A Random "Tarzan The Terrible" Cutup

And Ta-den. His eyes and his muscles trained by a lifetime of necessity any of his fellows, realizes fully the falsity of my claims as he does captors would work upon them whatever it was their will to do--for him, dream--slowly, sluggishly. It might have been a huge sloth--it might direction. Close to that part of the wall which they approached Tarzan creature, pressing a forefinger to his own lips as to enjoin silence, windows were barred.

The eyes of the owner of the secret of the treasure vaults of Opar. Extent. For an instant he hesitated, glancing quickly behind him and this strange GRYF with the tactics of the Tor-o-don that he had found bonds that were stronger than steel--those of them that were clean and influenced by her slave's enthusiastic championing of the stranger. In the ensuing darkness Tarzan disappeared in the streets of Tu-lur the Kor-ul-JA where he planned to stop to pay his respects to Om-at and he cried angrily.

Feet he tore the entangling pelt from about his head only to find recognized him. "Xot tor!" he exclaimed: "Here he is now. Fall upon refused to walk, throwing herself instead upon the floor. They were had been religiously abjured by the races of Pal-ul-don for all these architecture. There were several ceremonial places of varying sizes, figure of the striped saber-tooth hybrid, eyeing him with snarling, to drag the dead weight back to the safety of the niche. This, however, suggestion of the savage men and beasts that claimed this lovely possibilities of their knob sticks, nor had he, and he had discovered, slowly grew accustomed to the darkness and he became aware that a dim method of offense or defense, since its canines were scarcely more before him was Lu-don, the high priest. Tarzan glimpsed him but briefly in the trees at the cliff's foot. Again the bellow, low and ominous. It them among those of the city who need them most. With such things are determine; but the fact remained that Ja-don's followers developed the moon had set and the eastern horizon still gave no hint of the throneroom, bars would not be necessary upon these apertures, since the Greystoke bungalow and carried her away to captivity she had not rest. She was cold and uncomfortable and yet she slept, for her heart who would find some way to return him in safety to Germany, and the they betokened the presence of his fellows of the jungle, and whether slaves and take your god to his temple." But the distance was great and listen for aught that might menace her--herself the personification of managed to survive during the ensuing week she could never quite awaken as you and I with the weight of slumber still upon his eyes and remarkable resemblance to plucked sealskin. Her loin cloth of yellow almost immediately there was a crash of stone on stone before him before and now it had died out entirely leaving only cold, charred to put it to the test--listen, come close for Jad-ben-Otho has keen "Yes," replied Tarzan. "Where is the shaggy one?"

It was not difficult to explain Om-at's plan to the stranger or to win sundae. But this is your life and that is Pan-at-lee's and even now as someone else to fall upon him. His fame as a fighter had been too long back with those who will presently be eunuchs in the temples and subject had been utterly taboo among them. He was therefore quick to caught her trying to slip a knife into my side and questioned her she that all the priests of the temple had assembled in the court above to stranger to Om-at and possibly together the two would find some way of combining with the personal discomforts he was compelled to endure, his of all his followers than by any love or loyalty they might feel toward seemed but a single alternative to instant death, and this he took at other than the high priest must become eunuchs for they may never marry. Great-grandfather was king and who thinks that he should be king. Thus a doorway other than that at which they had entered, and a moment later jeering laugh struck the defenseless ape-man in the face.

Who stood beside O-lo-a. He had never before seen her but he well knew his mighty father."

Mortal, have posed as the son of god. Demand then that Jad-ben-Otho son?" and then he dropped from their sight upon the other side. Assumed to be the excesses which he himself enjoyed, but devoid of any guessed that it sought these avenues of least resistance, as well it indistinct he saw on a line with his eyes and twenty feet above the sinister conjectures were forced upon him by various observations which the party of Ko-tan's loyal warriors that Tarzan had led to the which lay another corridor running parallel with the face of the cliff. Buildings of corrugated iron, doubtless, for of such are the pioneer directed now by a leader whom they both respected and admired those who forth no sound. The knotted club that had been hanging at his back man.

Interest of the guests in gorging themselves with food and drink that his weapons, accouterments, and loin cloth. Another hour was spent better than lost in the unknown mazes of the subterranean precincts of sanctuary, but it had occurred to him that should he immediately take surprised. The creature was up wind from me and yet I did not sense its the dagger of an executioner. The warriors and the priests and the as Mo-sar carried Jane Clayton from the palace of Ko-tan, the king, the which brought him into a courtyard filled with warriors, a portion of at first she refused to walk when they started off in the direction of of a light canoe Pan-sat entered it and took up the paddle. His the latter shook his head vehemently and then first placing a hand bu-lot yet married to his daughter--and there is yet time to save of A-lur, who is the highest priest of all the high priests of behind in Ja-don's palace at Ja-lur, but O-lo-a and her women were with capture you. If you wish to know, however, it lies up the river that the lion, other than that she considered the former the more dangerous swung a sheathed knife which he made no effort to draw. That would have tree for the night.

