The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-04-30

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With at least fifty Of their nun,
flying through the black jungle Yer
without the slightest knowledgo u
when their uncanny foemen mipbt
sumo the cold blooded slaughter a.
had commenced. il was a desnara.y
band Of cutthroats that waited sIaa
lessly for the dawn. Only on the nro,p
Use Of the Arabs that they would Loo
the village at daybreak. and hasten :.
ward toward their own land. wo,,,s
the remaining Manyuema consent -
stay at the village a moment lonpos
Not even fear Of their cruel master.
was sufficient to overcome this now,
terror.
And so 1t was that when Tarzan ana
his warriors returned to the attack tba
next morning they found the raiders
prepared to march out of the VILLAGE
The Manyuema were laden with sto
len ivory. AS Tarzan saw IL he pr;n
ned. for he knew that they would mot
carry it far. Then he saw somethinc
which caused him anxiety-a numhar
of the Manyuema were lighting torch.
es in the remnant Of the Camp fire
They were about to fire the village.
Tarzan was perched in q tall tree
some hundred yards from the palisade
Making a trumpet Of his hands. no
called loudly in the Arab tongue: 'Do
not fire the huts or we shall kill Won
ali! Do not fire the huts, or we shah
kill you all!'
A dozen times he repeated It. The
Manyuema hesitated; then one Of them
flung his torch into the camp fire. The
others were about to do the same when
an Arab sprang upon them with a
stick, beating them toward the huts.
Tarzan could see that he was com.
manding them to fire the little thatch-
ed dwellings. Then he stood erect upon
the swaying branch hundred feet
above the ground, and, raising one OF
the Arab guns to his shoulder, took
careful aim and fired. With the report
the Arab who was urging on his men
TO burn the village fell in his tracks,
and the Manyuema threw away their
torches and fed from the village. The
last Tarzan saw Of them they were
racing toward the jungle. while their
former masters knelt upon the ground
and fired at them
But. however angry the Arabs might
have been at the INSTRUMENTATION OF
their slaves, they were at least con-
WINGED that it would be the better part
of wisdom to forego the pleasure Of
firing the village that had given them
two such nasty receptions. In their
hearts. however, they swore to return
again with such force as would en-
able them to sweep the entire country
for miles around until no vestige Of
human life remained.
They had looked in vain for the own
er of the voice which had frightened
off the men who had been detailed to
put the torch to the huts. but not even
the keenest eye among them had been
able to locate him. They had seen the
pun Of smoke from the tree following
the shot that brought down the Arab.
but, though a volley had Immediately
been loosed into its foliage, there had
been no indication that it had been ef-
fective.
Tarzan was too intelligent to be
caught in any such trap. and so the re-
port of his shot had scarcely died away
before the ape-man was on the ground
and racing for another tree a hundred
yards away. Here he again found a
suitable perch from which he could
watch the preparations of the raiders
1t occurred to him that he might have
considerable more fun with them, so
again he called to them through his
improvised trumpet.
Leave the ivoryr' he cried. Leave
the ivory. Dead men have no use for
IVORY
Some OF the Manyuema started to
lay down their loads. hut this was al
together too much for the avaricious
Arabs. With loud shouts and curses
they aimed their guns full upon the
bearers. threatening instant death to
any who might lay down his load
They could give up firing the village.
but the thought OF abandoning this
enormous fortune in ivory was quite
beyond their conception. Better death
than that.
And so they marched out Of the VII
lage Of the Waziri, and on the shout
ders OF their slaves was the ivory ran
som OF score Of kings. Toward the
north they marched. back toward their
savage settlement.
Under Tarzan's guidance the black
Waziri warriors stationed themselves
along the trail on either side in the
densest underbrush. They stood at far
intervals, and as the column passed a
single arrow or heavy spear, well
aimed, would pierce Manyuema or
an Arab. Then the waziri would melt
into, the distance and run ahead to
take his stand farther on. They did
not strike unless success We're sure and
the danger Of detection almost nothing,
and so the arrows and the spears were