Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05
les and the "Martian" Stories

the jungle. The deer was too lar frolr
the nearest tree TO risk n charge, &c
the ape-man must depend upon thu
accuracy and force OF his first arrow
which must drop the deer in Its tracks
or forfeit both deer and shaft. Fa,
back came the right hand and the bow
tnat you or l might not move, bent
easily beneath the muscles of the fores,
god. There was q singing twang and
Bara, leaping high in air, COLLAPSED
upon the ground, an arrow through his
heart. Tarzan dropped to earth and
ran to his kill, lest the animal might
even yet rise and escape; but Barn was
sately dead. AS Tarzan STOPPED to lift
IL TO his shoulder there fell upon his
ears a thunderous below that seemed
almost at his right elbow, and as his
eyes shot in the direction Of the sound,
there broke upon his vision such a
creature as paleontologists have dreamed
as having possibly existed in the dim
NEST vistas of earths infancy--a
gigantic creature, vibrant with mad
rage, that charged, believing, upon
When Pan at lee awoke she looked
out upon the niche in search of Tarzan.
he was not there. She sprang to her
feet and rushed out, looking down into
hor- r-ul -gryf, guessing that he had gone
down In search of food, and there she
caught glimpse of him disappearing
into the forest. For an instant she was
panic stricken. She knew that he was
a stranger in Pal -ul- don and that. SO,
he might not realize the dangers that
lay IN that gorge of terror. Why did
she not call to him to return? You or
L might have done so. but no Pal-ul-
don: for they know the ways of the
gryf-they know the weak eyes and the
Keen ears. and that at the sound of a
human voice they come. TO have
called to Tarzan, then, would but have
been to invite disaster and SO she did
not call. Instead, afraid though she
was, she descended into the gorge for
the purpose of overhauling Tarzan and
warning him in whispers of his danger.
1t was brave act, since 1t was per-
formed in the face of countless ages Of
inherited fear Of the creatures that she
might be called upon to face. Men have
been decorated for less.
Pan at Ice, descended from long
line of hunters, assumed that Tarzan
would move up wind and in this direc
tion she sought his tracks, which she
soon found well marked, since he had
made no effort to conceal them. She
| moved rapidly until she reached the
| point at which Tarzan had taken to the
trees. OF course, she knew what had
happened; since her own people were
semi arboreal but she could not track
him through the trees, having no such
well-developed sense of scent as he.
She could but hope that he had con-
tinued on up wind and in this direc-
tion she moved, her heart pounding in
terror against her ribs, her eyes glancing
She hnd re,chad tbn od1a ~ = oIoar;nc
when two tb;nos bonnanod sho oo,,nht ,.
sight of TarzaS hepfinS ,vor n Ssad
deer md ot the Same instant n Jcofcn'
inc roar soundod oImost ho.i,o Lnr +.
terrified how hovomd Joscr;nt;n, 3D.. !,
brought No nornIys;a of fnnr I,..aaJ !,
raIvonized bnr into instant ootin, ,,.i.h
The result that Pan. -Ire swnrn'eG T,,m ~,
the nearest tree to the very lofticst
branch that would sustain her weight.
Then she looked down.
Tho thing that Tarzan s,w cborcir,
him when thc warning hoIlo,,, ,ttr,stoS
his surprised ewes iooneJ torr;rl,o,i,
monstrous before b;mo"n,n,strn,,', a,J
awe inspir;ng. but II JiJ not iorr;f,. riu
Torznn II only oneorod b;r, CO.. s 10
saw that II was bevond cven M b;s G
powers to combat. and that meant
that it might cause him TO lose his
kill, and Tarzan was hungry. There
was but a single alternative to re.
naming for annihilation, and that
was fiight-swift and immediate And
Tarzan fed, but he carried the carcass
of Bara, the deer, with him. He had
not more than a dozen PAGES start, but
on the other hand, the nearest tree was
almost as close. His greatest danger
lay, he imagined in the rroat towering
height Of the creature purHinp him for
would boue 20 lit L;oi' -; s"s nc
:blv sbort tmo ~ a. M Hm ioss Il, oumono an ,'erem
wcrc dcceiv;nc tho tb;n% LII prta'"mvtS "a"L
nm and nlucL hir, dovu r'trS frH,,, eou,a , reaeh
undnr thirty feot obora ti".i .i'n u nmS gra.'en
possibly from those NV 70 | t;fsv oH fant u Tnt
rooraJ r! I'm tiodt uP 70 MY ieet' IL II
'ea.eu up 'n ''S n'i'u legs
!, but Iarzan was no sluggard, and
Ihough me gryf was incredibly fast
despite its great bulk, it was no match |
for Tarzan, and when it comes to climb.
ing, the little monkeys gaze with envy
upon the feats of the ape~man. And
so it was that the believing gryf came
to bafflcd stop at the foot Of the tree,
and even though he reared uu and
sought to seize his prey among Tho
branches, ms Tarzan had guessed be
might. he failed in this also And tben
well out of reach Tarzan came t" ,n -
stop and there. lust above him bo s,n,
Pan at Ice sitting, wide. eyed and
trembling.
'IIow came Won here o. be ovkod
She told him. "You camo tn uorn
me" - he soid Tt was voru hrara hma,
and unsclfish of YOU. nm cSoprineG