Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-14
CHAPTER TX.

ter aWOke-
q His first thought was for his
prisoner. and when his eyes fell
upon the empty cot across the room
the American came to the center of
the floor with a single bound.
Clad In his pajamas be ran out into
the living room and gave the alarm
In another moment the search was on,
but no sign of the cave man was to
be found. nor of the guardian Terkoz.
He must have killed the dog" In
sisted Greystoke, but they failed to
find the BEASTS body, for the excellent
reason that at that very moment Ter
koz, bristling with anger, was nosing
about the spot where. nearly a month
before, he had been struck down by
the Arab as he had sought to protect
the girl to whom he had attached him
self
as he searched the spot his equally
savage companion FASTENED TO the cave
farther up the mountainside, and with
his knife unearthed the head of 90
which he had buried there I'm the soft
earth Of a crevice within the lair
The trophy was now in q rather sad
state, and M felt that he must forego
the pleasure of laying it intact at the
feet Of his future mate. but the great
saber teeth were there and the skull.
He removed the former. fastening
them TO his Ioin cloth, and laid the bal
ance of the head outside the cave,
where vultures might strip it clean of
flesh against Nus return, for he did
not wish to be burdened with it during
his search for NatuL
A deep bay from Terkoz presently
announced the finding Of the trail. and
at the signal M leaped down the
mountain side, where the impatient
beast awaited him.
a moment later the two savage trail
ers were speeding away upon the spoor
of the Arab slave and ivory raiders
Though the trail was old. It still was
sufficiently plain for these two.
The hounds scent was but q tride
more acute than his human compan-
ions, but the man depended almost
solely upon the telltale evidences which
his eyes could apprehend, leaving the
scent spoor for the beast. for thus it
had been his custom to hunt with the
savage wolfish progenitors OF Terkoz
q hundred thousand years before.
They moved silently and swiftly
through the Jungle, across valleys, over
winding hill trails. wherever the broad
path of the caravan led. In a day they
covered as much ground as the cara
van had covered in Il week.
By night they slept at the foot OF
some great tree, the man and beast
curled up together, or crawled within
dark caves when the way led through
the mountain, or when Tor, the lion,
was abroad the man would build a
rude platform high among the branch
es of d tree that he and the hound
might sleep in peace throughout the
night.
NJ saw strange sights that filed him
with wonder and sealed his belief that
he had been miraculoasly transferred
to another world.
There were villages Of black men,
some of which gave evidence Of recent
conflict. Burned huts and mutilated
corpses were all that remained in
many, and in others only a few old
men and women were 10 be seen.
He also passed herds OF girafre-a
beast that had been unknown in his
own world-and many an elephant,
which reminded him of Club, the
mammoth. But all these beasts were
smaller than those he had known in
his other life nor nearly SO ferocious
Why, he could scarce recall a beast
of any description that did not rush
into g death struggle with the first
member of another species which it
came upon, provided, of course, that it |
stood the slightest show OF dispatehing !
its antagonist
OF course there had been the smaller /
ana more timld animals whose enure 1
existence had consisted In snatching /
such food as they could as they FED |
through the savage days and awful |
nights OF that fierce age in the perpet- /
ual effort to escape or eiude the count 1
less myriads Of huge cerniyera and |
heIiicose ruminaBts whose trails FORM /
ed a mighty network from pole TO pole. /
To Ma the jungles OF Africa seemed |
silent and deserted places. The beasts. /
even the more savage OF them. seldom
except In hunger or the pro-
lection Of their young. He had passed /
within q dozen PAGES of great herd /
Of diminutiye, hairless mammoths, aud |