The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-02
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 When finally they returned to the
 village it was no better Every now and then at varying intervals that swere maddening in the terrible suspense they caused. q man would plunge forw ard dead The blacks besought their white masters to leave this terrible place. but the Arabs feared to take up the march through the grim and hostile forest be set by this new and terrible enemy while laden with the great store of ivory they had found within the vil- lage: but, worse yet they hated to leave the ivory behind.
 Finally the entire expedition took refuge within the matched huts.
 Here. at least. they would be free 1 from the arrows Tarzan. from the
 tree above the village. had marked the hut into which the chief Arabs had gone and. balancing himself upon an
 overhanging limb, he drove his heavy spear with all the force of his giant
 muscles through the thatched roof, A 1 howl of pain told him that it had found al mark. Then Tarzan returned to the forest, collected his warriors
 and withdrew a mile to the south to
 rest and eat 1 An inspection of his force showed t4 a nor wound, while rough estimates of the enemies loss convinced the blacks 1 that no fewer than twenty had fallen
 before their arrows. They were wild with elation and were for finishing the day in one glorious rush upon the vil- isiage, during which they would sIaugh- 1 ter the last of their foemen.
 You are crazy.s Tarzan cried. 'T l have shown you the only way to fight l these people, You win fight just as I 1 tell you to light or shall leave you 1 and go back to my own country i They were frightened when he | threat tened this and promised to obey l him serupulous1y if he would but i promise not to desert them
 1 Very we'll he said. We shall re-
 turn to the elephant bona for the
 night I have a plan to give the Arabs i little taste of what they may expect i if they remain in our country, but I shall need no help.
 So they marched back to their camp !, of the previous night and, lighting great fires, ate and recounted the ad- ventures of the day until long after l dark. Tarzan slept until midnight. l then he arose and crept into the Cim- | merian blackness of the forest. An hour later he came to the edge of the
 clearing before the village. There was camp fire burning within the palis- 1 ade. The apeman crept across the 1 clearing until he stood before the bar | red gates: Through the interstices he saw a lone sentry sitting before the I fire.
 I Quietly Tarzan went to the tree at
 the end of the village street. Re climbed softly to his place and htted 4 an arrow to his bow. For several l minutes he tried to sight fairly upon
 the sentry. but the waving branches and flickering hrelight convinced him
 that the danger of a miss was too great. He must touch the heart full
 in the center to bring the quiet and
 sudden Heath his plan required.
 He had brought beside his bow. ar
 rows and rope the gun he had taken
 the previous day from the other sentry
 he had killed Caching all these In a
 convenient crotch of the tree, he drop ped lightly to the ground within the I palisade, armed oNly with his long
 knife, The sentry back was oward
 him. Like cat Tarzan crept upon
 the dozing man.
 Tarzan crouched for spring, for
 that is ever the quickest and surest at
 tack of the jungle beast, when the
 man, warned by some subtle sense,
 sprang to his feet and faced the ape.
 man.