The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-07-09


his profile. he rose TO leave the deck.
The Countess de Coude beckoned to a
passing steward.
''Who is that gentleman?" she asked.
HE is booked. madame. as NJ. Tar
IAN Of Africa" replied the steward.
Rather large estate" thought the
] girl, but now her interest was still fur
Their aroused.
3 AS TarZan walked slowly toward the
smoking room he came unexpectedly
upon two men Whispering excitedly
Just without He would have vouch-
safed them not even passing thought
but for the strangely guilty glance that
one of them shot in his direction.
Tarzan entered the smoking room
and sought Il chair little apart from
the others who were there. He felt I'm
no mood for conversation. and us he
slipped his absinth he let his mind run
rather sorrowfully over the past few
weeks of his life. Time and again he
had wondered If he had acted wisely
In renouncing his birthright TO Il man
to whom he owed nothing. 1t is true
that he liked Clayton. but-ah. but
that was not the question. 1t was not
for William Cecil Clayton. Lord Grey
stoke, that he had denied his birth IL
was for the woman whom both lie and
Clayton loved and whom strange
4 freak of fate had given to Clayton in
! stead of TO him.
That she loved him made the thing
doubly difficult to bear. yet lie knew
that he could have done nothing less
than he did do that night within the
little railway station in the far Wis
consin woods To him her happiness
was the first considerable of all. and
his brief experience with civilization
and civilized men had taught him that
| without money and position life to
most OF them was uncomfortable.
Jane Porter had been born to both.
| and had TarZan taken them away
from her future husband it would
doubtless have plunged her into life
of misery and torture. That she would
have spurned Clayton once he had
been stripped of both his title and his
estates never for once occurred TO Tar
Fan. for he credited TO others the same
honest loyalty that WAS so inherent n
quality in himself Nor I'm this in
stance had he erred
WaHan's thoughts drlfted from the
past to the future. He tried t. look
forward with plensurable sense tons 10
bis return 10 the jungle of his birth
ana boyhood. the cruel. fierce Jungle
in which he had spent twenty of his
| twenty-five years. But who or what
OF all the myriad jungle lie would
there be to welcome his return? Not
one. Only Tantor. the elephant. could
lie call friend. The others would hunt
him or flee from him as had been their
way in the past.
Not even the apes of his own tribe
would extend the hand OF fellowship
TO him.
IL civilization had done nothing else
Tor Tarzan of the Apes it had to some
extent taught him to crave the society
of his own kind and to feel with genu.
Inc pleasure the cOpgeDial warmth of
companionship, And ia the same ratio
! had 1t made any other life distnsteful
to him. 1t was difficult to Imagine a
world without a friend-without n lIy-
ing thing who spoke the new tongues
which Tarzan had learned to love so
well. And so 1t was that Tarzan look
ed with little relish upon the future he
had mapped out for himself
AS he sat missing over his cigarette
his eyes fell upon u mirror before him
and In 1t he saw reflected Il tnble at
which four men sat ut cards. Present
Iy one OF them rose TO leave and then
another approached. and TarZan could
zee that he courteouSly offered To I'LL
the vacant chair that the game might
hot be interrupted. He was the small.
or of the two whom Tnrzan had seen
whispering just outside the smoking
room.
Aside from the man who had but
just entered the game. Tapznn know
the name of but one of the other plny.
ers. IL was he who sat opposite the
new player. Count Raoul de Coude
whom nm Overattentiye steward had
pointed out as one Of the celebrities OF
the passage. describing him us u man
high IN the official family Of the French
minister ~ WaF
Suddenly PnrznH's attention was riy-
'''N ul'uh lHf lF'lNIf ~ IIlo niiiSS. Ino
other swarthy plotter had entered and
was standing behind the counts chair.
TarzuN saw him turn and glance fur
lively about the room. bat his eyes did
moi rest for q sufficient time upon tho
mirror ~ nate the reflection Of Tar.
zan's waichfu eyes. Stcallblly the
man withdrew something from his
pocket Tarznn could not discern what
the object was, FOR tho mun's hand
covered g.
Slowly the hand approached the
count, aud then, yers dsnS tle thing
That vas FOO DO WAS transferred To the
counts pocket
The play went on Tor some ten min
utes after this until tnc count won
considerable wager from him who had
last joined lhe game, and then TarzaD
saw the follow back ~ the COUNTS
chair nod his heud to bis confederate.
Instantly the player arose and pointed
a finger at the count.
Had / known that monsieur was a
professional card sharp ] bad not been
50 READY ~ be drawn into the game,p
he said
Instantly the count and the two 9th
eF players were npon their feet
COude's face went white.
What do you mean. STRIP he cried