The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-16
'. c. Chapsnan

as she had left 1t, and now he had re turned materialized from thin air aud was killing her priests As though they had been sheep. For the moment could gather her wits together again the huge white man was standing be fore her, the woman who had lain upon the altar in his arms.
 "One side, La!s he cried. You say ed me once, and so would not harm you, but do not interfere or attempt to follow, or shall have to Ell you also. z
 As he spoke he stepped past her to ward the entrance to tae subterranean vaults
 .swho is she7' asked the high priest ess, pointing at the unconscious Szo- man.
 ashe is mine. said Tarzan of the Apes
 For moment the girl of opar stood wide eyed and staring Then a look of hopeless n1isery sufkused her ey es- Tears welled into them, and, with q just as q swarm of fnghtful men dash ed past her to leap upon the ape man.
 But Tarzan of the Apes was not there when they reached out to seixe him. With al1ght bound he had dis appeared into the passage leading to the pits below, and when his pursuers came more cautiously alter hey found the chamber empty, but they laughed and jabbered to one another. for theyg knew that there was 10 exit from the pits other than the one through which he had entered. IT hes caane out at all he must come this way, and they would wait and watch far hiua above.
 And so Tarzan Of the Apes, carrying
 
 through the pits Of Opar beneath the temple of the faaninz god without pursuit But when the men Of. Opar had talked further about the ma tter. K they recalled to mind that this very man had escaped once before into the. R pits, and, though they had watched the entrance, he had not come fcrfh ' and yet today he had come upon them from the outside. They would again send fifty men out into the vaIleS to find and capture this desecra ter of their temple.
 After Tarzan reached the shaft De x yond the broken wall he felt so p0sis i've of the successful issue of his n4ghe; that he stopped to replace the tumhled stones, for he was not anxious that any Of the inmates should dzscover this forgotten passage and through 1t
 
 was in his mind to return again toE Opar and bear away still greater fortune than he had already buried ln the amphItheater ef the apes.
 CHAPTER xs<vali. Leve n tase Wilderness. RN N through the passae svvayn lis trotke& past t1he fxst door and through tho treasure vaults k past the second door and Into the long, straight tunnel that led to the lofty hidden exit beyond the city. Jane Porter was st1u unconscious At the crest of khe great bowlder he halted to cast a backward glance to- | ward the city Coming across the plain he saw band ef the hideous men of opar For moment he hesi- tated. Should he descend and make race for tze distant cltffs, or should he l hide here until night? And then a glance at the girls white face deter l mined him. He could not keep her here and permit her enemies to get 1 between them and liberty. For aught he knew they might have been follow 1 cd through the tunnels, and to have foes before and behind Weuld result in almost certain capture s1nce he could net light his way through the
 
 unconscious girl.
 TO descend the steep facn of the l powder with Jane Porter wasno easy 1 task, but by binding her across his l shoulders with the grass rope he sue ceeded in reaching the ground in safe 1 ty before the Oparians arrived at the great rock As the descent had been made upon the side away from the | ely, the searching party saw nothing | of 1t. nor did they dream that their l prey was so close before them 1 By keeping the kopje between them l and their pursuers Tarzan of the Apes managed to cover nearly a mile before I the men of Opar rounded the granite sentinel and saw the fugitaves before l them With loud cries of savage de ! light they broke into . mad run, think ing doubtless that they would soon overhaul the burdened runner but they both underestdmated the powers of the ape-nnan and overestfmated the Possibilities of their own short, crook ed legs.
 BY maintaining an easy trot Tarzan kept the distance between them al ways the same. Occasionally he would glance at the face so near his own. Had it not been for the faint beating of the heart pressed so close against his own he would not have known that she was alive, so white and drawn was the poor. tired face
 And thus they came to the Hat top ped mountain and the barrier ciiHs. During the last mile Tarzan had let himself out, running like deer that he might have ample time to descend the face of the cliffs before the Opari- ans could reach the summit and hurl rocks down upon them. And so it was l that he was half 6 mile down the mountainsfde ere the fierce little men came painting to the edge.
 With cries of rage and disappoint-