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

the shaggy breast of a she-ape,
risen TO seat in the House of
Lords, had reverted to savagery and
apedom with the murder Of his wife
by Schneider the German captain.
Tarzan had left the man in the lair
of Numa the man-eater to expiate
his sins; but Tarzan was not yet
, fully revenged. There were many
millions of Germans yet alive
enough to keep Tarzan pleasantly
occupied for the rest of his life and
yet not enough, should he kill them
all, to recompense him for the great
! loss he had suffered; nor could the
death of all those million Germans
bring back his loved one.
While in the German camp IN
the Pare mountains, which lie just
east of the boundary line between
German and British East Africa,
Tarzan had overheard enough to
suggest that the British were get
ting the worst of the fighting in
Africa. At first he had given the
matter but little thought; for after
the death of his wife, the one strong
tie that had held him to civilization,
he had renounced all mankind, con-
sidering himself no longer man, but
ape.
After accounting for Schneider
as satisfactorily as lay within. his
power, he circled Kilimanjaro and
hunted in the foothills to the north
of that mightiest of mountains.
But more and more Tarzan found
Z himself thinking of the English SOL
diers fighting against heavy odds,
! and especially of the fact that it
was Germans who were besting
them. And at last the time came
when he could no longer endure the
thought of Germans killing Eng
lishmen while he hunted in safety
bare march away.
Tarzan's decision made, he sat
out in the direction of the German
camp, no well-defined plan formu-
lated, but with the general'idea that
once near the field of operations he
might find an opportunity to harass
the German command as he so well
knew how to do. His way took him
along the gorge close to the gulch
In which he had left Schneider, and
yielding to a natural curiosity, he
scaled the cliffs and made his way
to the edge Of the gulch. The tree
was empty; nor was there sign of
Numa the lion. Picking up a rock,
he hurled it into the gulch, where
it rolled to the very entrance to the
cave. Instantly the lion appeared
in the aperture-but such differ
ent-looking lion from the great
sleek brute that Tarzan had trapped
( there two weeks before. Now he
was gaunt and emaciated; and when
he walked, he staggered.
"Where is the German ?" shouted
( Tarzan. "Was he good eating. or
only bag of bones when he slipped
and fell from the tree?"
Numa growled. "You look hun
CRY, Numa,' continued the Ape
man. "You must have been very
hungry to cat all the grass from
your lair and even the bark from
the tree as far up as you can reach.
Would you like another German"
And smiling, Tarzan turned away.
A few minutes laterNhe came sud-
denly upon Bara, the deer, asleep
beneath a tree, and as Tarzan was
hungry, he made quick kill and
squatting beside his prey proceeded
to eat his fill. AS he was gnawing
the last morsel from a bone, his
quick ears caught the padding of
stealthy feet behind him; and turn
ing he confronted Dango the
: hyena, sneaking upon him. With a
growl the Ape-man picked up a
fallen branch and hurled it at the
.-skulking brute. "Go away, eater of
carrion," he cried; but Dango was
hungry, and being large and power
fl, he only snarled and circled
sf 5Wly about as though watching
for an opportunity to charge. Tar
( zan of the Apes knew Dango even
better than Dango knew himself.
He knew that the brute, made saw
age by hunger, was mastering its
courage for an attack, that it was
probably accustomed to man and
therefore more or less fearless of
him; and So he unslung his heavy
spear and laid it ready at his side
! while he continued his meal. He
felt no fear, for long familiarity
with the dangers of his wild world
had so accustomed him to them that
he took whatever came as a part of
each days existence as you accept
the homely though no less real dan
gers of the farm, the range or the
crowded metropolis. .'
Dango might have charged
sooner but foRthe savage growls of
the Ape-man--growls which, COM
ing from human lips, raised ques-
tion and fear in the hyena's heart.
He had attacked women and chill
dren in the native fields, and he had
frightened their, men about their
fires at night; but never had he seen
man,thing who made this sound
that reminded him more of Numa
angry than of man afraid.
When Tarzan had completed his
ranast he was about to rise and