The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-04-16
Copyright, 1919, by the Frank A.
Munssy company.

ttOD, sen lerkOZ.
And you are satsfed?"
Huh" said the ape.
Tarzan let him mp. and In a few
minutes all We're back at their o
tons as though naught had occurred
20 mar the tranquility Of their prime
val forest haunts.
But deep In the minds of the apes
was rooted the conviction that Tarzan
was a mighty fighter and a strange
creature-strange because he had had
it In his power to kill his enemy. but
had allowed him to live, unframed.
That afternoon as the tribe came to-
gether, as was their wont after dark
ness settled on the jungle. Tarzan. his
wounds washed In the limpid waters
OF the little stream, called the old
males about him.
You have seen again today that
Tarzan Of the apes is the greatest
among you" he said.
Huh" they replied with one voice.
''Tarzan Is great"
'Tarzan," he continued. rs not an
ape. He is not like his people. His
ways are not their ways. and so Tarzan
Is going back to the lair Of his own
kind by the waters Of the great lake
which has no farther shore. You must
choose another to rule you. Tarzan
will not return"
And thus young Lord Greystoke took
the first step toward the goal which he
had set himself-the finding Of other
white men like himself.
The following morning Tarzan. lame
and sore from the wounds Of his bat
tie with Terkoz. set out toward the
west and the %seacoast.
He travelled very slowly. sleeping in
the jungle at night and reaching his
cabin late the following morning.
For several days he moved about but
little. only enough to gather what fruit
and nuts he required to satisfy the de-
mands of hunger.
In ten days he was quite sound
again except for a terrible. half healed
scar which. starting above his left eye.
ran across the top Of his head. ending
at the right ear. 1t was the mark left
by Terkoz when he had torn the scalp
away.
During bis convalescence Tarzan
tried to fashion q mantle from the
skin Of SAILOR, the tiger. which had
lain all this time In the cabin. But he
found the hide dried as stiff as a
board. and, al he knew naught of tan
ming, he was forced to abandon his
cherished plan.
Then he determined to flch what
few garments he could from one Of the
black men of Mbonga's village, for he
had decided to mark his elevation
from the lower orders in every posi-.
BILE manner. and nothing seemed to
him a more distinguishing badge OF
manhood than ornaments and clothing
To this end. therefore. he collected
the various arm and leg ornaments he
had taken from the black warriors who
had succumbed to his swift and silent
moose and donned them all.
About his neck hung the golden chain
from which depended the diamond in
crusted locket of his mother. the Lady
Alice. At his back was a culver Of ar
rows slung from a leathern shoulder
belt. another piece Of loot from some
vanquished black.
About his waist was a belt of tiny
strips of rawhide fashioned by himself
as a support for the homemade scab-
bard In which hung his fathers hunt
ing knife. The long bow which had
been Kulonga's hung owe his left
shoulder.
The young Lord Greystoke was in
deed a strange and warlike figure. his
mass Of black hair falling to his Shout
ders behind and cut with his hunting
knife to a rude bang upon his fore
head. that 1t might not fall before his
eyes.
Hair was commencing to grow upon
his face. All the apes had hair upon
theirs. but the black men were entirely
hairless. with very few exceptions.
True. he had seen pictures In his
books of men with great masses Of
hair upon lip and cheek and chin; but.
nevertheless, TarZan was afraid. Al
most daily he whetted his keen knife
and scraped and whitfield at his young
beard to eradicate this degrading en-
blem Of apehood.
And 80 he learned to shave, rudely
and painfully. 1t Is true. but neverthe-
ess effectively.