Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 238, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1931 — Page 10

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TANAR OF PELLUCIDAR ; By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS ~T ARZANI O F> T HE APES"

BTNOPMS Tanar 1& a young warrior of Sari, a. •Country in Pelluciaar. a strange world somewhere beneath the earth * crust. Some years before. David lines, of the ruter world, had penetrated to Pellucldar end had established himself as emperor of a certain region. In an invasion of a savage horde who call themselves Korsars. Tanar is carried away on one of their ships. David, taking with him Ja. the King of Anoroc, and a Korsar prisoner to guide them, seta out in a small boat to follow the enemy. A terrific storm comes up. The ship carrying Tanar Is wrecked. The Korsars and their chief. The Cld, take to the small boats. Tanar is left behind with a girl named Stellara, supposedly The Ctd's daughter. She later tells him that her mother was kidnaped by The Cld from the island of Amlocap before her birth, and had told her that her father was an Amtocaplan. The battered Korsar vessel drifts to the shores of Amlocap, where - Tanar and Stellara have many adventures. They avow themselves mates, but shortly afterward, Jude, a .nan from the Island of Hlme steals Stellara and carries her away to Hlme. Tanar pursues him. loses htr wav. and Is guided by a Htmean girl named Gura to Jude's village of Cam. He finds Btellara, and is about to rescue her when a band of Korsars. survivors of the storm, who have been wrecked again on Hlme. fall uton them. Jude escape*, but Tanar Is made a prisoner. The Korsars recognise Stellara as the daughter of The Cld. and agree to take her and Gura with them to Korsar. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR (Continued) “You do not know that The Cid is dead," insisted Stellara; “but if he Is, who is there better fitted to be chief of the Korsars than Bulf? And if he is chief, he will reward you for returning this man, when 1 explain to him the purpose for which he was brought back to Korsar.” “Well,” said the Korsar. “perhaps you are right. If he will promise to help us work the boat, we shall take him with us. But how about the girl here?” Stellara turned to Gura “What do you wish to do?” Her voice was cold and haughty. “Where Tanar goes, there I will go,” replied Gura. Stellara’s eyes narrowed and for an instant they flashed Are, but immediately they resumed their natural, kindly expression, though tinged with sadness. “Very well, then,” he said, turning sadly away, “the girl must return with us to Korsar.” The sailors discussed this question at some length and most of them were opposed to it, but when Stellara insisted and assured them of still greater reward, they finally consented. nan THE Korsars marched boldly across the mosa, past the walls of Cam, their arquebuses ready in their hands, knowing full well the fear of them that past raids had implanted in the breasts of the Himeans. As they reached the opposite side of the mesa, where they could look out across the bay of Carn, a hoarse shout of pleasure arose from the throats of the Korsars. for there, at anchor in the bay, lay a Korsar ship. The Korsars fairly tumbled down the precipitous trail to the beach. Rushing to the edge of the water, they tried to discharge their arquebuses to attract attention from the vessel. A few of the charges had dried and the resulting explosion awakened signs of life upon the anchored ship. The sailors on the shore tore off sashes and hankerchiefs, which they waved frantically as signals of distress, and presently they were rewarded by ihe sight of the lowering of a boat from the vessel. Within speaking distance of the shore, the boat came to a stop and an officer hailed the men on shore. “Who are you?” he demanded. “We are part, of the crew of the ship of The Cid,” replied the sailors’ spokesman. “Our ship was wrecked ih mid-ocean and w r e made our way to Amiocap and then to Hime. but here we lost the boat that we built upon Amiocap.” Assured that the men were Korsars, the officer commanded that the boat move in closer to the shore and finally it was beached. The brief greetings and explanations over, the officer took them all aboard and, shortly afterward. Tanar of Pellucider found himself again upon a Korsar ship of war. Tire commander of the ship knew Stellara. and after questioning them carefully, he approved her plan and agreed to take Tanar and Gura back to Korsar with them. Following their • interview with the officer. Tanar found himself momentarily alone with Stellara. “Stellara”’ he said. “What change has come over you?” . She turned and looked at him coldly. “In Amiocap you were well enough,” she said, “but in Korsar you would be only a naked barbarian,” and, turning, she walked

