The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-04
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11Qge belt and such ornaments as ne craved, wedging it into a convenient crotch while his nimble fingers ran over 1t in search of the loot he could not plainly see in the dark. When he had finished he took the gun that had belonged Do the man and walked far out upon limb, from the end of which he could obtain a better view of the huts Drawing careful bead on the beehive structure in which he knew the Arabs to be, he pulled the trigger. Almost instan ntly there was an answer ing groan-Tarzan smiled; he had made another lucky hit
 Following the shot there was a mo- mentss silence In the camp, and then Manyuetna and Arab came pouring from the huts like a swarm of angry hornets; but, if the truth were known. they were even more frightened than they were angry
 When they discovered that their sen try had disappeared their fears were in no way allayed, and as though to bolster their courage by warlike ac- ti6ns they began to fire rapidly at the barred gates of the village. although no enemy was fn sight Tarzsn took advantage of the deafenfng roar of this fusiflade to fire into the mob be- heath him
 No one heard his shot above the din of ratffing musketry in the street, but some, who were standing close, saw one of their number crumple suddenly to the earth When they leaned over him he was dead They were panic stricken, and 1t took all the brutal au- thority of the Arabs to keep the Man yuema from rushing helter skelter into An- A. A~ this terrible village.
 After a time they commenced to quiet down, and as no further mys- terious deaths occurred among them they took heart again. But it was short lived respite, for just as they had concluded that they would not be dis turbed again Tarzan gave voice to a weird moan, and as the raiders looked up in the direction from which the sound seemed to come, the ape-man, who stood swinging the dead body of the sentry gently to and fro, suddenly shot tls% corpse far out above their heads
 with howls of alarm the throng broke in all directions to escape this new and terrible creature who seemed to be springing upon them. To their fear distorted imaginations the hody of the sentry, falling with wide sprawled arms and legs, assumed the likeness of great beast of prey In their anx- fety to escape many of the blacks sealed the palisade, while others tore down the bars from the gates and rushed madly across the clearing to- ward the jungle.
 For a time no one turned back to- ward the thing that had frightened them. but Tarzan knew that they would in a moment, and when they discovered that it was but the dead body of their sentry, while they would doubtless be still further terrified, he had rather definite idea as to what they would do. So he faded silently away toward the south, taking the camp of the Waziri.
 Presently one of the Arabs turned and saw that the thing that had 1eaped from the tree upon them lay still and quiet where it had fallen in the center of the village street Cautiously he crept back toward it until he saw that it was but man. A moment later he was beside the figure and in another had recognized it as the corpse of the Manyuema who had stood on guard at the village gate
 His companions rapidly gathered around at his call, and after mo- ment's excited conversation they did precisely what Tarzan had reasoned they would Raising their guns to their shoulders. they poured volley after voIIey into the tree from which the corpse had been thrown Had Tarzan remained there he would have been riddled by a hundred bullets.
 When the Arabs and Manyuema dis covered that the only marks of vio- 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 pa1isaded village at night came as a distinct shock to them. That an enc my could enter the midst of their camp and kill their sentry with bare hands seemed outside the bonds of reason, and so 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 at least fifty of their number flying through the black jungle, and without the slightest Knowledge of Hhen their uncannys foemen might re- sume the. cold biooded slaughter they had commenced, it was a desperate band of cutthroats that waited sleep 1essly for the dawn Only on the prom lse of the Arabs that they would leave D the village at daybreak, and hasten on- ward toward their own land, would the remaining Manyuema consent to stay at the village a moment 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 Manauema were laden with sto- len fvorva As Tarzan saw it he grin