Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-27

parting she had insisted that the man
leave note for Tarzan thanking him
for his care of them and bidding him
good by. This they left pinned to the
inside wall of the hut with little
silver of wood, and then closing the
opening in the thorn bona, they
set out upon their dangerous journey
through the forbidding jungle.
Il am not so much afraid of the
native blacks" said the girl, as they
trudged along, las l am of Usanga
and his people. lie and his men were
all attached to a German native rcgi-
ment. They brought me along with
them when they deserted, either with
the intention of holding me for ransom
or selling me into the harcm of one of
the black sultans of the north. Usanga
is much more to be feared than Nu
mabo, for he has had the advantages
of European military training, and is
armed with more or less modern wcap-
ons and ammunition"
1T is lucky for me-" remarked the
Englishman, that it was the ignorant
NumabO who discovered and captured
Usanga. He would have felt no fear of
the giant flying machine and would
have known only too well how to
wreck it..
Let US pray that the black ser
geant has not discovered it, said the
girl.
They made their way to a point
which they guessed was about a mile
above the village; then they turned
into the trackless tanglc of under
growth to the east. SO dense was the
verdure at many points that it was
with the utmost difficulty they wormcd
their way through, sometimes on hands
and knees, and again by clambering
over numerous fallen tree trunks. In
terwoven with dead limbs and living
branches were the tough and ropelike
creepers which formed a tangled net
work across their path.
| To the south of them in an open
meadow land number of black war
riOrs were gathered about an object
which elected much wondering com
ment. The blacks were clothed in frag
ments of what had once been uniforms
of native German command. Each
however, possessed a bandolier of cart
ridges, a rife and a bayOnet. They
were a most unlOvely band, and chiei
among them in authority and repul
siveness was the black sergeant Usanga
The object of their interest was a Brit
ish airplane, the same in which Smith
Oldwick had been scouting toward tn
west for the rumored German force
supposed to be advancing through thu
wilderness toward the British positions
when motor trouble had forced him t(
land at this SPOT, where he had beeI
almost Immediately captured by NJ
mabo's warriors.
Immediately after the EnglishmaI
had been brought to Numabo'5 village
Usanga had gone out in search of thu
plane, prompted partly by curiosity
and partly by an intention to destro!
it; but when he had found it, SOM
new thought had deferred him from
carrying out his design. The thin
we'll knew, and it had occurred to hin
that in some way he might turn hi
prize to profit. Every day he had re
turned to it, and while at first it haI
filled him with considerable awe, h
, eventually came to look upon it witt
the accustomed eye of proprietor, 8
! that he now clambered into the fuselag
aud even advanced so far as to wis
he might learn to operate it.
| What feat ii would be, indeed, I
i fly like bird far above the highes
E tree-top How it would fill his les
} favored companions with awe and ad
miration! If Usanga could but fly, S
great would be the respect of all th
e tribesmen throughout the scattered vii
: lagos of the great interior that the
4 would look upon him as little less tina
? a god.
r and smacked his thick lips. Then, &,
: ldecds would he DO very rich, for AZ "