The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-09
= AR = AN
of I II E A P E S.
By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS

uOWL L1Ac JuuSlc ny udy anu ny
night - fierce, cruel beasts - but
their weaker neiGhbors only fed
from their immediate vicinity to re-
turn again when me danger was
past.
With Hs-.ss It IS wMrrent. When
he comes many Of the larger ami
mails instinctiveiy leave the district
entirely, seldom If ever to return;
and thus it has always been with the
great anthropoids.y They fee man as
man fees a pestilence.
For a short time the tribe of
Tarzan fingered in the vicinity Of
the beach because their new chief
hated the thought of leaving the
treasured contents of the little cabin
forever. But when one day a mem
Der of the tribe discovered the
blacks in great numbers on the
banks Of little stream that had
been their watering place for gener-
atoms, and in the act of clearing a
space in the jungle and erecting
many huts. the apes would remain
no longer, and so Tarzan led them
inland for many marches to spot
as yet undefiled by the foot of a
human being.
Once every moon Tarzan would go
swinging rapidly back through the
swaying branches to have day with
his books, and to replenish his supply
Of arrows. This latter task was be-
coming more and more difficIN. for
the blacks had taken to hiding their
supply away at night in granaries
and living huts.
This necessitated watching by day
on Tarzan's part to discover where
the arrows were being concealed.
Twice had he entered huts at night
while the inmates lay sleeping upon
their mats. and stolen the arrows
from the very sides Of the warriors.
But this method he realized to be too
fraught with danger, and so he
commenced picking un solitary
hunters with his long, deadly moose.
stripping them of weapons and orna-
ments and dropping their bodies
from o high tree into the village
street during the still watches of the
night.
These various escapades again so
terrorized the blacks that, had il not
been for the monthly respite between
TarZan's visits, in which they had
opportunity to renew hope that each
fresh incursion would prove the last,
they soon would have abandoned
their new village.
The blacks had not as yet come
upon Tarzan's cabin on the distant
beach, but the ape-man lived in con-
slant dread that, while he was
away with the tribe. they would dis
cover and despoil his treasure. So
1t came that he spent more and more
time In the vicinity OF his fathers
last home, and less and less with the
tribe. Presently the members Of his
little community began to suffer on
account Of his neglect, for disputes
and quarrels constantly arose which
only the king might settle peaceably.
AT last some Of the older apes
spoke to Tarzan on the subject. and
for month thereafter he remained
constantly with the tribe.
The duties of kingship among the
anthropoids are not many or
arduous.
In the afternoon comes Thaka.
possibly, to complain that old Mungo
has. stolen his new wife. Then must
Tarzan summon all before him. md
II he finds that the wife prefers
her new lord he commands the
matters remain as they arc, or
possibly that Mungo give Thaka one
OF his daughters in exchange.
Whatever his decision, the apes
accept 1t as final, and return to their
occupations satisfied.
Then comes Tana, shrieking and
holding tight her side from which
blood is streaming. Gunto, her hus-
band, has cruelty bitten her. And
Gunto, summoned, says that Tana.
Is lazy and will not bring him nuts
and BEETLES, or scratch his back for
him.
So Tarzan scolds them both ana
threatens Gunto with q taste of the
death-bearing slivers IL he abuses
Tana further, and Tana, for her part.
is compelled to promise better atten-
ton to her wifely duties.
: And so 1t goes, little family diner
ences for the most part, which, il
left unsettled would result finally In
greater factional strife, and the
eventual Acknowledgement OF the
tribe.
But Tarzan tired OF 1t as he found
that kingship meant the curtailment
OF his liberty. He longed for the
little cabin and the sun-kissed sea-
for the cool interior OF the well built |
house, and for the never-ending
wonders Of the many books.
AS he had grown older, he found |
that he had grown away from his
people. Their interests and his were
far removed. They had not kept
pace with him, nor could they under
stand ayght Of the many strange |
and wonderful dreams that passed !
through the active brain of their |
human king. So limited was their
vocabulary that Tarzan could not
A TIInrr nAVesy