Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 240, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1931 — Page 10

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TANAR OF PELLUCIDAR By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS •TAR ZAN OF THE APES”

SYNOPSIS , . Tanar is a warrior of Sari, a country 111 Pellucidar, a strange world somewhere beneath the earth's crust. Some vears before. David Inr.es, of the outer world, had oenetrated to Pellucldar and had established himself as emperor of a certain region In an Invasion of a savage horde who cal! themselves Korsars. Tanar Is carried awav on one of their ships. David, taking with him Ja. the King of Anoroc. and a Korsar prisoner named Pitt, to guide them, sets 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 Cl cl. ‘ake to the small boats, leaving Tanar and The Cid’s daughter. Stellara. behind. Stellara tells Tanar that The Cld had kidnaped her mother trom the Island of Amlocap previous to her birth, that he thinks she Is his daughter, but that her mother had told her that her father was an Amlocaoian. The battered Korsar vesel drifts to the shores of Amlocap. where Tanar and ■Stellara have many adventures. Stellar?, is stolen ana carried awav bv a man from the Island of Hlme. Tanar pursues him and Is guided to his village by a Hlmean girl ntmed Oura. He finds Stellara and Is about to rescue hey. whet, he falls Into the hands of a band of Korsars. He and Stellara and Oura are brought to Korsar. Stellara thinks that Tanar ha* fallen In love with Oura and treats him very coldly. In Korsar. Tanar Is thrown Into a dungeon, where he Is startled to find David and Ja. whose small boat had been " recked and who had been picked up bv one of the Korsar ships. Tanar. David 'nd Ja are brought before The Cld and ?re told that they will be set free. If vhey will teach the Korsars how to make better gun powder and firearms. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Continued) David Innes was frankly puzzled. But now he was being led to the loot of The Cid's throne and there was no further opportunity for peculation. The cruel, cunning eyes of The Cld looked down upon the three prisoners from out his brutal face. ‘‘The emperor of Pcllucidar!” he neered. ‘‘The king of Anoroc. The son of the king of Sari!” and then he laughed uproariously. He extended his hand, his fingers parted and curled In a clutching gesture. Emperor! King! Prince!” he neered again, ‘‘and yet here you all are in the clutches of The Cid. ‘‘Emperor—bah! I, The Cid, am the emperor of all Pellucidar! You and your naked savages.” He turned on David. ‘‘Who are you to take the title of emporer? I could crush vou all,” and he closed his fingers in a gesture of rough cruelty. ‘‘But I shall not. The Cid Is generous. You shall have your freedom for a small price that you may easily pay.” He paused as though he expected them to question him, but no one of the three spoke. Suddenly he turned upon David. ‘‘Where did you get your firearms and your powder? Who made them for you?” “We made them ourselves.” replied David. “Who taught you to make them?” insisted The Cid. “But never mind; it is enough that you know and we would know. You may win your liberty by teaching us.” tt a a DAVID could make gunpowder, but whether he could make any better gunpowder than the Korsars he did not know. He had left that to Perry and his apprentices In the Empire, and he knew perfectly well that he could not reconstruct a modem rifle such as vas being turned out in the arsenals of Sari, for he had neither ; the drawings to make the rifles, nor the machinery, nor the drawings to make the machinery, nor the shops in which to make steel. But nevertheless here was one opportunity for possible freedom that might pave the way to escape and he could not throw it away. “Well,” demanded The Cid. impatiently. “what is your answer?” “We can not make powder and rifles while a man eats.” replied David; “nor can we make them from the air or from conversation. We must have materials: we must have factories; we must have trained men. You will sleep many times before we are able to accomplish all this.” “How many times shall we sleep before you have taught our people to make these things?” demanded The Cid. David shrugged. “I do not know,” he said. “In the first place I must find the proper materials.” “We have all the materials,” said the Cid. “We have iron and we have the ingredients for making powder. All that you have to do is to pul them together in a better way than we have been able to." “You may have the materials, but it is possible that they are not of sufficiently good quality to make the things that will alone satisfy the subjects of the emperor of Pellucidar. Perhaps your miter is low grade; there may be impurities in your sulphur; or even the charcoal may not be properly prepared; and there are even more important matters to consider in the selection of material and its manufacture into steel suitable for making the firearms of the Pellucidarians.” “You shall not be hurried," said the Cid. He turned to a man stand-

