Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-31


leafy branches. When they had COM :
pleted their work the structure was
scarcely visible.
Tarzan wondered what the purpose OF
the thing might be. and why, when they
had built it, they turned away and
started back along the trail in the di-
rection of their village.
It had been some time since Tarzan
had visited the blacks and looked down
from the shelter of the great trees which
| oyerhung their palisade upon the activi-
ties Of his enemies. from among whom
had come the slayer of kala.
Although he hated them. Tarzan de-
rived considerable entertainment in
watching them at their daily life within
the village, and especially at their
dances, when the fires glared against
their naked bodies as they leaped anG
turned. and twisted in mimic warfare
1t was rather in the hope of witnessing
something of the kind that he now fol-
lowed the warriors back toward their
village, but in this he was disappointed
for there was no dance that night.
Instead. from the safe copcealment
of his tree, Tarzan saw little groups
seated about tiny fires discussing the
events of the day, and in the darker
corners of the village he deserted, isolated
couples talking and laughing together.
and always one of each couple was a
young man and the other a young
woman
Tarzan cooked his head upon one side
and thought. and before he went to
sleep that night. curled in the crotch
of the great tree above the village.
Teeka filled his mind. and afterward
she filled his dreams-she and the young
black men laughing and talking with
the young black women.
Taug hunting alone. had wandered
some. distance from the balance of the
tribe. He was making his way slowly
along an elephant path when he dis
covered that it was blocked with under
growth. Now Taug. come into matur-
ity, was an evil natured brute of an
exceeding short temper. When some
thing thwarted him. his sole ideN was
to overcome it by brute strength and
ferocity. and so now when he found
his way blocked. he tore angrily into the
leafy screen and an instant later found
himself within strange lair, his prog :
ress effectually blocked, Notwithstanding
his most violent efforts to forge ahead,
Biting anG striking at the barrier.
Taug finally worked himself into n
frightful rage. but all to no avail. and
at last he became convinced that he
must turn back. But when be would
have done ia. what WINS h;s oboar;n
to discover that apother boItior- hod
dropped behind him while hc fought tn
break down tho ono hoforo h;,,,r 'T.
! was framed Tnt;I .vhanst;a
ceme him ne foroht f.a,,t;aaI,,. e. ~.
freedom but ali for nanght - -, ~ :. n''
Ip,tbe morning narsro - hi.,, :.
out from tho lilac "s ,,. ~ oia'Ne Set
direction of 10 erou ~. sa III 'he
structed tho nrorionS my nau con
'"e previous daE' while among
boverod naLoJ .'e.s aoo'e, .htm
tho n,r;as;tm as ~ ouns s,an' hiiee WIN
Tho ,monI,a,. ~ .n. win 'hihss. Manu-,
Tor,an ras, "a.'sr.u ana scoided as
So, passeu' ana tnough ne was not
aa VI the iahi''ar hgure OF the ape
hra,,S nuse'u ',oser TO MIN the little
,ron umn uous OF ms iife $ companion
,au.h ,ausmeu as ne saw 1t; but the
"s -. was io''owed by sudden clouding
''s iace ana deep sigh.
b;a, n.l'e iarther on. gaily feathered
nnu s'rut'ed about before the admir-
,,pe ns es's Vi ms somber- -hued mate. 1t
g. -: ~ iar"an that everything in
,' ne jungle was, combining to remind
,a 10 u. nuu iost Ieeka; yet every
aas .%: VI ms me ne mad seen these same
W. ""u !nousnt nothing of them.
nen 'he Diacks reached the trap.
aus 'e' up great commotion. Seiz-
ing the Dars OF his prison. he shook
.n.n tranticai'y' ana all the while he
,' ,oa'.u an" growied terrihcally. The
pla'hs were eiated' Tor while they had
no' oul,t their trap Tor this hairy tree
inan' 'he! were denghted with their
ca,ch'
iar"an picked up his ears when he
nea,a 'he voice OF great ape and.
Irciing quickly until lie was uown wind
rom thf traps. ne snlfed at the air in
srurcn Vi 'he scent spoor OF the prisoner.
.or Was IL 'ong before there came to
.nose aeiicate nostrlls the familiar odor
'nh. 'o'u iarZan the identity of the
raptlve as unerringly as though he had
,ooNeu upon laug with his eyes. Yes,
was 1aug. ana he was alone.
;. Iarzah grihned as he approached to
ulscoVer WHAT tne blacks would do to