The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-01-23

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"Tazan of the Apes
1H.W HI ~ HE 4lPA X ''Son of Tazan'
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of love and gentleness and sacrifice
was transmitted by its own fires into
one of hatred and revenge.
1t was in state of mind superin-
duced by these conditions that La led
forth her jabbering company to re-
trieve the sacred emblem of her high
Office and wreak vengeance upon the
author of her wrongs. He should be
tortured. His should be slow and
frightful death. His punishment should
be adequate to the immensely of his
crime. He had wrested the sacred
knife from La he had lain sacrilegious
hands upon the High Priestess of the
Flaming God; he had desecrated the
altar and the temple. For these things
he should die; but he had scorned the
love of La, the woman, and for this he
should die horribly with great anguish.
The march of La and her priests
was not without its adventures. IN
used were these to the ways of the
forth from behind Opar's crumbling
walls. yet their very numbers protect
ed them and so they came without ia
talities far along the trail of TarZan
and Werper. Three great apes accom-
panied them and to these was dele
quarry, feat beyond the senses of
the Oparians. La commanded. She
was hard taskmaster, too, for she
looked down with loathing and con-
tempt upon the misshapen creatures
amongst which cruel fate had thrown
her and to some extent vented upon
them her dissatisfaction and her
thwarted love. She made them build
her a strong protection and shelter
each night and keep great fire burn
ing before it from dusk to dawn. When
she tired of walking they were forced
to carry her upon an improvised litter,
nor did one dare to question her au-
thority or her right to such services.
For many days they marched, the
apes following the trail easily and
going a little distance ahead of the
body of the caravan that they might
warn the others of impending danger.
1t was during MONDAY halt while all
were lying resting after a tiresome
march that one of the apes rose sud-
denly and shifted the breeze. In low
cultural he cautioned the others to
silence and moment later was swing
ing quietly up wind into the jungle.
La and the priests gathered silently
together, the hideous little men fin
gering their knives and bludgeons, and
awaited the return of the shaggy an
thropoid.
Nor had they long to wait before
they saw him emerge from leafy
thicket and approach them. Straight
TO La he came and in the language of
the great apes, which was also the
language of decadent Opar, he adj
dressed her.
"The great Tarmangani lies asleep
there" he said, pointing in the direc-
ton from which he had just come.
Come and we can kill him.
do not kill him." commanded La
in cold tones. Bring the great Tar
mangani to me alive and unhurt. The
vengeance is Las. Go; but make no
sound" and she waved her hands to
include all her followers.
Cautiously the weird party crept
through the jungle in the wake of the
great ape until at last he halted them
with q raicnH
ward little ahead. There they saw
the giant form of the ape-man
stretched along low bough and even
in sleep one hand grasped stout limb
and one strong, brown leg reached out
and overlapped another. AT ease lay
Tarzan of the Apes, sleeping heavily
upon full stomach and dreaming of
Numa, the lion, and Horta, the boar.
and other creatures of the jungle. No
intimation of danger assailed the dor
mant faculties of the ape-man-he
saw no crouching hairy figures upon
the ground beneath him nor the three
apes that swung quietly into the tree
beside him.
The first intimation of danger that
came to Tarzan was the impact of
three bodies as the three apes leaped
upon him and hurled him to the
ground, where he alighted half stun
ned beneath their combined weight,
and was Immediately set upon by the
fifty hairy men or as many of them
as could swarm upon his person. In
stantly the ape-man became the center
strom of horror. He fought nobly, but
the odds against him were too great.
Slowly they overcame him, though
there was scarce one of them did not
feel the weight of his mighty fist or
the rending of his fangs.
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