The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-01-08

was O6yOnu power ever again TO
injure man or ape.
With difficulty he wriggIed from
beneath the great weight. and as he
stood erect and gazed down upon the
trophy Of his skill. a mighty wave
OF exultation swept over him.
With swelling breast he placed a
food upon the body of his powerful
enemy, and, throwing back his fine
young head. roared out the awful
challenge OF the victorious bull ape.
The forest echoed to the savage
and triumphant paean. Birds fell
still, and the larger animals and
beasts OF prey skunk stealthily away,
for few there were of all the jungle
who sought for trouble with the
great anthropoids.
And in London another Lord Grey
stoke was speaking his kind In the
House Of Lords, but none trembled
at the sound of his soft voice.
SAILOR proved unsavory eating,
even to Tarzan OF the Apes, but
hunger served ss a most efficacious
djsguisie to toughness and rank taste,
and ere long. with well-flled stom-
ach, the ape-man was ready to sleep
again. First, however, he must re-
move the hide, for it was as much
for this as for any other purpose
that he had desired to encompass
the destruction Of SAILOR.
Deity he removed the great pelt,
for he had practiced often on smaller
az nv le
ished he carried his trophy to the
fork of a high tree. and there, curl
ing himself securely in a crotch. he
fell into deep and dreamless slum-
Der.
What with loss OF sleep. arduous
exercise and full belly, Tarzan of
the Apes slept the sun around,
awakening about noon of the fol-
lowing day. He straightway re-
paired to the carcass of SAILOR, but
was angered to find the bones picked
clean by other hungry dentzens Of
the jungle.
Half an hours 1eisurely progress
through the forest brought to sight
a young deer, and before ever, the
little creature knew that an enemy
was near a tiny arrow had lodged
in its neck.
So quickly the virus worked that
at the end of a dozen leaps the deer
plunged headlcng into the under
growth. dead. Again did Tarzan
feast well, but this time He de did
not sleep.
Instead, he FASTENED on toward
the point where he had left the tribe,
and when he had found them proud
~ exhibited the skin OF SAILOR. the
ioness.
Look" he cried. Apes of Ker-
chalk See what Tarzan. the mighty
killer, has done. Who else among
you has ever killed one of Numa's
people9 Tarzan is mightiest among
you, for Tarzan is no ape. Tarzan
is" But here he stopped, for in
the language of the anthropoids
there was no word for man, and
TarzAn could only write the word
in English; he could not pro-
nounce it.,
The tribe had gathered about to
look upon the proof of his wondrous
prowess, and to listen to his words.
Only Kerchak hung back. nursing
his hatred and his rage.
Suddenly something snapped in
| the wicked little brain of the
anthropoid. With q. frightful roar
the great beast sprang among the
assemblage.
] Biting, and striking with his huge
! hands, he killed and MANNED a dozen
ere the balance could escape to the
upper terraces of the forest.
F'rothing and shriekine; in the in
sanity of his fury, Kerchak looked
about for the object of his greatest
hatred, and there, upon nearby
limb, he saw him sitting.
Come down, Tarzan, great killer"
cried .Kerchak. Come down and
feel the fangs of a greater! Do
mighty fighters fly to the trees at
the first approach of danger7' And
then Kerchak emitted the volleying
challenge of his kind.
Quietly Tarzan dropped to the
ground. Breathlessly the tribe
watched from their lofty perches as
Kerchak, still roaring. charged the
relatively puny figure.
Nearly seven fec. stood Kerchak
on his short legs. His enormous
shoulders were punched and rounded
with huge muscles. The back Of his
short neck was as a single lump OF
iron sinew which bulged beyond the
base of his skull. so that his head
seemed like small ball protruding
from a huge mountain of flesh.
His back-drawn. snarling lips ex-
posed his great fighting fangs, and
his little. wicked, bloodshot eyes
cleaned in horrid reflection of his
madness.
Awaiting him stood Tarzan, him.
self mighty muscled animal, but
his six feet of height and his great
rolling sinews seemed pitifully in.
adequate to the ordeal which
awaited them.
His bow and arrows lay some dis
lance away, where he had dropped
them while showing Sabor's hide to
his fellow apes. so that he con