Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1915-09-26
CHAPTER /.


AYU, the son OF M. his mighty
N muscles rolling beneath his
4 smooth, bronzed skin. moved
silently through the jungle
primevaL
His handsome head, with its shock
Of black hair roughly cropped between
sharpened stones, was high held, the
delicate nosuils questioning each va
grant breeze for word of 90, hunter
of men.
Now his trained senses catch the
familiar odor Of Ia, the great woolly
rhinoceros, directly in his path. but
M, the son Of M, does not hunt ia
this day. Does not the hide Of Ta's
brother already hang before the en-
trance TO Nus cave2
No; today M hunts the gigantic
cat, the fierce saber toothed tiger, 90.
for Nat-ul, wondrous daughter Of Old
mightiest OF hunters.
Only so recently as the last dark
ness. as. beneath the great. equatorial
moon. the two had walked hand in
hand beside the restless sea. she had
made it quite plain to Nh. the son Of
M. that not even he. son Of the chief
Of chiefs, could claim her unless there
hung at the thong Of his loin cloth the
faugs OF 90.
"Nat-ul" she had said TO him, wish
es her man to be greater than other
men. She loves M now better than
her life, but il love is 20 walk at her
side during life, pride and respect
must walk with it,"
Her slender hand reached up to
stroke the young giants black hair.
81 am proud of Nu.' she continued
Among the young men Of the tribe
there is no greater hunter or no
mightier tighter than Nj the son OF
NJ Should you, single handed, slay
90 before a grown mans beard has
darkened your cheek none will be
greater in all the world than Nat-uIs
mate M. the son Of M"
The young man was still sensible TO
the sound OF her soft voice and the
/ caress OF her gentle touch upon his
brow. Even as these things had sent
him speeding forth into the jungle In
search OF 90 while the day was still
so young that the night proving
I beasts were yet abroad. so they urged
him forward deeper and deeper into
the dark and trackless mazes Of the
/ tangled forest.
1 AS be forged on the scent Of Ia be
came stronger. until at last the huge.
ungainly beast doomed large before
| Nus eyes.
/ He was standing in a little clearing.
in deep rank jungle grasses, aud had
he not been head on toward M he
would not have seen him. since even
/ his hearing was far too dull 10 appre
/ bend the noiseless tread Of the cave
man moving lightly up wind.
AS the tiny. bloodshot eyes OF the
primOrdial beast discovered the man,
/ the great head went down and Ia, IT.
uatured and bellicose progenitor Of the
equally ill natured and beliicose rhln-
/ Oceros Of the twentieth century, charg-
ed the little giant who had disturbed
bis antediluvian meditation.
The creatures great bulk and awk-
ward. uncouth lines belied his speed.
for he tore cyclonicaily down upon M
and had not the brain and muscle Of
the troglodyte been fitted by heritage
aud training TO the successful meet
ing Of such emergencies there would
be no tale to tell today Of Nh, the son
Of M.
But the young man was prepared,
and. turning. he ran with the swiftness
Of a hare toward the nearest tree, a
huge, arboreal fern. towering upon the
verge Of the little clearing.
Like a cat. the man ran up the per
pendicular bole. his hands and feet
seeming barely TO touch the project.
ing knobs marking the remains Of for
mer fronds which converted the tower
ing stem into an easy stairway for
such as be.
About NUS neck his stone tipped
spear hung by its rawhide thong
down his back. while stone Ratchet and
stone knife dangled from his gee string
giving him free use Of his hands foI
climbing. You or /, having once gain
ed the seeming safety Of sthe lowest
fronds Of the great tree, fifty feel
above the ground. might have heaved 3