The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-05-14

have represented were they in reality
gold almost convinced him that they
must be of some baser metal.
At the far end of the chamber he
discovered another barred door and the
hope was renewed that he was travers-
ing an ancient and forgotten passage
way to liberty. Beyond the door the
passage ran straight as war spear.
and it soon became evident to the ape
man that 1t had already led him be-
yond the outer walls Of the temple.
If he but knew the direction it was
leading him. If toward the west, then
he must also be beyond the city's outer
walls.
With increasing hopes he forged
ahead as rapidly as he dared until at
the end of half an hour he came to an
other fight of steps leading upward.
At the bottom this fight was of con-
crete, but as he assembled his naked
feet felt sudden change in the sub
stance they were treading. The steps
of concrete had given place to steps OF
granite. Feeling with his hands, the
ape-man discovered that these latter
were evidently hewed from rock, for
there was no crack to indicate joint
For 100 feet the steps wound spirally
up. until at sudden turning Tarzan
came into a narrow cleft between two
rocky walls. Above him shone the
starry sky and before him a steep in
cline replaced the steps that had ter
minated at its foot. Up, this pathway
Tarzan FASTENED and at its upper end
came out upon the rough top OF huge
granite bowlder.
A mile away lay the ruined city OF
Opar, its domes and turrets bathed in
the soft light of the equatorial moon.
Tarzan dropped his eyes to the ingot
he had brought away with him. For a
moment he examined it by the moons
bright rays, then he raised his head to
look out upon the ancient piles of crum-
bling grandeur In the distance.
'.Opar." he unused, ''Opar, the en-
chanted city of a dead and forgotten
past. The city Of the beauties and the
beasts City Of horrors and deaths.
but-city of fabulous riches" The in
got was of virgin gold.
The bowlder on which Tarzan found
himself lay well out In the plain be-
tween the city and the distant cliffs he
and his black warriors had scaled the
morning previous. To descend its
rough and precipitous face was task
Of infinite labor and considerable peril
even to the ape-man. but at last he felt
the soft soil of the valley beneath his
feet, and without q backward glance
at Opar he turned his face toward the
guardian cliffs and at a rapid trot set
OF across the valley.
The sun was just rising as he gained
the summit of the fat mountain at the
valleys western boundary. Far be-
meath him he saw smoke rising above
the treetops of the forest at the base of
the foothills.
were fifty who went forth to track me
down. Can it be they?"
Swiftly he descended the face Of the
cliff and, dropping into marrow RAJ
vine which led down to the far forest,
he fastened onward in the direction Of
the smoke. Striking the forests edge
about quarter Of mile from the
point at which the slender column
arose into the still air, he took to the
trees. Cautiously he approached until
there suddenly burst upon his view q
rude bona, in the center Of which,
squatted about their tiny fires, sat his
fifty black Waziri. He called to them
in their own tongue, "Arise, my chill
dren, and greet your kingv'
With ordinations, of surprise and
fear the warriors leaped to their feet.
scarcely knowing whether to fee or
not. Then Tarzan dropped lightly
from an overhanging branch into their
midst. When they realized that 1t was
indeed their chief in the flesh and no
materialized spirit, they went mad
with joy.
1--WE were towards, oh. Waziri," cried
Busuli. I'VE ran away and left you to
your fate; but when our panic was
over we swore to return and save you,
or at least take revenge upon your
murderers. We were but now prepar-
ing to scale the heights once more and
cross the desolate valley to the terrible
city"
"Have you seen fifty frightful men
pass down from the cliffs into this for
est, my children?" asked Tarzan.
Eyes. Waziri," replied Busuli. 'sThey
passed us hate yesterday as we were
about to turn back after you. They
had no woodcraft. We heard them
coming for mile before we saw
them, and as we had other business in
hand we withdrew into the forest and
let them pass. They were waddling
rapidly along upon short legs. and now
and then one would go on all f0urs
like Bolgani, the gorilla. They were
indeed fifty frightful men, Waziri."
When Tarzan had related his adven-
lures and told them Of the yellow met
al he had found not one demurred
when he outlined plan to return by
night and bring away what they could