The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-11-12
CHAPTER XIX.
Victory For the Waziri.

Wt&f wan Oelna savage Tell upon
the strange apparitiOn that
confronted him with menac-
ing knife they went wide in horror.
He forgot the gun within his hands.
He even forgot TO cry out. His one
thought WAS to eScape this fearSome
looking white savage, this giant of n
man upon whose massive rolling mus
cles and m.@hty chest the hickering
freight played
But before he could turn TarZan was
upon him, and then the sentry thought
to scream for aid. but il was too late.
a great hand WAS upon his windpipe.
and he was being borne to the earth.
lie battled turiously. but f%utilely.
With the grim teuacity of Il bulldog
those awful fingers were clinging TO
his throat. Swiftly and surely life was
being choked from him His eyes
Dulged. his tongue prOtruded. his face
turned TO a CHASTITY, purpliSh hue.
There was a cOnvulSive tremor OF the
%stiffening muscles. and the Manyuema
sentry lay quite still.
The ape man threw the body across
one of his broad shoulders and. gather
ing up the fellows gun trotted silent
~ up the sleeping village street to-
ward the tree that gave him such easy
ingress to the palisaded village. He
bore the dead sentry into the midst of
the leafy maze above.
First be stripped the body of car
fridge belt and such ornaments as he
craved. wedging it into a convenient
crotch while his nimble fingers ran
over it in search of the loot he could
not plainly see in the dark. When he
had finished he took the gun that had
belonged to the man and walked far
out upon a limb. from the end of which
he could obtain a better view Of the
huts. Ora wing a careful bead on the
beehive structure in which he knew
the Arabs to be, he pulled the trigger.
Almost instantly there was an answer
ing groan-TarZan smiled: he had made
another lucky hit.
Following the shot there was a mo-
ment's silence In the camp. and then
Manyuema and Arab came pouring
from the nuts like a swarm of angry
hornets: but, If the truth were known,
they were even more frightened than
they were angry.
When they discovered that their sen
try had disappeared their fears were
in no way allayed. and as though to
bolster their courage by warlike ac-
lions they began TO fire rapidly at the
barred gates Of the village, although
no enemy was in sight. TarZan took
advantage of the deafening roar Of
this fuSillade to fire into the mob be-
meath him.
No one heard his shot above the din
of rafting musketry in the street, but
some, who were standing close. saw
one Of their number crumple suddenly
to the earth. When they leaned over
him he was dead. They were panic
stricken. and it took all the brutal au-
thority of the Arabs to keep the Man
yuema from rushing heller SHELTER into
the jungle-anywhere to escape from
this terrible village.
After a time they commenced to
quiet down, and as no further mys-
terious deaths occurred among them
they took heart again. But il was "A
short lived respite. for just as they had
concluded that they would not be dis
turbed again Tarzan gave voice to a
weird moan, and as the raiders looked
up in the direction from which the
sound seemed to come. the ape-man,
who stood swinging the dead body OF
the sentry gently to and fro, suddenly
shot the corpse far ont above their
heads.
With bowls Of alarm the thrOng
broke in all directions TO escape this
new and ter, ible creature who seemed
to be springing upon them. To their
fear distorted i~maginations the body Of
the sentry. falling with wide Spra wled
arms and legs. assumed the likeness
Of a great beast of prey. In their anx-
iety to eScape many OF the blacks
scaled the palisade. while Others tore
down the bars from the gates and
rushed madly acros the clearing to-
ward the jungle.
FOR q ume 10 one turned Wck TO
ward the thing that had frightened
them. but Tarzan knew that they
would in a nen and when they
discovered that it was but the dead
body of their sentry, while they would
doubtless be still further terrified. be
had a rather definite idea as to what
they would do. So he faded silently
away toward the south, taking the
moonlit upper terrace back toward the
camp of the WaZiri.
Presently one Of the Arabs turned
and saw that the thing that had leaped
from the tree upon them lay still and
quiet where it had fallen in the center
Of the village street. Cautiously he
crept back toward IL until he saw that
1t was but u man. A Oine later he
was beside the figure and In another
had recognized II AS the corpse of the
Manyuema who had stood ON guard at