Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-02

skin Of hts artificial civilization. and sink
happy and contented into the deep sleep
Of the wild beast that has fed to reple-
ton. Yet woman's yes" would have
bound him TO, that other life forever. and
made the thought OF this savage existence
repulsive
Tarzen slept late into the following
forenoon. for he had been very tired from
the labors and exertion OF the long night
| and day upon the ocean, and the Jungle
jaunt that had brought into play muscles
| that he had scarce used for nearly two
| years. When he awoke he ran to the
! brook first to drink. Then he took
plunge into the sea. swimming about for
quarter Of an hour Afterward he re-
turned to his cabin, and breakfasted OF
| the flesh Of Horta. This done, he buried
the balance OF the carcass in the soft
earth outside the cabin for his evening
meal.
Once more he took his rope and van
ished into the Jungle. This time he hunted
nobler quarry-man; although had you
asked him his own opinion he could have
named a dozen other denisens Of the
jungle which he considered far the su-
periors in nobility of the men he hunted.
Today Tarzan was in quest OF weapons.
He wondered II the women and children
had remained in Mbonga's village after
the punitive expedition from the French
cruiser had massacred all the warriors I'm
revenge for D'Arnot's supposed death. He
hoped that he should find warriors there
for he knew not how long a quest he
should have to make were the village
deserted.
The ape-man travelled swiftly through
the forest and about noon came to the
site Of the village, but to his disappoint-
ment found that the jungle had overgrown
the plantaln fields and that the thatehed |
huts had fallen in decay. There was no |
a Ion nr IL .In 1. 4 II.
the ruins for half an hour, hoping that |
he might discover some forgotten weapon.
but his search was without fruit and so /
he took UP his quest once more, following
UP the stream, which flowed from a |
southeasterly direction. He knew that
near fresh water he would be most like
ly to find another settlement.
AS he travelled he hunted as he had |
hunted with his ape people in the past
as hala had taught him to hunt, turning
over rotted logs to flnd some toothsome
Vermin, running high into the trees to rob
oird's nest, or pouncing upon a tiny
rodent with the quickness OF cat There
were other things that he ate, too, but
the less detailed the account of an apes
diet the better-and Tarzan was again
the ape, the same fierce, brutal anthro-
poid that Kala had taught him to be, and
that ne had been for the first 20 years
OF his life.
Occasionally he smiled as he recalled
some friend who might even at the mo-
ment be sitting placid and immaculate
within the precincts of his select Partisan
club-just as Tarzan had sat but a few
months beforei and then he would stop,
as though turned suddenly to stone as
the gentle breeze carried to his trained
nostrils the scent of some new prey or
a formidable enemy.
That night he slept far inland from
his cabin, securely wedged into the
.rotch of giant tree, swaying a hun
ired feet above the ground. He had
eaten heartily again-this time from the
iesh of Bara, the deer, who had fallen
prey to his quick noose
Early the next morning he resumed his
Quincy always following the course of
he stream. For three days he continued
lis quest, until he had come to a part
# the jungle In which he never before
lad been. Occasionally upon the higher
'round the forest was much thinner, and
n the far distance through the trees he
oud see ranges of mighty mountains,
With wide plains in the foreground. Here,
n the open spaces, were new game a
ountless antelope and vast herds OF q
ebra. Tarzan was entranced-he would G
make a long visit to this new world. [
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