Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-02
By Edgar Rice Burroughs

killed. He did not care whether 1t
were friend or foe. 1t was blood he
wanted-blood and death.
Taug had been set upon by Toog
and another of the apes, while Tar
zan had the third--a huge brute
with the strength Of a buffalo.
Never before had Tarzan's assailant
beheld so strange creature as this
slippery, hairless bull with which he
battled. Sweat and blood covered
Tarzan's sleek, brown hide. Again
and again he slipped from the
clutches of the great bull, and all the
while he struggled to free his hunt
ing knife from the scabbard in
which it had stuck.
At length he succeeded-a brown
hand shot out and clL-;ched the hairy
throat, another flew upward clutch
ing the sharp blade. Three swift,
powerful strokes and the bull re-
laxed with a groan, falling limp
beneath his antagonist. Instantly
Tarzan broke from the clutches of
the dying bull and sprang to Taug's
assistance. Toog saw him coming
and wheeled to meet him. In the
impact Of the charge Tarzan's
knife was wrenched from his hand
and then Toog closed with him. Now
was the battle even-two against
two-while on the verge, Teeka, now
recovered from the blow that had
felled her, skunk waiting for an op-
portunity to aid. She saw Tarzan's
knife and picked it up. She never
had used it, but knew how Tarzan
used it. Always had she been afraid
Of the thing which dealt death to
the mightiest of the Jungle people
, with the ease that Tantor's great
tusks deal death to Tantor's enc
mics.
She saw Tarzan's pocket pouch
+ torn from his side, and with the
t curiosity of an ape, that even danger
) and excitement cannot entirely dis
pei, she picked this up, too.
Now the bulls were standing-the
clinches had been broken. Blood
: streamed down their sides-their
, faces were crimsoned with it. Little
graybeard was so fascinated that at
$ last he had even forgotten to scream
and dance; but sat rigid with delight
in the enjoyment of the spectacle.
q Back across the grove Tarzan and
q Taug forced their adversaries.
a Teeka followed slowly. She scarce
knew what to do. She was lame and
sore and exhausted from the fright
E full ordeal through which she had
passed, and she had the confidence
of her sex in the prowess of her
mate and the other bull of her tribe
they would not need the help of a
n she in their battle with these two
I strangers.
The roars and screams of the
$ fighters reverberated through the
jungle, awakening the echoes in the
e distant hills. From the throat of
- Tarzan's antagonist had come a
0 score of "Kreeg-ahs!" and now from
e behind came the reply he had
: awaited. Into the grove, barking
I, and growing, came a score of huge
y bull-apes-the fighting men of
S Toog's tribe.
y Down upon them came the great
. apes. In a moment Tarzan and
3 Taug would be torn to shreds that
= would later form the piece de re-
~ sistance of the savage orgy of a
= Dum-Dum. Teeka turned to glance
g back. She saw the impending fate
. . of her defenders and there sprang
to life in her savage bosom the
spark of martyrdom, that some
common forbear had transmitted
o alike to Teeka, the wild ape, and the
~ glorius women of a higher order
Z who have invited death for their
) men. With a shrill scream she ran
e toward the battlers who We're rolling
;. in great mass at the foot of one
% of the huge boulders which dotted
= the grove; but what could she do
= The knife she held she could not use
e to advantage because of her lesser
d strength. She had seen Tarzan
r throw missiles, and she had learned
o this with many other things from
Y her childhood playmate. She sought
for something to throw and at last
le her fingers touched upon the hard
n objects in the pouch that had been
10 torn from the ape-man. Tearing the
y receptacle open, she gathered hand
ID full Of shiny ylinders-heavy for
y, their size, they seemed to her, and
le good missiles. With all her strength
ID she hurled them at the apes battling
If in front of the granite boulder.
v The result surprised Teeka quite
"a as much as it did the apes. There
AZ was loud explosion, which deafened
i the fighters, and puff of acrid
'e smoke. Never before had one there
Il heard such frightful noise. Scream
+ ing with terror, the stranger bulls
leaped to their feet and fled back
C. toward the stamping ground of their
q tribe, while Taug and Tarzan slowly
= gathered themselves together and
- - arose, lame and bleeding, to their
IL ~ feet. They, too, would have fled had
VI thew not seen Teeka standing there