Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-26

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the doorway he saw that all the women
Of the village were Fastening to and
from the various huts with pots and
kettles. These they were filling with
water and placing over number Of fires
near the stake w.ere the dying victim
now hung. an inert and bloody mass Of
suffering.
Choosing a moment when none seemed
near, Tarzan hastened to his bundle of
arrows beneath the great tree at the end
of the vllalge street, As on the former
occasion he overthrew the cauldron be-
fore leaping, sinuous and catlike, into the
lower branches of the forest giant
Silently he climbed to great height
until he found a point where he could
look through a leafy opening upon the
scene beneath him,
The women were now preparing the
prisoner for their cooking pots while the
men stood about resting after the fatigue
Of their mad revel. Comparative quiet
reigned In the village.
Tarzan raised aloft the thing he had
pllfered from the hut, and, with aim made
true by years OF fruit and cocoanut
throwing. launched IL toward the group Of
savaEos.
squarely among them It fell, striking
one Of the warriors full upon the head
and Telling him to the ground. Then II
rolled among the women and stopped be-
side the half butchered thing they were
preparing to feast upon.
All gazed In CONSERVATION at II for an
instant, and then, with one accord, broks
and ran for their huts.
1t was a grinning human skull which
looked up at them from the ground. The
dropping of the thing out Of the open
sky was a miracle we'll aimed to work
upon their superstitous fears.
Thus Tarzan of the Apes left them
filled with terror at this new manifesto
tion of the presence of some unseen and
unearthly evil power which lurked in the
forest about their village
Later. when they discovered the over
turned cauldron and that once more
their arrows had been pilfered. 1t COM
menced to dawn upon them that they
had offended some great god who ruled
this part of the Jungle by placing their
village there without propitiating him
From then on an offering Of food was
daily placed below the great tree from
whence the arrows had disappeared, in an
effort to conciliate the mighty one.
But the seed of fear was deep sown,
and had he but known II, Tarzan of the
Apes had laid the foundation for much
future mistery for himself and his tribe.
That night he silent in tho fornst mot
far from the village. and early the next
morning set out slowly on his homeward
march, hunting as he Travelled only A
few berries and an occasional grub worm
rewarded his search, and he was half
famished when, looking up from a log he
had been roofing beneath, he saw Sabor
the lioness, standing in the centre of the
trail not 20 PAGES from him.
The great yellow eyes were fixed upon
him with wicked and baleful gleam, and
the red tongue licked the longing Inns as
Sabor' crouched worming her stealthy
way with belly fattened against the
earth
Tarzan did not attempt to escape. He
welcomed the opportunity for which, in
fact. he had been searching for days past,
not now armed only with a rope of grass
quickly he unslung his bow and fitted a
well daubed arrow, and as Sabor sprang,
the tiny missile leaped to meet her in
mid air. At the same instant Tarzan of
the Apes jumped to one side. and as tho
great cat struck the ground beyond him
another death-tipped arrow sunk deep
into Sabor's loln