Bisbee daily review., 1914-06-16

As he pushed the massive obstacle aside its great hinges shrieked out in weird protest against this unaccustom- cd disturbance. For a moment Tarzan paused to listen for any responsive note which might indicate that the un- usual night noise had alarmed the in- mates ot the temple But as be heard nothing he advanced beyond the door, way.
 Carefully feeling about, he founo himself within a large chamber, along the walls of which and down the length of the floor were piled many tiers of metal ing0ts of an odd though uniform shape To his groping hands they felt not unlike double headed hootiacks The ingots were quite heavy. and but for the enormous num- Der of them he would have been posi- tive that they were gold But the thought of the fabulous wealth these thousands of pounds of metal would have represented were they in reality gold almost convinced bim that they must be of some baser metal.
 At the far end of the chamber he discovered another barred door and the hope was renewed that he was travers- ing am ancient and forgotten passage way to liberty. Beyond the door the passage ran straight as a war spear, and it soon became evident Co the ape man that it had already led him be- yond the outer walls of the temple. 1T he but knew the direction it was leading him! If toward the west, then he must also be beyond the ciy's outer walls.
 With increasing hopes he forged ahead as rapidly as he dared until at the end of half am hour he came to an- other flight of steps leading upward At the bottom this flight was of con- crete, but as he ascended his naked feet felt a sudden change in the sub stance they were reading. The steps of concrete had given place to steps of granite. Feeling with his hands. the ape-man discovered that these latter were evidently hewed from rock. for there was no crack to indicate a joint
 For 100 feet the steps wound spirally up, until at a sudden turning Tarzan came into a narrow cleft between two rocky walls Above him shone the starry sky and before him a steep in- cline replaced the steps that had ter minated at it's foot Up this pathway Tarzan hastened and at its upper end came out upon the rough top of huge granite bowlder
 A mile away lay the ruined city Of Opar, it's dOmes and turrets bathed i'm the soft light of the equatorial moon Tarzan dropped his eyes to the ingot he had brought away with him. For moment he examined it by the moons bright rays then he raised his head 10 look out upon the ancient piles of crum- bling grandeur in the distance.
 "Opar' he unused, "Opar, the en- chanted city of a dead and forgotten past The city of the beauties and the beasts City of horrors and deaths. but-city of fabulous riches" The in- got was Of virgin gold
 The powder on which Tarzan found himself lay well out in the plain be- tween the city and the distant cliffs he and his black warriors had scaled the morning previous TO descend it's rough and precipitous face was a task of infinite labor and considerable peril even to the apeman. but at last he felt the soft soil of the valley beneath his feet, and without a backward glance at Opar he turned his face toward the guardian cliffs and at a rapid trot set or across the valley.
 The sun was just rising as be gained the summit of the flat mountain at the valleys western boundary. Far be- heath him he saw smoke rising above the treetops Of the forest at the base of the foothills
 Man. he murmured "And there were fifty who went forth to track me down. Can it be theyg
 Swiftly he descended the face of the clin and, dropping into a narrow ra- vine which led down to the far forest be hastcned onward in the direction of the smoke Striking the forests edge about a quarter of a mile from the point at which the slender column arose into the sdll afr. he took to the