The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-10


 it there commenced to dawn upon her the realization that she had possibly learned something she had never known before-love. She wondered and then smiled.
 Still smiling. she pushed Tarzan gently away, and, looking at him with a half quizzical expression that made her face wholly entrancing, she point ed to the fruit upon the ground and seated herself upon the edge of the earthen drum of the anthropoids.
 Tarzan quickly gatheredsup the fruit and, bringing it, laid it at, her feet, and then he, too, sat upon the drum beside her and with his knife proceed ed to open and prepare the various vi ands for-her meal.
 Together and in silence they ate, oc- casionaliy stealing sly g1ances at one another,zuntf finally Jane, Porter broke into merry laugh in which Tarzan joined. ss,ass ssss S sssss
 ..I wish you spoke. English, : said the girl
 Tarzan- shook his head and an e1- pression of wistful and pathetic long ing sobered his laughing eyes.
 Tarzan had long. since reached a de 1 cfsions ass to wha his future. procedure should be He had had time to reco1- -5 lect all that he had read of the ways of men and women in the books at the cabin. He would act as he imagined the men in the books would have acted were they in his place x. g :. Again he rose and went into the erees, but first he tried to explain by means of signs that he would return l+shortly, and he. did so well that Jane l Porter understood and; was not afraid when he had gone Soon he returned: with a great armful of branches 1 Then he went back again into the jungle and fn asfew minutes reappear- 1 ed with a quantity of soft grasses and ferns. Two more trips he made until he l had quite pile of material at hand '
 Then he spread the ferns and grasses
 upon the ground in soft, flat bed. and above it he leaned many branches to- 1 gether so that they met a few feet over. l it's center. Upon these he spread lay Eers of huge leaves of the. great ele- | phant' s ear, and with more branches and more leaves he closed one end of l the little shelter he had built. Theins they sat down together again upon the edge of the drum and tried to talk by signs E 2 The nagni cent diamond Iocketl (which hung about Tarzan's neck had Ibeen a source of much Wonderment to Jane Porter. She pointed to. it now,
 and Tarzan removed it and handed it l to her.xz l She saw that it was the work of a
 skilled artisan and that the diamonds
 were; of great brilliancy and superbly set, but the cutting of them denoted
 that they were of former day.
 She noticed that the locket openeds Y H5 f 0IoS Ina ovv l thea two halves spring apart to reveal lin eithersseckion an ivory miniature. s0ne was of a beautiful woman, and 1 the other might have been the likeness f of them man who sat beside her except l for. difference of expression that was I scarcely defnab1e. I She looked up at Tarzan to find him al leaning toward her, gazing on the min I futures with an expression of aston ] ishment He reached out his hand for I the locket and took it away from her, sl examining the, ,Iik enesses within with
 unmista kable signs of surprise and new l interest.
 I His manner clearly denoted that he had never before seen them nor imag- ined that the locket opened.
 This fact caused Jane Porter to in- dulge in still more speculation, and it | ! this beautiful ornament came into the
 possession of wild and savage crea- sI ture of the unexpIored jungles of Af- rica. 1sssfzs ssss l Still more wonderful, how did it con- tain the likeness of one who might be
 a brother or. more likely, the father T of this woodland demigod, who was even ighorant of the fact that the
 locket opened?
 l. Tarzan was still gazing with fxity at the two faces. Presently he remov- 7 ed the culver from his shoulder and,
 emptying the arrows upon the ground, reached into the bottom of the bag
 like receptacle and drew forth flat
 object wrapped in many soft leaves
 and tied with bits of long grass.
 Carefully he unwrapped it, removing
 layer after layer of leaves until at .l length he held photograph in his lhand
 l Pointing to the miniature of the man within the locket. he handed the photo
 graph to Jane Porter, holding the open
 1ocket beside it..
 The photograph only served to pug zles the. girl still more, for it was :. evidently another likeness of the same man whose picture rested in the locket beside that of the beautiful young l woman Tarzan was looking at her with an '' Eexpression9of puzzled bewilderm snt. in P his eyes as lezglancd up at him. He ! seemed to be framing a question with his lips. eses -. ..ss:s ; The girl pointed to the photograph and then to the minia ature and then to
 him, as though to indicate that she } thought the likenesses were of him. } but he only shook his head, and then shruggfng his great shoulders, he took the photograph from her and, having
 carefully rewrapped it, placed it again