Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-09-20

| prisoners, VINO were already being bound
to the stakes. All eyes were centered
upon the victims, and there was only
the remotest chance that she and her
companions would be discovered before
| they were close upon the blacks. She
wished, however, that she might have
| some sort of weapon with which to lead
the attack, for she could not know, of
course, for certainty whether the
great apes would follow her or not.
Hoping that she mi ght find something
within the hut, she. slipped quickly
around the corner and into the door
way, and after her, one by one, came
! the nine bulls. Searching quickly
| about the interior, she presently dis
covered a spear and, armed with this,
she again approached the entrance.
THARZAN Of the Apes and Lieutenant
l. Smith Oldwick were bound securely
to their respective stakes. Neither had
spoken for some time. The Englishmap
turned his head so that he could see
his companion in misery. Tarzan stood
straight against his stake. His face
was entirely expressionless in so far as
either fear or anger was concerned,
his countenance portrayed bored indif-
ference, though both men knew that
they were about to be tortured
Good d-by, old top whispered the
young lieutenant.
=, Tarzan turned his eyes in the direc-
ton of the other and smiled. Good.
! by he said. "If you want to get IL
over in a hurry, inhale all the smoke
and fumes you can ~
Thanks" replied the aviator. and
though he made wry face, he drew
himself up very straight and squared
| his shoulders.
The women and children had seated
themselves in wide circle about the
victims; the warriors, hideously
painted, were forming slowly to begin
the dance of death. Again Tarzan
turned to his companion. "If you
want to spoil their fun,'' he said,
don t make any fuss, no matter how
much you suffer. If you can carry on
to the end without changing the ex-
preston Of your face or uttering
single sound, you will deprive them Of
all the pleasures of this part of the
good luck"
The young Englishman made no re-
ply, but it was evident from the set of
his jaws that the negroes would get
little enjoyment out of him.
The warriors were crcling now
Presently Numabo would draw first
blood with his sharp spear, which would
be the signal for the beginning of the
torturc-after little of which the
fagotS around the feet of the victims
would be lighted.
chief, his yellow. sharp filed teeth
showing in the freight against the
background Of his thick, red lips. Now
bending double, now stamping furiously
upon the ground, now leaping into the
air. he danced step by step in the mar.
rowing center that would presently
bring him within spear reach of the
intended feast
A Il LAST the spear reached out and
4 touched the ape man on the oreast .
When 1t came away little trickle of
hlood ran down the smooth brown hide
and almost simultaneously, there
broke from the outer periphery of the
"xpcctant audience woman's shriel,
winch seemed signal for series of
h!deouS SCREENINGS, growlings and
Darklngs, and great commotion upon
that side of the circle. The victims
could not see the cause of the dis
turbance. but Tarzan =did not have TO 4
see, FOR nc knew by the voices of the
apes the identity of the disturbers. He
only wondered what had brought them.
and what the purpose of the attack, for
he could not believe that they had come
to rescue him. s+.. - i
Numabo and his Warriors broke
quickly from the circle of their dance
to see pushing toward them through the
ranks of their screaming and terrified
people the very white girl who had
escaped them a few nights before
and at her back came what appeared
to their surprised eyes veritable horde
of the huge and hairy forest men upon
whom they looked with fear and awe. sr
Striking to right and left with his
heavy fists, tearing with his great
fangs. came Hu tag the young bull, and
at his heels, emulating his example,
surged his hideous apes. Quickly they
came through. the old men and the !
them straight toward Numabo and his
warriors. 1t was then that they came
within range of Tarzan's vision, and he
saw with unmiXed surprise who it was
that led the apes to his rescue. 81
To Zu tag he shouted: Go for the
big bulls while the she unbinds me-"
And to Bertha Kircher: Quick !! Cut
these bonds. The apes will take care
of the Blacks
Turning from her advance, the girl
ran to his side. She had no knife,
but she worked quickly and coolly, and I
as Zu-tag and his apes closed with .
the warriors, she succeeded in Ioosening
Tarzans bonds sufficiently to permit
him to extricate his own hands SO that
in another minute he had freed himself,
Now unbind the Englishman, Z" he
cried, and, leaping forward, ran to Join B
Iu tag and his followers in their battle
against the blacks. Numabo and his
warriors, realizing now the relatively
small number of the apes against them,
had made determined stand, and with
their weapons were endeavoring to
overcome the invaders. Three of the
sapes We're already down, killed or NOR
tally wounded, when Tarzan, realizing
that the battle must eventually go
against the apes unless some means
could be found to break the morale of
the negroes, cast about him for some
means of bringing about the desired
end And suddenly his eye lighted upon
a number of weapons which he knew
would accomplish the result. A grim
smile touched his lips as he snatched !
a vessel of boiling water from one OF
the fires and hurled it full in the faces !
of the warriors. Screaming with terror
and pain. they fell back, though Num-
abo urged them to rush forward. 81
Scarcely had the first caldron of
boiling water spilled its contents upon
them ere Tarzan deluged them with a
second nor was there any third needed
to send them shrieking in every direc- +,
ton.
BY the time Tarzan hadarecovered his
own weapons, the girl had released the
young Englishman, and with the six,
remaining apes the three Europeans
moved slowly toward the village gate,
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