The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1914-05-07


peered two Keen eyes In interested APP
probation Of the race.
IL was Tarzan of the apes who
watched. with face a-grin. this odd
gnme of follow the leader.
He knew the two men were safe
enough from attack In So; far as the
lion was concerned. The very fact that
Numa had foregone such easy prey at
all convinced the wise forest craft of
Tarzan that Numa had already dined
The lion might stalk them until hun
cry again, but the chances were that
II not angered he would soon tire OF
the sport and stink away to his jungle
lair.
So Tarzan swung quickly to a lower
limb in line with the approaching fugi-
tives, and as Mr.. Samuel Il. Philander
came painting and blowing beneath
him, already too spent to struggle up
to the safety OF the limb. Tarzan
reached down and, grasping him by
the collar OF his coat. yanked him to
the limb by his side
Another moment brought the pro-
| fessor within the sphere or the friend
ly grip. and he. too. was drawn up
ward TO safety just as the bafTled
Numa. with roar, leaped to recover
his vanishing quarry.
For Il moment the two men chung.
painting, TO the great branch. while
TarZan squatted with his back to the
stem Of the tree. watching them with
mingled curiosity and amusement.
! 1t was the professor who first broke
, the silence.
81 am deeply panied, Mr.. Philander
that you should have evinced such n
paucity of manly courage In the pres
ence of one OF the lower orders. AS
| was saying. Mr.. Philander. when
you interrupted me, the Moors'-
Professor Archimedes Q. Porter"
broke in Mr.. Philander I'm Icy tones
"the time has arrived when patience
becomes crime and mayhem appears
garbed in the mantle of virtue. You
have accused me OF cowardice. Be
lieye me. sir. I am lettering on the
verge of forgetfulness as to your ex-
allied position I'm the world OF science
and your gray hairs"
The professor sat I'm silence for a
grim smile that wreathed his wrinkled
countenance. Presently he spoke.
look here. Skinny Philander," he
said in belligerent tones, IL you are
lookin' for scrap, peel Off your coat
and come down on the ground. and
I'll punch your head just as I did sixty
years ago I'm the alley back OF Porky
Evans barn"
"Ark!" gasped the astonished Mr..
Philander. "Lordy. how good that
sounds, When you're human. Ark, l
love you. Somehow 1t seems as though
you had forgotten how to be human
for the last twenty years"
"Forgive me, skinny" the professor
said softly at hasn't been quite
twenty years. and heaven alone knows
how hard / have tried to be human
for James sake, and yours. too, since
my other Jane was taken away"
An old hand stole up from Mr.. Phi
iander's side to clasp the professors.
and no other message could better
have translated the one heart to the
other.
"You certainly pulled me up into
this tree just in time" said the pro-
fessor at last. ~ want to thank you.
You saved my life"
But / didn't pull you up here. pro-
lessor" said Mr.. Philander. BLESS
me, the excitement OF the moment
quite caused me to forget that ] my
self was drawn up here by some out
side agency. There must be some one
or something I'm this tree with u.s.
"Eh?" calculated Professor Porter.
"Are yOu quite positive, Mr.. Philan-
der?"
Most positive, professor" replied
Mr. Philnnder. And" he added, IL
think we should thank the party lie
may be sitting right next TO you now,
professor"
Just then Ii occurred to Tarzan of
the apes that Numa had loitered be-
nenth the tree for n sufficient length
of time. so he raised his young head
toward the heavens. and there rang
out upon the terrified ears of the two
old men the awful warning challenge
Of the anthropoid.
The two friends. huddled trembling
III their precarious position On the
llmO, saw the great lion halt in his
restless pacing as the bloodcurdling
cry smOte his ears and then stink
quickly into the jungle to he instantly
lost to view
Most remarkable, most remarka-
BILE murmured Professor Porter
clutching frantlcally mt Mr.. Philandel
TO regain the balance which the sud
den fright had 30 perilously endanger
ed Unfortunately for them both Mr.
Philander's center of equilibrium war
at that very moment hanging upon the
ragged edge OF nothing. so that it need
ed but the additional impetus supplied
by the additional weight OF Professor
Porters body to topple the devoted
secretary from the limb.
For a moment they swayed uncer-
tainly, and then. with mingled and
most unschOlarly shrieks. they pitched
beadlOng from the tree, locked In fren-
zied embrace.
1t was quite some moments ere ell
Their moved, for both were positive
that any such attempt would reveal so
many breaks ana fractures as TO make
further progress impossible.
At length Professor porfor osoovod