The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-05-21

station among his fellow apes would
nave been beneath that of the bull
which had made him step aside.
But Tarzan Of the Apes did not back
on. Instead he swung his giant palm
with all the force of his mighty mus
cles and. catching the young bull along
side the head, sent him sprawling
across the turf. The ape was up and
at him again in second, and this time
they closed with tearing fingers and
rending fangs, or at least that had
been the intention Of the young bull.
But scarcely had they gone down.
growing and swapping, than the ape
mans fingers found the throat Of his
antagonist.
Presently the young bull ceased to
struggle and lay quite still. Then Tar.
Fan released his hold. and arose. He
did not wish to kill, only to teach the
young ape and others who might be
watching that Tarzan Of the Apes was
still master.
The lesson served its purpose the
young apes kept out Of his way, as
young apes should when their betters
were about, and the old bulls made no
attempt to encrOach upon his preroga-
tives. For several days the she apes
with young remained suspicious of
him and when he ventured too near
rushed upon him with wide mouths
and hideOus rOars. Then Tarzan dis
creetly skipped out Of harms way, for
that also is custom among the apes
only mad bulls will attack q mother.
But after awhile even they became ac-
customed to him.
He hunted with them as in days gone
by, and when they found that his su-
perior reason guided him to the best
food sources and that his cunning rope
ensnared toothseme game that they sell
dom II ever tasted. they came again to
look up to him as they had in the past
after he had become their king. And
so 1t was that before they left the am
phitheater to return to their wander
ings they had once more chosen him as
their leader.
The ape-man felt quite contented
with his new lot. He was not happy
that he never could be again, but he
was at least as far from everything
that might remind him of his past mis-
cry as he could be. Long since he had
given up every intention OF returning
to civilization. and now he had decided
to see no more Of his black friends of
the Waziri. He had forsworn hu-
mainly forever. He had started life an
aS1-as al sDa 10 wcrld die.
He could not, however, erase from
his memory the fact that the woman
he loved was within short journey
Of the stamping ground Of his tribe,
nor could he Danish the haunting fear
that she might be constantly in danger.
That she was i'll protected he had seen
In the brief instant that had wit
messed Clayton's ineficlency. The more
Tarzan thought OF 1t the more keenly
his conscience pricked him.
Finally he came to loathe himself for
permitting his own selfish sorrow and
jealousy to stand between Jane Porter
and safety. As the days passed the
thing preyed more and more upon his
mind. and lie had about determined to
return to the coast and place himself
on guard over Jane Porter and Clayton
when news reached him that altered
all his plans and sent him dashing
madly toward the east in reckless dis
regard Of accident and death.
Before Tarzan had returned to the
tribe a certain young bull. not being
able to secure q mate from among his
own people had, according to custom,
Jared forth through the wild jungle,
like some knight Grant Of old, to win
a fair lady from some neighboring
community.
He had but just returned with his
bride and was narrating his adventures
quickly before he should forget them.
Among other things he told Of seeing
a great tribe Of strange looking apes.
"They were all hairy faced bulls but
one" he said, land that one was q
she, lighter In color even than this
stranger" and he chucked thumb. at
Tarzan.
The ape-man was all attention in an
instant. He asked questions as rapidly
as the slow witted anthropoid could
answer them.
"Were the bulls short, with crooked
legsY
"They were"
Ibid they wear the skins OF Numa
and Sheeta about their loins and carry
sticks and knives?"
'They did"
"And were there many yellow rings
about their arms and legsT
Eyes"
"And the she one-was she small and
slender and very whittier"
Eyes"
"Did she seem to be one Of the tribe,
or was she prisoner
"They dragged her along sometime
by an arm-sometmes by the long hair
that grew upon her head. and always
thev kHked and beat her. Oh but it