Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-27

moned says that Tana is lazy and will
not bring him nuts and beetles, or scratch
his bac!: for him.
So Tarzan scods them both and
threatens Gunto with a taste of the
death-bearing slivers If he abuses Tana
further and Tana for her part. Is COM
PEELED to promise better attention to her
wifely duties.
And so it goes, little family differences
| for the most part, which, If left unsettled
would result finally in greater factional
strife, and the eventual ACKNOWLEDGMENT
| of the tribe
But Tarzan tired of it as he found that
kngship meant the curtailment of his
| liberty. He longed for the little cabin
| and the sun-kissed sea-for the cool In
terror of the well 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 peopl"
| Their interests and his We're far re-
moved. They had not kept pace with
him, nor could they understand aught OF
the many strange and wonderful dream;
that passed through the active brain OF
their human king. So limited was their
vocabulary that Tarzan could not even
talk with them of the many new truths,
and the great fields of thought that his
reading had opened up before his longing
eyes. or make known ambitions which
stirred his soul.
The hatred and jealousy of Terkoz, son
Of Tublat did much to counteract the
effect of Tarzans desire to renounce 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.
The entire matter was taken out of
Tarzan's hands one day by force of cir
cumstances, and his future left open 10
him, so that he might go or stay without
any stain upon his savage escutcheon.
1t happened thus:
The tribe was feeding quietly, spread
over considerable area, when a great
screaming arose some distance east OF
where Tarzan lay upon his belly beside
limpid brook, attempting to catch an
elusive fish in his quick. brown hands.
With one accord the tribe swung rapidly
toward the frightened cries, 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
hand aloft for Terkoz to desist, for the
female was not his, but belonged to a
poor old ape whose lighting days We're
long over and who, therefore. could NOT
protect his family, ..
Terkoz knew that 1t was against the
laws of his kind 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 approaching /
without his arrows, he continued to be- |
labor the poor woman in a studied effort |
TO affront his hated chieftain.
Tarzan did not repeat his warning |
signal, but instead rushed bodily upon the |
waiting Terkoz.
Never had the ape-man fought so ter
rible a battle since that long-gone day
when, Bolgani, the great king gorilla had /
so horribly manhandled him ere the new |
found knife had, by accident, picked the
savage heart.
Tarzan's knife on the present occasion
but barely offset the cleaning fangs of
Terkoz. and what little advantage the
ape had over the man In brute strength
was almost balanced by the Iatter's
wonderful quickness and agility.
In the sum total OF their points, how
ever, the anthropoid had a shade the
better of the battle, and had there been
no other personal attribute TO influence
the final outcome, Tarzan OF the Apes, the
young Lord GFeystoke. had died as he
had lived-an unknown savage beast in
equatorial Africa.
But there was that which had raised
him far above his fellows OF the Jungle
that little spark which spells the whole
vast difference between man and brute
Reason. This Il was which saved him
from death beneath the iron muscles ana
tearing fangs OF Terkoz.
Scarcely had they fought a dozen sec
onds ere they were rolling upon the
ground. striking. tearing ana rending-
two great savage beasts battling 10 the
death
Tsrk0z had dozen aalfs wounds oa