The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-11-06


of Africa by mutIueers. After THEFT
death tNair infant son was stolen aAo
| inatncrpd hy IA aye. ana he in turn Dc
came t:.e king ri tribe Of great 3,e-
Iie vas known ITS Tarzan. At.er MARY
adventures he WAS rescued amt finally
! settled down in London.
John, Lady Greystoke said, "some-
thing must be done to discourage Jacks
tendency toward anything that ma
excite the cra}iaa ior the savage life
Wlcn. | fear, he has inherited from
YOU You knew Ggom your own eEpe
| rierca how strong is the call Of thl
wild ut tima@. Iuu know that often i
has guceSsitatrd 4 stern Stru@gl" or
Your part to resist The almost insane
desire which gnaily oYcrWhellns
you to plunge once again into the JUL
cue life that claimed yen for 50 many
years. and at the same time you know
better than any other how frightful q
fate it would be for Jack We're the trail
to the savage Jungle made either allur-
Ing or easy to him..
Il doubt if there is any danger of his
inleriting taste for jungle life from
me- replied the man, "for l cannot
conceive that such Il thing may be
transmitted from father to son. And
sometimes. Jane. | think that in your
solicitude for his future you go bit
too far in your restrictive measures.
His love for animalS-hiS desire, for
example, to see this trained apes
only natural in healthy, norma! boy
of his age
. And John Clayton, Lord Greystoke,
put an arm about his wife, laughing
good-naturedly down into her up
turned face before he bent his head
and kissed her. Then, more seriously,
he continued:
you have never told Jack anything
concerning my early life, nor have you
permitted me to, and in this l think
that you have made a mistake. Had
been able to tell him Of the expert
ences Of Tarzan Of the Apes l could
doubtless have taken much of the
glamOr and romance from jungle life
that naturally surround it in the minds
Of those who have had no experience
of it. He might then have profited by
my experience; but now, should the
jungle lust every claim him, he will
have nothing to guide him but his OVID
impulses, and / know how powerful
these may be in the wrong direction at
tines.
But Lady Greystoke only shook her
head us she had a hundred other times
when the subject had claimed their at
tention in the past.
"No, JOHN she insisted. Il shall
never give my consent to the implant
ing in Jacks mind of any suggestion
OF the savage life from which we both
wish to preserve him.
Mr. MOOre's room was next to that
of his youthful charge, and it was the
tutors custom to have look into the
boys each evening as the former Was
about to retire. This evening he was
particularly careful not to neglect this
duty, for he had just come from a con-
ference with the boys father and moth
.tr,' in which it had been impressed
upon him that he must exercise the
greatest care to prevent Jack visiting
the music hall where Ajax was being
shown.
SO when he opened the boys door at
about half-past nine he was greatly ex-
cited, though not entirely surprised, to
find the future Lord Greystoke fully
hn or oh 70
crawl from his open bedroom window.
Mr.. Moore made a rapid sprint
across the apartment, but the waste of
energy was unnecessary, for when the
boy heard him within the chamber and
realized that he had been discovered,
he turned back, as though to relinquish
his planned adventure. Jar
where were you going2' painted the
excited Mr.. Moore.
Il am going to see Ajax" replied the
boy 4raetly. -
II am >stonished!" cried Mr.. Moore.
moment later he was infinitely more
I tonished, for the boy, approaching
Jose to him. suddenly seized him about
be waist, lifted him from his feet and
hew him, back downward, upon the
I'D, showing his face deep into the soft
tlllow.
BE quiet" admonished the victor,
~ I'll choke you"
Mr.. Moore struggled. but his efforts
Pere In vain. Whatever else Tarzan of
he Apes may or may not have handed
oowB to his son. he had at least BE-
V0eathed him almost as marvellous q
physique as he himself had possessed
It tie same age.
Kneeling upon him. Jack tore strips
nom sheet and bound the mans
1ands behind his back. Then he rolled
him over and stuffed gag Of the .Ams
materill between bis teeth, secuffeg it
with strip wound about the ba,k Of
hts victims head. Next he tied Mr..
Aoere'A feet together. .-~s. !
Then the son of Tarzan skipped
across the room, slipped through the
open widow and slid to liberty By ;ray
of the spout from an caves trough.
Mr. Mora rau6}nd ona c%vnvoJe~a