Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-02

as they had stood for over 23 years-jui
as he had left them nearly two year
before.
His eyes satisfied, Tarzans stomac
bgan to call aloud for attention r tn
| pangs OF hunger suggested n search 70
food. There was nothing IN the cabir
/ nor had he any weapons. but upon
wall hung one Of his old grass ropes.
had been many times broken and spliced
| so that he had discarded Il for n bette
| one long before. Tarzan wished that h
| had knife. Well, unless he was mis-
taken. he should have that and a spea
and bows and arrows before another sui
had set-the rope would take care o
that and in the meantime It must b.
made to procure food for him. He coilet
1t carefully. and, throwing It about his
shoulder, went out, closing the door be
hing him.
Close to the cabin the jungle com
menced, and into 1t Tarzan Of the Apei
plunged, wary and noiseless-once more
savage beast hunting it's food. For q
time he kept to the ground, but, finally
discovering no spoor indicative OF near
by meat, he took to the tres. With the
first dizzy swing from tree to tree all the
old Joy of living swept over him. Vain
regrets and dull heartache were forgot
ten. Now was he living. Now, indeed,
was the true happiness of perfect free
sitting, wicked cities Of civilized man
when the mighty reaches Of the great
Jungle offered peace and llberty7 Not he.
While It was yet light Tarzan came to
drinking place by the side of a Jungle
river. There was q ford there, and for
countless ages the beasts OF the forest
had come down to drink at this spot.
Here Of a night might always be found
either Sabor or Numa, crouchlng in the
pf tln "a 1ul
awaiting an antelope or water buck
for their meal. Here came Horta, the
boar, to water, and here came Tarzan Of
the Apes to make kill, for he was very
empty.
On low branch he squatted above the
trail. For an hour he waited. 1t was
growing dark A little to one side of
the ford in the densest thicket he heard
the faint sound of padded feet, and the
brushing Of a huge body against tall
grasses and tangled creepers. None other
than Tarzan might have heard it, but
the ape-man heard and translated-it
was Numa, the lion. on the same errand
as himself. Tarzan smiled.
Presently he heard an animal approach
ing warily along the trail toward the
drinking place. A moment more and 1t
came In view-it was Horta, the boar
Here was delicious meat-and Tarzan'g
Numa lay were very still now-ominous-
" still. Horta passed beneath Tarzan-
4 few more steps and he would be within
he radius of Numa's spring. Tarzan
,ould imagine how old Numa's eyes were
he was already sucking in
ais breath for the awful roar which would
'reeze his prey for the brief instant be-
ween the moment of the spring and the
sinking of terrible fangs into splintering
ZONES.
But MS Numa gathered himself, a
slender rope flew through the air from
he low branches of a nearby tree. A
loose settled about Horta's neck. There
vas a frightened grunt, a squeal, and
hen Numa saw his quarry dragged back
ward up the trail, and, as he sprang,
Iorta, the boar, scared upward beyond |
his clutches into the tree above, and a
hooking face looked down and laughed |
nto his own.
Then indeed did Numa roar. Angry. |
hungry, he paced back and |
orth beneath the taunting ape-man. |
Sow he stopped, and, rising on his hind |
egs against the stem of the tree that
Ield his enemy. sharpened his huge claws |
Ipon the bark, tearing out great pieces
hat laid bare the white wood beneath.
And in the meantime Tarzan had drag
ed the struggling Horta to the limb be-
ide him, Sinewy fingers completed the
york the choking moose had commenced
he ape-man had no knife. but nature
ad equipped him with the means of
caring his food from the qulvering flank
( his prey and cleaning teeth sank into
he succulent flesh while the raging lion
ooked on from below as another enjoyed
he dinner that he had thought already
is.
It was dark by the time Tarzan had
orged himself. All. but 1t had been de-
81, hsa1 he 90 y-fT sa1I /
imself to the ruined flesh that civilized
len had served him, and in the bottom
his savage heart there had constantly
cen the craving for the warm meat of
le fresh kill and the rich, red blood
He wiped his bloody hands upon a
unch OF leaves, slung the remains of
Is kill across his shoulder. and swung
I through the middle terrace of the
rest toward his cabin and at the same
stant Jane Porter sand william Cecil
layton arose from a sumptuous dinner
pom the Lady Alice, thousands of miles
the east, In the Indian Ocean.
Beneath Tarzan walked Numa, the
on, and when the ape-man delgned to
ance downward he caught occasional
impses of the baieful green eyes follow
e through the darkness Numa did not
ar now-instead, he moved stealthily,
te the shadow of a great cat; but yet
} took no step that did not reach the |
nsltive ears of the ape-man
Tarzan wondered II he would stalk
m to his cabin door, He hoped not,
r that would mean a nights sleep
Irled in the crotch of a tree, and he
uch preferred the bed of grasses within
S own abode. But he knew just the
ee and the most comfortable crotch,
necessity demanded that he sleep out.
hundred times in the past some great
ngle cat had followed him home and
mpelled him to seek shelter in this .
me tree, until another mood or the
sing sun had sent his enemy away. !
But presently Numa gave up the chase /
ID, with series of blood-curdling moans l
ID roars. turned angrily back IN search I
another and an easier dinner. So Tar !
n came 10 his cabin unattended. and a \
" moments later was curled up In the !
ldewed remnants of what had once I
en- bed of grasses. Thus easily did I
onsieur Jean c. Tarzan slough the thin !