The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-06-04
TARTAN OF
THE APES
By EDGAR RICE
BURROUGHS
Copyright. 1912, by the Frank A.
Munsey Company

Don't fail to read the sequel to this
great story, THE Return Of Tarzan"
which will begin as soon as this story
is finished.
There were no formalities. AS Ter
kOz reached the group five huge. hairy
beasts sprang upon him.
At heart he was az arrant coward.
which Is the way with DULLES among
apes as we'll as among men. so he did
not remain to fight and die. but tore
himself away from them as quickly as
he could and fed into the sheltering
boughs Of the forest.
Two more attempts he made to re-
join the tribe, but on each occasion he
was set upon and driven away. At last
he gave it up and turned, foamlng with
rage and hatred, into the jungle.
1t was in this state of mind that the
horrible manlike beast, swinging from
tree to tree, came suddenly upon two
women In the jungle.
He was right above them when he
discovered them. The first intimation
Jane Porter had of his presence was
when the great hairy body dropped to
h earth beside her and she saw the
awful face and the snarling, hideous
mouth thrust within a foot Of her.
One piercing scream escaped her lips
as the brute's hand clutched her arm.
Then she was dragged toward those
awful fangs which yawned at her
throat. But ere they touched that fair
skin another mood claimed the anthro-
poid.
The tribe had kept his women. He
must find others to replace them. This
hairless white ape would be the first Of
his new household.
He threw her roughly across his
broad shoulders and leaped back into
the trees, bearing Jane Porter away
toward a fate Il thousand times worse
than death.
Esmeralda's scream had mingled
with that Of Jane Porter; then, as was
Esmeralda'S m under stress Of
emergency which required presence Of
mind, she swooned.
The scream that brought Clayton and
the two older men stumbling through
the underground led Tarzan Of the
apes straight to where Esmeralda lay.
but it was not Esmcralda in whom his
interest centcred.
For Il moment he Scrutinized the
ground below and the trees above until
the ape that was in him 10y virtue Of
training ana environment. combined
with the intelligence that was his 10y
right of birth, told his ~Woodcraft the
whole story as plainly rs though he
had seer the thing happen with his
own eyes.
Instantly he was gone again into the
swaying trees. following the high tun.
spoor which no other human eye could
have detected. much less translated.
Almost silently the ape man sped on
in the track of Tcrkoz and his prey,
but the sound of his approach reached
the ears Of the fleeing beast and spur
red it on TO greater speed.
Three miles were covered before
Tarzan overlook them, and then Ter
koz, seeing that further flight was
futile, dropped to the ground in Il
small open glade that he might turn
and fight for his prize or be free 70
escape unhampered If he saw that the
pursuer was more than Il match for
him.
He still graspcd Jane Porter in one
great arm as Tarzan bounded like a
leopard into the arena which nature
had provided for this ~primeval-like
battle.
When Terkoz saw that it was Tar
Fan who pursued him he jumped to the
conclusion that this was Tarzan's Wo-
man since they were of the same kind
white and hairless-and so he re-
joiced at this opportunity for double
revenge upon his hated enemy.
To Jane Porter the apparition of this
godlike nan was rs wine to sick nerves
From the description which Clayton
and her father and Mr.. Philander had
given her she knew that it must be the
same wonderful creature who had
saved them. and she saw in him only
a protector and Il friend.
But as Terkoz pushed her roughly
aside to meet TarZan's charge and she
saw the great proportions of the ape
and the mighty muscles and the fierce
fangs her heart quailed. How could
any animal vanquish such a mighty
antagonist?
Like two charging bulls they came
together and like We wolves sought
each others throat. Against the long
CANNES of the ape was pitted the thin
blade of the mans knife.
Jane P~orter-her 1.-THE form tiattened
against the trunk of Il great tree. her
hands tight pressed against her rising
and falling bosom and her eyes vide
with mingled horror. fascination, fear
and admiration-watched the primor-
dial ape battle with the primeval man
for possession of a woman-for her.
AS the great muscles of the mans
back and shoulders knotted beneath
the tension of his efforts and the huge
biceps and forearm held ut bay those
mighty tusks the veil OF centuries OF
civilization and Culture was swept from
the blurred Wis on Of the Baltimore
girl. When the thin knife drank deep