The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-11-29

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ape barred his fangs, growing.
"Go with him, Akut," said Tarzan
OF the Apes. II will come and see you
tomorrow"
The beast moved sullenly to the
trainers side. The latter. at John
Clayton's request, told where they
might be found. Tarzan turned toward
his son.
"Come!" he said, and the two left the
theater. Neither spoke for several min
utes after they had entered the limou-
sine. 1t was the boy who broke the
silence.
'The ape knew you" he said, "and
you spoke together in the apes tongue.
How did the ape know you, and how
did you learn his languageT"
And then, briefly and for the first
time, Tarzan Of the Apes told his son
Of his early life-of his birth In the
jungle, of the death Of his parents and
Of how Kala, the great she ape, had
sucked and raised him from infancy
almost to manhood.
He told him, too, Of the dangers and
the horrors of the jungle-of the great
beasts that stalked one by day and by
night of the periods Of drought and of
the cataclysmic rains of hunger, Of
cold, Of intense heat, of nakedness and
fear and suffering.
He told him of all those things that
seem most horrible to the creature Of
civilization in the hope that the knowl-
edge of them might expunge from the
lads mind any inherent desire for the
jungle. Yet they were the very things
that made the memory of the jungle
what it was to Tarzan-that made up
the composite jungle life he loved.
And in the telling he forgot one
thing-the principal thing-that the
boy at his side. listening 81 eagerly,
was the son of Tarzan of the Apes.
After the boy had been tucked away
TO bed John Clayton told his wife Of
the events Of the evening and that he
had at last acquainted the boy with
the facts of his jungle life. The
mother, who had long foreseen that
her son must some time know of those
frightful years during which his father
had roamed the jungle, a naked, saw
age beas of prey, shook her head, hop
ing against hope that the lure she
knew was still strong in the fathers
breast had not been transmitted to his
SOn.
Tarzan visited Akut the following
day, but though Jack begged to be al
lowed to accompany him, he was re-
fused. This time Tarzan saw the pock-
marked old owner Of the ape, whom
he did not recognize as the willy Paul
witch of former days. Tarzan, infiu-
enced by Akut's pleadings, preached
the question Of the apes purchase, but
Paulvitch would not name any price,
saying that he would consider the mat
ter.
When TarZan returned home Jack
was all excitement to hear the details
OF his visit, and finally suggested that
his father buy the ape and bring 1t
home. Lady Greystroke was Mortified
at the suggestion.
The boy was insistent. Tarzan ex-
planned that he had wished to purchase
Akut and return him to his jungle
home, and to this the mother assented.
Jack asked to be allowed to visit the
ape, but again he was met with fiat
refusal.
He had the address, however, which
the trainer had gwen his father, and
two days later he found the opportunity
to elude his new tutor-who had re-
placed the terrified Mr.. Moore-and
after considerable search through q
section of London which he had never
before visited he found the smelly little
quarters Of the pockmarked old man.
The old fellow himself replied to his
knocking, and when Jack stated that
he had come to see Ajax. opened the
door and admitted him to the little
room which he and the great ape &C.
cupied.
AT sight of the youth the ape leaped
to the floor and shuffied forward. The
man, not recognizing his visitor and
fearing that the ape meant mischief,
stepped between them, ordering the
ape back to the bed.
HE will not hurt me-" cried the boy.
"We are friends, and before, he was my
fathers friend. They knew one another
In the jungle. My father is Lord Grey
stoke. He does not know that / have
come here. My mother forbade my
coming, but / wished to sec Ajax, and
l will pay you If you will let me come
here often to see him."
Paulvitch encouraged the boy to
come and see him often. and always he
played upon the lads craving for tales
Of the savage world, with which Paul
witch was all too familiar. He 4: him
alone with Akut much. and 1t was not
long until he was surprised to learn
that the boy could make the great
beast understand him-that he had
actually learned much Of the primitive
language of the anthropoids.
During this period Tarzan came ev-
eral times to visit Paulvitch. He
seemed anxious to purchase Ajax. and