The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-20
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 The sun was hot, so be sought the snelter of nearby tree. where he tethered his horse and sat down upon ths ground to smoke Inwar1ly he rrore at GernoIs for the trick be had played upon him. mean little re Wenge. thought Tarzan, and then sud- denly it occurred to him that the man would not be such a fool as to antag- nnize him through a trival annoysn nee SE 50 petty q description. There must be something deeper than this behind i1. with the thought he arose and res moved his rifle from it's boot He iook-. ed to it's loads and saw that the maga- nine was full Then he inspected his revolver After this preliminary pre- caution he scanned the surrounding heights and the mouths of the several 4orges-he was determined that he alzould net be caught mapping:
 The sun sank lower and lower, yet Es1zre was no sign of returning spahis Af last the valley WAS submerged in 8aadow. Tarzan was too proud to go back to camp until he had given the ae1achment ample time to return to the valley. which he thought was to have been their rendezvous. With the closing fn of night he felt safer from attack for he was at home in the dark, and lie fell asleep. with his back eeainst the tree
 He must have slept for several hours, for when he was suddenly awakened hz fhe frightened snorting and plung ing of his horse the moon was shining fufl upon the little valley, and there, not ten paees before him, stood the grim cause of the terror of his mount
 Superb, majestic. his graceful tail ex- tended and quivering. and his two eyes of fire rIveted full upon his prey, stood Mama, el adrea.. the black lion. A lit tle thrill of joy ting1ed through Tar ra1,'s nerves. Etswas like meeting an 6ld friend after years of separs ton. Tor a moment he sat nigid to enjoy the mngnfficent spectacle of this lord Of the wilderness.
 But now Numa vast crouching for fhe spring Very slowly Tarzan raised his gun to his shoulder. He had never killed large animal with gun in all aas life Heretofore he had depended uuon his spear. his poisoned arrows, Dis rope, his knife or his sbare hands mskfnetfvely he wished that be had h1a arrows and his knife He should have felt surer with them.
 H0rna was lying quite hatfupon the ground now, presenting only his head Tarxnn would have preferred to Ere a little from one side, for he knew what fezrifc damage the lion could do if he lived two minutes or even minute after he was hit The horse stood fxemblinz in teEror at Tarzan's back. The apenan took q cautious step tc cne@fde. Numa but followed him with his eyes Another step he took and then another Numa shad not moved Now he could aim at point between Che eyeand the ear.
 His finger t1ghtened upon the trig ner. and as he fired Nurna sprang. Al fne anne instant the terrified horse made q last frantic effort to escape 1,he tether parted, and he went careen Inr down the canyon toward the des art
 No ordinary man could have escapet khose frightful claws when Numi nprane from So short a distance. Bu Enrzan was no ordinary man. Frou earliest childhood his muscles had beer trained by the fierce ezigencies of hi existence to act with the rapfdity Q fhodoft As quick as was el airel Farxan of the Apes wns quicker, ant 90 the great beast crashed against { tree, where he had expected to fee the soft flesh Of man. while Ta1zan, couple of paees to the right, pumpe' another bullet into him that brough him, cIaWing and roaring, to his side
 Twice more TRtzkH lnfed in quicl succession, and then el adrea lay atdl and roared no more It was no 1onge M Jean Tarzan. It was Tarzan Of tn Apes that put a savage foot upon tn body of his savage Kill and, ratsing n1 face to the full moon, lifted his night voice in the weird and terrible cha 1enre of his kinda bull ape had mad his Kill And the wild things in tn wild mountains stopped in their hum ing and trembled at this new an awful voice. while down in the desel the children of the wilderness cam pzf of their goatskIn tents and locke seward the mountains. wonderfn
 what new and savage sccurge ha come to devastate their doeks.