The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-24

She almost prayed for the cruel
teeth that would give her uncon.
sciousness and surcease from the
agony of fear.
She heard a sudden, slight sound
behind here. With Shrek she
sprang to her feet and turned to
face her end.
There stood Tarzan, his arms
filed with ripe and luscious fruit.
Jane Porter reeled and would
have fallen, had not Tarzan, drop.
ping his burden, caught her in his
arms. She did not lose conscious
ness, but she chung tightly to him,
shuddering and trembling like a
frightened deer.
Tarzan of the Apes stroked her
soft hair, and tried to comfort her
at Kala had him, when, as a little
ape, he had been frightened by
SAILOR, the lioness, or E4istah, the
snake.
Once he pressed his lips lightly
upon her forehead, and she did not
move, but closed her eyes and sighed
She could not ana1yze her feelings,
nor did she wish to attempt it. She
was satisfied to feel the safety of
those strong arms, and to leave her
future to fate; for the last few hours
had taught her to trust this strange
wild creature Of the forest as she
would have trusted but few of the
men OF her acquaint9nce.
AS she thought OF the strangeness
of it, there commenced to dawn upon
her the realization that she had, pos
sfbly, learned something else which
she had never really known be-
fore-love. She wondered and then
she smiled.
And still smiling, she pushed Tar
Zan gently away, and looking at him
with a halfsmiling, half-quizzical
expression that made her face
wholly enhancing, she pointed te
the fruit upon the ground, and seat
ed herself upon the edge of the
| earthen drum Of the anthropoids, fol
| hunger was asserting itself.
Tarzan quickly gathered up the
fruit, and, bringing it, laid 1t at hel
feet; and then he, too, sat upon the
drum beside her. and with his knife
opened and prepared the various
viands for her meal.
Together and in silence they ate
occasionally stealing sly chances al
one another, until finally Jane Por.
ter broke into a merry laugh in
which Tarzan joined.
II wish you spoke English" said
the girl.
Tarzan shook his head, and an ex
preston Of wistful and pathetic
longing sobered his laughing eyes.
Then Jane Porter tried speaking
to him in French, and then in Ger
man; but she had to laugh at her
own laundering attempt at the latter
tongue.
Amy way" she said to him III
Englis'h, you understand my Ger
man as well as they did in Berlin.
Tarzan had long since reached Z
decision as to what his future pro
cedure should be. He had had time
to recollect all that he had read OF
the ways of men and women in the
books at the cabin. He would act
as he imagined the men in the books
would have acted were they in his
place
Again he arose and went into the
trees, but first he tried to explain by
means of signs that he would re
turn shortly and he did so well that
Jane Porter understood and was not
afraid when he had gone.
Only feeling Of loneliness came
over her and she watched the poin
where he had disappeared, with long
ing eyes, awaiting his return. A:
before, she was appraised OF his
presence by soft sound behind her
/ and turned to see him coming across
the turf with great ar1nful OF
branches.
Then he went back again into the
jungle and in few minutes re
appeared with a quantity of soft
grasses and ferns. Two more trip.
he made until he had quite a pile
of material at hand.
Then he spread the ferns and
grasses upon the ground in soft
fiat bed, and above it he Leaned
many branches together so that thes
met a few feet over its center. UpoI
these he spread layers OF huge leave,
of the great elephants ear, and Will
more branches and more leaves h,
closed one end of the little shelter h,
had built.
Then they sat oown together agar
upon the edge Of the drum and triet
to talk by signs.
The magnificent diamond locke
which hung abous Tarzan's neck
had been 8. source Of much wonder
ment to Jane Porter. She pointed
to it now, and Tarzan removed i
and handed the pretty bauble to her
She saw that it was the work O.
a skilled artizan and that tn,
diamonds were of great brilliancy
and superbly set, but the cutting O.
them denoted that they were of
former day.
She noticed too that the locke
opened. and. pressing the hiddel
clasp, she saw the two halves sprins
apart to reveal in either section al
ivory miniature.
One was Of beautiful woman an,
the other might have beef a Likeness
of the man who sat beside her, ez
cent for a s11hfIn difForoyoa ~ ~