The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-03


 upon the sill, glaring into the little room. Presently it tried the strength of the lattice with it's great talons.s
 The girl had almost ceased to. breathe when to her relief the head disappeared and she heard the brute's footsteps leaving the window. But now they came to the door again, and once more the scratching commenced, but this time with increasing force until the great beast was tearing at the massive panels in perfect frenzy of fury.
 Could Jane Porter have known the immense strength of that door, builded piece by piece she would have felt less fear of the tiger reaching her by . this avenue.
 For fully twenty minutes the brute. alternately sniffed and tore at the door, occasionally giving voice to cry of baf1ed rage At length, however, he gave up the attempt. and AJa ane Porter heard him returning toward the win dow, beneath which he paused for an instant and then launched his Agreat weight against the time worn lattice.
 The girl heard the wooden rods groan beneath the impact, but they held, and the huge body dropped back. to the ground below ss.
 Again and again the tiger repeated these tactics until finally the mortified prisoner within saw a portion of the. lattice give way, and in an instant one great paw and the head Of the animal were thrust within the room.
 Slowly the powerful neck and shoul ders were spreading the bars apart, and the 1.-the body came farther and farther into the room. f As in a trance the girl rose, her hand upon her breast, wide eyes star ing horror stricken into the snarling. face of the beast scarce ten feet from her. At her feet lay the prostrate form of the negress.
 The girl, standing pale and rigid against the farther wall sought t with increasing terror for some Ipophole Of escape. Suddenly her hand, tight pressed against her bosom, felt the hard outlines of the revolver that; Clayton had left with her earl in the day.
 Quickly she snatched from its hiding place and, ievelings 1t full at the tigers face, pulled the trigger. 5 =
 There was a flash of dame, the.roar of the discharge and an answering roar of pain and anger from the beast.
 Jane Porter saw the great or dis appear from the window, and then she, too, tainted.
 But the tiger was not killed The bull let hadj but inflicted a painful wound fin one of the great shoulders. Tn an other instant he was back at the lat tice and with renewed fury was claw ing at the aperture, but with s1essened effect, since the wounded member was. almost useless.
 He saw his prey-two women1ying senseless upon the floor. There was no longer any resistance to be over come Sabor had only to worm his way through the lattice to claim it.
 Slowly he forced his great bulk. inch by inch. through the opening: Now his head was through, now one great fore leg and shoulder.
 Carefully he drew up the wounded; member to insinuate it gently beyond the tight pressing bars. 4 moment more and both shoulders through, the long, sinuous body and the narrow hips would glide quickly after.
 It was on this sight that Jane Por- ter again opened her eyes.
 
 When Clayton heard the report of the frearm he fell into an agony of fear and apprehension. What were { the thoughts of his strange captor or guide Clayton could only vaguely con- lecture, but that he had heard the shot and was in some manner affected by 1t was quite evident. for he quickened his pace so appreciably that Clayton. stumbling b1indly in his wake, went down.
 For a. moment Tarzan looked at the young man closely as though unde- cided as to just what was best to do: then. stopping before Clayton, he mo toned him to grasp him. about the neck, and with the white man upon his hack Tarzan took to the trees.
 The next few Ilinutes were such as the young Eng H ,man never forgot. High into bendif \ nd swaying branch es he was borne En what, seemed to him incredible sN. mess, while Tarzan chafed at the slowneSs. of his progress.
 From the first sensation of chilling fear Clayton passed to one of admira- ton and envy of those giant muscles and that wondrous instinct or knowl- edge which guided this forest god through the sinky blackness of the night. s
 Presently they came to the clearing before the beach. Tarzan's quick ears had heard the strange soundsssof Sa- bor's efforts to force his way through the lattice, and it seemed to Clayton that they dropped a straight hundred feet to earth so quickly did Tarzan descend Yet when they struck the ground it was with scarce. jar, and as Clayton released his hold on the l ape man he saw him dart like squir- rel for the opposite side of the cabin.
 The Englfshman sprang quickly after 1 him just in time to see the hind quar- ters of some huge animal about to dis laappear within the cabin
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