The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-02-13

D'Arnot was mystified. 1t seemed
Incredible that there lived upon the
earth full grown man who had never
spoken with a fellow man and still
more preposterous that such a one
could read and write.
He looked again at Tarzan's mes
sage-"eXcept once with Jane Por-
ter That was the American girl who
had been carried into the jungle by a
gorilla.
sudden light commenced to dawn
on DArnot. This. then. was the "go-
rilla." He seized the pencil and wrote:
Where is Jane Porter?
And Tarzan replied below:
Back with her people in the cabin of
Tarzan of the apes.
D'ArnOt wrote:
She is not dead. then? Where was she !?
What happened to her?
TarZan answered.
She is not dead She was taken by Ter
koz to be his wife. Tarzan Of the apes
took her away from Terkoz and killed
him before he could harm her.
None in all the jungle may face Tarzan
l.
Fan Of the apes. mighty fighter.
D'Arnot wrote:
1 am glad she is safe. 1t pains me to
write 1 will rest awhile.
And then Tarzan:
Yes, rest. When you are well l shall
take you back to your people.
For many days D'Arnot lay upon his
Of n
fever had come. and D'Arnot thought
that it meant infection and he knew
that he would die.
He called Tarzan and indicated by
signs that he would write. and when
Tarzan had fetched the bark and pen
Gil D'Arnot wrote:
Can you go to my people and lead them
here? l will write a message that you
may take to them and they will follow
you.
Tarzan shook his head and, taking
the bark. wrote:
l thought of that the first day. 1 dared
not. The great apes come often to this
spot If they found you here wounded
and alone they would kill you.
D'Arnot turned on his side and
closed his eyes. He did not wish to
die. but he felt that he was going. for
the fever was mounting higher and
higher. That night he lost conscious
ness.
For three days he was in delirium,
and Tarzan sat beside him and bathed
his head and hands and washed his
wounds.
On the fourth day the fever broke as
suddenly as it had come. but 1t left
D'Arnot a shadow of his former self
and very weak. TarZan had to lift him
that be might drink from the gourd.
The fever had not been the result Of
infection. as D'Arnot had thought but
one Of those that commonly attack
v hites in the jungles of Africa and Ell
Their kill or leave them as suddenly as
D'Arnot's had left him.
Two days after they sat beneath the
shade Of great tree. and TarZan
found some smooth bark that they
might converse.
D'Arnot wrote:
What can do to repay you for all that
you have done for me?
Tarzan wrote in reply:
Teach me to speak the language OF
men.
And SO D'Arnot commenced at once.
pointing out familiar objects and re-
peating their names in French, for he
thought that it would be easier to
teach this man his own language, since
he understood 1t himself best of all.
1t meant nothing to Tarzan. Of
course, for he could not tell one lam
guage from another. 80 when he point
ed to the word man" which be had
printed upon piece of bark he learn
ed from D'Arnot that 1t was pronounc-
ed "homme." and In the same way he
was taught to pronounce ape "singe"
and tree "arbre"
He was most eager student and in
two more days had mastered so much
French that he could speak little SEN
fences such as THAT is a tree" This
is grass" II am hungry" and the
like. but D'Arnot found that it was
difficult to teach him the French con-
struction upon foundation Of Eng
lish.
(To be Continued