Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-25
.16e SONOF TARZAN

ana hot was the rage OF the mon ,yhor
tney learned that the white devil had again
entered their homes. frightened their women
anu stolen arrows and ornaments and food.
Even their superstitIous fear of this
weird creature who hunted with huge
oui-epe was overcome in their desire to
W.eak vengeance upon him and rid them
serves for good and all of the menace OF
mis- presence in the jungle
ana so II was that a score Of the fleetest
ana most doughty warriors of the tribe set
out In pursuit Of Korak and Akut but a
rev minutes after they had left the scene
OF the Killers many depredations.
The youth and the ape had travelled slow
" ana with no precautions against sue
cessful pursuit. Nor was their attitude ~
careless indifference to the blacks a. all
remarkable. SO many similar raids had
gone unpunished that the two had come
TO LOOK upon the negroes with contempt
The return journey led them straight
up wind The result being that the scent
of their pursuers was borne away from
them so they proceeded upon their way in
total Ignorance of the fact that tireless
trackers but little less expert in the mys4
teries of woodcraft than themselves were
dogging their trail.
The little party of warriors was led bv
Kovudoo. the chief a middle aged savage
OF exceptional cunning and bravery. 1t was
he who first came within sight of the
quarry which they had followed for hours
by the mysterious methods of their almost
uncanny powers of observation intuition
and even scent
kovudoo and his men came upon Korak,
Akut and Meriem after the killing of the
king ape the noise OF the combat having
led them at last straight to their quarry
The sight of the slender white girl had
amazed the savage chief and held him gag
ing at the trio for moment before order
ing his warriors to rush out upon their
". mo ant hat h.
apes came, and again the blacks remained
awestruck witnesses to the palaver and the
battle between Korak and the young bull
But now the apes had gone. and the
white youth and the white maid stood alone
In the jungle. One of Kovudoos men leaned
close to the ear of his chief
Look" he whispered, and pointed to
something that dangled at the girls side
when my brother and were slaves in the
village of the sheik, my brother made that
thing for the shek's little daughter-she
played with II always and called 1t after
my brother. whose name is Geeka. Just be.
fore we escaped some one came and struck
down the sheik stealing his daughter away
III this Is she, the sheik will pay you we'll
for her return"
Korak's arm had gone around the shoul-
ders of Meriem. Love raced hot through his
young veins. Civilization was but half
remembered state-London as remote as
but they two-Korak, the Killer, and Mer.
elm, his mate Again he drew her close to
him and covered her willing lips with hot
kisses. And then from behind him broke a
hideous bedlam of savage war cries and
score of shreking blacks were upon them.
Korak turned to give battle Meriem,
with her own light spear, stood by his side
An avalanche of barbed missiles flew about
them. One pierced Korak's shoulder an
other his leg, and he went down.
Meriem was unscathed, Tor the blacks had
Intentionally spared her Now they rushed
forward to finish Korak and make good the
girls capture but as they came there came
also from another point in the jungle the
great Akut and at his heels the huge bulls
of his new kingdom.
Snarling and roaring, they rushed upon
the black warriors when they saw the mis-
chief they had already wrought. Kovudoo
realizing the danger of coming to close
quarters with these mighty apemen, seized
Meriem and called upon his warriors to re-
treat
For a time the apes followed them, and
several of the blacks were badly mauled