Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-21
/ TARZAN OF THE APES
run THRILLING ADVENTURES OF A PR1MEvA1, MAN
AND AN AMERICAN GIRL
By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

the blade repeatedly and to the hiit into
| its breast
The gorilla, fighting after the manner
| OF its Kind, struck terrific blows with lts
! open hand. and tore the flesh at the
boys throat and chest with its mighty
tusks
For moment they rolled upon the
ground In the fierce frenzy Of combat.
| More and more weakly the torn and
| bleeding arm struck home with the long
| sharp blade, then the little figure stiff
! ened with n spasmodc jerk and Tas
| zan, young Lord Greystoke rolled
lifeless upon the dead and decaying veg
citation which carpeted his Jungle home.
mile back in the forest the tribe
had heard the fierce challenge of the
gorilla, and, as was his custom when
any danger threatened, Kerchak called
his people together. partly for mutual
protection against common enemy,
since this gorilla might be but one of n
party of several and also to see that all
members of the tribe were accounted for
1t was soon discovered that Tarzan
was missing, and Tublat was strongly
opposed to sending assistance. Kerchak
I himself had no liking for the strange
little walf, so he listened to Tublat, and
finally, with a shrug of his shoulders.
turned back to the pile of leaves on
which he had made his bed.
But Kala was of a different mind: in
fact, she had not waited but to learn
that Tarzan was absent ere she was
fairly flying through the matted
branches toward the point from whlcn
the cries of the gorilla were still plainly
audible.
Darkness had now fallen. and an early
moon was sending Its faint light to cast
strange, grotesque shadows among the
dense foliage of the forest
Here and there the brilliant rays pene-
trated to earth, but for the most part
they only served to accentuate the Styg-
Ian blackness of the jungles depths.
Like some huge phantom, Kala swung
noiselessly from tree to tree; now rum
ming nimbly along a great branch, now
swinging through space at the end of
another, only to grasp that of further
tree In her rapid progress toward the
scene OF the tragedy her knowledge of
jungle life told her was being enacted a
short distance before her
The cries of the gorilla proclaimed that
1t was in mortal combat with some other
denizen of the fierce wood. Suddenly
these cries ceased, and the silence of
death reigned throughout the jungle.
kala could not understand. for the
voice Of Bolgani had at the last been
raised In the agony of suffering and
death, out no sound had come to her by
which she possibly could determine the
nature of his antagonist.
That her little Tarzan could destroy a
great bull gorilla she knew to be inn
probable, and so, as she neared the spot
from which the sounds of the struggle
had come. she moved more warily and
at last slowly and with extreme caution
she traverscd the lowest branches, peer
Ing eagerly into the moOn-splashed black
ness for sign of the combatants.
Presently she came upon them, lying III
little open space full under the brilliant
light of the moon-little Tarzan's torn
and bloody form, and beside it a great
bull gorilla, stone dead.
With low cry Kala rushed to Tarzans
side, and gathering the poor, blood-cov
cred body to her breast. listened for
sign of life. Family she heard 1.-THE
weak beating of the little heart.
Tenderly she bore him back through