The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-29
AUTHOR OF
TARTAN OF THE APES"

1 dense a pail of black smoke that for
an instant the figure Of the Sarian
was entirely obliterated from view.
Stellara, wide-eyed and trembling
with pein and horror, tried to pene-
trate the smoke cloud with her
frightened eyes. Quickly it lifted,
revealing no sign of Tanar.
We'll done" cried Bohar to his
men. Either you blew him all to
pieces, or his body fell into the
hole" and going to the edge OF the
opening he looked down, but it was
very dark there and he saw nothing.
Wherever he is, at least he is dead"
said Bohar. THE blow that he
struck me is wiped out, as Bohar
wipes out the blows of all his
enemies
A s the KorSars resumed the
L n march toward the ocean, Stel-
lara walked among them with bent
head and moist, unseeing eyes.
often she stumbled and each time
she was jerked roughly to her feet.
BY the time they reached the, sea-
shore, Stellara was sick with high
fever and she lay in the camp of the
Korsars for what may have been a
day or q month, too sick to move,
while Bohar and his men felled tim
bers, hewed planks and constructed
a boat to carry them to the dis
tant shores Of Korsar.
Rushing forward to rescue Stel-
lara from the clutches of Bohar,
Tanar's mind and eyes had been
fixed on nothing but the figure of
the girl. He had not seen the open
ing in the ground and at the in
slant that the Korsars fired their
harquebuses, he had stepped unwit-
tingly into the opening and plunged
to the water far below.
The fall had not hurt him. It
had not even stunned him. When
he came to the surface he saw be-
fore him a quiet stream, moving
gently through an opening in the
limestone wall about him. Beyond
the opening was luminous cavern
and into this Tanar swan, clam
bering to its rocky floor the moment
that he found low place in the
bank of the stream. Looking about
him he found himself in q large
cavern, the walls of which shone
LUMINOSITY, so considerable was
their content Of phosphorus.
There was great deal of rubbish
on the floor of the cave-the bones
Of animals and men, broken
weapons, bits of hide It might have
been the dumping ground of some
gTueSome charnel house.
TINE sarian walked back to the
l. opening through which the lit
tie stream had borne him into the
grotto, but a careful investigation
revealed no avenue of escape, al
though he re-entered the stream
and swan into the bottom Of the
well, where he found the walls worn
so smooth by the ng-continued
action of falling water that they
gave no slightest indication Of hand
hold or foothold.
Then slowly he made a circuit of
OIlC OUOSI Walls "a Ol1C SIOGtO, DuL
only where the stream passed out at
it's far end was there any opening
a rough archway that rose some six
feet above the surface of the under
ground stream.
Along one side was narrow ledge
and looking through the opening
he saw a dim corridor leading away
into the distance and obscurity.
There being no other way in which
to search for freedom, Tanar passed
along the narrow ledge beneath the
archway to find himself in tunnel
that followed the windings of the
stream.
Only here and there small patches
of rock that formed the walls and
ceiling of the corridor threw out
luminosity that barely relieved the
inky darkness of the place.
(TO Be Continued
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