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ing near him. “See that an officer accompanies these men always,” he said. ‘Let them go where they please and do what they please in the prosecution of my orders. Furnish them with laborers If they desire them, but do not let them delay and do not let them escape, upon pain of death.” And thus ended their interview with the Cid bf Korsar. a a a As it chanced, the man to be detailed to watch them was Fitt, the fellow whom David had chosen to accompany him and Ja in their pursuit of the Korsar fleet, and Fitt, having become well acquainted with David and Ja, and having experienced nothing but considerate treatment from them, was far from unfriendly. As they were passing out of the palace they caught a glimpse of a girl in a chamber that opened on to the corridor in which they were. Fitt, big with the importance of his new position and feeling somewhat like a showman revealing and explaining his wonders to the ignorant and uninitiated, had been describing the various objects of interest that they had passed as well as the personages of importance, and now he nodded in the direction of the room in which they had seen the girl. “That,” he said, “is The Cid’s daughter.” Tanar stopped and turned to Fitt “May I speak to her?” he asked. “You!” cried Fitt. “You speak to the daughter of The Cid!” ‘I know her,” said Tanar. “We two were left alone on the abandoned ship when it was deserted by its officers and crew. Go and ask her if she will speak to me.” Fitt hesitated. “The Cid might not approve,” he said. “He gave you no orders other than to accompany us.” said David “How are we to carry on our work if we are prevented from speaking to any one whom we choose? At least you will be safe in leading us to The Cid’s daughter. If she wishes to speak to Tanar. the responsibility will not be yours.” “Perhaps you are right,” said Fitt. He stepped to the doorway of the apartment in which were Stellara and Gura. and now, for the first time, he saw that a man was with them. It was Bulf. The three looked up as he entered “There is one here who wishes to speak to The Cid’s daughter,” he said, addressing Stellara. “Who is he?” demanded Bulf. “He is Tanar, a prisoner of war j from Sari.” "Tell him,” said Stellara, “that The Cid's daughter does not recall him *nd can not grant him an interview." As Fitt turned and quit the chamber, Gura’s ordinarily sad eyes flashed a look of angry surprise at Stellara. CHAPTER TWENTY - SEVEN T'VAVID. Ja and Tanar were quartered in barracks inside the palace wall and immediately set to work to carry out a plan that David had suggested and which included an inspection not only of the Korsars' powder factory and the arsenals in which their firearms were manufactured, but also visits to the niter beds, sulphur deposits, charcoal pits and iron mines. These various excursions for the purpose of inspecting the sources of supply and the methods of obtaining it aroused no suspicion in the mind of the Korsar, though their true purixise was anything other than it appeared to be. In the first place David had not the slightest intention of teaching the Korsars how to improve their powder, thereby transforming them into a far greater menace to the peace of his empire than they ever could become while handicapped by an inferior grade of gunpowder that failed to explode quite as often a.s it exploded. These tours of inspection, however, which often took them considerable distances from the city of Korsar, afforded an exouse for delaying the lesson in powder making, while David and his companions sought to concoct some pi am of escape that might contain at least the seed of success. Also, they gave the three men a better knowledge of the surrounding country, familiarized them with the various trails, and acquainted them with the manners and customs of the primitive tribes that carried on the agriculture of Korsar and all the labor of the mines, niter beds, and charcoal burning. It was not long before they had learned that all the Korsars lived

in the city of Korsar and that they numbered about 500,000 souls, and, as all labor was performed by slaves, every male Korsar above the age of 15 was free for military service, while these between 10 and 15 virtually were so, since this included the period of their training, during which time they learned all that could be taught them of seamanship and the art of piracy and raiding. David soon came to realize that the ferocity of the Korsars. rather than their number, rendered them a menace to the peace of PellucN dar, but he was positive that with an equal number of ships and men he could overcome them and he was glad that he had taken upon himself this dangerous mission, for the longer the three reconnoitered the environs of Korsars, the more convinced they became that escape was possible. a a a THE primitive savages from whom the Korsars had wrested their country and whom they had forced into virtual slavery were of such low order of intelligence that David felt confident that they never could be utilized successfully as soldiers or fighting men by the Korsars, whom they outnumbered ten to one; their villages, according to his Korsar informant, stretching away into the vast hinterland, to the farthest extremities of which no man ever had penetrated. The natives themselves spoke oi a cold country to the north, in the barren and desolate wastes of which no man could live, and of mountains and forests and plains stretching away into the east and southeast to, as they put it, “the very shores of Molop Az”—the flaming sea of Pellucidarian legend upon which the land of Pellucidar floats. This belief of the natives of the uninterrupted extent of the land mass to the south and southeast corroborated David’s belief that Korsar lay upon the same continent as Sari, and this belief further was carried out by the distinct sense of perfect orientation which the three men experienced the moment they set foot upon the shores of Korsar; or rather which the bom Pellucidarians, Ja and Tanar, experienced, since David did not possess this inborn homing instinct. Had there been an ocean of any considerable extent separating them from the land of their birth, the two Pellucidarians felt confident that they could not have been so certain as to the direction of Sari as they now were. As their excursions to various points outside the city of~ Korsar increased in number, the watchfulness of Fitt relaxed, so that the three men occasionally found themselves alone together in some remote part of the back country. Tanar, wounded by the repeated rebuffs of Stellara, sought to convince himself that he did not love her. He tried to make himself believe that she was cruel and hard and unfaithful, all that he succeeded In accomplishing was to make himself more unhappy, though he hid this from his companions and devoted himself as assiduously as they to planning their escape. (To Be Continued.) (Copyright. 1931. by Metropolitan Newspaper Feature Service, Inc.: Copyright-, 1929. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Inc.)

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