Bisbee daily review., 1914-02-08

INiZan was on the point or going or to look for them himself when he caught the yellow glint of a sleek hide moving cautiously through the jungle toward c1ayton,
 It was shecta, thc--leopard. He heard the soft bending of grasses ana wondered why the young white man was not warned. Could it be he had failed to note the loud warningf New CT before had Tarzan known Sheeta to be SO clumsy.
 No. the white man did not hear Sheeta was crouching for the spring. rose upon the stiffness of the jungle the awful cry of the challenging ape and Sheeta turned. crashing into the underbrush
 Clayton came to his feet with start His blood ran cold Never had so fearful sound smote upon his ears He was no coward, but if ever man felt the icy fingers of fear upon his heart Cecil Clayton. eldest son of Lord Greystoke of England. did that day in the fastness of the African jungle.
 The noise of some great body crash ing through the underbrush so close beside him and the sound of that blood curdling shriek from above tested Clayton's courage to the limit, but he could not know that it was to that very voice he owed his life nor that the creature who hurled it forth was m ..s1 ~ stoke.
 The afternoon was drawing to a close. and Clayton. disheartened and discouraged. was in a terrible quan- diary as to the proper course to pursue. whether to keep on iresearch of Pro lessor Porter. at the almost certain risk of his own death in the jungle by night. or to return to the cabin. where he might at least serve to protect Jane Porter from the perils which con fronted her on all sides
 He disliked to return to camp with out her father; still more he shrank from the thought of leaving her alone and unprotected In the hands of the mutineers of the Arrow or the hun dred unknown dangers of the jungle.
 Possibly. too. he thought, before this the professor and Philander had re- turned to camp. He started, stum- bling back through the thick and mat ted underbrush in tho direction that he thought the cabin lay
 To Tarzan's surprise. tine young man was heading farther into the jungle in the general direction of Mbonga's village. and the shrewd young ape man was convinced that he was lost.
 The fierce jungle would make easy prey of this unprotected stranger in q very short time if he were not guided quickly tn the beach, thought Tarzan.
 Yes. there was Numa. the lion. even now stalking the white man a dozen paces to the right | Clayton heard the great body paral- leling his course. and now there rose upon the evening air the great beasts thunderous roar. The man stopped with upraised spear and faced the brush from which issued the awful sound. The shadows were deepening; | udfhhesa WIS cOiulllB on.
 | For a moment all was still. Clayton stood rigid with raised spear. Pres ently a faint rustling of the bush be hind him appraised him of the stealthy creeping of the thing. 1t was gather ing for a spring when at last he saw it, not twenty feet away-the long, 1.-the, muscular body and tawny head of huge black maned lion.
 In agony the man watched. fearful to launch his spear. powerless to fly He heard a noise in the tree above him. Some new danger. he thought but he dared not take his eyes from the yellow green orbs before him There was sharp twang, like the sound of broken banjo string, and at the same instant an arrow appeared in the yellow hide of the crouching lion.
 With a roar of pain and anger the beast sprang. but Clayton stumbled tC one side and as he turned again tc face the infuriated king of beasts h' was appalled, at the sight which con fronted him. Almost simultaneously with the lions turning to renew the at tack naked giant had dropped iron the tree above squarely on the brute'i back.
 With lightning speed an arm tha was corded with layers of iron muscle encircled the huge neck, and the grea beast was raised from behind. roarln. and paving the air-raised as easll, as Clayton would have lifted pet dog
 That scene he witnessed in the twi light depths of an African jungle wal burned forever into the Englishmanl brain.
 The man before him was the ern bodlment of physical perfection an' giant strength, yet 1t was not on thi he had depended in his battle with tn great eat, for mighty as were his mus