Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-30

land Il, Af,ioa. Lady Greystoko had
been conveyed there bv German SOL
dicr, Lieutenant Ober0ats, acting for
fhe high command, tohioh resented
Toysdn's activities during the todr.
attacked BY sacoges, they are sep
oroted, but meet later after stirring
adventures. She parHs him to stay
apop from her or she ,oiu kiH him.
Taredn, me0nphilo, folloios close on
his ,oite's trail. is captured By en-
ep,ies and thro,on into q Gaze.
AND HERE 1T CONTINUES
THOROUGH the windows came suf
i ficient light to reveal the whole in'
terror to Tarsan.. The room was fairly
large and there was door at each enc
"A large door for men and a smaller
one for lions. Both were closed with
heavy masses of stone that had beer
lowered in grooves running to the floor
The two windows were small and closely
barred with the first iron that Tarzan
had seen In Pal -ul don. The bars were
LET into holes in the casing, and the
whole so strongly and neatly contrived
that escape seemed impossible. Yet
within O few minutes Of his incarcera
tion Tarzan had commenced to under
take his escape. The old knife in his
pouch was brought into requisition ant
slowly the ape-man began to scrape and
chip away the stone from about the
bars Of one of the windows. 1t was
slow work, but Tarzan had the patience
of absolute health.
Each day food and water were
brought him and slipped quickly be-
meath the smaller door, which was
raised Just sufficiently to allow the stone
receptacles to pass in. The prisoner be =
gan to believe that he was being pre-
served for something besides lions. How
ever, that was inmaterial. II they would
but hold off for a few more days they
might select what fate they would-he
would not be there when they arrived tc
announce it.
And then one day came Pan sat,
Lu -don's chief tool, to the city oil
fair message for Mo-sar from the high
priest at A-lur. Lu-don had decided
that Mo-sar should be king and he in =
vited Mo -sar to come at once to A-lur
and then Pan sat, having delivered the
message, asked that he might go to the
temple Of Tu- -lur and pray, and there
he sought the high priest Of Tu-lur to
whom was the true message that Lu-
don had sent. The two were closeted
alone in a little chamber and Pan sat
whispered into the ear Of the high
priest.
mo -sar wishes to be king" he said,
''and don wishes TO be king. Mo-
sar wishes to retain the stranger who
claims to be the Dor -ul- -Otho and Lu-
don wishes to kill him, and now," he
leaned even closer to the ear Of the high
priest Of Tulur, 'if you would be high
priest at A-lur 1t is within your
power"
Pam ceased speaking and waited
for the others reply. The high priest
was visibly affected. To be high priest
at A-lur! That was almost as good as
being king Of all Pal ul- don, for great
were the powers Of him who conducted
the sacrifices upon the altars at A-lur.
'How?' whispered the high priest.
"How may / become high priest at
A.lur?"
Again Pan sat leaned close: "By
killing the one and bringing the other
to A.lur,' replied he. Then he rose
and departed. knowing that the other
depended upon to do whatever was re-
Quired to win him the great prize.
Nor was Pan sat mistaken other than
in one trivial consideration. The high
priest would indeed commit murder and
treason to attain the high Office at
A-lur; but he had misunderstood which
Of his victims was to be killed and
which to be delivered to Lu don. Pam
sat, knowing himself all the details of
the plannings of Lu don, had made the
quite natural error Of assuming that
the other was perfectly aware that only
by publicly sacrificing the false Dor -ul- =
otho could the high priest at A-lur
bolster his waning power and that the
assassination of Mo- sar, the pretender,
would remove from Lu- -don's camp the
only obstacle to his combining the Of
nces OF high priest and king. The
high priest at Tu u-lur thought that he
mad been commissioned to kill Tarzan
ana bring Mos to A lur. He also
thought that when he had done these
thlnSS he would be made high priest at
A-lur; but he did not know that al
ready the priest had been selected who
was to murder him within the hour that
Ne arrived at -lur, nor did he know
mat secret grave had been prepared
Ior MIN in the floor of subterranean
Saahoer In tho very temple he dreamed
Of controlling.
And so, when he should have been
arranging the assassination of his chief,
We was Leading n dozen heavily bribed
warriors through the dark corridors be-
tneatn the temple to slay Tarzan in the
non pit. Night had fallen. A single
torch guided the footsteps Of the mur-
eerers as they crept stealthily upon
tneir Cvil way, for they knew that they
we're doing the thing that their chief
old not want done and their guilty con-
ehces warned them to stealth.
. ih me dark of his cell the ape man
worked at his seemingly endless chip
ping and scraping. His keen ears de-
.Su fSe'eu the coming of footsteps along
nn sne corridor without-footsteps that ap-
RrOaChed the larger door. Always be-
lore had they come to the smaller door
tne footsteps of single slave who
brought his food. This time there were
many more than one and their coming
th!s time Of night carried sinister
sassestion. Tarzan continued to work
st ~ us scraping and chipping. He heard
uem stop beyond the door. All was
vMce' so' broken only by the scrape,
'ess blade.
.o nose without heard It and listening
tOusnt to explain it. They whispered
S %W tones making their plans Two
n.pd "Iud raise the door quickly and the
SirHS SiS"erS would rush in and hurl their
t'"os at the prisoner. They would take
SU finances, for the stories that had
H., SSrVGLiat"d In h-lur had been brought to
snI sn"Il'ur-Storics of the great strength
su, nu wonderful prowess Of Tarzan- jad-
utu that caused the sweat to stand
IpOn The brows Of the warriors, though
was cool in the damp corridor and
'DVy We're twelve to one.
srd and then the high priest gave the
SnIl-the door shot upward and ten
h';sl9rs ieaped into the chamber with
SNS S'eS a. clubs. Three of the heavy weap-