Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-13
By Edgar Rice Burroughs

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and Selling the girl roughly, threw her
to the floor, and simultaneously there
burst into the hut a raging demon Of
jealousy. Naratu had come. Kicking,
scratching, striking, biting, the negress
routed the terrified Usanga.
Bertha Kircher heard her screaming
down the village street at Usanga's
heels, and trembled at the thought of
what lay in store for her at the hands
of these two, for she knew that tomor-
row at the latest Naratu would take out
upon her the full measure of her jealous
hatred after she had spent her first
wrath upon Usanga.
The two had departed but q few min
utes when the warrior guard returned.
He looked in and then entered.
TRRZAN of the Apes, feasting well
l. upon a juicy haunch from Bara the
deer. was vaguely conscious of a
troubled mind. He should have been
at peace with himself and all the world,
for was he not in his native element,
surrounded by game in plenty n rap
idly filling his belly with the flesh he
loved best? But Tarzan of the Apes
was haunted by the picture of a slight
young girl being showed and srruck by
brutal savages He began to wonder
what they were doing to her and where
they we're taking her. He was very
much ashamed Of himself, as he had
been after the episode in Wilhelmstal
when his weakness had permitted him
to spare this spy's life. Wa he to
{be thus weak again? No!
Night came, and he settled himself IN
an ample tree to rest until morning,
but sleep would not come. Instead
came the vision Of a white girl being
beaten by black women, and Of the same
girl at the mercy of the warriors some
where in that dark and f~orbiddlng
jungle.
WITH n growl of anger and self. con .
tempt Tarzan arose, shook himself and
swung from his tree TO that adjoining
and thus, through the lower terraces
he followed the trail Usanga's party
had taken earlier in the afternoon.
Providing %stealthily, as prowls Numa
the lion stalking a wary prey, Tarzar
moved noiselessly about the palisade,
listening and shifting. At theSrear OF
the village he discovered a tree with
branches extending over the top. OF thu
palisade, and a moment later he bad
dropped quietly into the village.
From hut to hut he went, searching
with keen ears and nostrils for some
confirming evidence Of the presence OF
the girl, and at last he found the hut in
which she had been imprisoned. The
village was quiet now, for the last oil
the beer and the food had been dis
posed Of, and the blacks lay in Their
huts overcome by stupor; yet TarZar
made no noise that a man keenly alert
might have heard.
lie passed around the entrance of the
hut and listened. From within came NJ
sound, not even the low breathing o
one awake: yet he was sure that thu
girl had been here, perhaps was here
even now; and so he entered, slipping
in as silently as a d~isembodied spirit
For a moment he stood mOtionless JUS
within the entrance, listening. No
there was no one here, but he would
investigate. AS his eyes became accus'
toned to the greater darkness within
the hut, an object began to take form
that presently outlined itself in n hu'
man figure supine upon the floor.
Tarzan stepped closer and leaned Owe
to examine it it was the dead body o
a naked warrior from whose chest pro
truded a short spear. Then he searches
carefully every square foot of the re
naming floor-space and at last re
turned to the body again, where h
stooped and shifted of the half of tn,
weapon that had slain the black. I
slow smile touched his lips-that ant
"a slight movement Of his head betokene'
that he understood. .,
A rapid search of the rest of the vii
lage assured him that the girl had es
caped. and a feeling of relief came owe
him that no harm had befallen her
That her life was equally in leopard,
in the savage jungle to which she mus
have fed did not impress him as /
would have you or me, since to Tar
,Zan the jungle was not a dangerou
place he considered any one safer her
than in Paris or London by night.
He had entered the trees again an,
, was outside the palisade when Their
came family to his ears from far be
yond the village an Old, familia
sound. Balancing lightly upon a sway
ing branch, he stood. Il graceful statu
Of n forest god, listening intently. TO
Il minute he stood thus, and then ther
broke from his lips the long, weird or
of ape calling to ape, and he was W
through the jungle toward the sound q
the booming drum of the anthropoids
leaving behind him an awakened an
terrified village of cringing blacks, VIII
would forever after connect that yer
cry with the disappearance of thel
white prisoner and the death of thei
, fellow warrior.
BERTHA KIRCHER, Ii urry n
.. - through the jungle along a vel
beaten game-trail, thought only of put
j, ting as much distance as possible be
= tween herself and the village befor
t daylight could permit pursuit of hei
l Whittier she was going she did NJ
: know; nor was it Il matter of grea
r moment, since death must be her IL
sooner or later.
a Fortune favored her that night. fc
she passed unscathed through as saval
and lion ridden an area as there is
all Africa-a natural hunting grOun
! which the white mar has not yet dis
t covered, where deer and antelope an
, zebra, giraffe and elephant, buffalo
' rhinOceros and the other herbivorOl
: animals of central Africa abound me
i Tested by none but their natural enC
mics, the great cats.
! She had fed for an hour or two, pei
: haps, when her attention was arrest6
= by the sound of animals moving abou
muttering and growing close ahest
v Assured that she had covered q stuff
. cient distance to insure her n GOO
I start in the morning before the blacl
> could take to her trail, and fearful
Z what the creatures might be, 81
y climbed into u large tree with the il
i "tention of spending the rest of Il
u night there.
= She had no sooner reached a safe al
I comfortable branch than she disco
Il cred that the tree stood upon the ed
of a small clearing that had been hit
den from her by the heavy undel
e growth, and simultaneously she di'
o covered the identity of the beasts 81
had heard.
d In the center of the clearing belo
n her, clearly visible in the bright mooI
l;nlE sba , n, f,lly f,gantv bu0a MN,