The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-03
TANAR OF PELLUCIDAR
By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS rApz AsT is The 2F APES

is not back by the time that We are
ready we shall sail without him"
Good" cried third. LET us
make haste then in the hope that
we may be prepared to sail before
he returns"
And so Bohar the Bloody, unac-
companied by his men, pursued Stel-
lara alone. Perhaps it was as well
for the girl that this was true, for
there were many feeter among the
korsars than the beefy Bohar.
The girl was instantly aware that
her attempt to escape had been dis
covered, for Bohar was shouting in
stentor1an tones demanding that she
halt, but his words only made her
run the faster, until presently she
dad darted into the fore and was
lost to his view.
Il r.
HERE she took to the trees, hop
n Il ing thereby to elude him, even
though she knew that her speed
would be reduced. She heard the
sound of his advance as he crashed
through the underbrush and she
knew that he was gaining rapidly
upon her. This did not unnerve
her, since she was confident that
he could have no suspicion that she
was in the branches Of the trees
and just so long as she kept among
thick foliage he might pass directly
beneath her without being aware
Of her close presence. That is pre-
cisely what he did, cursing and
putting as he made his bull-like way
up the steep slope of the hillside.
Stellara heard him pass and go
crashing on in pursuit, and then
she resumed her flight, turning to
the right away from the direction
of Bohar's advance until presently
the noise of his passing was lost
in the distance; then she turned
upward again toward the height she
must cross on her journey to Pa
raht,
Bohar Sweated upward until final
| ly almost utter exhaustion forced
him to rest. He found himself in
a little glade and here he lay down
beneath a shrub that not only pro-
tected him from the rays Of the sun,
but hid him from sight as well, for
in savage Pellucidar 1t always is
well to seek rest in concealmer
Bohar's mind was filled with angry
thoughts. He cursed himself for
leaving the girl alone in camp and
he cursed the girl for escaping, and
he cursed the fate that had forced
him to Chamber up this steep hill
side upon his futile mission, and
most of all he cursed his absent
followers, whom he now realized had
failed to accompany him.
He knew that he had lost the girl
and that it would be like looking
for a particular nlinnow in the
ocean to continue his search for her,
and so, having rested, he was de-
ternined to hasten back to his
camp when his attention suddenly
was attracted by a noise at the lower
end Of the glade.
Instinctively he reached for one of
his pistols and to his dismay he
found that both were gone, evidently
having slipped from his sash or been
scraped from it as he wallowed up
ward through the underbrush.
Bohar, despite his buster and
braggadocio, was far from coura-
geous. without his weapons he was
an arrant coward and so now he
cringed in his concealment as he
strained his eyes to discover the
author of the noise he had heard.
AS he watched, cunning leer of
triumph curled his hideous mouth,
for before him, at the far end of
the glade, he saw Stellara drop from
the lower branches of a tree and
come upward across the glade to-
ward him.
Ito Be Continued
Copyright, 1881, by Metropolitan News