The evening world., 1920-06-16

cold and drenching. He wanted Il
hasten on in the direction Of thu
booming noise for he knew that there
would be Germans fighting agains
the English. For an instant hil
bosom swelled with pride at tbs
thought that he was English and
then he shook his heaE again vicious.
ly. mol" he muttere-d, "TarZan OF
the Apes is not English, for the Eng.
fish are men and Tarzan is Tarman-
GAM; but he could not hide even
from his sorrow or from his suller
hatred of mankind in general that MS
heart warmed at the thought 1t wa
Englishmen who fought the Germans
His regret was that the English were
human and not great white apes as
he again considered himself.
Tomorrow" he thought, IT will
travel that way and find the Ger
MANS" and then he set himself to the
immediate task of discovering some
shelter from the storm. Presently h
espied the low and narrow entrance
to what appeared to be a cave al
the base Nof the cliffs which formed
the northern side of the gorge. with
drawn knife he approached the spot
warily for he knew that IL 1t were a
cave 1t was doubtless the lair of some
other beast.
Close to the cave Tarzan kneeled
and shifted the ground. A low growl
escaped him and his upper lip curved
to expose his fighting fangs. "Numa!"
he muttered: but he did nOt'stop. Nu-
ma might not be at home-he would
investigate. The entrance was so .OW
that the ape-man was compelled Ia
drop to all fours' before he could
poke his head within the aperture: bat
first he looked, listened, and shifted
in each direction at his rear-he would
not be taken by surprise from that
quarter.
His first glance within the cave re-
Vealed narrow tunnel with daylight
at its farther end. The Interior OF
the tunnel was not so dark but that
the ape-man could readily see that
1t was untenanted at present. Ad-
vanclng cautiously, he crawled to-
ward the opposite end, imbued with
a full realization of what 1t would
mean If Numa should suddenly enter
the tunnel In front of him; but Numa
did not appear and the ape-man
emerged at length into the open and
stood erect, finding himself in rocky
cleft whose precipitous walls rose al
most sheer on every hand, the tun-
mel from the gorge passing through
the clin and forging a passageway
from the outer world into a large
pocket or gulch entirely Enclosed by
steep walls OF rock Except for the
small passageway from the gorge,
there was no other entrance to the
gulch, which was some hundred feet
in length and. about fifty in width
and appeared to have been worn from
the rocky cliff by the falling Of water
during long ages. A tiny streamSfrom
Kilmanjaro's eternal snowcap still
trickled over the edge Of the rocky
wall at the upper end of the gulch,
forming a little pool at the bottom
of the cliff, from which a small rivu-
let wound downward to the tunnel
through which II passed to the gorge
beyond, A single great tree fiourished
near the centre of the gulch, while
tufts OF why grass were scattered
here and there among the rocks of the
gravelly floor.
The bones OF many large animals
lay about and among them were sew
eral human skulls. Tarzan raised his
eyebrows. "A man eater" he muir
INJURED, "and from appearances he has
held sway here for long time. To-
night Tarzan will take the lair OF the
maneater and Numa may roar and
grumble upon the outside"
The ape-man had advanced well into
the gulch as he Investigated his sur
roundings, and now as he stood near
the tree, satisfied that the tunnel would
prove dry and quiet retreat for the
night, he turned to retrace his way to
the outer end OF the entrance that no
might block Il With powders against