The evening world., 1920-06-17
CHAPTER ii.
(Continued.l
w RTTH the agility OF cat
AMk Tarzan ran up the cliff for
w thirty feet before ne

AMA Iarzan ran up the cllu lot
w thirty feet before ne
paused. and Sthere finding
secure foothold, he stopped and
looked down upon Numa, who was
leaping upward in a wild and futile
attempt to scale the rocky wall to
his prey. Fifteen or twenty feet from
the ground the lion would scramble
| only to fall backward again defeated.
Tarzan eyed him for a moment and
then commenced a slow and cautious
ascent toward the summit. Several
times he had difficulty in finding
holds, but at last he drew himself
ever the edge. rose. picked up bit Of
| loose rock, hurled 1t at Numa ana
strode away.
Finding an easy descent to the
gorge he was about to pursue his
| Journey in the direction OF the still
booming guns when a sudden thought
caused him to halt and half-smile
to play about his lips. Turning he
trotted quickly back to the outer
opening Of Numa's tunnel. Close be-
side IL he listened for a moment and
| then rapidly began to gather large
rocks and pile them within the en-
trance. He had almost closed the
aperture when the lion appeared
upon the inside--a very feroclous ana
angry lion that paved and clawed AT
the rocks and uttered mighty roars
that caused the earth to tremble; but
roars did not frighten Tarzan OF the
Apes. At Kala's shaggy breast ne
had closed his infant eyes in sleep
upon countless nights In years gone
by to the savage chorus OF slnhidr
roars. Scarcely a day or night OF MS
Jungle life-and practically all his lire
l,had been spent in the jungle-that ne
had not heard the roaring OF hungry
lions, or angry lions, or loye-slcK
lions. Such sounds affected Tarzan
as the footing of an automoplle hoIe
may affect you-if you are in iron,
o; the automobile 1t warns you ou,
OF the way, II you are not In 'front.' o.
II YOU scarcely notice II. FlgurauNelS
Tarzan was not in front Of the auto
mobile-Numa could not reach MIN
and Tarzan knew 1t, so he continued
deliberately to choke the entrance
until there was no posgplllty o
! Numa's getting out again. When ~ ~
was quite through he made grlmac'
at the hidden hon beyond the barrie
and resumed his way toward tn
east. "a man-eater who will eat m
more men," he soliloquized.
That night TaTZan lay up under al
, overhanging shelf of rock. The mex
, morning he resumed his journey, stop
ping only long enough TO make a XII
and satisfy his hunger. The othe
, beasts of the wild eat and lie up ou
Tarzan never let his belly lnterter
with his plans. In this lay one OF IN
A greatest differences between the ape
: man and his fellows Of the jungles an
, the forests. The firing ahead rose an
fell during the day. He had notice
q that II was highest at dawn and i'm
, mediately after dusk and that durln
: the night II almost ceased. In tn
a middle of the afternoon or the secon
> day he came upon troops moving u
, toward the front. They appeared I
|. be raiding parties for they drove goat
and cows along with them and ther
were native porters laden with grai
and other foodstuffs. He saw tha
these natives were all secured by nee
|, chains, and he also saw that the troop
q were composed of native soldiers
! German uniforms. The officers weT
- white men. No one saw Tarzan, W
he was here and thereabout an
- among them for two hours. He In
a spected the insignia upon their un
I forms and saw that they were not IN
4 same as that which he had taken froi
one of the dead soldiers at the bung1
= low. and then he passed on ahead {
q them, unseen in the dense bush. II
a had come upon Germans and had M
killed them, but 1t was because N
= killing of Germans at large was M
= vet the prime motive Of his existenC
- now II was to discover the individu
who slew his mate. After he had al
> counted for him he would take up II
little matter of staying all German
who crossed his path, and he meal
, that many should cross 1t, for
would hunt them precisely as profe
sional hunters hunt the man-eaters.
As he neared the front lines II
troops became more numerous. The
were motor trucks and OK teams an
III nn the impedimentia of small arm
and always there were wounded me
walking or being carried toward II
rear. He had crossed the railroa
some distance back and judged thu
the wounded were being taken to
for transportation to a base hosp
tai as far away as Thnga on II
coast.
II was dusk when he reached
large camp hidden In the foothills
the Pare Mountains. AS he was al
proaching from the rear he found
but lightly guarded and what sent
nels there were were not upon q
alert, and so II was an easy thiI
for him to enter after darkness hI
fallen and prowl about listening
j the backs OF tents. searching 4