Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-23

hospitality and gave orders through
her trusted Waziri to prepare a
feast for the black soldiers of the
enemy.
l. Far, to the east, Tar2an of the
Apes was travelling rapidly from
Nairobi toward the farm. At Mai
robi he had received news of the
world war that had already started,
and anticirating an immediate in
vasion of British East Africa by the
Germans, he was hurrying home
ward to fetch his wife to a place
of greater security. With him were
a score of his ebon warriors, but
far too slow for the ape-man was
the progress of these trained and
hardened woodsmen.
When necessity demanded, Tar
zan of the Apes sloughed the thin
veneer of his civilization and with
it the hampering apparel that was
its badge. In moment the polished
English gentleman reverted to the
naked ape-man. His mate was in
danger. For the time that single
thought dominated. 1t was no
member of the House of Lords who
swung swiftly and grimly through
the tangled forest or trod with un-
firing muscles wide stretches of
open plain---it was a great he-ape
filled with a single purpose that ex-
cluded all thoughts of fatigue or
danger.
Little Manu-, the monkey, scolding
and chattering in the upper ter
races of the forest, saw him pass.
Long had it been since he had thus
bcheld the great Tarmangani naked
and alone hurtling through the
jungle. Bearded and gray was
Manu-, the monkey, and to his dim
old eyes came the fire of recollection
of those days when Tarzan of the
Apes had ruled supreme, Lord of
the Jungle, over all the myriad life
that trod the matter vegetation be-
tween the boles of the great trees
or flew or swung OF climbed in the
leafy fastness upward to the very
apex of the loftiest terraces.
And Numa, lying up for the day
close beside last nights successful
kill, blinked his yellow-green eyes
and twitched his tawny tail as he
caught the scent spoor of his
ancient enemy.
Nor was Tarzan senseless to the
presence of Numa or Manu- or any
other of the many jungle beasts
he passed in his rapid flight toward
the west. But however keen the
senses of the are-man, however
swift his progress through the wild
country of his adoption, however
mighty the muscles that bore him,
he was still mortal. Days it took
for his journey, even though he lay
up at night for but few hours and
left to chance the finding of meat
directly on his trail. If Wappi, the
antelope, or Horta, the boar, CHANGED
his way when he was hungry, he
killed and ate, but he paused only
long enough to make the kill and
cut himself a steak.
But at last the long journey drew
to it's close and he was passing
through the last stretch of heavy
forest that bounded his estate upon
the east; then this was traversed
and he stood upon the plains edge
looking out across his broad lands
toward his home.
But at the first glance his eyes
narrowed and his muscles tensed.
Even at that distance he could see
that something was amiss. A thin
spiral of smoke arose at the right
of the bungalow where the barns
had stood, but there were no barns
there now; and from the bungalow
chimney from which smoke should
have arisen, there arose nothing.
Once again Tarzan of the Apes
was speeding onward, this time
even more swiftly than before
goaded now by a nameless fear that
was more the product of intuition
! than of reason, for, even as the
beasts, Tarzan of the Apes seemed
to possess sixth sense. Long be-
| fore he reached the bungalow, he
had sensed what he was to fine
there, had almost pictured the scene
that finally broke upon his view.
Silent and deserted was the vine
covered cottage. Smoldering embers
marked the site of his great barns
Gone were the thatched huts of his
sturdy retainers, empty the fields
the pastures and the corrals. Here
and there, before his eyes, vultures
were rising and circling slowl!
above the carcasses of men anC
beasts.
1t was with a feeling as nearl!
akin to terror as he had ever eX
perienced that the ape-man finall!
forceds himself to enter his home
The first sight that met his eyes Sc
the red haze of hate and blood-lus