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

for it was a sublime hate that en-
nobled him as it had enobled count
less thousands since-hatred for
Germany and Germans. AS the
thought took firm hold upon him, he
paused and raising his face to Goro,
the Moon, cursed with upraised hand
the authors of the hideous crime
that had been perpetrated in that
once peaceful bungalow behind him.
Stripped as he was of all the out
ward symbols of civilization, Tar
zan had also reverted morally and
mentally to the status of the savage
beast he had been reared. Never
had his civilization been more than
a veneer put on for the sake of her
he loved, because he thought it made
her happier to see him thus. In
reality he had always held the out
ward evidences of so-called culture
in deep contempt. Civilization
meant to Tarzan of the Apes a cur
tailment of freedom in all its
aspects-freedom of action, free
dom of thought, freedom of love,
freedom of hate.
In civilization Tarzan had found
greed and selfshness and cruelty
far beyond that which he had
known in his familiar, savage
Jungle, and though civilization had
given him his mate and several
friends whom he loved and admired,
he had never come to accept it as
you and |, who have known little
or nothing else; and so it was with
sense of relief that he now
definitely abandoned it and all that
it stood for and went forth into the
Jungle once again, stripped to his
loin-cloth and weapons.
The hunting knife of his father
hung at his left hip, his bow and
his quiver of arrows were slung
across his shoulders, while around
his chest, over one shoulder and
beneath the opposite arm was coiled
, the long grass rope without which
Tarzan would have felt as naked as
would you, should you be suddenly
thrust upon a busy highway clad
only in union suit. A heavy war
spear which he sometimes carried in
one hand and again slung by a
throng about his neck so that it
hung down his back completed his
armament and his apparel. The
diamond-studded locket with the
pictures of his mother and father
/ which he had worn always until he
had given it, as token of his high
est devotion, to Jane Clayton before
their marriage was missing. She
always had worn it since; but it had
not been on her dead body, so that
now his quest for vengeance in
cluded quest for the stolen trinket
Toward midnight Tarzan began
to feel the physical strain of his
long hours of travel and to realize
that even muscles such as his had
their limitations.
Having dedicated his life to ven.
geance, vengeance became his nat.
ural state and not an emergency
therefore he took his time in pur.
suit. That he had not rested earlier
was due to the fact that he had felt
no fatigue, his mind being occupied
by thoughts of sorrow and revenge
but now he realized that he was
tired, and so he sought a jungle
giant that had harbored him upor
more than a single other jungle
night.
: When he swung himself at las
into the tree he sought, the moor
: was obscured by heavy cloud, tn,
tree-tops were waving wildly in 1
! steadily increasing win d who's,
i soughing drowned the lesser noisel
of the jungle. Upward went Tarzai
toward a sturdy crotch across which
J he had long since laid and secure,
a little platform Of branches. /