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grudge against him, and his man
mind told him what the mind of an
ape would never have deduced-that
Taug's attitude in no sense indi
Gated hatred. 1t was but the IN
stinctive urge of the male to pro
tect it's offspring and it's mate.
Tarzan had no desire to battle
with Taug, nor did the blood of his
English ancestors relish the thought
of fight, yet when the bull charged
Tarzan leaped nimbly to one side,
and thus encouraged Taug. wheeled
and rushed again madly to the at
tack. Perhaps the memory of past
defeat at Tarzan's hands goaded him.
Perhaps the fact that Teeka sat
there watching him aroused a desire
to vanquish the ape-man before her
eyes, for in the breast of every
jungle male turks a vast egotism
which finds expression in the per-
formance of deeds of derring-do be-
fore an audience of the opposite sex.
At the ape-man's side swung his
long grass rope-the plaything of
yesterday, the weapon Of today
and as Taug charged the second time
Tarzan slipped the coils over his
head and deftly shook out the sliding
moose as he again nimbly eluded the
ungainly beast. Before the ape
could turn again Tarzan had fled far
aloft among the branches Of the up
per terrace.
Taug, now wrought to frenzy of
real rage, followed him. Teeka
peered upward at them. It was diff
ficult to say whether she was inter-
ested. Taug could not climb as rap
idly as Tarzan, so the latter reached
the high levels to which the heavy
ape dared not follow before the for
mer overlook him. There he halted
and looked down upon his pursuer,
making faces at him and calling him
such choice names as occurred to the
fertile man-brain. Then, when he
had worked Taug to such a pitch Of
foaming rage that the great bull
fairly danced upon the bending limb
beneath him, Tarzan's hand shot
suddenly outward, widening moose
dropped swiftly through the air,
there was quick jerk as it settled
about Taug, falling to his knees, a
jerk that frightened it securely about
the hairy legs of the anthropoid.
Taug, slow of wit, realized too late
] the intention of his tormentor. He
scrambled to escape, but the ape
man gave the rope a tremendous
jerk that pulled Faug from his perch
and moment later, growing hid
eously, the ape hung dead downward
1 thirty fee above the ground.
Tarzan secured the rope to stout
limb and descended to point close
| to Taug.
"Taug," he said, "you are as
stupid as Buto, the rhinoceros. Now
you may hang here until you get q
little sense in your thick head. You
may hang here and watch while
go and talk with Teeka."
Taug clustered and threatened
but Tarzan only grinned at him as he
dropped lightly to the lower levels
Here he again approached Teeks
only to be again greeted with barred
fangs and menacing growls. He
sought to placate her; he urged his
friendly intentions, and craned his
neck to have look at Teeka's balu
but the she-ape was not to be per.
suaded that he meant other thar
harm to her little one. Her mother,
hood Yas still so new that reason
was VT subservient to instinct.
Realizing the futility of attempt
ing to catch and chastise Tarzan
Teeka sought to escape him. She
dropped to the ground and lumberee
across the little clearing about which
the apes of the tribe were disposed
in rest or in search of food, ant
presently Tarzan abandoned his at
tempts to persuade her to permit &
close examination of the balu. The
ape-man would have liked to handle
the tiny thing. The very sight o.
it awakened in his breast strang,
yearning. He wished to cuddle anc
fondle the grotesque little ape-thing
1t was Texas balu and Tarzan hae
once lavished his young affections
upon Teeka.
| But now his attention was diverted
| BY the voice Of Taug. The threats
4 thar had Allied the ape's mouth haf
\ turned 70 pleas. The tiehtenia1