Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1917-10-26
SYNOPSIS.
Copyright by
Frank A. Munscy Co.

"A scientific expedition off the Afri-
can coast rescues human derelict,
Alexis Paulvitch. He brings abroad
an ape, intelligent and friendly, and
reaches London.
Jack, son of Lord Greystoke, the
original Tarzan, has inherited love
of wild life and steals from home to
see the ape, now drawing card in a
music hail. The ape makes friends
with him.
The ape refuses to leave Jack de-
posite his trainer Tarzen appears
and is joyfully recognized by the ape,
for Tarzan had been king of his tribe.
Tarzan agrees to buy Akut, the ape,
and send him back to Africa Jack
resolves to go along.
Jack learns the ape language. Paul
witch, hating the father, tries to kill
Jack, but is killed by Akut Jack and
AEut escape to Africa and enter the
jungle.
In Great distrlc. they were alreS y
known for their relentless cruelty and
their greed for ivory. The natives
feared and hated them. The European
governments In whose possessions they
worked had long sought them; but.
working their way slowly out of the
north, they had learned many things
In the no mans land south of the Sa-
hara, which gave them immunity from
capture through easy avenues of es-
cape that were unknown to those who
pursued them.
Their raids were sudden and swift.
They seized ivory and retreated into
the trackless wastes of the north be-
fore the guardians of the territory
they raped could be made aware of
their presence. Relentlcssly they
slaughtered elephants themselves as
we'll as stealing ivory from the ma
tives. Their following consisted Of a
hundred renegade Arabs and negro
slaves fierce band of cutthroats.
Remember them, Carl Jensen and
Sven Malbihn, yellow bearded Swedish
giants, for you shall meet them later.
In the heart Of the jungle hidden
away upon the banks of small unex.
lplor,d tributary o. large river that
emptles into the Atlantic not 50 far
from the equator lay small heavily
palisaded village. Twenty palm
matched, beehive huts sheltered its
black population, while half dozen
g0ntskln tents in the center of the
clearing housed the score Of Arabs
who found shelter hero, while by trad
Ing and raiding they collected the car
goes which their ships of the desert
bore northward twice each year to the
market at Timbuktu.
Playing before one Of the Arab tents
was little girl of ten black haired,
black eyed little girl, who with her
nHt brown skin and graceful carriage
looked every inch daughter of the
desert. Her little fingers were busily
engaged In fashonlng skirt of grass
es for a much disheveled doll which a
kindly disposed slave had made for
her year or two before.
The head Of the doll was rudely
clipped from ivory, while the body
was a rat skin stuffed with grass. The
arms and legs were bits Of wood per-
forated at one end and sewn to the
rat skin torso.
The doll was quite hldeous and alto.
gether disreputable and soiled, but
Meriem thought 1t the most beautiful
and adorable thing in the whole world
which Is not so strange In view Of the
tact that It was the only object within
that world upon which she could be-
stow her condolences and her love.
Every one else with whom Merlen
came In contact was, almost withou,
exception. either indifferent to her OF
cruel. There was the old black has
who looked after her, for example
Nahum. toothless, filthy and Ill tenn
pered.
She lost no opportunity to cuff the
little girl or even intlict minor tortures
upon her. And there was the shelk
her father. She feared him more thar