Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-07-19

assallants. and Tarzan fought as he hat
learned to fight with the great bull apes
\ OF the tribe of Kerchak.
| He was In dozen places at once, leap
! ing hther and thither about the room
in slnuous bounds that reminded th'
woman OF a panther she had seen at the
ZOO Now a wriet-bone snapped in his
iron grip, now shoulder was wrenched
from Its socket as he forced a victims
arm backward and upward.
with shrieks of pain the men escaped
INTO the hallway as quickly as they
could; but even before the first one stag
gered. bleeding and broken, from the
room, Rokoff had seen enough to con-
vince him that Tarzan would not be the
ono to lie dead In that house this night,
and so the Russian had hastened to a
nearby den and telephoned the police that
a man was committing murder on the
third floor Of Rue Maue %.
When the officers arrived they found
three men groaning on the floor, a fright
ened woman lying upon a filthy bed, her
face buried In her arms, and what APP
peared to be a well-dressed young gem
tleman standing In the centre OF the room
awaiting the relnforcements which he had
thought the footsteps of the officers
hurrying up the stairway had announced
but they were mistaken I'm the last; II
through those narrowed lids and steel
gray eyes. with the smell of blood the
last vestige Of civilization had deserted
Tarzan, and now he stood at bay, like a
lion surrounded by hunters, awaiting the
next overt act, and crouching to charge
its author.
what has happened here?" asked one
of the policemen
Tarzan explained briefly, but when he
Al -
his statement he was appalled, by her
reply.
HE liesl" she screamed shrilly, ad-
dressing the policemen. HE came to my
room while 1 was alone, and for no good
purpose. When 1 repulsed him he would
have killed me had not my screams at
tracted these gentlemen, who were pass
ing the house at the time. He is devil,
monsieurs; alone he has all but killed ten
men with his bare hands and his teeth"
So shocked was Tarzan by her ingrati-
tude that for a moment he was struck
dumb. The police were inclined to be a
little skeptical, for they had had other
dealings with this same lady and her
lovely coterie of gentlemen friends. How
ever, they were policemen, not judges,
so they decided to place all the inmates
of the room under arrest, and let an
other, whose business it was, separate
the innocent from the guilty.
But they found that it was one thing
to tell this well-dressed young man that
he was under arrest. but quite another
to enforce It,
"I am guilty of no offense," he said
quietly. 81 have but sought to defend
myself. 1 do not know why the woman
has told you what she has. She can
have no enmity against me, for never
until came to this room i'm response to
her cries for help had seen her"
Come, come" said one of the officers;
there are judges to listen to all that"
and he advanced to lay his hand upon
Tarzan's shoulder An instant later he
lay crumpled in a corner of the room, and
then, as his comrades rushed in upon
the ape-man, they experienced a taste of
what the apaches had but recently gone
through. So quickly and so roughly did
he handle them that they had not even
an opportunity to draw their revolvers.
CONTINUED TOMORROW