Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
WHEN THE LION FED

partly into the mouth Of The tunnel.
Then Numa baked, only to feel the
sharp prick Of Tarzan's knifepoint
in his hindquarters. Goading him on,
the Ape-man finally succeeded IN
getting the lion sufficiently far intc
the tunnel SO that there was no
chance of his escaping other than by
going forward or deliberately back
ing into the sharp blade at his rear.
Then Tarzan cut the bags from the
great hind feet, placed his shoulder
and his knifepoint against Numa's
haunch, dug his toes into the loose
earth that had been broken up by Che
explosion of the bomb--and showed.
Inch by inch, at first, Numa ad-s
vanced. He was growing now, and
presently he commenced to roar.
Suddenly he leaped forward, and
Tarzan knew that he had caught the
scent of meat, ahead. Dragging the
machine-gun beside him, the Ape
man followed quickly after the lion,
whose roars he could plainly hear
ahead, mingled with the unmistaIs-s
able screams of frightened men.
Once again grim smile touched the
lips of this man-beast.
"They' murdered my Waziri," he
muttered. "They crucified Wa
simbu!"
WHEN Tarzan reached the trench
w and emerged into it, there was
no one in sight in that particular
bay, nor in the next nor the next, as
he hurried forward in the direction
of the German center. But in the
fourth bay Tarzan saw dozen men
jammed in the angle of the traverse
at the end, while leaping upon them
and rending with talons and fangs
was Numasa terrific incarnation Of
ferocity and ravenous hunger.
Whatever held the men at last
gave way as they fought madly with,
one another in their efforts to escape
this dread creature that from their
infancy had filled them. with terror,
and again they were retreating.
Some clambered over the parados,
and some even over the parapet, pre-
ferring the dangers of No Mans
Land to this other soul-searing
menace.
AS the British advanced slowly to-
ward the German trenches, they first
met terrified blacks who ran into
their arms only too willing to sur
render. That pandemonium had
broken loose in the Hun trench was
apparent to the Rhodesians, not only
from the appearance of the deserters,
bur from the sounds of screaming,
cursing men; but there was one
sound that baffled them, for it re-
sembled nothing more closely than
the infuriated growing of an angry
lion.
Andswhen at last they reached the
trench, those farthest on the left Of
the advancing Britishers heard ma
chine-gun sputter suddenly before
them, and saw huge lion leap over
the German parados with the body Of
a screaming Hun soldier between his
jaws, and vanish into the shadows
of the night-while squatting upon
traverse to their left was Tarzan Of
Che Apes working a machine-gun
with which he was raking the length
of the German trenches.
The foremost Rhodesians saw
something else; they saw a. huge
German officer emerge from a dugout
just in rear of the, Ape-man. They
saw him snatch up a discarded rifle
with bayonet fixed and creep upon
the apparently unconscious Tarzan.
They ran forward, shouting warn
ings; but above the pandemoniuni
of the trenches and the machine-gun
their voices Could not reach him. The
German leaped upon the parapet be-
hind him; the fat hands raised the
rifie-butt aloft for the cowardly
downward thrust into the naked back
and then, as moves Ara the light
ming, moved Tarzan of the Apes.
1t was no man that leaped forward
upon that boche officer, striking aside
the sharp bayonet as one might
strike aside straw in baby's hand;
it was wild beast, and the roar OF
a wild beast was upon those savage
lips, for as that strange sense that
Tarzan owned in common with the
other jungle-bred creatures warned
him of the presence behind him, and
he had whirled to meet the attack,
his eyes had seen the corps and regi-
mental insignia upon the others
blouse; they were the same as those
worn by the murderers of his wife
and his people, by the ,despoilers Of
his home and his happiness.
1t was a wild beast whose teeth
fastened upon the shoulder of the
Hun; it was a wild beast whose
talons sought that fat neck. And
then the boys Of the Second Rhode
sian Regiment saw that which viii
live forever in their memories. They
saw the giant Ape-man pick the
heavy German from the ground and
shake him as terrier might shake
rat-as Sabor the lioness sometimes
shakes her prey. They saw the eyes
of the Hun bulge in horror as he
vainly struck with his futile hands
against the massive chest and head