with him, and as the herd passed beneath him and he saw the last of them disappear in the dark, aisles of the forest, he breathed a deep sigh of relief and turned once more toward the far end of the island. The thags had carried him inland a considerable distance, so now he cut back diagonally toward the coast to gain as much ground as possible. Tanar had not yet emerged from the forest when he heard the excited growling of some wild beast directly ahead of him. He thought that he recognized the voice of a codon, and fitting an arrow to his bow he crept warily forward. What wind was blowing came from the beast toward him and presently brought to his nostrils proof of the correctness of his guess, together with another familiar scent —that of man. Knowing that the beast could not catch his scent from upwind. Tanar had only to be careful to advance silently. Thus, he came in sight of the beast without being discovered by it. a a a IT was, as he had thought, a huge wolf, a prehistoric but gigantic counterpart of our own timber wolf. The codon stood snarling beneath a great tree, occasionally leaping high against the boel as though he sought to reach something hidden by the foliage. Tanar crept closer and presently he saw the figure of a youth crouching among the lower branches above the codon. It was evident that the boy was terror-stricken, but the thing that puzzled Tanar was that he cast affrighted glances upward into the tree more often than he did downward toward the codon, and presently this fact convinced the Sarian that the youth was menaced by something above. Once more he crept to anew position, without attracting the attention either of the codon or the youth, and from this vantage point he could look farther up into the tree. Then it was that he realized the hopelessness of the boy’s position, for only a few feet above him and moving steadily closer, appeared the head of a great snake, whose wide, distended jaw’s revealed formidable fangs. Tanar now had crept to within seven paces of the codon, from the sight of which he was concealed by a low shrub. Fitting an arrow to his crude bow and inserting four others between the fingers of his left hand, Tanar arose quietly and drove a shaft Into the back of the codon, between its shoulders. With a howl of pain and rage the beast wheeled about, only to receive another arrow full in the chest. Then his glaring eyes alighted upon the Sarian and, with a hideous growl, he charged. (To Be Continued.) (Copyright. 1931. by Metropolitan Newspaper Feature Service. Inc,;. Cciyright, 1929. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.)

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