The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-11-19

and fell in unison. shrieking now at
the tops of their voices. The spears
were b~randis.ing fercely. and as the
dnncers stopped down and beat their
shields upon the hard tramped earth of
the village street the whole sight was
as terribly primeval and vag as
though ii were being staged In the dim
dawn Of humanity, countless ages in
the past.
As the excitement waxed the ape
man sprang to his feet and Joined In
the wild ceremony. In the center of
fhe circle of glittering black bodies he
leaped and roared and shook his heavy
spear in the same mad abandon that
rnthralled his fellow Savages. The last
remnant of his civilization vas for
gotten. He was a primitive man to
the fullest now, reveling i'm the free
dom of the fierce. wild life he loved.
gloating in his kingship among these
wild blacks.
All. If Olga de Coude had but seen
the well dressed, quiet young man
whose well bred face and irreproach-
able manners had so c~aptivated her
but a few short months ago? And
Jane Porter. Would she have still
loved this savage warrior chieftain.
dancing naked among hrs naked, saw
< subjects? And D'Aruot. Could
DArnot have believed that this was
the same man he had introduced into
half "A dozen of the most select clubs
Of Paris! What would his fellow peers
in the house of lords have said had one
pointed to this dancing giant. with his
barbaric headdress and his metal or
naments and said. There. my lords.
is John Clayton. Lord Greystoke."
And so TarZan of the Apes came into
a real kingShip among men-slowly
but surely was he following the evOlu-
ton Of his ancestors. for had he not
started at the very bottom!
The very night that TarZan Of the
Apes became chief Of the WaZiri the
woman he loved. Jane Porter. lay dy-
ing in a tiny boat 200 miles west of
him upon the Atlantic. OF the six per
sons in the boat in which she had es-
capped from the Lady Alice, only three
survived. They were Jane herself.
Clayton and Thuran.
The oars had been lost when the
sailor in charge Of them fell asleep and
let them drift away, and for weeks
the boat had Deer tossed helplessly
about on the waves. The supplies oon
gave out. The three sailors who had
been with them succumbed to thirst
and hunger and had been heaved over
board. Now Jane and her two com
p~anions drifted about in the ocean.
They were reduced to the last extrem-
ity and death would have come as n
welcome relief from the fortunes they
endured. OF the three other boats
there had been no sign.
The week following the induction Of
Tarzan into the kingship of the WaZiri
was occupied in escOrting the Manyu-
m of the Arab raiders to the north
ern boundary of WaZiri in accordance
WITH tue DIOIulSt WulCu ldILdu udu
made them. Before he left them he
eXacted a pledge from them that they
would not lead any expeditions against
the WaZiri in the future. nor was ii a
difficult promise to obtain. They had
had sufficient experience with the
lighting tactics of the new WaZiri chief
not TO have the slightest desire to ac-
company another predatory force with
in the boundaries of his domain.
Almost Immediately upon his return
to the village TarZan commenced max
ing preparations for leading an eXpedi-
ton in search of the ruined city of gold
which old Waziri had described to him.
He selected fifty of the sturdiest war
riors of his tribe. choosing only men
who seemed anxious to accompany him
on the arduous march and share the
dangers of q new and hostile country
The fabulous wealth of the tabled
city had been almost constantly in his
mind since Waziri had recounted the
strange adventures Of the former expe-
ditiOn which had stumbled Upon the
vast ruins by chance The lure of adj
venture may have been quite as DOW
erful Il factor in urging TarZan of the
Apes TO undertake the journey as the
lure Of gold. but the lure OF gold was
there. too. for he had learned among
civilized men something of the miracles
that may be wrought by the pOS>rSSor
of the magic yellow metal. What he
would do with a golden fortune in the
heart of savage Africa ii had not &C.
cured to him to conSider-it would be
enough to possess the power to work
wonders. ever though he never had an
opportunity TO employ il.
SO one glorious tropical morning
Waziri chief nf the Wnziri SGT ont ut