Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-19

itated an instant at the entrance to
the box where the boy and the ape
confronted him, a tall, .broad-shoul-
dered man pushed past him and en-
tered. As his eyes fell upon the new
conner a slight flush mounted the boys
cheeks.
Father !" he exclaimed.
The ape gave one look at the Eng
lish lord and then leaped toward him,
calling out in excited iabberlng. The
man, his eyes going wide with aston
ishment, stopped as though turned to
stone.
"Akut!" he cried.
The boy looked, bewildered, from the
ape to his father, and from his father
to the ape. The trainers jaw dropped
as he listened to what followed, for
from the lips of the Englishman flowed
the gutturals Of an ape that were an
swered In kind by the huge anthropoid
that now chung to him.
And from the wings hideously bent
and disfgured old man watched the
tableau in the box, his pockmarked
features working spasmodically In
varying expressions that might have
marked every sensation in the gamut
from pleasure to terror.
'Long have I looked for you, Tar
zan," said Akut. Nov that l have
found you l shall come to your jungle
and live there always"
The man stroked the beasts head
Through his mind was running rapidly
a train of recOllections that carried hin
far into the depths of the primeval AT
rican forest, where this huge, manlik'
beast had fought shoulder to shoulde
with him in years before. He saw tn
black Mugambi welding the deadl!
knob stick and beside them, with bare'
fangs and bristling whiskers, Sheet;
the Terrible and, pressing close behind
savage as the savage panther, the hid
eous apes of Akut.
The man sighed. Strong within hin
surged the Jungle lust that he ha'
thought dead. All, If he could 60 bacl
even for brief month of it; to fee
again the brush OF lea1y Drancne
against his naked hide; to smell tn
musty rot of dead vegetation-franL
incense and myrrh to the jungle-born-
to sense the noiseless coming Of tn
great carnivore upon his trail; to hun
and to be hunted; to kill!
The picture was alluring. And the
came another picture-a sweet-face
woman, still young and beautiful
friends; home; a son. He shrugge
his giant shoulders.
ut cannot be, Akut," he said. "Br
if you would return I shall see that
is done. You could not be happy here
I may not be happy there"
The trainer stepped forward. III
ape barred his fangs, growing.
Go with him, Akut," said Tara
Of the Apes. II will come and see yo
tomorrow"
The beast moved sullenly to Il
, trainers side. The latter, at job
! Clayton's request, told where the
might be found. Tarzan turned towal
= his son.
I Come" he said, and the two left Il
theater. Neither spoke for several mi
d utes after they had entered the limo
v l.sine. 1t was the boy who broke Il
J. silence.
S 1.-THE ape knew you" he said, al
4 you spoke together In the apes tongu
T How did the ape know you, and he
= did you learn his language?"
And then, briefly and for the fir
<, time, Tarzan of the Apes told his s.
h of his early life-of his birth in t
& jungle. of the death of his parents al
e. of how Kala, the great she ape, HI
T. sucked and raised him from infan
g almost to manhood.
d. he told him, too, Of the dangers a
Is the horrors Of the jungle-of the gre
rs beasts that stalked one by day and
er night of the periods of drought and
1T the cataclysmic rains; Of hunger,
cold, of intense heat, of nakedness
Or fear and suffering.
r He told him Of all those things II
'e seem most horrible TO the creature
lg civilization in the hope that the kno'
H. edge Of them might expunse from
lads mind any inherent desire for
jungle. Yet they were the very thiI
no that made the memory OF the jun
to what it was to Tarzan-that made
IS the composite jungle life he loved.
b. And in the telling he forgot
l. thing-the principal thipT-bat