Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-11-05
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there were Of all the jungle who sought
for trouble with the great anthropoids.
And in London another Lord Grey
stoke was speaking to his kind in the
house of lords, but none trembled at
the sound Of his soft voice.
Sabor proved most unsavory eating
even to Tarzan Of the apes, but hunger
served as a sauce, and ere long the
we'll fed ape man was ready to sleep
again. First, however, he must re-
move the hide, for it was as much for
this as for any other purpose that he
had desired to encompass the destruc-
ton Of Sabor, the tiger.
Deity he removed the great pelt, for
he had practiced often on smaller ami
mails, and when the task was finished
he carried his trophy to the fork OF
high tree. There. curling himself Sc
curely in a crotch, he fell into deep
slumber.
What with loss Of sleep, arduous ex-
ercise and a hearty meal Tarzan OF
the apes slept the sun round, awaken
ing about noon Of the following day.
He straightway repaired to the carcass
of Sabor, but was angered to find the
bones picked clean by other hungry
denizens of the jungle.
He hastened on toward the point
where he had left the tribe, and, when
he had found them, proudly exhibited
the skin of Sabor, the tiger.
Look" he cried, "apes Of Kerchak!
See what Tarzan, the killer, has done.
Who else among you has ever killed
one of Sabor's people? Tarzan Is
mightiest among you, for Tarzan Is no
ape. Tarzan is But here he stop
ped, for in the language of the anthro-
poids there was no word for man, and
Tarzan could only write the word in
English. He could not pronounce 1t.
The tribe had gathered about to look
upon the proof Of his wondrous Prov
ess, and to listen to his words.
Only Kerchak hung back, nursing
his hatred and his rage.
Suddenly something snapped in the
brain of the anthropoid. With fright
full roar the great beast sprang among
the assemblage. Frothing and shrek
ing in the insanity Of his fury, Ker-
chak looked about for the object Of
his greatest hatred, and there, upon a
nearby limb, he saw him sitting.
Come down, Tarzan, great killer"
cried Kerchak, ready for battle.
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greater! Do mighty fighters fly to the
trees at danger?"
And he emitted the volleying chal-
lenge of his kind.
Quietly Tarzan dropped to the
ground. Breathlessly the tribe watch
ed Kerchak, still roaring, charge the
relatively puny figure.
Nearly seven feet stood Kerchak on
his short legs His enormous shoul-
ders were punched and rounded with
huge muscles. The back Of his short
neck was as single lump OF iron
sinew which bulged beyond the base of
his skull, so that his head seemed like
a small ball protruding from a huge
mountain Of flesh.
His back drawn, snarling lips expos
ed his great fighting fangs, and his
bloodshot eyes cleaned in horried re-
Election of his madness.
Awaiting him stood Tarzan, himself
a mighty muscled animal, but his six
feet of height and his great rolling
sinews seemed pitifully inadequate to
the ordeal which awaited them in their
struggle with Kerchak.
His bow and arrows lay some dis
lance away, where he had dropped
them when showing Sabor's hide to
his fellow apes, and he confronted
Kerchak with only his knife and his
superior intellect to offset the fero-
cious strength Of his enemy.
AS his antagonist came roaring to-
ward him Lord Greystoke tore his long
knife from the sheath, and with an
answering challenge as horrid and
blood-curdling as that Of the beast he
faced, rushed swiftly to meet the at
tack. He was too shrewd to allow
those long, hairy arms to encircle him,
and just as their bodies were about to
crash together Tarzan Of the apes
grasped one Of the huge wrists or MS
assailant and, springing lightly to one
side, drove his knife to the hilt into
Kerchak's body below the heart.
Before he could wrench the blade
free again Kerchaks quick lunge to
grasp him in those awful arms had
torn the hilt from Tarzan's hand.
Kerchak aimed a terrific blow at the
ape mans head with the fiat of his
hand, a blow which had it landed
might easily have crushed the side OF
TarZan's skull.
The man was too quick and, duckins
the blow, himself delivered a mighty
one with clinched fist in the pit of
Kerchak's stomach.
The ape was staggered by the blow
and what with the mortal wound In
his side, had almost collapsed, when
with one mighty effort he rallied for
an instant, just long enough to enable
him to wrest his arm free from Tar
zan's grasp and close in terrific clinch
with his wiry opponent.
| Straining the ape man close to him.
his great jaws sought Tarzan's throat
but the young lords sinewy fingers
were at Kerchak's own before the
cruel fangs could close on the sleek
brown skin.
| The greater strength Of the ape was
slowly prevailing and the teeth of the
straining beast were scarce an inch
from Tarzan's throat when, with
shuddering tremor, the great body
stiffened for an instant and then sank
Imply to the ground.
Kerchak was dead and Tarzan Of
the apes the victor
| Withdrawing the knife that had SO
often rendered him master of far
mightier muscles than his own, Tar
zan of the apes placed his foot upon