Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-11-09
CHAPTER VII.
Mans Reason.

Mans Reason.
There was one of the tribe of Tar
zan who questioned his authority, and
that was Terkoz, the son OF Tuolat'
but he so feared the keen knife and
the deadly arrows Of his new lord
that he confined the manifestation
of his objections to petty disobe-
diences and irritating mannerisms'
Tarzan knew, however, that he but
waited his opportunity to wrest the
kingship from him by some sudden
stroke of treachery and so he was
always on guard against surprise.
For months the life of the little
band went on much at it had before,
except that TarZan's greater intel
ligence and his ability as a hunter
were the means Of providing for them
bountifully than ever before. Most of
them, therefore were more than con-
tent with the change in rules.
During this period Tarzan paid
many nocturnal visits to the village,
where he often renewed his supply
of arrows.
The blacks had not as yet come
upon Tarzan's cabin on the distant
beach, but the ape man lived in con-
slant dread that, while he was away
with the tribe, they would discover
and despoil his treasure. So it came
that he spent more and more time
in the vicinity of his fathers last
home and less and less with the tribe.
Presently the members Of his little
community began to suffer on account
of his neglect, for disputes and quar-
rels constantly arose which only the
king might settle peaceably.
At last some Of the older apes spoke
to Tarzan on the subject, and for
month thereafter he remained con-
stantly with the tribe.
Tarzan tired Of it when he found
that kingship meant the curtailment OF
his liberty. He longed for the little
cabin and the sun kissed sea, for the
cool interior Of the we'll built house
and for the never ending wonders OF
the many books.
AS he had grown older he found
that he had grown away from his peo-
pie. Their interests and his were far
removed. They had not kept pace with
him, nor could they understand aught
of the many strange and wonderful
dreams that passed through the active
hro;o of human hing
Had Kala lived Tarzan would have
sacrificed all else to remain near her,
but now she was dead, and, the playful
friends of his childhood grown into
surly brutes, he felt that he much pre-
ferred the peace and solitude of his
cabin to the irksome duties Of leaded-
ship among horde of wild beasts.
The hatred and jealousy Of Terkoz,
son of Tablat, did much to counteract
the effect Of Tarzan's desire to re-
nounce his kingship among the apes,
for, stubborn young Englishman that
he was, he could not bring himself to
retreat in the face of so malignant an
enemy.
That Terkoz would be chosen lead
er in his stead he knew full we'll, for
time and again the ferociouS brute had
established his claim to physical su-
premacy over the few bull apes who
had dared resent his savage bullying.
Tarzan would have liked to subdue
the beast without recourse to knife
or arrows. So much had his great
strength and agility increased in the
period following his maturity that he
had come to believe that he might
master the redoubtable Terkoz in a
hand to hand fight were it not for
the terrible advantage the anthropoid's S
huge fighting fangs gave him over the
poorly armed Tarzan.
One day the tribe was feeding quiet
ly, spread over a considerable area,
when a great screaming rose some
distance east of where Tarzan lay upon
his belly beside a limpid brook, at
tempting to catch an elusive fish in
his quiet brown hands.
With one accord the tribe swung
and there found Terkoz holding an
old female by the hair and beating
her numerically with his great hands.
AS Tarzan approached he raised his
female was not his, but belonged to a
poor old ape whose fighting days were
long over and who therefore could not
protect his family.
Terkoz knew that it was against the
laws of his tribe to strike the woman
of another; but, being a bully, he had
taken advantage of the weakness OF
the females husband to chastise her
because she had refused to give up to
him a tender young rodent she had
captured.
When Terkoz saw TarZan approach
ing without his arrows he continued tC
belabor the poor woman in studied
effort to affront his hated chieftain.
Tarzan did not repeat his warning
signal, but instead rushed boldly upor
the waiting Terkoz.
Never had the ape man fought Sc
terrible a battle since that long gone
day when the great king gorilla hat
so horribly manhandled him ere the
new found knife had, by accident
pricked the savage heart.
Tarzans knife on the present occa'
sion but barely offset the cleaning
fangs of Terkoz, and what little ad'
vantage the ape had over the man ir
brute strength was almost balanced by