Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28
CHAPTER IX-(ContinuedD

cled the Arab and he was dragged from
his saddle to the trail.
Ten minutes later the ape-man,
carrying the outer garments OF an
Arab bundled beneath an arm, re-
Joined his companions. He exhibited
his trophies to them. explaining in low
Rutturals the details Of his exploit
Chullk and Taglat fingered :he fabrics,
smelled and tasted them, and then,
placing them to their ears, tried to
listen to them.
Then Tarzan led them back through
the jungle to the trail where the three
hid themselves and waited. Nor had
they long TO wait BEFORE two OF Ach-
mot Zek's blacks, clothed in bill
ments similar to their masters, came
down the trail on foot, returning to
the camp.
One moment they were laughing
and talking together-the next they
Law stretched in death upon the trail
three mighty engines OF destruction
bending over them. Tarzan removed
their outergarments as he had remov'
ed those OF his first victim. and again
retired with Chulk and Taglat to the
greater seclusion Of the tree they had
first selected.
Here the ape-man arranged the gar
ments upon his shaggy fellows and
himself, until, at a distance, 1t might
have appeared that three white-robed
Arabs squatted silently among the
branches of the forest.
Until dark they remained where
they were, for from his point Of want
age Tarzan could view the inclosure
within the palisade. He marked the
position of the hut in which he had
first discovered the scent.spoor OF the
she he sought. He saw the two sen.
tries standing before its doorway, and
ne located the habitation OF Achmet
Eek where something told him he
would most likely find his missing
pouch and pebbles.
Chulk and Taglat were, at first
greatly interested in their wonderful
raiment. They fingered the fabric.
smelled OF it, and regarded one an
other intently with every mark of sat
isfaction and pride. Chulk, a humor-
tst in his way, stretched forth a long
and hairy arm, and, grasping the
hood OF Taglat's burnoose, pulled 1t
down over the latters eyes. extin.
gushing him, snufferlike, as it were.
The older ape, pessimistic by nature.
recognized no such. thing as humor.
Creatures laid their paws upon him
for but two things-to search for tieas
and to attack. The pulling OF the tar
mangani-scented thing about his head
and eyes could not be for the perform
ance of the former act; therefore 1t
must be the latter. He was attacked!
Chulk had attacked him.
With a snarl he was at the others
throat, not even waiting TO lift the
woolen veil which obscured his vision.
Tarzan leaped upon the two, and
swaying and toppling upon their inse.
cure perch, the three great beasts
tussled and snapped at one another
until the ape.man finally succeeded in
separating the anthropOids.
As apology is unknown to the saw
age progenitors of man, and eXplana-
tions a laborious and usually futile
process, iTarzan bridged the dangerous
gulf by distractlng their attention
from their alteration to a considera-
ton OF their plans for the immediate
future. Accustomed TO frequent argu.
ments In which more hair than blood
Is wasted, the apes speedily forget
such trivial encounters, and presently
Chulk and Taglat We're again squat
ting in proximity to each other and
in peaceful repose, awaiting the mo-
ment when the ape.man should lead
them into the village OF the tarman.
HanL
II was long after darkness had fallen
that Tarzan led his companions from
their hlding.place in the tree TO the
Kround and around the pallsade to the
far side OF the village,
Gathering the skirts Of his burnoose
beneath one arm, that his legs might
have free action, the ape-man took "a
short running start and scrambled to
the top of the barrier. Fearing lest
she apes should rend their garments !
- .hreds i'm a similar attempt, he had .
them to wait below for him,
.aa himself securely perchsd upon the
of the palisade, he unslung his
.,,.ar and lowered one end OF 1t TO
chulk.
The ape seized 1t, and while Tarzan
hela tightly TO the upper end the an
thronoid climbed quickly up the shaft
untll with one paw he grasped the top
a. the wan. To scramble then 10 Tar
va,,. side was the work Of only an
,ns,ant In like manner Taglat was
20 their sides and a moment
.ter the three dropped silently within
ihe incioaire
rarzan led them first to the rear OF
fhe hut IN which Jane Clayton was
con6ned, where. through the roughly
,eDalred aperture in the wall, he
.eneht with his sensitive nostrils for
ntoof that the she he had come for was
t'lhln.
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