The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-04-09

tapping impatiently upon the polished
surface of the desk. She had not
heard him enter.
"Olga." he said. what is wrong?"
She turned toward him with a little
cry of alarm.
Jean" she cried. what are you
doing here? Who admitted you?
What does it mean?'
TarZan was thunderstruck, but in an
instant he realized part of the truth.
Then you did not send for me.
Olga?"
'Send for you at this time of night?
Jean. do you think that I am quite
mad?"
Francois telephoned me to come at
once; that you were in trouble and
wanted me-"
Francois? Who in the world is
Francois?'
He said that he was in your serv-
fee. He spoke as though I should re-
call the fact"
There is no one by that name in my
employ. Some one has played joke
upon you. JEAN" and Olga laughed.
81 fear that it may be a most sinister
joke Olga" he replied. There is
more back of 1t than humor."
What do you mean? You do not
think that f-.s~.
Where is the count?" he inter-
rupted. ...4
'sAt the German ambassadors"
''This is another move by your esti-
mable brother. Tomorrow the count
will hear Of it. He will question the
servants. Everything will point to-
to what Rokoff wishes the count to
think"
1.-The scoundrelv cried Olga. She
had arisen and come close to Tarzan.
where she stood looking up into his
face. She was very frightened. In
her eyes was an expression that the
hunter sees in those Of poor, terri
fed doe-puzzled. questioning. Her
look. her attitude. her words were elo-
quent of the age old appeal of defense
less woman to her natural protector
man. Tarzan took one Of the warm
little hands in his own strong one.
The act was quite involuntary and al
most equally so was the instinct Of
protection that threw a sheltering arm
around the girls shoulders.
The result was electrical. Never be-
fore had he been SO close to her. In
startled guilt they looked suddenly into
each others eyes and where Olga de
Coude should have been strong she
was weak. for she crept closer into the
mans arms and clasped her own about
his neck. And Tarzan of the Apes?
He took her into his mighty arms and
covered her lips with kisses.
Raoul de Coude made hurried ex-
cuses to his host after he had read the
note handed him by the ambassadors
butler. Never afterward could he re-
call the nature of the excuses he maze.
Everything was quite blur to him
up to the time that he stood on the
threshold of his own home. Then he
became very cool. moving quietly and
with caution. For some inexplicable
reason Jacques had the door open be-
fore he was halfway to the steps. 1t
did not strike him at the time as being
unusual, though afterward he remark
ed it.
Very softly he tiptoed up the stairs
and aloag the gallery to the door Of
his wife's boudoir. In his hand was
heavy walking stick-in his heart MUIR
der.
Olga was the first to see him. With
n c1, S~l- Oh hDv $,nvv1
Tarzan's arms and the ape-man turned
just in time to ward with his arm
terrible blow that De Coude had aimed
at his head. Once. twice, three times
the heavy stick fell with lightning
rapidity and each blow aided in the
transition Of the ape-man back to the
primordial.
With the low. cultural snarl Of the
bull ape he sprang for the Frenchman.
The great stick was torn from his
grasp and broken in two as though 1t
had been matchwood. to be flung aside
as the now Infatuated beast charged
for his adversary's throat.
Olga de Coude stood Mortified spec
tator~ to the terrible scene which en-
sued during the next brief moment,
then she sprang to where Tarzan was
numbering her misunderstanding the
life from him-shaking him as ter
rier might shake rat.
Frantically she tore at his great
hands. Mother of Godr' she cried.
~1ou are killing him. you are killing
him! oh, Jean. you are killing my
husband!"
Tarzan was deaf with rage. Sudden
~ he hurled the body to the floor. and,
placing his foot upon the upturned
breast, raised his head. Then through
the palace of the Count de Coude rang
the awesome challenge Of the bull ape
that has made kill. From cellar to
attic the horrid sound searched out the
servants and left them blanched and
trembling. The woman in the room
sank to her knees beside the body of
her husband and prayed.
Slowly the red mist faded from be-