Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-05
'T4RZANT THE TERRIBLE
BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
.,soy of the Tarxun" Stories the "Martan" Stories
-,,,s nEGINs THE STORY
Author Of the "Td'

tdr"sS r"ssSoi;se ta"' IN IN an African jungle,
1 S searches for her. ~ me
#rom =" ,sifh a long tail, from lion.
Tsaoe ~ ooe. man Hills tho hon. J..
Ihe 'p",p,o,f human friendship "
ar,.Lcd bettccen inc dpe-mdh ana
M si'v, ,na". thing. They journey on TO
ne m0 sncorntering other strange
l.M, There, too, they meet ON 'd!!.
Pen.Sti-smo PSt sS the | touch Of the hairy
eposvf ~ a Tor o don, toho dragged
tnge,s be omen again. Tdrsdn sees
Ar 70 Wo,;on' m and makes her under.-
Me siS iSat he Is her friend. and is
sdrcahing ISSa I,Son "', antil II lies dead.
re- ,,e youf" Pan at lee asked.
.w1. WaV caIled On, at gund OF hor'
II. ia" Is. sat is gund.
AND HERE IT CONTINUES
ur,s. SAT is dead" explained the
one.man. "Om-at slew him and
- om.ot Is gund. ON. at came bach
Ays .s,ng you. He found Es-sat in your
ave and killed him
"yes," said the girl, les. sat came
;, nv cave and struck him down win i,
v, " Golden breast plates and escaped
"srd lion pursued you,' continued
r,r,.n "and you leaped from the cl'i
49,. Kor.ul.lul, but why you were
.ot killed is beyond me-
"Is there anything beyond your ex-
,,.,med Pan at lee. "How couid you
srow that a lion pursued me and that
,..rod from the cliff and not know
that it was the pool Oh oS'p "''e' ''''"
that saved meE A., 49,. ho1
"es 81 would have known that, too. hah
-. ,be Kor. .ul -lul come then and pre-
nU. nontsd me continuing upon your tran.
pnt now would ask you question,
~ what name do you call the thing with
which / Just fought
"n ,.It was n Tor o don" she replied
~ have seen but one before. They are
..,rible creatures with the cunning OF
nan and the ferocity Of beast. Great
indesd must be the warrior who Stays
nna single handed" She gazed at him
"and now." said Tarzan. 'you must
,l.en for tomorrow we shall return to
Kor. MI. Ia and On -at, and l doubt that
you have had much rest these t"o
nights" ..,;. - 80
.urity. slept peacefully into the morning
while Tarzan stretched himself upon
the hard floor Of the recess just outside
her cave.
Tn, sun was high In the heavens when
he awoke: for two hours it had looked
down upon another heroic figure miles
away-the figure of a godlike man fight
ing bis way through the hideous morass
that lies like a filthy moat defending
Pal.ul-don from the creatures of the
outer world. Now waist deep in the
sucking ooze, now menuced by loath-
some reptiles, the man advanced only
by virtue of herculean efforts, gaining
laboriously by inches along the devious
way that he was forced to choose in
selecting the least precarious footing.
Near the center of the morass was open
water-slimy, green-hued water. He
reached 1t at last after more than two
hours Of such effort as would have left
an ordinary man spent and dying in the
sticky mud yet he was less than half
way across the marsh. Greasy with
slime and mud was his smooth, brown
hide, and greasy with slime and mud
was his beloved Enfield that had shone
50 brightly in the first rays of the rising
sun.
He paused moment upon the edge of
the open water and then throwing him
self forward struck out to swim across
lie swan with long, easy, powerful
strokes calculated less for speed than
for endurance, for his was, primarily, a
test Of the latter, since beyond the open
water was another two hours or more
d grueling effort between 1t and solid
ground. He was, perhaps, halfway
across and congratulating himself upon
the ease Of the achievement Of this por-
ton OF his task when there arose from
the depths directly in his path a hideous
reptile, which, with wide -distended
shrilly.
Tarzan arose and stretched, expanded
bis great chest and drank in dcep
drafts Of the fresh morning air. His
clear eyes scanned the wondrous beau
ties Of the landscape spread out before
them, Directly below lay Kor -ul -gryf.
q dense, somber green of gently moving
tree tops. To Tarzan it was neither
grim nor forbidding-it was jungle, be-
loved jungle. To his right there spread
9 panorama Of the lower reaches of the
valley OF Jad. ben -Otho, with its wind
ing streams and it's blue lakes. CLEAN
ing Whitley in the sunlight were scat
tered groups of dwellings-the feudal
ssIrongholds Of the lesser chiefs of the
no; Jon, A-lur, the City of Light. he
could not see. as it was hidden by the
shoulder of the cliff in which the de-
serted village lay.
ror moment Tarzan gave himself
over to that spiritual enjoyment of
beauty that only the man mind may
auain and then Nature asserted herself
anu anu The belly Of the beast called aloud
,nat II was hungry. Again Tarzan
,ISoked down at Kor- -gryf. There wns
ne jungle Grew there Jungle that
s would not feed Tarzan? The ape man
siIied and commenced the descent 70
'ue gorge: Was there danger there? or
wurse' e', Who knew it better than Tar.
sna saa IN all jungles lies death, for life
1s ta death go hand in hand and where
nv ,.e teems death reaps his fullest har-
,St; Never had Tarzan met n crea turo
Co, ~ .ne Jungle with which he could NOT
ss,VIpe-,sometimes by virtue of brute
oIs1sth and the cunning of the man
r,vs TE out Tarzan had never met
roras s M naa heard the bellowings in the
down dse IN tne night before after he had lain
Pn.,t~ ~ seep and he had meant to ask
Of b.sss..iee this morning what manner
bsttsrs SO disturbed the slumbers of its
and Iess st.os ie reached the foot of the cliff
hsItedi H sdirGde pi into the jungle and here he
and o,.r. ms Keen eyes and ears watchful
ing sooh h'' hls sensitive nostrils search
scent earn ara shifting air current for the
deepers spur ;ut OF game. Again he advanced
Ing forth ih'o o the wood. his light step Civ
IN renS;ndNo % no sound; his bow and arrows
vas bIGSs' bIow;nSs' a light morning breeze
tbs dirsc,iss from up the gorge and in
odon ieu;,on imp;mon ne bent his steps. MANY
Some aiplhged ~ upon his organs of scent