The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-11-12

tue village gate.
His companions rapidly gathered
around at his call. and after a mo
ment's excited conversation they did
precisely what TarZan had reasoned
they would. Raising their guns to
their shoulders, they poured volley
after volley into the tree from which
the corpse had been thrown. Had
Tarzan remained there be would have
been riddled by "A hundred bullets.
When the Arabs and Manyuema dis
covered that the only marks of VIC
lence upon the body of their dead com
rade were giant finger prints upon his
swollen throat they were again thrown
into deeper apprehension and despair
That they were not even safe within
a paliSaded village at night came as a
distinct shock TO them. That III enc
my could enter the midst of their camp
and Kill their sentry with bare hands
seemed outside the bonds of reason,
and 50 the superStitiouS Manyuema
commenced to attribute their i'll luck
to supernatural causes, nor were the
whites able TO offer any better expla.
nation.
With az least City of their number
dying through the black jungle. and
without the slightest knowledge Of
when their uucanuy foemPn might re-
sumo the cold blOoded slaughter they
had commenced. ii was a desperate
band of Cutthroats that waited sleep
lessly for the dawn. Only on the prom
Use of the Arabs that they would leave
the village ut daybreak. and hasten on.
ward toward their own land would
the remaining Manyuema consent to
stay at the village a IN longer
Not even fear of their cruel masters
was sufficient to overcome this new
terror.
And SO it was that when Tarzan and
his warriors returned to the attack the
next morning they found the raiders
prepared to march out of the village.
The Manyuema were laden with sto-
len ivory. AS Tarzan saw 1t he grin
ned. for he knew that they would not
carry it far. Then be saw something
which caused him anxiety-a number
Of the Manyuema were lighting torch
es in the remnant of the camp fire.
They were about 10 frc the village.
TarZan was perched in a tall tree
some hundred yards from the palisade.
Making a trumpet Of his hands. he
called loudly in the Arab tongue: "Do
not fire the huts or we shall kill you
all! Do not fire the huts, or we shall
kill you all"
IanA- Nt.n2e ~ 4poa IL Tb&
Manyuema hesitated; then n 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 be was com
handing them to fire the little thatch-
ed dwellings. Then he stood erect upon
the swaying branch a 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 way 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 ii ould be the better part
of wisdom to forego the pleasure of
firing the village that had given them
.r,. 80. ant r.anD Il. tha;r
hearts. however, they swore to return
again with such a 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
Of 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 seer the
puff 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 ii had been eff
f~ective.
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 d 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 ivory he cried. Leave
the ivory. Dead men have no use for
ivory
Some OF the Manyuema started to
lay down their loads. but 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