Bisbee daily review., 1914-06-18

stumble and fai1, She WIS Cufed and kicked by the nearest of the frightful men. Long before they reached their Journeys end her shoes had been dis carded-the soles entirely gone. Her clothes were torn to mere shreds and tatters. and through the piuful rags her once white and tender skin showed raw and bleeding from contact with the thousand pltless thorns and brambles through which she had been dragged.
 The last two days of the journey found her in such utter exhaustion that no amount of kicking and abuse could force her to her poor, bleeding feet. ] Outraged nature had reached the limit of endurance, and the girl was physi- caly pOwerless to raise herself even to her knees.
 As the beasts surrounded her, chat tering threateningly the while they : goaded her with their cudgels and beat | and kicked her with their fists and ! feet, she lay with closed eyes praying for the merciful death that she knew | alone could give her surcease from suf- ferlng. But it did not come, and pres ently the fifty frightful men realized l that their victim was no longer able to walk, and SO they picked her up and carried her the balance of the journey ! Late one afternoon she saw the ruin l ed walls of a mighty city looming be- ] fore them, but so weak and sick was she that 1t inspired not the fainrest | shadow of interest. Wherever they were bearing her there could be but one end to her captivity among these fierce half brutes.
 At last they passed through two great walls and came to the ruined city within. Into a crumbling pile they bore her. and here she was surrounded by hundreds more of the same creatures that had brought her, but among them were females who looked less horrible. At sight Of them the first faint hope that she had entertained came to mitl- gate her misery. But 1t was short lived, for the women offered her no sympathy though, on the other hand, neither did they abuse her.
 After she had been inspected to the entire satisfaction of the inmates of the building she was borne to a dark chamber in the vaults beneath and here upon the bare floor she was left with a metal bowl of water and anoth- CT Of food
 For a week she saw only some of the women. whose duty 1t was to bring her food and water. Slowly her strength was returning-soon she would be in tit condition to offer as a sacrifice to the flaming god Fortunate indeed it was that she could not know the fate for which she was destined.
 As Tarzan of the Apes moved slowly through the jungle after casting the spear that saved Clayton and Jane Porter from the savage fangs of Numa, his mind was filled with all the sorrow that belongs to a freshly opened heart wound
 He was glad that he had stayed his hand in time to prevent the consumma- ton of the thing that in the first mad wave of jealous wrath he had contem- plated. Only the fraction of second had stood between Clayton and death at the hands of the npe-man. In the short moment that had elapsed after he had recognized the girl and her companion and the relaxing of the taut muscles that held the poisoned shaft directed at the Englishmans heart, Tarzan had been swayed by the swift aud savage Impulses of brute life.
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