Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1914-1915, 1915-01-07
ysi0Ist, 1918, by the Frank 4.
Munssy Mpany.

awful face and the snarling, hideous
mouth thrust within a foot Of her.
One piercing scream escaped her lips
as the brute's hand clutched her arm.
Then she was dragged toward those
awful fangs which yawned at her
throat. But ere they touched that fair
skin another mood claimed the anthro-
poid.
The tribe had kept his women. He
must find others to replace them. This
hairless white ape would be the first of
his new household.
He threw her roughly across his
broad shoulders and leaped back into
the trees, bearing Jane Porter away
toward a fate a thousand times worse
than death.
Esmeralda's scream had mingled
with that of Jane Porter; then, as was
Esmeralda's manner under stress of
emergency which required presence of
mind, she swooned.
The scream that brought Clayton and
the two older men stumbling through
the underground led Tarzan of the
apes straight to where Esmeralda lay,
but it was not Esmeralda in whom his
interest centered.
For a moment he scrutinized the
ground below and the trees above until
the ape that was in him by virtue Of
training and environment, combined
with the intelligence that was his by
right Of birth, told his woodcraft the
whole story as plainly Is though he
had seen the thing happen with his
own eyes. -..
Instantly he was gone again into the
swaying trees, following the high flung
spoor which no other human eye could
have detected, much less translated.
Almost silently the ape a sped on
r in the track of Terkoz and his prey
but the sound of his approach reached
e the ears of the fleeing beast and spur
red it on to greater speed.
o Three miles were covered before
Tarzan overlook them. and then Ter
koz, seeing that further fight was
futile, dropped to the ground in {
small open glade that he might turf
and fight for his prize or be free t.
escape unhampered if he saw that tn
q pursuer was more than q match To-
d him.
He still grasped Jane Porter In on
IS great arm as Tarzan bounded like
leopard into the arena which natur
had provided for this primeval-lfk
battle.
10 When Terkoz saw that it was Tai
ut a who pursued him he jumped to tn
conclusion that this was Tarzan's W.
LII man since they were of the same kin
white and hairless-and so he r.
joiced at this opportunity for doubl
" revenge upon his hated enemy.
70 To Jane Porter the apparition of thi
godlike man was as wine to sick nerves
From the description which Clayto
and her father and Mr.. Philander ha
as given her she knew that it must be th
to same wonderful creature who ha
he saved them, and she saw in him onl
= a protector and a friend.
But as Terkoz pushed her rough
y aside to meet Tarzan's charge and 81
saw the great proportions of the az
and the mighty muscles and the fer'
fangs her heart quailed. How cou
b any animal %vanquish such a might
n antagonist?
Like two charging bulls they can
together and like two wolves sougl
each others throat. Against the lor
8 CANNES Of the ape was pitted the tn:
blade of the mans knife.
Jane Porter-her 1.-THE form fattene
y against the trunk of a great tree, b.
hands tight pressed against her rjsir
and falling bosom and her eyes vii
with mingled horror. fascination, fe
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the prime
dial ape battle with the primeyal m,
for possession of a woman-for her.
AS the great muscles Of the mar
back and shoulders knottcd benea
the tension of his efforts and the hui
biceps and forearm held at bay tho
mighty tusks the veil Of centuries
civilization and culture was swept fro
the blurred vision of the Baltimo
girl. When the thin knife drank de
a dozen times of Terkoz's hearts bio
and the great carcass rolled lifele
upon the ground it was a prime1
woman who sprang forward with o,
stretched arms toward the primey
man who had fought for her and W
her.
And Tarzan?
He did what no red blooded m
needs lessons in doing. He took
woman in his arms and smothered
with kisses.
For a moment Jane Porter lay the
with half closed eyes. But as suddel
as the veil had been withdrawn
dropped again. and an outraged G.
science suffused her face with its SC
let mantle. and a mortified won
thrust TarZan of the apes from |
and buried her face in her hands.
Tarzan had been surprised when