The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-05-21


Hope Left Her Entirely, and She Trem.
bled In an Agony Of Fright.
hand upon the wall. Her captors now
watched her with increasing interest
The day was approaching, and the vic
tim was gaining in strength.
Presently the day came when she
could walk, and young woman whom
Jane Porter had not seen before came
with several others to her dungeon
Here some sort of ceremony was per
formed. That 1t was of religious ma
ture the girl was sure, and so she tool
new heart and rejoiced that she hat
fallen among people upon whom the
refining and softening influence OF re
ligion evidently had fallen. They
would treat her humanely, OF that she
was now quite sure.
And SO, when they led her from bel
dungeon through long. dark corridors
and up flight of concrete steps to
brilliant courtyard, she went willingly
Neven, gladly-for was she not among
the servants of God? 1t might be, OF
course, that their Interpretation OF the
supreme being differed from her own,
but that they owned god was suf1-
cient evidence to her that they were
kind and good.
But when she saw a stone altar In
the center Of the courtyard and dark
brown stains upon 1t and the nearby
concrete of the 6oor she began to won.
der and to doubt. And as they stoop'
ed and bound her ankles and secured
her wrists behind her her doubts were
turned to fear. A moment later as she
was lifted ana placed across the affairs
top hope left her entirely, and she
trembled in an agony of fright.
During the grotesque dance Of the
votaries which followed she lay frozen
in horror. nor did she require the sight
of the thin blade In the hand Of the
high priestess as 1t rose slowly above
her to enlighten her further as to her
doom.
AS the hand began its descent Jane
Porter closed her eyes and sent up q
silent prayer to the Maker she was &c
soon to face. Then she succumbed to
the strain upon her tired nerves and
swooned.
.
Day and night Tarzan of the Apes
raced through the primeval forest to.
ward the ruined city in which he was
positive the woman he loved Law either
q prisoner or dead.
In day and night he covered the
same distance that the fifty frightful
men had taken the better part Of q
week TO traverse, for Tarzan Of the
Apes Travelled along the middle ter,
race high above the tangled obstacles
that impede progress upon the ground
The story the young bull aye had
told made 1t clear to him that the girl
captive had been Jane Porter, for there
was not another small, white s'she" in
all the jungle. The bulls" he had rec.
ognized from the apes crude descrip.
don as the grotesque PAROLES upon hu.
mainly who inhabit the ruins of Opar.
And the girls fate he could picture as
plainly as though he were an eyewit.
ness to 1t. When they would lay her
across that grim altar he could NOT
guess, but that her dear. frail BODY
would eventually find its way there he
was confident.
But finally, after what seemed long
ages to the impatient ape man, he top.
ped the barrier cliffs that hemmed the
desolate valley, and below him lay the
grim and awful ruins Of the now hide.
Gus city Of Opar.f At a rapid trot he
started across the dry and dusty.
bowlder strewn ground toward the goal
Of his desires.
Would he be in time to rescue? He
hoped against hope. At least he could
be revenged, and in his wrath II seem
ed to him that he was equal to the task
Of wiping out the entire population of
that terrible city. 1t was nearly noon
when he reached the great bowlder at
the top OF which terminated the secret
passage to the pits beneath the CITY.
Like cat he scaled the PERCEPTIONS
sides Of the frowning granite kopje. A
moment later he was running through
the darkness Of the long, straight tun.
mel that led to the treasure vault
Through this he passed, then on and
on until at last he came to the well.
like shaft upon the opposite side OF
which lay the dungeon with the false
wall.
AZ he paused q moment upon the
brink OF the well q faint sound came
70 him through the opening above His
quick ears caught and translated It. Il