The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-07

The others saw the cunning of the suggestion, and so the trench was heightened to accommodate the corpse, and in the center a deeper hole was excavated for the box, which was first wrapped in sailcloth and then low cred to it's place, which brought it's top about a foot below the bottom of the grave. Earth was shoveled in and tamped down about the chest until 1hs bottom of the grave showed level and uniform.
 Two of the men then rolled the rat faced corpse unceremoniousiy into the grave after first stripping it of it's weapons and various other articles which the several members of the party coveted.
 They then filled the grave. with earth and tramped upon it until 1t would hold no more.
 The balance of the loose earth was thrown far and wide and g mass of dead undergrowth spread in as natural 8 manner as possible over the new made grave to ohliterate all signs of the ground having been disturbed.
 Their work done, the sailors returned to the small boat and pulled off rapidly toward the Arrow.
 The breeze had increased consider ably, and as the smoke upon the horf- zon was now plainly discernible in considerable volume the mutineers lost no time in getting under full sail and bearing away toward the southwest
 Tarzan wondered what the chest they had buried contained If they did not wish 1t why did they not mere Iy throw it into the water? That would have been much easier.
 T. kK. f-~~% 41~ Sl< h They have hidden it here because they intend returning for it later.
 He dropped to the ground and com nenced to examine the earth about the excavation. He was looking Co see if these creatures had dropped anything which he might like to own Soon he discovered a spade hidden by the un- derbrush which they had laid upon the grave
 He seized it and attempted to use it as he had seen the sailors do. It was awkward work and hurt his bare feet, but he persevered until he had partial Iy uncovered the body This he drag ged from the grave and laid to one side.
 Then he continued digging until he had uneaEthed the chest This also he dragged to the side of the corpse. Then he filled in the smaller hole be low the grave, replaced the body and the earth around and above it, covered it over with underhrush and returned to the chest.
 Four sailors had sweated beneath the burden of it's weight. Tarzan of the apes picked it up as though it had been empty and, with the spade slung to his back by piece of rope, carried it off into the densest part of the jun gle.
 He could not well negotiate the trees with his awkward burden, but he kept to the trails and so made fairly good time
 For several hours he traveled until he came to an impenetrable wall of matted and tangled vegetation Then he took to the lower branches, and in another fifteen minutes he emerged into the smphitheater of the apes, where they met in council or to. cele- brate the rites of the dumdum-
 Near the center of the clearing and not far from the drum, or altar, he commenced to dig. This was harder work than turning up the freshly ex- 1cayated earth at the grave, but Tarzan of the apes was persevering, and so he kept at his labor until he was reward ed by seeing hole sufficiently deep to receive the chest and effectually hide it from view.
 Now the natural curiosity, which is as common to men as to apes, prompt ed Tarzan to open the chest and exam inc it's contents, but the heavy lock and massive iron bands bafded both his cunning and his immense strength, so that he was compelled to bury the chest without having his curiosity sat isfed-
 By the time Tarzan had hunted his. way back to the vicinity of the cabin. feeding as he went it was quite dark
 Within the little building light was burning, for Clayton had found an un- opened tin of oil which had stood in tact for-twenty years. The lamps also were still usable.
 As Tarzah approached the window nearest the door he saw that the cabin had been divided into two rooms by rough partition of boughs and sail cloth.
 In the front room were the three. men. the two older deep in argum ent, while the younger, tilted back against the wall on an fmproyised stool, was deeply engrossed in reading one of 'Tarzan's books
 Tarzan was not particularly interest ed in the men, however, so he sought the other window. There was the girl. How beautiful her features! How del- icate her snowy skin,
 She was writing at 'Tarzan's own table beneath the window. Upon a pile of grasses at the far side of the room .ay the negress. asleep.
 For an hour Tarzan feasted his eyes upon her while she wrote. He ionged to speak to her, but dared not attempt, for he was convinced that she would not understand him, and he feared, too, that he might frighten her away.
 At length she arose, leaving her man. uscript upon the table. She went to the bed upon which had been spread