The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-06-11

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Incredible that there llvcl upon the
earth a fun grown maui who had never
spoken with u fellow man and still
more prepcsterous that such one
could read and write
He looked again mt Tnrzun's mes
sagc-"eXccpt once with Jane Por-
ter" That was the American girl who
had been carried into the Jungle by a
gorilla.
\ sudden light commenced 10 dawn
on D'Arnot. This. then. was the go
rilla." He seized the pencil and wrote:
Where is Jane Porter?
And Tarzan replied below:
Back with her people in the cabin OF
Tarzan OF thc apes.
D'Arnot wrote:
She is not dead. thcn2 Where was she?
What happened to her?
TarZan answered:
She Is not dead. She was taken by Ter
koz TO bo his wife. Tarzan OF the apes
took her away from Tcrkoz and killed
him before he could harm her
Mono in all the Jungle may face Tarzan
of the apes In battle and 1--we. am Tar
IAN or the apes. mighty fighter.
D'Arnot wrote:
am glad she is safe. 1t pains me to
write. Will rest awhile.
And then Tarzan:
Yes, rest When you are well shall
take YOU back to your people
For many days D'Arnot lay upon his
bed of soft ferns. The second day u
fever had come. and D'Arnot thought
that ii meant infection and he knew
that he would die.
He called Turzun and Indicated by
signs that he would write. and when
Tarzan had fetched the bark and pen
ell D'Arnot wrote:
Can you go to my people and lead them
mere? l VIII write message that you
may take TO them. and they will follow
YOU.
Tarzan shook his head and. taking
the bark, wrote:
thought OF that the frs. day. dared
not The great apes come often to this
spot. If they found YOU here wounded
and alone they would kill you.
D'Arnot turned on his side and
closed his eyes. He did not wish to
die. but he felt that he was going. for
the fever was mounting higher and
higher. That night he lost conscious.
ness
For three days he was In delirium.
and Tarzan sat beside him and bathed
his head and hands and washed his
wounds.
On the fourth day the fever broke as
suddenly as 1t had come. but ii left
D'Arnot shadow of his former sell
and very weak. TarZan had to lift him
that he might drink from the gourd.
The fever had not been the result OF
infection. as D'ATnot had thought. but
one of those that commonly attack
whites in the jungles of Africa and Ell
Tier kill or leave them as suddenly as
D'Arnot's had left him.
Two days after they sat beneath the
shade of great tree. and Tarzan
found some smooth bark that they
might converse
D'Arnot wrote:
What can do to repay you for all that
you have done for me?
Tarzan wrote in reply:
Teach me to speak the language OF
men.
And so DArnot commenced at once.
pointing out familiar objects and re-
peating their names in French, for he
thought that 1t would be easier to
teach this man his own language, since
he understood it himself best of all.
1t meant nothing to Tarzan. of
course, for he could not tell one lam
guage from another. so when he point
ed TO the word man" which he had
printed upon Il piece of bark he learn
ed from D'ArnOt that it was pronounc-
ed "homme," and In the same way he
was taught TO pronounce ape "singe"
and tree "arbre"
He was most eager student and i'm
two more days had mastered so much
French that lie could speak little SEN
fences such a. THAT is n tree" This
is grass" IL am hungry" and the
like. but D'Arnot found that it was
difficult to teach him the French con
struction upon foundation of Eng
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