The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-22
TARTAN
i Of THE AP ES.
BY EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
hairy beasts sprang upon him


At heart he was an arrant coward,
which is the way with DULLES among
apes as well as among men; so he
did not remain to fight and die. but
tore himself away from them as
quickly as he could and fed into the
sheltering boughs of the forest.
Two more attempts he made to
rejoin the tribe, but on each occasion
he was set upon and driven away.
At last he gave it up, and turned.
foaming with rage and hatred, into
the jungle.
For several days he wandered aim
lessly, nursing his spite and looking
for some weak things on which to
vent his pent anger
1t was in this state of mind that
the horrible, nan-like beast, swing
ing from tree to tree, came suddenly
upon two women In the jungle.
He was right above them when he
discovered them. The first intima-
ton Jane Porter had OF his presence
was when the great hairy body
dropped to the earth beside her, and
she saw the awful face and the
snarling, hideous mouth thrust with
in a foot Of her.
One piercing scream escaped her
I lips as the brute hand clutched her
arm. Then she was dragged toward
those awful fangs which yawned at
her throat. But eSe they touched
that fair skin another mood claimed
the anthropoid.
The tribe had kept his women. He
must find others to replace them.
This hairless white ape would be the
first Of his new household, and SO he
threw her roughly across his broad,
hairy shoulders and leaped back
into the trees, bearing Jane Porter
away toward fate a thousand times
worse than death.
But Jane Porter did not once lose
consciousness. It is true that that
awful face. pressing close to hers,
and the stencil of the foul breath
paralyzed her with terror; but her
brain was clear, and she compre-
hended all that transpired.
With what seemed to her marvel
Gus rapidity theMhrute bore her
through the. fore but still she did
not cry out or struggle. The sud.
den advent Of the ape had confused
her to such an extent that she
thought now that he was bearing
her toward the beach.
For this reason she conserved
her energies and her voice until she
could see that. they had approached
near enough to the camp attract the
attention she craved.
Poor child Could she but have
known it, she was being born far,
ther and farther into the impenetra.
bic jungle.
The scream that had brought Clay.
ton and the two older men stun
bling through the underground had
led Tarzan Of the Apes straight to
where Esmeralda lay, but it was
not Esmeralda in whom his inter
est centered, though pausing over
her he saw that she was unhurt
For moment he scrutinized tho
ground below and the trees above
until the ape that was in him by
virtue Of training and environ
ment. combined with the intelligence
that was his by right of birth, told
his wondrous woodcraft the whole
story as plainly as though he had
seen the thing happen with his own
| eyes.
And then he was gone again in+c
the swaying trees, following the
high-fung spoor which no other hui
man eye could have detected, much
lass translated.
Almost silently the ape-man sped
on in the track of Terkoz and his
prey, but the sound of his approach
reached the ears of the fleeing beast
and spurred it on to greater speed.
Three miles were covered before
Tarzali overlook them. and then
Terkoz, seeing that further flight
was futile, dropped to~the ground in
a small open glade, that he might
turn and fight for his prize, or be
free to escape unhampered If he saw
that the pursuer was more than a
match for him.
He still graspsd Jane Porter in one
great arm as Tarzan bounded like a
leopard into the arena which nature
had provided for the prirAeval-like
battle.
When Terkoz saw that it was
Tarzan who pursued him, he jumped
to the conclusion that this was
Tarzan's woman, since they were of
the same kind-white and hairless
and so he rejoiced at this OBJ
portunity for double revenge upon
his hated enemy.
To Jane Porter the strange an
partition of this god-like man was
as wine to sick nerves. 4
From the description which Clay
ton and her father and Mr.. Philander
had given her, she knew that it must
be the same wonderful creature
who had savad fhaY,, aud che, .ou,