The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-28

and the brushing of huge body against tall grasses and tangled creep CTS None other than Tarzan might have heard 1t, but the ape man heard and translated It was Numa, the lion on the same errand as himself. sTarzan smiled
 CHATTER XVI.
 Tn the Jungle.
 MM PRESENTLY Tarzan heard an
 0 animal approaching warily
 along the trail toward the
 drinking place. "A moment more and it came in view. It was Horta, the boar. Here was delicious meat, and Tarzan's mouth watered. very still now ozninoiIsly still. Horta passed beneath Tarzan A few more steps and he would be within the radius of Numa's spring. Tarzan could imagine how old Numa's eyes were shining, how he was already sucking in his breath for the awful roar which would freeze his prey for the brief instant between the moment of the spring and the sinking Of terri ble fangs into splintering bones. But as Numa gathered himself a slender rope nev through the air from the low branches of q nearby tree A moose settled about Horta's neck. There was frightened grunt. a squeal, and then Numa saw his quarry drag ged backward tip sthe trail, and as he sprang Horta, the boar, scared upward beyond his clutches into the tree above. and 2 hooking face looked down and laughed into his own.
 Then indeed did Numa roar. Angry, threatening hungry. lie. paced back. and forth beneath the taunting ape man. Now he stopped and, rising on his hind legs against the stem of the tree that held his enemy, sharpened his huge claws upon the bark. tearing out great pieces thatelay bare the white wood beneath.
 And in the meantime Tarzan had dragged the struggling Horta to the limb beside him. Sinewy fingers com pleted the work the choking moose had commenced. The ape-man had no k1ife, but nature had equipped him with the means of tearing his food from the auivering flank of his prey. E and gleaming teeth sank into the sue cuIent flesh while the raging lion look ed on from below as another enjoyed the dinner that he had thought al ! ready his.
 It was quite dark by the time Tar gan had gorged himself. An, but it had been delicious! Never had he 1 quite accustomed himself to the ruined flesh that civilized men had served him, and in the bottom of his savage heart there had constantly been the craving for the warm meat of the fresh killed and the rich, red blood He wiped his bloody hands upon a bunch of leaves, s1ung the remains Of his kill across his shoulder and swung off through the middle terrace of the forest toward his cabin, and at the same instant Jane Porter and William l Cecil Clayton arose from sumptuous l dinner upon the Lady Alice, thousands Of miles to the east in the Indian ocean. Beneath Tarzan walked Nuna. the lion and when the ape-man deigned to glance downward he caught occasional gHmpses of the baleful green eyes fol- lowing through the darkness. Nunaa did not roar now Instead he moved tstealGhily, like the shadow of great cat. but yet he took no step that did not reach the sensitive ears of the ape nan.
 fs I6fZ4u W0H1SIcu U 4o WOu1O SCa1K | kim to his cabin door. He hoped not, curled in the crotch of a tree, and he 4 much preferred the bed of grasses within his own abode. But he knew l just the tree and the most ee1nfortabie crotch if necessity demanded that he sleep out. A hundred times in the past some great jungle cat had followed him home and compelled him to seek shel- ter in this same tree until another mood or the rising sun had sent his enemy away.
 4 But presently Numa gave up the l chase and, with a series of bloodcur- I ding means and roars, turned angrily I back in searcK of another and easier dinner.
 A few moments later Tarzan was I curled up in the Mildewed remnants of what had once been bed of grasses. I Thus easily did M. Jean c. Tarzan slough the thin skin of his artificial : civilization and sink happy and con tented Into the deep sleep of the wild I beast that has fed to repletion. Yet 3 I woman's ..yes's would have bound hin to that other life forever and made the thought of this savage existence repuL sive.
 Tarzan slept late inte the following forenoon, for he had been very tired from the labors and exertion of the long night and day upon the ocean and the jungle jaunt that had brought into play muscles that he had scarce used for nearly two years When he awoke he ran to the brook first to drink Then he took plunge into the sea I swimming about for quarter of ar hour Afterward he returned to his cabin and breakfasted off the desh ol