The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-04
I e Chapman

 carry 1t far Then he saw something
 which caused him anxiety-a number
 of the Manyuema were lighting torch
 es in the remnant of the camp fire. l They were about to fire the village. Tarzan was perched in altan tree
 some hundred yards from the palisade.
 Making a trumpet of his hands. he
 called loudly in the Arab tongue: "Do not fire the huts or we shall kill you i al1I Do not fire the huts, or we shall kill you all!''
 A dozen times he repeated 1t. The 1 Manyuema hesitated; then one of them dung his torch into the camp fire. The l others were about to do the same when an Arab sprang upon them with a stick, beating them toward the huts. Tarzan could see that he was com
 manding them to fire the little thatch- l ed dwellings Then he stood erect upon ] the swaying branch hundred feet
 above the ground, and, raising one of 1 the Arab guns to his shoulder, took careful aim and fired. With the report | the Arab who was urging on his men to burn the village fell in his tracks.
 and the Manyuema threw away their torches and fled from the village. The last Tarzan saw of them they were
 racing toward the jungle, while their former masters knelt upon the ground and fred at them.
 l But. however angry the Arabs might have been at the insubordination of their slaves. they were at least con vinced that it would be the better part of wisdom to forego thee pleasure of firing the village that had given them two such nasty receptions. Tn their hearts, however, they swore to return again with such a force as would en- able them to sweep the entire country for miles around until no vestige of 1 human fesremained.
 They had looked in vain for the own CT of the. voice which had frightened l of the men who had been detailed to put the torch to the huts, but not even the keenest eye among them had been able to locate him. They had seen the
 puff of smoke from the tree, following I the shot that brought down the Arab. but, though a voIley had immediately been loosed into it's foliage, there had been no indication that it had been eff fective.
 1 Tarzan was too intelligent to be ] caught in any such trap, and so the re- | port of his shot had scarcely died away I before the ape-man was on the ground ! yards away. Here he again found a suitable perch from which he could
 watch the preparations of the raiders
 It occurred to him that he might have considerable more fun with them, so improvised trumpet.
 Leave the ivory.'' he cried. "ISeave the ivoryi Dead men have no use for
 fvoryr'
 Some of the Manyue1na started to ! lay down their loads, buS this was al l together too much for the avaricious
 Arabs. With loud shouts and curses l they aimed their guns full upon the 1 bearers, threatening instant death to Il any who might lay down his load. 1 They could give up firing the village. l but the thought of abandoning this enormous fortune in ivory was quite
 beyond their conception. Better death
 than that.
 l And so they marched out of the vil- lage of the Wazirf, and on the shoul- ders of their slaves was the ivory ran
 som of a score of kings. Toward the
 north they marched, back. toward their savage settlement
 Under Tarzan's guidance the black Waziri warriors stationed themselves along the trail on either side in the l densest uhderbrush. They stood at far l intervals, and as the column passed a
 single arrow or heavy spear, well aimed, would pierce a Manyuema or an Arab Then the Waziri would melt 1 into the distance and run ahead to take his stand farther on. They did
 not strike unless success were sure and | the danger of detection almost nothing, and so the arrows and the spears were
 few and far between, but so persistent
 and inevitable that the slow moving ] column of heavy laden raiders was in
 a constant state of panic panic at the 1 pierced body of the comrade who had I just fallen, panic at the uncertainty of
 who the next would be to fall and when.
 It was with the greatest difficulty that the Arabs prevented their men a | dozen times from throwing away their l burdens and fleeing like frightened
 rabbits up the trail toward the north. And so the day wore on-a frightfu1 l nightmare of day for the raiders-a day of weary but well repaid work for the Waziri At night the Arabs con structed rude bona in little clear
 ing by river and went into camp.
 At intervals during the night rife would bark close above their headss and one of the dozen sentries which | they now had posted would tumble to
 the ground. Such a condition was in
 supportahle, for they saw that by
 means of these hideous tactics they
 would be completely wiped out, one by
 one, without inficting 8 single death
 upon their enemy. But yet, with the persistent avariciousneSs of the white man. the Arabs clung to their loot and
 when morning came forced the demor-
 alized Manyuema to take up their bur
 dens of death and stagger on into the jungle.
 For three days the whitening column