The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-03-28
RE LOST WORLD
BIZ SIR Arthur Conan Doyle

/ the professors? and who is 1t that
is after us?"
THE ape-men,' he cried. MY
God, what brutes! Don't raise
your voice, for they have long ears
sharp eyes, too, but no power Of
scent. so far as / could judge, so
don't think they can sniff us out.
Where have you been. young fell
lab? You were well out of It,"
In few sentences 1 whispered
what l had done.
found myself hurrying
madly through the wood.
pretty bad" said he, when he
had heard of the dinosaur and the
pit. 1T isn't quite the place for a
rest cure. What? But I had no
idea what its possibilities were I'M
til those devils got hold of us. The
man-eatin' Papuans had me once,
but they are Chesterfields COM
pared to this crowd"
How did it happen?" 1 asked.
"It was in the early mornin Our
learned friends were just stirrin'
Hadn't even begun to argue yet.
Suddenly 1t rained apes. They came
down as thick as apples out of a
tree. They had been assemblin' in
the dark, I suppose, until that
great tree over our heads was heavy
with them. 1 shot one Of them
through the belly, but before we
knew where we were they had us
ho
them apes, but they carried sticks
and stc1es in their hands and jab-
bered back to each other, and end
ed up by lynn our hands with creep
ers, so they are ahead of any beast
that l have seen In my wanderin's.
Missin Links, and l wish they had
stayed missin'.
well, what cid they do?" / vas
enthralled by the strange story
which my companion was whisper
ing into my ear.
II thought It was the end Of us,
but instead of that 1t started them
on a new line. They all jabbered
and chartered together. Then one
of them stood out beside Challen-
ger. Youth smile, young fellah, but
pom my word, they might have
been kinsmen. l couldn't have be-
lieved it if j hadn't seen it with my
own eyes. This old ape-man-he
was their chief-was a sort of red
Challenger, with every one of our
friends beauty points, only just a
trifie more so. He had the short
body, the big shoulders, the round
chest, no neck, great rudy frill
Of beard. the tufted eyebrows, the
What do you want, damn you! look
about the eyes. and the whole cata-
logue. When the ape-man stood by
Challenger and put his paw on his
shoulder. the thing was complete.
Summerlee was a bit hysterical, and
he laughed till he cried. The ape
man laughed, too-or. at least, they
put up the devil of a cacklin'-and
they set to work to drag us off
through the forest. They wouldn't
touch the gun and things-thought
them dangerous, expect-but they
carried away all our loose food.
Summerlee and / got some rough
handlin' on the way-there's my skin
and my clothes to prove it---for they
took us Decline through the
brambles, and their own hides are
like leather. But Challenger was all
right. -Four Of them carried him
shoulder high, and he went like a
Roman emperor. What's that?"
1t was strange clicking noise
in the distance not unlike castanets.
There they go!' said my COM
panion. slipping cartridges into the
second double barrelled Express. f"
Load them all UP, young fellah, my
lad, for we're not going to be taken
alive, and don't you think it! Can
you hear them now?"
Very far away"
THAT little lot will do no good.
but l expect their search parties
are all over the wood. Well, was
telling you my tale Of woe. They
got us soon to this town of theirs
about a thousand huts Of branches
and leaves in a great grove of trees
near the edge of the cliff. It's three
! or four miles from here. The filthy-
beasts fingered me all over and /
feel as If / should never be clean
again. They tied us up-the fellow
who handled me could tie like a.
bo'sun-and there we lay with our
toes up, beneath a tree, while a
great brute stood guard over us with
club In his hand. VIXEN 1 say we
l mean Summerlee and myself. Old
Challenger was up a tree. eatin'
pines and havin' the time of his
life. I'm bound to say that he
managed to get some fruit to us. and
with his own hands he ioosened our
bonds. 1t was a mighty consolation
to us all to know that you were run
min loose and had the archives In
your keepin'.
wen, now, young fellah, I'll tell
you what will surprise you. You
say you saw signs of men. and
fres, traps, and the like. Well, we
have seen the natives themselves.
Poor devils they were. down-faced
little chaps, and had enough to make
them so. 1t seems that the humans
hold one side Of this r. ,teau-over
yonder, where you saw the caves
and the ape-men hold this side. and
there is bloody war between them all
the time. That's the situation, so far
as | could follow 1t. Well, yesterday
the ape-men got hold of dozen Of
the humans and brought them ir as
prisoners. You never heard such
1abberin' and shriekin' in your life.
The men were little red follows, and
had been bitten and clawed so chat
than 1.