Bisbee daily review., 1914-05-23

of the spring ond lne sinking or terri ble faugs Into spllnteriug bones.
 But as Numa gathered himself slender rope flew through the air from the low branches Of a nearby tree. A moose settled about H0rta's neck. There was a frightened grunt 5queal, and then Numa saw his quarry drag Il ged backward up the trail, and as he spranc Horta. the boar, scared upward | beyond his clutches into the tree ! above. and a mocking face looked . down and laughed into his own.
 Then indeed did Numa roar Angry ! threatening. hungry, he paced bacS and forth beneath the taunting ape . man. Now he stopped and, rising on bis hind legs against the stem of the tree that held his enemy, sharpened his huge claws upon the bark, tearing out great pieces that lay bare the white wood beneath.
 And in the meantime IarZan had dragged the struggling Horta to the 1 limb beside bim Sinewy fingers com pleted the work the choking moose had commenced. The ape-man had no knife. but nature had equipped him with the means of tearing his food l from the Quiyering flank of his prey. land cleaning teeth sank Into the sue culent nesh while the raging Hon look ed on from below as another enjoyed the dinner that he had thought al- ready his.
 It was quite dark by tne time Tar gan had gorged himself An, but 1t had been delicious! Never had be quite accustomed himself to the ruined flesh that civilized men had served him. and in the bottom of his savage heart there had constantly been the craving for the warm meat of the fresh killed and the rich, red blood
 He wiped his bloody hands upon bunch of leaves, slung the remains of his kill across his shoulder and swung or through the middle terrace of the forest toward his cabin. and at the same instant Jane Porter and William ! Cecil Clayton arose from a sumptuous dinner upon tbe Lady Alice, thousands of miles to the east in the Indian ocean.
 Beueath Tarzan walked Numa, the lion. and when the ape-man deigned to l glance downward he caught occasional ] glimpses of the baIeful green eyes fol- lowing through the darkness. Numa did not roar now. Instead be moved stealthily. like the shadow of a great eat. but yet he took no step that did not reach the sensitive ears of the ape man.
 Tarzan wondered if be would stalk him to his cabin door He hoped not for that would mean a nights sleep | curled in the crotch of a tree, and he much preferred the bed of grasses within his own abode But he knew just the tree and the most comfortable crotch if necessity demanded that he sleep out. A hundred times in the past some great jungle cat had followed him home and compelled him to seek shel- ter in this same tree until another mood or the rising sun had sent his enemy away.
 But presently Numa gave up the chase and, with a series of bloodcur- ding moans and roars, turned angrily back in search of another and easier dinner
 A few moments later Tarzan was curled up in the mildewed remnants of what had once been a bed of grasses. Thus easily did M Jean O. Tarzan slough the thin skin of his artificial civilization and sink happy and con tented into the deep sleep of the wild beast that has fed to repletion. Yet a woman's "yes" would have bound him to that other life forever and made the thought of this savage existence repul- sive.
 Tarzan slept late into the following forenoon, for be had been very tired from the labors and exertion of the long night and day upon the ocean and the jungle iaunt that had brought into play muscles that he had scarce used for nearly two years. When he awoke he ran to the brook first to drink. Then he took plunge into the sea, swimming about for @ quarter Of an hour. Afterward he returned to his cabin and breakfasted off the flesh of Horta. This done be buried the bal ance of the carcass in the soft earth outside the cabin for his evening meal.
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