Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-16

ing call rewarded their listening ears.
At last they gave up the search. Tear
fully they cast last look at the shat.
tered tomb Of their master, shouldered
the heavy burden Of gold that would
at least furnish comfort, IL not hap.
piness, to their bereaved and beloved
mistress, and made their mournful
way back across the desolate valley
of Opar, and downward through the
forest beyond toward the distant bun.
galow.
And as they marched what sorry
fate was already drawing down upon
that peaceful, happy home,
From the north came Achmet Eek
ants letter. With him came his horde
OF renegade Arabs (outlawed marau.
ders, these), and equally degraded
blacks, garnered from the more de.
based and ignorant tribes of savage
cannibals through whose countries the
raider passed to and fro with perfect
lmpunity.
Mugambi, the ebon Hercules who
had shared the dangers and vicissi.
tudes of his beloved bwana from
Jungle Island almost to the head
waters of the Ugambi was the first
to note the bold approach of the sin.
lister caravan.
He it was whom Tarzan had left in
charge of the warriors who remained
to guard Lady Greystoke, nor could a,
Drawer or more loyal guardian have
been found in any cline or upon any
SOIL A giant in stature, a savage,
fearless warrior, the huge black pos
sessed also soul and judgment In pro.
portion TO his bulk and mis- ferocity.
Not once since his master had de.
parted had he been beyond sight or
sound of the bungalow, except when
Lady Greystoke chose to canter across
the broad plain, or relieve the monot.
ony of her loneliness by brief hunt.
ing excursion. On such occasions
Mugambi, mounted upon a wiry Arap,
had ridden close to her horses heels.
The raiders were still long way
orr when the warriors keen eyes dis.
covered them. For a time he stood
scrutinizing the advancing party in
silence, then he turned and ran rap.
idly in the direction of the native huts
which lay few hundred yards below
the bungalow.
Here he called out to the lolling war.
riors. He issued orders rapidly. In
compliance with them the men seized
upon their weapons and their shields
some ran to call in the workers from
the fields and to warn the tenders Of
the focks and herds. The majority
followed Mugambi back toward the
bungalow
The dust Of the raiders was still a
long distance away. Mugambi could
not know positively that it hid an
enemy; but he had spent a lifetime
OF savage life in savage Africa, and he
had seen parties before come thus
unheraldc-l. Sometimes they had
come in peace and sometimes in war
one could never tell. 1t was well to
be prepared Mugambi did not like
the haste with which the strangers
advanced
The Greystoke bungalow was not
well adapted for defense. No palisade
surrounded it, for. situated as 1t was
in the heart of loyal Waziri, its master
had anticipated no possibility of an
attack in force by an enemy. Heavy
wooden shutters there We're to close
the window apertures against hostile
arrows, and these Mugambi was en-.
gagged in towering when Lady Grey.
stoke appeared upon the veranda.
why, Mugambi!" she exclaimed,
What has happened? Why are You
lowering the shutters?"
Mugambi pointed out across the
plain to where a white.robed force of
mounted men was now distinctly
visible.
ARABS" he explained. "They come
for no good purpose in the absence of
the Great Bwana."
Beyond the neat lawn andt the
Towering shrubs. Jane Clayton saw
the glistening bodies or her Waziris.
The sun glanced from the tips of their
metal-shod spears, picked out the gor-
geous colors in the feathers of their
war bonnets, and reflected the high.
lights from the glossy skin of their
broad shoulders and high cheek bones.
Jane Clayton surveyed them with
unmixed feelings of pride and affec.
ton. What harm could befall her
with such as these to protect her?
The raiders had halted now, a hun
dred yards out upon the> plain
Mugambi had fastened down to Join
his warriors. He advanced a few
yards before them and hailed the
strangers Achmet Eek sat straight
in his saddle before his henchmen.
Arab" cried Mugamb!. What do
you hefe"
I'VE come in peace Achmet Eek
called back.
Then turn and go in peace" replied
Mugambi. 1--WE do not want you here
There can be no peace between Arab
and Waziri."