The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-30

Lord Gireystoke. kept in French. as had always been his custom.
 Tarzan replaced the box in the cup board, but always thereafter he car ried the features of the strong, smiling face of his fatber in his heart and in his head fixed determination to solve the mystery of the strange words in the little black book.
 At present he had more important business in hand, for his supply of ar rows was exhausted, and he must needs journey to the black mems will lage and renew it.
 Early the following morning he set out. and. travelling rapidly. he came before midday to the little clearing. Once more he took up his position in the great tree and. as before, he saw the women in the fields and the village street and the little caldron of bub- bling poison directly beneath him.
 For hours he lay, awaiting his oppor- tunity to drop down unseen and gather up the arrows for which he had come. But it was not until night fell that Tarzan saw his chance. This time he took all of the arrows, for he had brought a number of long fbers to bind them into bundle.
 When the savages discovered that once more their arrows had been pill fered 1t seemed to them that they had offended some great god who ruled this part of the jungle From then on an offering Of food was daily placed beneath the great tree from whence the arrows had disa appeaFed, in an effort to conciliate the mighty one.
 But the seed of fear was deep sown, and had he but known it TarZan of the apes had laid the foundation for much future misery for himself and his tribe.
 That night he slept in the forest not far from the village, and early the next morning set out slowly on his homeward march, hunting as he trav- eled Only a few berries and an oc- casional grubworm rewarded his search, and he was half famished when, looking up from a log he had been roofing beneath, he saw Sabor, the tiger, standing in the center of the trail not twenty paces from him.
 The great yellow eyes were fixed upon him with wicked and balefuI gleam, and the red tongue licked the longing lips as Sabor crouched, worm ing his stealthy way with belly flat tened against the earth.
 Tarzan did not attempt to escape. He welcomed the opportunity for which, in fact, he had been searching.
 Quickly he uns1ung his bow and ht- ted well daubed arrow, and as Sabor sprang the tiny missile leaped to meet him in midair. At the same instant Tarzan of the apes jumped to one side, and as the tiger struck the ground be- yond another death tipped arrow sank deep into his loin.
 With a mighty roar the beast turned and charged once more: only to be m oA with a third arrow full in one e. j. but this time he was too close upon the ape man for the latter to sidestep.s
 Tarzan of the apes went down be meath the body of his enemy. but with gleaming knife drawn and striking home. For moment they lay there, and then Tarzan realized that the inert mass lying upon him was beyond pow CT to injure.
 With difficulty he wriggled from be meath the great weight. and as he stood erect and gazed down uponSthe trophy of his skill mighty wave of exmta- ton swept over him.
 With swelling breast, he placed foot upon the body of his powerful enemy and, throwing back his fine young head, reared cut the awful chal-j lenge of the victorious bull ape.
 The forest echoed with the savage | and triumphant paean. Birds fell still. and the larger animals and beasts of prey slunk stealthily away, for few 1 there were of all the jungle who sought 1 for trouble with the great anthropoids.
 And in London another Lord Grey stoke was speaking to his kind in the house of lords, but none trembled at the sound of his soft voice.
 Sabor proved most unsavory eating | even to Tarzan of the apes, but hunger served as a sauce. and ere long the well fed ape man was ready to sleep | again. First. however, he must re- move the hide. for it was as much for this as for any other purpose that he had desired to encompass the destruc- ton of Sabor, the tiger.
 Deftly he removed the great pelt, for he had practiced often on smaller, ami mals, and when the task was finished he carried his trophy to the fork of a high tree There, curling himself se- curely in crotch, he fell into deep slumber. ---=----- ---------.=--s-
 What with loss Of sleep, ardnous ex- ercise and hearty meal Tarzan of the apes slept the sun round, awaken ing about noon of the following day. He straightway repaired to the car cass of Sabor, but was angered to find the bones picked clean by other hun gry denizens of the jungle;
 He haStened on toward the point where he had left the tribe and, when he had found them, proudly exhibited the skin of Sabor, the tiger.
 Look he cried, "apes of Kerchak! See what Tarzan, the killer, has done Who else among you has ever killed | one of Sabor's people? Tarzan is among you, for Tarzan is no ape TarZan is''- But here he stop l ped, for in the language of the anthro- poi7s there was no word for man, and Tarzan could only write the word in ETa