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

chase, a savage cry rose to the heavens,
for the quarry was man.
AS he was dragged. stlll resisting, into
the village street the women and children
set upon him with sticks and stones and
Tarzan of the Apes, young and savage
beast of the jungle, wondered at the cruel
brutality of his own kind
Sheeta, the leopard, alone of all the
jungle folk, tortured his prey. The ethics
of all the others meted a quick AMI
merclful death to their victims
Tarzan had learned from his books but
scattered fragments of the ways of human
beings.
When he had followed Kulonga through
the forest he had expected to come to a
city OF strange houses on wheels, pulling
clouds of black smoke from a huge tree
stuck in the roof of one of them-or to a
sea covered with mighty floating buildings
which he had learned were called, vari-
ously, ships and boats and steamers and
craft.
He had been sorely disappointed with
the poor little village of the blacks. hid
den away in his own jungle. and with not
a single house as large as his own cabin
upon the distant beach.
He saw that these people were more
wicked than his own apes, and as savage
and cruel as Sabor, herself Tarzan be-
gan to hold his own kind In but low
esteem.
Now they had tied their poor victim TO
a great post near the centre of the VII
lage, directly before Mbonga's hut, AMI
here they formed a dancing, yelling circle
of warriors about him. alive with flash
Ing knives and menaclnG sHears.
In a larger circle squatted the women,
yelling and beating upon drums. 1t re-
minded Tarzan of the Dum-Dum, and 80
he knew what to expect. He wondered II
they would spring upon their meat while
II was still alive. The Apes did not do
such things as that
The circle of warriors about the cringins
captive drew closer and closer to their
prey as they danced in Wild and savage
abandon to the maddening music Of the
drums. Presently a spear reached out
and pricked the victim. 1t was the
signal for so others.
Eyes, ears, arms and legs were pierced;
every inch of the poor writhing body that
did not cover vital organ became the
target of the cruel lancers
The women and children shrieked their
delight. The warriors licked their hideous
lips In anticipation of the feast to come,
and We'd with one another In the savagery
and loathesomeness of the cruel indigni-
ties with which they tortured the stu
conscious prisoner.
illtl IL was bildl III Hdl VI Nlt apes
saw his chance. All eyes were fixed upon
the thrilling spectacle at the stake. The
light of day had given place to the dark
ness of mooness night, and only the
fires in the Immediate vicinity of the orgy
had been kept aliEht to cast a restless
glow upon the restless scene.
Gently the 1.-THE boy dropped to the soft
earth at the end of the village street.
Quickly he gathered up the arrows-all
Of 10 inn fo ha had
number of long fipers to bind them into
bundle.
Without haste he wrapped them Sc
curely, and then, ere he turned to leave,
the devil of capriclousness entered his
heart. He looked about for some hint of
a wild prank to play upon these strange,
grotesque creatures that they might be
again aware of his presence among them.
Dropping his bundle of arrows at the
foot of the tree, Tarzan crept among the
shadows at the side of the street until he
came to the same hut he had entered on
the occasion of his first visit
Inside all was darkness. but his cropping
hands soon found the object for whicn
he sought and without further delay he
turned again toward the door
He had taken but a step, however. ere
his quick ear caught the sound of ap-
preaching footsteps Immediately without.
darkened the entrance of the hut.
Tarzan drew back silently to the far
wall, and his hand sought the long, keen
hunting knife of his father. The woman
came quickly to the centre of the hut.
There she paused for an instant feeling
about with her hands for the thing she
sought. Evidently it was not in it's ac-
customed place, for she explored ever
nearer and nearer the wall where Tarzar
stood.
So close was she now that the ape-man
felt the animal warmth of her naked
body. Up went the hunting knife. and
then the woman turned to one side and
soon a gutteral "ah" proclaimed that her
search had at last been successful
Immediately she turned and left the
hut, and as she passed through the door
way Tarzan saw that she carried a cook
ing pot in her hand.
He followed closely after her, and as
he reconnoitered from the shadows of