The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-15

' e.ssa,s,s Hope Left Her Entirely, and She Trer,a-
 bled Tn an Aseny of Fright.
 hand upon the wall. Her captors now watched her with increasing interest The day was approaching. and the yic- tim was gaining in strength.
 Presently the day came when she could walk. and a young woman whom Jane Porter had not seen before came Here some sort of ceremony was per formed. That 1t was of religious na- ture the girl was sure. and so she took new heart and rejoiced that she had fallen among people upon whom the refining and soffening influence of re sfgion evidently had fallen. They would treat her humanely, of that she was now quite sure
 And so. when they led her from her dungeon through long, dark corridors and up d flight Of concrete steps to q brilliant courtyard, she went willingly even gladiy-for was she not among the servants of God It might be, of course. that their interpreta ton of the supreme being differed from her own,i
  cient evidence to her that they were kind and good.
 But when she saw a stone altar in the center of the courtyard and dark { brown. stains upon it and the nearby concrete Of the floor she began to won i der and te doubt. And as they stoop- ed and boa nd her ankles and secured her wrists behind her her doubts were turned to fear. A moment later as she was lifted and placed across the a1tar's { top hope lett her entiresy, and she i trembled in an agony Of fright. During the grotesque dance of the votaries which followed she lay frozen , in horror, nor did she require the sight of the thin blade in the hand of the 1 high prfestess as 1t rose slowly above l her to eniighsen her further as to her f doom
 l AS the hand began its descent Jane Porter closed her eyes and sent up a silent prayer to the Maker she. was so | soon to face. Then she succumbed to the strain typon her tired nerves and swooned.
 Day and night Tarzan of the Apes raced through the primeval forest to- ward the ruined city in which he was positive the woman he loved lay either a prisoner or dead.
 In day and a night he covered the same distance that the fifty frightful men had taken the better part Of a week to traverse. for Tarzan of the X Apes Irayeled along the middle ter race high abeve the tangled obstacles that impede progress upon the ground.
 The story the young bull aye had 1 told made it clear to him that the girl captive had been Jane Porter, for there was not another small, white s.she'' in 1 all the jungle The pulls he had rec ognized from the apes crude descrip- ton as the esfotesque parodies upon hu- manity who inhabit the ruins of Opar. And the girls fate he could picture as plainly as though he were an eyewit- ness to it. When they would lay her across that grim altar he could not guess, but that her dear, frail body would eventually find it's way there he was confident
 But finally, after what seemed long ages to the impatient ape-man, he top < ped the barrier cliffs that hemmed the desolate valley, and below him lay the grim and awful ruins of the now hide ous city of Opar At rapid trot he started across the dry and dusty powder strewn ground toward the goa of his desires.
 E Would he be in time to rescue? He hoped against hope. At least he could be revenged. and in his wrath it seem ed to him that he was equal to the task of wiping out the entire population ol that terrible city. It was nearly nooI when he reached the great powder al the top of which terminated the secrel ! passage to the pits beneath the city Like cat he sealed the precipitout 1 sides of the drowning granite kopje- 1 moment later he was running througl
 ..iile darkness of the long, straight tun nel that led to the treasure vault Through this he passed, then on ant on until at last he came to the well
 like shaft upon the opposite side 0:
 which lay the dungeon with the falst
 wall.
 As he paused a mome1t upon ths
 iSrinh of the well faint sound came
 to hlIsa through the opening 8 bove Hi.
 quick ears caught and translated it. |
 was the dance of death that preceded
 sacrifice, and the singsong ritual O.
 the high prieaAess. He could even rec
 ognize the girls voice.
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