The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-30
c0pyriellt. 1918,
SContiaueN

AS the W8fT10F emerged IE01n Gll0 forest Tarzan caught heeting glimpse of tawny hide worming its way through the matted jungle grasses In his wake. 1t was Sabor, the tiger. He, too, was stalking the black man With the Instant that Tarzan realized the ! natave's danger his attitude toward his erstwhile prey altered completely a Now he was a fellow man threatened by a common enemy.
 sabor was about to charge. There was little time in which to compare various methods or weigh the proba- bIe result of any. And then a number of things happened almost simultane dus1y. The tiger sprang from his a m- bush toward the retreating black; Tar gan cried out in warning, and the black in mid flight by a slender strand of grass rope. the moose enduof which had fallen cIeanly about his neck.
 sThe ape-n1an had acted so quickly that he had been unable to prepare himself to withstand the strain and shock of Sabor's great weight upon the rope, and 50 1t was that though the rope stopped the beast before bis mighty talons could fasten themselves In the flesh of the black, the strain Dverbalanced Tarzan, who came tunn- bling to the ground not six paces from The infurIated animal. Like lightning Eabor turned upon this new enemy and defenseless as he was, Tarzan of the Apes was nearer to death that instant than he ever before had been. It was the black who saved him The war rior realized in an instant that he owed his life to this strange white man, and he also saw that only mir acle could save his preserver from those fierce yellow fRngs that had been so near 10 his own flesh.
 With the quickness of thought his spear arm flew back, and then shot for ward with all the force of the sinewy muscles that rolled beneath the shinl- mer1ng ebon hide. True to it's mark the iron shod weapon flew, transfix- ing Sabors sleek carcass from the right groin to beneath the left s1 1ouI- der. With hideous scream of rage and pain the brute turned again upon the black. IA dozen paces he had gone when Tarzanss rope brought him to stand once more. Then he wheeled again upon the ape-man, only to feel .Ghe painful prick of a barbed arrow as It sank half it's length in his quiver- ing flesh. Again he stopped, and by. this time Tarzan had run twice around the stem of great tree with his rope and made the end fast.
 The black saw the trick and grinned, but Tarzan knew that Sabor must be quickly finished before those mighty teeth had found and parted the slender cord that, held him. It was a matter of but an instant to reach the black s side and drag his long knife from it's scabbard. Then he signed the warrior : to continue to shoot arrows into the great beast while he attempted to close in upon him with the knife, so as one tantalized upon one side the other sneaked cautiously in upon the other. Sabor was furious. He raised his voice in perfect frenzy of shrieks, gTowls and hideous moans, the while he rear- ed upon hIs hind legs in futile attempt to reach first one and then the other of his tormentors.
 Butat length the agile ape-man saw his chance and rushed in upon the beasts left side behind the mighty shoulder A giant arm encircIed the white throat and long blade sank once, true as die, into the fierce heart Then Tarzan arose and the black man and the white looked into each others eyes acruss the body of their kill, and the black made the sign of peace and friendship, and Tarzan of the Apes an swered it in kind
 The noise of their battle with Sabol had drawn an excited horde of say ages from the nearby village, and . moment after the tigers death the two men were surrounded by 1.-the ebon warriors, gesticulating and jab berfng thousand questions tha1 drowned each ventured reply.
 And then the women came and the chfIdren-eager, curious, and at sighl of Tarzan mere questioning than ever The ape-man's new friend finally sue sceeded in making himself heard, ana when he had done talking the men ana women of the village vied with on. another in doing honor to the strang, creature who had saved their fellow and Battled simEIe handed with derc. Sabor.
 At last they IeA him back to theil village, where they brought him gifts of fowl and goats and cooked food When he pointed to their weapons the iwarriors hastened to fetch spear Ishield, arrows and a bow. His friend of the encounter presented him witt the Knife with which he had killed Eabor There was nothing in all the village he could not have had for the asking.
 Tarzanss first night with the savages was devoted to a wild orgy in his hon or There was feasting, for the hun ters had brought in an antelope and zebra as trophies of their skill and gallons of the weak native beer wer. consumed As the warriors danced il the freight Tarzan was again i'm pressed by the symmetry of their fig ures and the regularity of their fea tures-the flat noses and thick lips O i the typical West Coast savage wer i entirely missing In repose the face of the men were intelligent and digni fled. those of the women ofttimes pre- possessing.