The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-04-30

Jane Porter Raised the Weapon Against
Her Own Temple.
weapon that she might mete to herself
n merciful death before the cruel fangs
tore at her flesh.
The tiger was almost through the
window before she found the weapon.
and she raised it quickly to her temple
to shut out forever the hideous jaws
/ gaping for their prey
An instant she hesitated to breathe IA
short and silent prayer to her Maker,
and as she did so her eyes fell upon
| the poor Esmeralda lying inert but
| alive, beside the cupboard.
How could she leave the poor. faith
full thing to those meicleSS yellow
= tangs! No, she must use one cartridge
on the senselesS woman ere she turned
the cold muZZle toward herself again.
! She shrank from the ordeal Bat
, ii would have been cruelty thousand
times less justifable to have left the
loving black woman who had reared
her from infancy to regain conscious
ness beneath the rending claws of the
tiger.
Quickly the girl sprang to her feet
and ran to the side of the negresS. She
pressed the muzZle OF the revolver
tight against that devoted heart. closed
her eyes, and
The tiger emitted Il frightfu shrek
] Jane Porter, startled. pulled the
trigger and turned to face the beast
and with the same movement raised
the weapon against her own temple
She did not fire n second time
Astounded, she saw the huge beast
being slowly drawn back through the
window and i'm the moonlight beyond
she saw the heads and shoulders Of two
men.
I AS Clayton rounded the corner Of
the cabin to behold the animal disap-
pearing within it was also to see the
ape man seize the long black and yell
low tail I'm both hands. and braciug
himself with his feet against the side
OF the cabin. throw all his mighty
strength into the effort to draw the
beast out Of the interior
Clayton was quick TO lend hand.
but the ape man jabbered to him i'm a
/ commanding and peremptory tone-or-
/ ders Clayton knew, though he could
not understand them.
4 At last. under their combined efforts.
the great body commenced to appear
farther and farther without the win.
dow, and then there came to Clayton's
mind dawniug conception Of the rash
bravery Of his companions act
/ For naked man TO drag Shrek
Ing. clawing man eater forth from q
window by the tail TO save n strange
white girl was indeed the last word in
Lcroism
In so far as Clayton was concerned
It was q very different matter. since
.he girl was not only Of his own kind.
I hut was the woman whom he loved
Tarzan was still issuing orders which
. Clayton could not understand
He was trying to tell the stupid
white man to plunge his poisoned ar.
rows into Sabors back and sides. and
60 reach the savage heart with Tine
long. thin hunting knife that HING at
Tarzans hip. but the man would not
understand and Tarzan did not dare
release his hold 10 DO The things him
self tie know That the puny whitc
! man never conld ho'J mighty S1bor
alone for an instant
Slowly the tiger was emerging from
the window At last bis shoulders
/ were out
And then clayton saw "a thing dono
which not even the eternal heavens
had ever seen before Tarzan. racRng
his brains Tor some means to cope
| single handed with the Infatuated
beast had suddenly recalled his battle
! with Tcrkoz. aud as The great shoul
| ders came clear OF the window. SO that
the tiger hung upon the sill only by
his fore paws. Tarzan suddenly releas-
ed bis hold upon the brute
With incredible swiftness be launch.
ed himself full upon sabor's back, bic