The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-10-15

owed his life to this strange white
man, and be also saw that only a mir
acle could save his preserver from
those fierce yellow fangs that had been
so near to his own flesh.
with the qUickness of thought his
spear arm few back. and then shot for
ward with all the force Of the sinewy
muscles that rolled beneath the SHIN
mering ebon hide. True to its mark
the iron shod weapon few. transfix-
ing Sabor's sleek carcass from the
right groin 10 beneath the left shout
der. With a hideous scream of rage
ana pain the brute turned again upon
the black A dozen PAGES he had gone
when Iarzan's rope brought him to a
stand once more. Then he wheeled
again upon the ape-man. only to feel
the painful prick of a barbed arrow as
it sank half its length In his culver
ing hesh. Again he stopped. and by
this time Tarzan had run twice around
the stem of IA great tree with his rope
and made the end fast.
The black saw the trick and grinned.
but Tarzan knew that SAILOR must be
quickly finished before those mighty
teeth had found and parted the slender
o that held him. 1t was Il matter
of but an instant to reach the blacks
side and drag his long knife from its
scabbard. Then he signed the warrior
fD COItlnna IN SInnf nrrnNVS into tho
great beast while he attempted to close
in upon him with the knife, so as one
tantalized upon one side the other
sneaked cautiously in upon the other.
SAILOR was furious. He raised his voice
in a perfect frenzy of shrieks, growls
and hideouS means, the while be rear
ed upon his hind legs in futile attempt
to reach first Que and then the other
Of his tormentors.
But at length the agile ape-man saw
his chance and rushed in upon the
beasts left side behind the mighty
shoulder. A giant arm encircled the
white throat and a long blade sank
once. true as IA die, into the fierce heart.
1hNA Al NhS iaN hob
and the white looked into each others
eyes across the body of their kill. and
the black made the sign OF peace and
friendship. and Tarzan OF the Apes an.
swered 1t in kind.
The noise OF their battle with SAILOR
had drawn an excited horde OF saw
ages from the nearby village. and a
moment after the tigers death tie
two men We're surrounded by 1.-the
ebon warriors. g~esticulating and jab
bering "a thousand questions that
drowned each ventured reply.
And then the women came and the
children-eager. curious. and at sight
Of Tarzan more questioning than ever
The ape mans new friend finally sue
ceeded in making himself heard. and
when be had done talking the men and
women of the village Wed with one
another in doing honor to the strange
creature who had saved their fellow
and battled single handed with fierce
Sabor.
At last they led him back to their
village, where they brought him gifts
Of fowl and goats and cooked food
When he pointed to their weapons thu
warriors FASTENED to fetch spear
shield. arrows and a bow. His FRIEND
Of the encounter presented him witt
the knife with which he had killed
SAILOR. There was nothing In all the
village he could not have had for thu
asking.
Tarzan's first night with the savages
was devoted to a wild orgy in his hon
or. There was feasting, for the hun
ters had brought in an antelope and q
zebra as trophies Of their skill, and
gallons Of the weak native beer were
consumed. AS the warriors danced In
the freight Tarzan was again i'm,
pressed by the symmetry Of their fig
ures ana the regularity OF their fea-
lures the fat noses and thick lips OF
the typical West Coast savage were
entirely missing. In repose the faces
of the men were intelligent and digni-
fed. those Of the women ofttimes pre-
possessing.
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