Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-30

nl.ja to answer for both singular and plural
However. for the benefit Of those who ma,
that the, plurais are formed simply Tor al
worSs gorS,r IN n, the 1,, Pai,a,,don isnsusse b,
Lions, then. would be Jja. or men d'don..
Hidden amidst the plant life from tn,
sight of any who might chance to pas,
along the well l-beatcn trail that skirted
the river, Pan LAT lee sought rest and
food, the latter growing In abundance
all about her in the form Of fruits and
berries and succulent tubers which she
scooped from the earth with the knife
of the dead Es- sat.
All If she had but known that he
was dead What trials and risks and
terrors she might have been saved but
she thought that he still lived and so
she dared not return to Kor -ul- ia. At
least not yet while his rage was AT
white heat. Later, perhaps. her father
and brothers returned to their cave.
she might risk 1t but not now--not
now. Nor could she for long remain
here in the neigkborhood of the hostile
Kor- ul-lul and somewhere she must find
safety from beasts before the night set
in.
AS she sat upon the bole of fallen
tree seeking some solution Of the rrob-
lem of existence that confronted her,
there broke upon her ears from up the
gorge the voices of shouting men-a
sound that she recognized all too well.
1t was the warcry of the Kor-u lul. .
Closer and closer II approached her hid.
ing place. Then, through the veil OF
foliage she caught glimpses of three fg-
ures fleeing along the trail. and behind
them the shouting Of the pursuers rose
louder and louder ms they ncared her.
Again she caught sight of the fugitives
crossing the river below the cataract and
again they were lost to sight. And
now the pursuers came into view
shouting Kor ul-lu warriors, fierce and
implacable. Forty, perhaps fifty, Of
them. She waited breathless but they
did not swerve from the trail and passed
her, unguessing that an enemy she lay
hid within few yards of them.
Once again she caught sight of the
pursued-three Waz-d warriors
clambering the cliff face at point
where portions of the summit had fallen
away, presenting steep slope that might
be ascended by such as these. Suddenly
her attention was riveted upon the three.
Could it be? Oh Jad- ben .Otho had she
but known moment before. When they
passed she might have Joined them, for
they we're her father and two brothers,
Now it was too late. With bated breath
and tense muscles she watched the race.
Would they reach the summit? Would
the Kor-ul .lul overhaul them? They
climbed well, but, oh, so slowly. Now
one lost his footing in the loose shale
and slipped back The Kor- .lul were
ascending-one hurled his club at the
nearest fugitive. The Great God was
pleased with the brother of Pan at Ice.
for he caused the club to fall short of
its target, and to fall, rolling and
Founding, back upon its owner, carrying
him from his feet and prccipitating him
TO the bottom of the gorge.
Standing now, her hands pressed
tight above her golden breastplates.
Pan-at-lee watched the race for life.
Now one, her older brother, reached
the summit and clinging there to some.
thing that she could not see he lowered
his body and his long tail to the father
beneath him. The latter, seizing this
support. extended his own tail to the
son below-the one who had slipped
back-and thus. upon a living ladder
of their own making, the three reached
the summit and disappeared from view
before the Kor- -ul-lul overlook them.
But the latter did not abandon the
chase. On they went until they too
had disappeared from sight and only n
faint shouting came down to Pau-at-
lee to tell her that the pursuit CON
tinued.
The girl knew that she must move
on. At any moment now might come
q hunting party, combing the gorge for
the smaller animals that fed or bedded
there. Behind her were Es sat and the
returning party of Kor -lul that had
her kin before her, across the
next ridge, was the Kor- -gryf, the
lair of the terrifying monsters that
habitant of Pal don; below her, in
Ho- don, where she could look for only
ul -lul, the ancient enemies Of her peo-
pie and everywhere were the wild beasts
that eat the flesh of man
For but a moment she debated and
then turning her face toward the south
east she set out across the gorge Of
water toward the Kor- ul gryf-at least
there were no men there. AS it Is now,
SO it was in the beginning, back TO the
primitive progcnitor of man which is
typitied by Pan-at lee and her kind to-
day; of all the hunters that woman
fears, man is the most relentless, the
most terrible. To the dangers of man
she preferred the dangers of the gryf.
Moving cautiously she reached the
foot of the cliff at the far side of kor-
ul-lul and here, toward noon, she found
a comparatively easy ascent Crossing
the ridge she stood at last upon the
brink of Kor -ul gryf-the horror place
of the folklore of her race. Dank and
mysterious grew the vegetation below
giant trees waved their plumcd tops
almost level with the summit OF the
cliff and over all 6roodcd an omnous
silence.
Pan at lee lay upon her belly and
stretching over the edge scanned the cllit
face below her. She could see caves
there and the stone pegs which the
ancients had fashioned so laboriously oy
hand. She had heard Of these in the
freight tales Of her childhood and OF
how the gryfs had come from the mo-
rasses across the mountains ana OF now
at last the people had fled after many
bad been seized and devOured by the
bidcOus creatures, leaving their caves
for no man living knew no"
long. Some said that Jad, ben-,tnT,
who has lived forever, was stu llt'le
boy. Pan at lee shudderCd; but mere
were caves and in them she would be
safe even from the grytS.
She found place where the Stohr
pegs reached to the very summit oi
the cliff, left there no doubt III the hnaI
exodus of the tribe when there was no
longer need of safeguarding the de-
serted caves against invasion, Pan at
lee clambered slowly down toward the
uppermost cave. She found the recess
in front of the doorway almost idCn'
tical with those of her own tribe. Inc