The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-09-17

As he searched the spot his equally
savage companion hastened to the ave
farther up the m~ountainside. and with
his knife unearthed the head Of 90
which he had buried there in the soft
earth Of Il crevice within the lair.
The trophy was now in Il rather sad
state. and Nh 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 aud the skull.
He removed the former. fastening
them to his lOin cloth. and laid the bal
ance Of the head outside the i've
where vultures might strip it clean Of
not wish to BE- burdened with 1t during
his search for Nat-ul.
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 4 trifie
ions. but the man depended almost
solely upon the teIltale evidences which
his eyes could %apprehend. leaving the
scent spoor for the beast. for thus II
had been his custom to hunt with the
savage wolish %progenitors Of Terkoz
a hundred thousand years before.
They moved silently and swiftly
through the jungle. across valleys. W
winding hill trails. wherever the broad
path Of the cara van led. In a day they
covered as much ground US the cara.
van had covered in a week.
By night they slept at the foot OF
some great tree. the a and beast
curled up together, or crawled within
dark ave- when the way led through
the mountain. Or when Zor. the lion.
was abroad the mar would build a.
rude platform high among the branch
es Of a tree that be and the hound
might sleep in peace throughout the
night.
M saw strange sights that filled him
with wonder and sealed his belief that
be had been miraculously 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 to be seen.
He also passed herds of giraffe-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 II beast
Of any description that did not rush
into a death struggle with the first
member of another species which it
came upon. provided. Of course. that 1t
stood the slightest show Of dispatching
its antagonist.
and more tim:d animals whose entire
existence had consisted in snatching
such food as they could as they fed
through the savage days and awful
nights of that fierce g in the perpet.
ual effort to escape or elude the count.
less myriads Of huge carnivOra and
bellic0se ruminants whose trails FORM
ed a mighty network from pole to pole.
To NJ the jungles Of Africa seemed
silent and deserted places. The beasts.
even the more savage Of them. seldom
attacked except In hunger or the pro-
lection of their young. He had passed
within a dozen PAGES Of a great herd
of diminutive, hairless mammoths. and
they had but raised their little pig eyes
and glanced ut him as they tapped
their great ears back and forth against
the annoying dies and brOwsed upon
the branches Of young trees.
The ape people seemed frightened out
Of their wits at his approach. and he
had even seen the tawny bodies Of lions
pass within a stones throw OF him
without charging. .
1t was amazing. Life In such a world
would scarce be worth the living. It
made him lonelier than ever to feel
that he could travel for miles without
encountering a single danger.
Far behind him along the trail Of the
Arabs came a dozen white men aud
half a hundred savage Wazirt warriors.
Not an hour after Barney Custer dis.
covered Nus absence a native runner
had come hurrying In from the north
to beg Lord Greystoke's help In pursu.
ing and Furnishing a band Of Arab slave
and ivory raiders who were laying
waste the. villages. numbering the old