Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-26


sabor proved unsavory eating even to
Tarzan OF the Apes, but hunger served as
a most efiicacious disguise to toughness
and rank taste, and ere long, with well
filled stomach, the apeman was ready TO
sleep again. First, however he must re-
move the hide, for II was as much for
this as for any other purpose that he had
desired 10 encompass the destruction Of
Sabor. '
Deity he removed the great pelt. for
he had practiced often on smaller ami
mails. When the task was finished he
carried his trophy to the fork Of high
tree, and there. curling himself securely
In a crotch, he fell into deep and dream
less slumber
What with loss OF sleep, arduous exer-
clse and full belly, Tarzan Of the Apes
slept the sun around awakening about
noon of the following day. He straight
way repaired to the carcass Of Sabor. bu.
was angered to find the homes picked
clean by other hungry denlzens of the
jungle.
Half an hours lelsurely progress
through the forest brought to sight n
young deer, and before ever the little
creature knew that an enemy was near a
tiny arrow had lodged in It's neck.
SO quickly the virus worked that at the
end Of a dozen leaps the deer plunged
headlong into the underground. dead.
Again did Tarzen feast well. but this time
he did not sleep.
Instead, he hastened on toward the
point where he had left the tribe, and
when he had found them proudly ex-
hibted the skin of sabor, the lioness.
Look he cried, Apes OF Kerchak.
See what Tarzan, the mighty killer, has
done. Who else among you has ever
of a IN
is mlghtiest amongst you for Tarzan is
no ape. Tarzan is" But here he stop
ped, for in the language of the anthro-
poids there was no word for man, and
Tarzan could only write the word In
English; he could not pronounce it.
The tribe had gathered about to look
upon the proof Of his wondrous prowess.
and to listen to his words
Only Kerchak hung back, nursing his
hatred and his rage.
Suddenly something snapped In the
wicked little brain of the anthropoid.
With a frightful roar the great beast
sprang among the assemblage.
Biting, and striking with his huge
hands, he killed and MANNED dozen ere
the rest could escape to the upper
terraces of the forest
Frothing and shrieking in the insanity
of his fury Kerchak looked about for the
object of his greatest hatred; and there,
upon a nearby limb, he saw him sitting.
"Come down, Tarzan great killer cried
Kerchak Come down and feel the fangs
of a greater! Do mighty fighters fly 20
! the trees at the first approach of danger?"
And then Kerchak emitted the voleying
challenge of his kind
Quietly Tarzan dropped to the ground.
Breathlessly the tribe watched from their
lofty perches as Kerchak, still roaring,
charged the relatively puny figure.
Nearly seven feet stood Kerchak on his
short legs. His enormous shoulders were
| punched and rounded with huge muscles.
The back of his short neck was as Il
single lump Of iron sinew which bulged
beyond the base of his skull, so that his
| head seemed like small ball protruding
from a huge mountain of flesh.
His backdrawn, snarling lips exposed
his great fighting fangs. and his little,
wicked, bloodshot eyes cleaned in horrd
reflection of his madness.
Awaiting him stood Tarzani himself a
mighty museled animal, but his six feet
of height and his great rolling sinews
seemed pitifully inadequate to the ordeal
which awaited them.
His bow and arrows lay some distance
away where he had dropped them while
showing Sabors hide to his fellow apes
so that he confronted Kerchak now with
only his hunting knife and his superior
intellect to offset the ferocious strength
of his enemy.
AS his antagonist came roaring toward
him, Lord Greystoke tore his long knife
from its sheath and with an answering
| challenge as horrld and blood-curdling
as that of the beast he faced rushed
swiftly to meet the attack. He was too
shrewd to allow those long hairy arms to
encircle him, and just as their bodies
were about to crash together, Tarzan of
the Apes grasped one or the huge wrists