The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-31

to petty diSObedienceS and irritating g mannerisms. Tarzan knew, however, that he but waited his opportunity to wrest the kingship from him by some sudden stroke of treachery and so he was always on guard against surprise.
 For months the life of the little band went on much as it had before, except that Tarzan's greater intelligence and his ability as a hunter were the means of providing for them more bountifu1ly than ever before. Most of them, there fore, were more than content with the change in rulers.
 During this period Tarzan paid many nocturnal visits to the village, where he often renewed his supply of arrows.
 The blacks had not as yet come upon Tarzan's cabin on the distant beach, but the ape man lived in constant dread that, while he was away with the tribe, they would discover and de- spoil his treasure. So it came that he spent more and more time in the vi cinity of his fathers last home and less and less with the tribe.
 Presently the members of his little community began to suffer on account of his neglect, for disputes and guar rels constantly arose which only the king might settle peaceably.
 At last some of the older apes spoke to Tarzan on the subject, and for 3 month thereafter he remained con stantly with the tribe.
 Tarzan tired of it as he found that kingshfp meant the curtailment of his liberty. He longed for the little cabin and the sun kissed sea, for the cool in- terior of the well built house and for the never ending wonders of the many books.
 As he had grown older he found that he had grown away from his peo- ple. Their interests and his were far removed. They had not kept pace with him. nor could they understand aught of the many strange and wonderful dreams that passed through the active brain of their human king.
 Had KaIa lived Tarzan would have sacrificed all else to remain near her, but now she was dead, and, the playful friends of his childhood grown into Eurly brutes, he felt that he much pre- ferred the peace and solitude of his cabin to the irksome duties of leader ship among horde of wild beasts.
 The hatred and jealousy of Terkoz, son of Tublat, did much to counteract the effect of Tarzan's desire to re- nounce his kingshfp among the apes, for, stubborn young Englishman that he was, he could not bring himself to retreat in the face of so malignant an enemy.
 That Terkoz would be chosen lead CT in his stead he knew full well, for time and again the ferocious brute had established his claim to physical su- premacy over the few bull apes who had dared resent his savage bullying
 Tarzan would have liked to subdue the beast without recourse to knife or arrows. So much had his great strength and agility increased in the period following his maturity that he had come to believe that he might master the redoubtabIe Terkoz in hand to hand fight were it not for the terrible advantage the anthropoids huge fighting fangs gave him over the poorly armed Tarzan.
 One day the tribe was feeding quiet ly, spread over a considerable area, when great screaming rose some distance east of where Tarzan lay upon his belly beside Iimpid brook. at tempting to catch an elusive fish in his quick brown hands
 With one accord the tribe swung rap idly toward the frightened cries and there found Terkoz holding an old fe- male by the hair and beating her un- mercifully with his great hands.
 As Tarzan approached he raised his hand aloft for Terkoz to desist. for the female was not his. but belonged to. poor old ape whose fighting days were long over and who therefore could not protect his family.
 Terkoz knew that it was against the laws of his kind to strike the woman of another; but. being bully, he had taken advantage of the weakness of the females husband to chastise her because she had refused to give up to him a tender young rodent she had captured.
 When Terkoz saw Tarzan approach ing without his arrows he continued to beIabor the poor woman in a studied effort to affront his hated chieftain.
 Tarzan did not repeat his warning signal. but instead rushed boldly upon the waiting Terkoz.
 Never had the ape man fought so terrible a battle since that long gone day when the great king gorilla had so horribly manhandled him ere the new found knife had. by accident, pricked the savage heart
 Tarzan's knife on the present occa- sion but barely offset the gleaming fangs of Terl1oz, and what little ad= vantage the ape had over the man in brute strength was almost balanced by the latter's wonderful qufclzness and agility.
 the sum total of their points, how ever the anthropoid had shade the better of the battle, and had there been no other personal attribute to in- fluence the final. outcome. Tarzan of the apes. the young Lord Greystoke. would have died as he had lived-an unkIfown savage beast in equatorial A frica.
 Blu. there was that which had raised him far-above his fellows of the jungle. that little spark which spells the vast difference between man and brute