The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-04-30

the Jungle.
Tarzan followed close above his
quarry. waiting for a clearer space In
which to hurl his rope. As be stalked
the unconscious man new thoughts
thoughts born Ut the refining infiu-
ences Of civilization and Of its cruel
ties. 1t came to him that seldom II
ever did civilized man kill q fellow
being without some pretext, however
slight 1t was true that Tarzan wished
this mans weapons and ornaments.
but was 1t necessary to take his life
to obtain them?
The longer be thought about 1t the
more repugnant became the thought
of taking human life needlessly, and
thus 1t happened that while he was
trying to decide just what to do they
had come to a little clearing, at the
far side of which lay a palisaded vii
lage Of beehive huts.
AS the warrior emerged from the
forest Tarzan caught a deeting glimpse
of tawny hide worming its way
through the matted jungle grasses In
his wake. It was SAILOR. the tiger. He,
too. was stalking the black man. With
the instant that Tarzan realized the
natives danger his. attitude toward his
erstwhile prey altered completely
Now he was q fellow man threatened
by common enemy.
SAILOR was about to charge. There
was little time In which to compare
various methods or weigh the prOba-
bic result of any. And then number
of things happened almost simultane-
ously. The tiger sprang from his am
bush toward the retreating black; Tar
IAN cried out in warning. and the black
turned just in time to see SabOr halted
in mid flight by slender strand OF
grass rope. the moose end of which had
fallen cleanly about his neck.
The ape. man had acted so quickly
that he had been unable to prepare
himself to withstand the strain and
shock Of SabOr's great weight upon the
rope, and so 1t was that though the
rope stopped the beast before his
mighty talons could fasten themselves
in the flesh Of the black, the strain
overbalanced Tarzan. who came tum-
bling to the ground not six PAGES from
the Infatuated animal. Like lightning
SAILOR turned upon this new enemy and
defenseless as he was, Tarzan of the
Apes was nearer to death that instant
than he ever before had been. It was
the black who saved him. The war
rior realized in an instant that he
owed his life to this strange white
man, and he also saw that only a mir
acle could save his preserver from
those fierce yellow fangs that had been
so near to his own flesh.
With the quickness of thought his
spear arm few back. and then shot for
ward with all the force of the sinewy
muscles that rolled beneath the SHIN
mering eb0n hide. True to its mark
the iron shod weapon Jew. transflx-
ing Sab0r's sleek carcass from the
right groin to beneath the left shout
der. With q hideous scream Of rage
and pain the brute turned again upon
the black. A dozen PAGES he had gone
when Tarzan's rope brought him to q
stand once more. Then he wheeled
again upon the ape-man. only to feel
the painful prick Of barbed arrow as
It sank half its length in his CULVER
ing flesh. Again he stopped. and by
this time 'Tarzan had run twice around
the stem Of great tree with his rope
and made the end fast.
The black saw the trick and grinned,
but Tarzan knew that SAILOR must be
quickly finished before those mighty
teeth had found and parted the slender
cord that held him. 1t was q matter
Of but an instant to reach the blacks
side and drag bis long knife from It's
scabbard. Then he signed the warrior
to continue to shoot arrows into the
great beast while he attempted to close
in upon him with the knife. 50 az one
tantalized upon one side the other
sneaked cautiously In upon the other.
SAILOR was furious. He raised bis voice
in perfect frenzy of shrieks, growls
and hideous means. the while he rear.
ed upon his hind legs in futile attempt
to reach first one and then the other