Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1914-1915, 1914-10-29

Instead he raised his voice IN the u
Of distress ommon to his tribe. adding
to it the warning which would prevent
would be rescuers from running into
the clutches Of SAILOR.
Almost Immediately there came an
answer from the distance, and pres
emily forty or fifty great apes swung
rapidly and majestically through the
trees toward the scene of tragedy.
In the van was Kala, for she had
recognized the tones of her best be-
loved, and with her was the mother Of
the little ape who lay dead beneath
cruel SAILOR.
Though more powerful and better !!
equipped for fighting than the apes, the
tiger had no desire to meet these en-
ragged adults, and with a snarl of
hatred he sprang quickly into the brush
and disappeared.
Tarzan now swan to shore and
clambered quickly upon dry land. The
feeling Of freshness and exhiiaration
which the cool waters had impaired to
him filled his being with grateful sur
prise, and aver after he lost no oppor-
tunity to take a daily plsnge in lake
or stream or ocean when it was pos
sible to do SO.
For a long time Kala could not nc
custom herself to the sight, fo1. though
her people could swim when forced to
ii, they did not like to enter water and
never did so voluntarily.
That the huge fierce brute loved her
/ child Of another race is beyond ques-
ton. and he too. gave to the great.
hairy beast all the affection that would
have belonged to his fair young mother
had she lived.
When he was %disobedient she cuffed
him. it is true. but she was never cruel
to him and was more often caressing
than chastising him..
Tublat, her husband, always hated
Tarzan and on several occasions had
come near ending his youthful career.
TarZan's superior intelligence and
cunning permitted him to invent a
thousand diabolical tricks to add to the
burdens of Tublat's life.
EARLY in his boyhood he had learned
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long grasses together, and with these
he was forever tripping Tublat or at
tempting to hang him from some over-
hanging branch.
By constant playing and experiment.
ing with these he learned to tie rude
knots and make sliding nooses, and
with these he and the younger apes
ornnco6 fhopnco1rnc yNhof To 1;1
they tried to do also. but he alone orig
mated and became proficient.
One day while playing thus Tarzan
had thrown his rope at one of his fee
ing companions. retaining the other
end in his grasp. By accident the
moose fell squarely about the running
apes neck, bringing him 10 a sudden
and surprising halt.
All, here was a new game, a fine
game, thought Tarzan, and immediate
~ he attempted to repeat the trick.
And thus, by painstaking and contin-
ued practice. he learned the art Of rop-
ing.
Now, indeed, was the life Of Tublat
a living nightmare. In sleep, upon the
march. night o. day, he never knew
when that quiet moose would slip about
his neck and nearly choke the life out
Of him. Kala punished, Tublat swore
dire vengeance, and old Kerchak took
notice and warned and threatened, but
all to no avail.
In Tarzan's clever little mind many
thoughts revolved. and back of these
was his divine power of reason.
II he could catch his fellow apes
with his long arm of many grasses,
why not SAILOR, the tiger?
The w~anderings of the tribe brought
them often near the closed and silent
cabin by the little landlocked harbor.
To Tarzan this was always a source of
never ending mystery and pleasure.
he. would peek into the curtained
windows or. climbing upon the roof,
peer down the black depths Of the
chimney in a vain. endeavor to solve
the unknown wonders that lay within
those strong walls.
It was on the next visit to the vicini-
ty following the adventure with old
Sabor that as he approached the cabin
Tarzan noticed that from a distance
the door appeared as though an indie
pendent part Of the wall in which 1t
was set, and for the first time it oc-
CURED to him that this might prove
the means Of entrance which had SO
long eluded him.
he was alone. as was often the case
when he visited the cabin. The apes
had no love for 1t. The story of the
thunder stick, having lost nothing in
the telling during these ten years, had
quite surrounded the white mans de-
serted cabin with an atmosphere Of
weirdness and terror for the simians.