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away from him without another word. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE THE voyage to Karsar was uneventful, and during its entire extent Tanar saw nothing of either Stellara or Gura, for, although he was not confined in the dark hold, he was not permitted above the first deck and although he often looked i- : at the higher deck at the stern . the ship, he never caught a gi >se of either of the girls. So he oncluded that Gura was confined in one of the cabins and that Stellara deliberately avoided any sight of him. As they approached the coast of Korsar, Tanar saw a level country, curving uward into the mist of the distance. He saw cultivated fields and patches of forest land and a riyer running down to the sea—a broad, winding river, upon the shore of which a city lay, inland a little from the ocean. The ship made directly for the mouth of the river, up which it sailed toward the city, which, as they approached it, Tanar saw far surpassed in size and the pretentiousness of its buildings any habitation of man that he ever had seen upon the surface of Pellucidar, not even excepting the new capital of the confederated kingdoms of Pellucidar that Emperor David was building. Where the river widened, the town had been built and here there rode at anchor a great flood of ships of war and many lesser craft —fishing boats and river boats and barges. As their ship approached, cannons boomed from the docks of the anchored warships, and the salute was returned by their own craft, which finally came to anchor in mid-stream, opposite the city. Small boats put out from the shore and were paddled rapidly toward the warship, which also lowered some of her own boats, into one of which Tanar was ordered under charge of an officer and a couple of sailors. As he was taken to shore and marched along the street, he excited considerable attention among the crowds through which they passed, for he immediately was recognized as a barbarian captive from some uncivilized quarter of Pellucidar. a a a DURING the debarkation Tanar had seen nothing of either Stellara or Gura and now he wondered if he ever was to see them again. His mind was filled with the same sad thoughts that had been his companions during the entire course of the long journey from Hime to Korsar and which finally had convinced him that he never had known the true Stellara until she had avowed herself upon the deck of the ship in the harbor of Carn. Yes. he w-as all right upon Amiocap, but in Korsar he was only a naked savage, and this fact was borne in upon him now by the convincing evidence of the haughty contempt which the natives of Korsar stared at him or exchanged rude jokes at his expense. It hurt the Sarian's pride to think that he had been so deceived by the woman to whom he had given all his love. He would have staked his life upon his belief that hers was the sweetest and purest and most loyal of characters, and to learn at last that she was shallow and insincere cut him to the quick, and his suffering was lightened by but a single thought—his unquestioned belief in the sweet and enduring friendship of Gura. It was with such thoughts that his mind was occupied as he was led into a building along the waterfront, which seemed to be in the nature of a guardhouse. Here he was turned over to an officer in charge, and, after a few brief questions, two soldiers conducted him into another room, raised a heavy trapdoor in the floor, and bade him descend a rude ladder that led downward into darkness below. No sooner had his head descended below the floor joists than the door was slammed down above him. He heard the grating of a heavy bolt as the soldiers shut it and then the thus of their footsteps as they left the room above. Descending slowly for about ten feet, Tanar came at last to the surface of a stone floor. His eyes becoming accustomed to the change, he realized that the apartment into which he had descended was not in total darkness, but that daylight filtered into it from a small-barred window near the ceiiing. Looking

about him he saw that he was* the only occupant of the room. nan IN the wall, opposite the window. he discerned a doorway and crossing to it he saw that it opened into a narrow corridor, running parallel with the length of the room. Looking up and down the corridor he discerned faint patches of light, as though other open doorways lined one side of the hallway. He was about to enter upon a tour of Investigation when the noise of something scurrying along the floor of the corridor attracted his attention, and looking back to his left he saw a dark form creeping toward him. It stood about a foot in height and -was, perhaps, three feet long, but in the shadows of the corridor it loomed too indistinctly for him to recognize its details. But presently he saw that it had two shining eyes that seemed to be directed upon him. As it came boldly forward, Tanar stepped back into the room. On the thing came and turning into the doorway it stopped and surveyed the Sarian. In his native country Tanar had been familiar with a species of wood rat, which the Sarian considered large, but never in all his life had he dreamed that a rat could grow to the enormous proportions of the hideous thing that confronted him with its bold, gleaming, beady eyes. Tanar had been disarmed when he had been taken aboard the Korsar ship, but even so he had no fear of a rodent, even if the thing should elect to attack him, which he doubted. But the ferocious appearance of the rat gave him pause as he thought what the result might be If a number of them should attack a man simultaneously. Presently the rat, still standing facing him, squealed. For a time there was silence and then the thing squealed again and, as from a great distance, Tanar heard an answering squeal, and then another and another, and presently they grew louder and greater In volume, and he knew that the rat of the Korsar dungeon was calling its fellows to the attack and the feast. He looked about him for some weapon of defense, but there was nothing but the bare stone of the floor and the walls. He heard the rat pack coming, and still the scout that had discovered him stood in the doorway, waiting. BUT why should he, the man, wait? If he must die, he would die fighting and if he could take the rats as they came, one by one, he might make them pay for their meal and pay dearly. And so, with the agility of a tiger, the man leaped for the rodent, and so sudden and unexpected was his spring that one hand fell upon the loathsome creature before it could escape. (To Be Continued) (Copyright. 1931. bv Metropolitan Newspaper Feature Service. Inc.: Copyright, 1929. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.) Institution Site Chosen By United Press KENDALLVILLE, Ind., Feb. 12. Kendallville will be the site of the Old People's home of the Central district, Missouri synod, of the Lutheran church. According to preliminary plans the home will accommodate fifty or sixty persons. Ft. Wayne, Hunting, Cleveland, 0., and Painesville, 0., were bidding for the home.

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