The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-14

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 DHEnoF eagerly Seized the pencil: Chen he stopped This strange man wrote English Evidently he was an EnRl1shman-
 '-Yes." said D'Arnot, sT read Eng. hsh- I speak 1t also Now we may talk First let me thank you for ali that you have done for me.''
 The man ionIy shook his head and pointed to the pencil and the bark.
 Mon D1eur cried D'Arnot. elf you are English why is it then that you cannot speak EngIsh?s
 And then in c flash it came to him the man was q mute, possibly 8 deaf mute.
 So D,Axnot wrote message on the bark in English:
 I am Paul d,Arnet. lieutenant in the navy of France I thank you for what you have done for me You have saved nzy life. and all that I have is yours. May ask how 1t is that one who writes English does not speak 1t?
 Tarzan's reply filled D'Arnot with stfn greater wonder
 I speak only the language Of my tribe. fhe great apes who were Kercha-k's, and m little of the languages of Tantor, the elephant. and Nrlna, the lion, and of the , With a human being have never spoken except once with Jane Porter by signs. This is the first time have spoken with another of my kind through written words. D'Arnot was mystifed. It 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
 A sudden light commented to dawn on DArnot This, then, was the Ego rfIla. D He seized the pencil and wrote: Where Is Jane Porter7
 And Tarzan replied below:
 Back with her people in the cabin of Tarzan of the apes 4<
 D'Arnot wrOte-
 She is not dead. then7 Where was she? What happened to herr
 Tarzan answered: W
 She is not dead She was taken by Ter koz tot 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 0f the apes fn battle and live I am Tar gan Of the apes. mighty fighter.
 D'Arnot wrote: ~ 7.s
 am glad she is safe It pains me to write will rest awhile
 And then Tarzan:
 Yes. rest When you are well shall take you back to your people
 For many days D'Arnot lay upon his \ bed of soft ferns The second day a Never had come, and DfArnot thought that it meant infection and he knew that heswouId die
 He called Tarzan and indicated by signs that he would write, and when Tarzan had fetched the bark and pen ell D,Arnot wrote:
 Can you go to my people and lead them here2 I will write message that you may take to them, and they will follow
 Tarzan shook his head and, taking the bark, wrote:
 I thought Of that the first day. dared spot If they found you you here 1 ee wounded sa and alone they woald kin 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 Ress-
 For three days he was in de1irium, 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 it left and very weak Tarxan had to lift him that he 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 whites In the jungies of Africa and ei- fher kill or leave them as suddenly as D-Arnot's had left him
 Two days after they sat beneath the shade of q great tree, and Tarzan found some smooth bark that they mIght converse
 D,Aruot ~rote- What can do to repay you for all that you have done for mel
 Tarzan wrote in reply:
 Tezch me to speak the language of men
 And so D,Arnot commented at once. pointing cut familiar objects and re- beating their names in French, for he thought that it would be easier to teach this man his own language, since he understood it himself best of all. z
 It meant nothing to Tarzan, of course. for he could not tell one Ian- Ruage from another, so when he point ed to the word man which he had printed upon a piece of bark he learn ed from D'Arnot that it was pronounc ed --homme.- and in the same Way he WAS taught to pronounce ape "singe'' and tree @4arbre."
 He was a most eager student and in two more days had mastered so much French that he could speak little sen se9ces such as That is a tree. 'eThis f. %l,<- lfke. but D'Arnot found that it was difficult to teach him the French con struetton upon 8 foundation of Eng iish-
 CHAPTER XVIII