Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-13
BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
Author Of the Tarzan Stories
CHAPTER xx--tContInuedJ


THERE could be but one explanation
i They were being pursued by another hos
tile feet. Well, the situation could be no
worse, The expedition already was
doomed.
No man that had embarked upon 1t
would return across that dreary tcecap
How 1 wished that might face Eat Arras
with my longsword for just an instant be,
fore I died 1t was he who had caused
our failure.
AS / watched the oncoming ten 1 saw
their pursuers race swiftly into sight. IL
was another great feet; for moment !
could not believe my eyes; but finally 1
was forced to admit that the most tatal
calamity had overtaken the expedition tor
the fleet / saw was none other than the
feet Of the First Born that should nave
been so safely bottled up In omean; s.
What serief of misfortunes and disas-
ters What awful fate lowered over me
that I should have been 80 terribly thwarted
at every angle of my search tor my iost
love Could It be possible that the curse OF
Issus was upon mel That there was IN
doed some malign divinity in that hideous
carcass -
would not believe Il, and, throwing back
my shoulders, / ran to the deck below 10
Join my men in repelling boarders from one
OF the thern craft that had grappled us
broadside In the wild lust of hand-to-hand
combat my old hopefulness returned. And as
thern after thern went down beneath my
blade I could almost feel that we should win
success in the end even from apparent tal-
uro.
NV presence among the men so greatly
inspirIted them that they fell upon the luck
less whites with such ferocity that witn'h
q few moments we had turned the taples
upon them, and n second later, as we
swarmed their own decks l had the satls-
faction of seeing their commander take the
long leap from the bows OF his vessel In
token of surrender and defeat.
Then I joned Kantos Kan He had been
watching what had taken place on the deck
below and IL seemed to have given MIN a
new thought. Immediately he passed an
order to one of his officers and presently
the colors Of the Prince Of Helium broke
from every point OF the flagship.
A great cheer arose from the men OF our
own ship, a cheer that was taken UP by
every other vessel of our expedition as
they In turn broke my colors from their
upper works.
Then Kantos Kan sprung his coup. A
signal legible to every sailor OF al the
fleets engaged in that fierce struggle was
strung aloft upon the flagship.
Men of Helum for the Prince or Hehum
against all his enemies 1t read,
Presently my colors broke from one OF
Eat Arras' ships Then from another nno
another On some we could see fierce bat
ties waging between the Zodangan soldiery
and the Heliumetic crews, but eventually
the colors of the Prince of Helium floated
above every ship that had followed nat
Arras upon our trail-only his hagship
few them not.
Eat Arras had brought 5000 ships. The
sky was black with the three enormous
fleets II was Helium against the field
now, and the fight had settled to countless
individual duels. There could be little or
no maneuverlng of fleets in that crowded
flre-split sky.
Eat Arras' flagship was close TO my
own. could see the thin features of the
man from where l stood.
His Zodangan crew was pouring broad
side after broadsde into us and we were
returning their fire with equal ferocity.
Closer and closer came the two vessels
until but few yards interviewed. Grapplers