Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-12-03
CHAPTER XIV.
The Call of the Primitive.


Esmeralda, sitting up with wonderful
celebrity for one of her bulk. 20
Lawd, now All members! 1t done
must have looked her away The ne
gress commenced to sob and wall her
lamentations.
What took her away?" cried Pro-
fessor Porter.
"a great big giant all covered with
hair"
"a gorilla, Esmeralda 2" questioned
Mr.. Philander, and the three men
scarcely breathed as he voiced the
horrible thought.
Clayton Immediately began to look
about for tracks, but he could hnd
nothing save a confusion Of trampled
grasses in the close vicinity, and his
woodcraft was too meager for the
translation of what he did see.
All the balance Of the day they
sought through the jungle, but as
night drew on they were forced to
give up in despair and hopelessness,
for they did not even know in what
direction the thing had borne Jane
Porter.
1t was long after dark ere they
reached the cabin, and grief stricken
party it was that sat silently within
the little structure.
Professor Porter finally broke the
silence. His tones were no longer those
of the erudite pedant theorizing upon
the abstract and the unknowable, but
those of a man of action, determin-
ed, but tinged by a note Of indescrib-
able hopelessness and grief which
wrung an answering pang from Clay
tons heart.
u shall lie down now," said the old
man, land try to sleep. Early tomor-
row, so soon as it is light, 1 shall take
what food I can carry and continue
the search until / have found Jane. l
will not return without her"
Clayton rose and laid his hand gent
ly upon Professor Porter's bent: old
shoulder.
1T shall go with you, of course" he
said. do not tell me that 1 need even
have said So"
II know that you would offer that
you would wish to go. Mr.. Clayton,
but you must not. Jane Is beyond hu-
man assistance now. simply go that
1 may face my Maker with her and
know, too, that what was once my
dear girl does not lie all alone and
friendless in the jungle"
Il shall go with you,' said Clayton
simply.
The old man looked up. regarding
the strong, handsome face Of William
Cecil Clayton intently. Perhaps he
read there the love that lay in the
heart beneath-the love for his daugh-
ter.
las you wish," he said.
You may count on me also," said
Mr.. Philander.
mo my dear old friend" said Pro-
fesor Porter. 1--WE may not all go.
1t would be cruelty wicked to leave
poor Esmeralda here alone. Come
let us try to sleep little"
From the time Tarzan left the tribe
of great anthropoids in which he had
been raised it was torn by continual
strife and discord. Terkoz proved a
cruel and capricious king, so that, one
by one, many OF the older and weaker
apes, upon whom he was particularly
t,;e fnnly
their families and sought the quiet and
safety of the far interior.
But at last those who remained
were driven to destruction by the
continued trucluence of Terkoz, and
1t so happened that one Of them re-
called the parting admonition Of Tar
zan:
IF you have a chief who is cruel,
do not as the other apes do and at
tempt any one Of you, to pit yourself
against him alone. But, instead, let
two or three or four of you attack
him together. Then no chief will dare
to be other than he should be, for
four of you can kill any chief"
Anu tile dpc WIN lSNoASu lhiS "iSS
counsel repeated it to several of his
fellows, so that when Terkoz return
ed to the tribe that day he found a
warm reception awaiting him.
There were no formalities. AS Ter
koz reached the group, five huge, hairy
apes sprang upon him.
At heart he was an arrant coward
which is the way with bullies among
apes as we'll as among men, so he die
not remain to fight and die, but tore
himself away from them as quickly as
he could and fled into the shelterine
bo,aghs Of the forest.
Two more attempts he made to re-
join the tribe, but on each occasion he
was set upon and driven away. Al
last he gave up and turned, foamine
with rage and hatred. into the jungle
It was in this state of mind that
the horrible manlike beast, swinging
from tree to tree, came suddenly upon
two women in the jungle.
He was right above them when he
discovered them. The first intimatior
Jane Porter had of his presence was
when the great hairy body dropped
to the earth beside here and she saw
the awful face and the snarling, hid
eous mouth thrust within foot OF
her.
One piercing scream escaped hel
lips as the brute's hand clutched hel
arm. Then she was dragged toward
those awful fangs which yawned al
her throat. But ere they touched that
fair skin another mood claimed the
anthropoid.
The tribe had kept his women. He
must find others to replace them
This hairless white ape would be the
first of his new household.
He threw her roughly across hi:
broad shoulders and leaped back into
the trees, bearing Jane Porter away
toward a fate a thousand times worse