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

drove straight for Dango, caught
\ him in the neck where it joined the
shoulders and passed through the
body. -.
When he had withdrawn the shaft
from the hyena, Tarzan shouldered
both carcasses and continued on to-
ward the gulch. Below lay Numa
beneath the shade of the lone tree,
and at the Ape-man's call he stag
gered slowly to his feet; weak as he
was, he still growled savagely, even
essaying roar at the sight of his
enemy. Tarzan let the two bodies
slide over the rim of the cliff. EAT,
Numa" he cried. at may be that
shall need you again. He saw the
lion, quickened to new life at the
sight of food, spring upon the body
of the deer; and then he left him
rending and tearing the flesh as he
bolted great pieces into his empty
NAV.
The following day Tarzan came
within sight of the German lines.
From a wooded spur of the hills he
looked down upon the enemy's left
flank, and beyond to the British
lines. His position gave him a
bird's-eye view of the field of bat
tie, and his keen eyesight picked
out many details that would mot
have been apparent to a man whose
every sense was not trained to"the
highest point of perfection as were
the Ape-man's. He noted machine
gun emplacements cunningly hid
den from the view of the British,
and listening posts placed we'll out
in No Mans Land.
As his interested gaze moved
hither and thither from one point of
interest to another, he heard from a
point upon the hillside below him,
above the roar of cannon and the
crack of rifle-fre, single rifle-spit.
Immediately his attention was cen
tered upon the spot where he knew
sniper must be hid. Patiently he
I awaited the next shot to learn the
exact location of the rifeman, and
when it came, he moved down the
steep hillside with the stealth of
panther. Apparently he took no
cognizance of where he stepped; yet
never loose stone was disturbed
nor a twig broken.
Presently as Tarzan passed
through a clump of bushes, he came
to the edge of low cliff and saw
upon ledge some fifteen feet below
him German soldier prone behind
an embankment of loose rock and
leafy boughs that hid him from the
view of the British lines. The man
must have been an excellent shot,
for he was we'll back of the Ger
man lines, firing over the heads of
his fellows. His high-powered rife
was equipped with telescope sights,
and he also carried binoculars which
he was just in the act of using.
Tarzan let his eye move quickly to-
ward that part" of the British line
the German seemed to be scanning,
his keen sight revealing many ex-
cellent targets for rifle placed so
high above the trenches.
The Hun, evidently satisfied with
his observations, laid aside his
binoculars and again took up his
rifle, placed its butt in the hollow of
| his shoulder and took careful aim.
At the same instant a brown body
sprang outward from the cliff above
him. There was no sound, and it IS
doubtful that the German ever
knew. what manner of creature it
was that alighted heavily upon his
back; for at the instant of impact,
the sinewy fingers of the Ape-man
encircled the hairy throat of the
| boche. There was moment of fu-
tile struggling, followed by the
sudden relaxation of dissolution;
the sniper was dead.
Lying behind the rappartN of
rocks and boughs, Tarzan looked
down upon the scene below. Near
at hand were the trenches of the
Germans. He could see officers and
men moving about in them, and
almost in front of him a well-hidden
machinegun was firing across No
Mans Land in an oblique direction,
striking the British at such an angle
as to make it. difficult for them to
discover its location.
Tarzan watched, toying idly with
the rife of the dead German. Pres
emily he fell to examining the
mechanism of the piece. He glanced
again toward the German trenches
and changed the adjustment of the
sights; then he placed the rife to
his shoulder and took aim. Tarzan
was an excellent shot. With his civil
lied friends he had hunted big
game with the weapons of civiliza-
tion, and though he had never killed
except for food or in elf-defense,
he had amused himself firing at in
animate targets thrown into the air
and had perfected himself in the
use of firearms without realizing
that he had done so. Now indeed
would he hunt big game. A slow
smile touched his lips as his finger
closed gradually upon the trigger.
The rifle spoke, and German ma
chine-gunner collapsed behind his