The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1915-06-23
at is a mans kill"

equal to. They did not urge her, and.
as she insisted that Mr.. Curtiss &C.
company the other men, she was left
alone at the bungalow with Lady Grey
stoke. the baby and the servants.
As the party trotted across the roll
ing land that stretched before them to
the foothills they sighted herd of
zebras coming toward them in mad
stampede.
Something is hunting ahead of us"
remarked one of the men.
I'VE may get shot at a lion from
the looks Of it." replied another.
A short distance farther on they
came upon the carcass of zebra stall
lion. Barney and Butzow dismounted
to examine 1t in an effort to deter
mine the nature Of the enemy that had
dispatched 1t.
At the first glance Barney called tn
one of the other members of the party.
an experienced big game hunter.
what do you make Of this. Brown
he asked. pointing to the exposed
haunch.
at is mans KILL" replied the
other. Look at that gaping hole over
the heart. that would tell the story
were it not for the evidence of the
knife that cut away these strips from
the rump. The carcass is still warm.
The kill must have been made within
the past few minutes"
''Then it couldn't have been a man."
spoke up another. ''or We should have
heard the shot. Wait, here's Grey
stoke; let's see what he thinks of it."
The ape man, who had been riding q
couple of hundred yards in the rear of
the others with one of the older men.
now refined in close to the dead zebra.
YWhat have We here?" he asked,
swinging from his saddle.
Brown says this looks like the kill
Of man." said Barney; but none of
us heard any shot"
Tarzan grasped the zebra by a front
and hind pastern and rolled him over
upon his other side.
1T went way through, whatever it
was" said ButZow as the hole behind
this shoulder was exposed to view.
"Must have been a bullet, even If we
didn't hear the report Of the gun"
"I'm not so sure Of that" said Tar
Fan. and then he glanced casually at
the ground about the carcass. and.
bending lower. brought his sensitive
nOstrils close to the mutilated haunch
and then to the trampled grasses at
the zebra's side. When he straight
ened up the others looked at him ques-
dOningly.
"A man." he saba white man
has been here since the zebra died. He
cut these steaks from the launches.
There is not the slightest OdOr Of gun
powder about the wound 1t was not
made by a powder sped projectile. 1t
is too large and too deep for an arrow
wound.
THE only other weapon that could
have inflicted It is a spear; but to cast
spear entirely through the carcass
of zebra ut the distance to which
a man could approach one in the open
presuppOses mightiness Of muscle
and an accuracy Of aim little short of
superhuman."
"And you think"-cOmmenced Brown.
81 think nothing" interrupted Tar
zan. except that my judgment tells
me that my senses are In error. There
is no naked white giant hunting
through the country Of the WaZirL
Come. instead OF speculating on the
impossible. let's ride on to the hills and
see If we can't locate the old villain
who has been stealing my sheep. From
his spoor I'll venture to say that when
we bring him down we shall see the
largest lion that any of us has ever
seem
As the party remounted and rode
away toward the foothills two Won
dering black eyes watched them from
the safety Of the jungle.
M was utterly nonplused. What
sort of men were these who rode upon
beasts the like of which M had never
dreamed?
At first he thought their pith helmets
and khaki clothing part of them, but
when one of them removed his helmet
and another unbuttoned his jacket M
saw that they were merely coverings
for the head and body. though why
men should wish to hamper themselves
with such foolish and cumbersome con-
traptions the troglodyte could not i'm
agine.
As the party rode toward the foot