All day she waited, hearing in the distance, and sometimes close at silence that were inherent in him he moved forward again, but now his "Go!" she commanded. "We have wasted enough words. This is my country the weight of the ceiling upon its shoulders. These figures were woman struggled incessantly to regain her freedom. He tried to compel creatures, leaving their caves untenanted for no man living knew how hesitate in the carrying out his plan.

"Yes, doubtless," acquiesced O-lo-a, "but it is strange that I did not two months of effort had revealed no slightest evidence that she he and fight; but first we must warn Es-sat and our people."

True message that Lu-don had sent. The two were closeted alone in a combining with the personal discomforts he was compelled to endure, his investigate as fully as possible every part of the palace and its to his ruse, for he saw at a glance that the man was antagonistic trees no comfortable retreat the ape-man shouldered the carcass of the jane smiled, sadly; for she had found that beauty may be a curse. Battles of life single-handed so that it had become habitual for him to occasions the priests and the people fell upon their faces in awe of back toward the mountains, or out upon the valley below, and each time sought rest and food, the latter growing in abundance all about her in tor-o-don who had attacked her the night before and was soon climbing officers had escaped the consuming vengeance of the ape-man. For a long myself--it is so large and wonderful no other hand shall touch it," and "Is there any chance--" commenced Om-at, to be suddenly silenced by a dream--slowly, sluggishly. It might have been a huge sloth--it might confident that a continuation of his bravado would best serve his of the trail that led southward toward Tu-lur.

Never again would her little shelter and the patch of forest and jungle upon the success of their venture.

The idle moments afforded him an opportunity to evolve a more well-known cowardice brought a sudden, sobering silence upon the manner was no sign of either fear or respect for the priest.

With hair. But Ta-den, interpreting the doubt in the other's mind, which shot downward separating Lu-don from the warrior and herself. Raised his body to the threshold of the entrance-way, his smooth brown floor--that was Es-sat's."

She smiled and snuggled closer to him. "God has been good to us, Tarzan escaped his keen eyes. That would be better, he reasoned, than crossing him. Never had she trusted him; but now there was a strange light in along the upper tier. The ape-man raised his eyebrows when he saw the whatever belief in the godliness of the stranger Ja-don and others of detected a movement in some bushes a couple of hundred yards away. Points of their knives they too added to the possibly age-old record of any sinecure since the captive kicked and struggled as best she might,

He stood perfectly still where he had halted at the first sound of the rightful owners!"

Of them in Pal-ul-don, but what few there were were a terror to the pan-at-lee, gather for me some of these beautiful blossoms. I would the latter was not there and it was mid-afternoon before he returned, unable to advance or retreat.

Uninhabited by either. Thus he would travel northwest until opposite lay in the lion pit at Tu-lur while messengers passed back and forth and Ja-don, followed by a few of his more intrepid warriors, ran to and unattainable as the half-forgotten substance of a dream. If she displeased the Great God?" she asked.

Tailless, therefore, must be the race of gods that spring from his kor-ul-lul. It was a raiding party come up from a Ho-don city of the the route he took, leading from one to another, indicated that he had the toll which Jad-ben-Otho has exacted for the lives you take upon the would the cry be answered by the low rumbling of the beast of burden or jane smiled, sadly; for she had found that beauty may be a curse. "He is not here," said O-lo-a. "I have been in the garden for some time that he had circled this whole country and found no place where he his hair and beard failed to harmonize with his other godly attributes. Where Jad-ben-Otho might sit in person and behold the sacrifices that the pal-e-don-so of the great chieftain of the north knew no such wild side. Presently Om-at spoke. "I am Om-at," he cried. "Who will say that the fifth peg in one of the holes of the center row and then, tightly in two strong arms, her head pillowed upon the broad shoulder her mate upon the forehead. "Good-bye, John," she whispered. Not great.

"Lieutenant Obergatz," she said, "by a chance of accident we have met they continued on their way. Once they came unexpectedly upon a dozen cast her missile. Scarce by the width of a finger did the point strike climbed upward on the pegs five days before, but this was as far as the whose blood must refresh the eastern altars as the sun returns to your the air of which was still heavy with the odor of lions, the crafty still in the south, lighted the interior of the first apartment. It was him also that it was the Dor-ul-Otho who thwarted Lu-don's plan to of bare feet moving rapidly across the stone floor. There was a loud advantage of the opportunity to escape which their preoccupation gave "was one of the few who believed in me and who wished to accord me fair excitement as they entered the presence of the guards. "The king slaves and take your god to his temple." But the distance was great and "I fell in with a band of half-breeds," he replied, "members of a mercies of these degraded blacks."

Heard them stop beyond the door. All was silence broken only by the "Who will dare doubt that he who rides upon the great GRYF is less than greater distance than any spear.

"Gott!" he exclaimed. "I do not know why I continue to live. I have was directly behind him; "but there are no pegs here."

Priests and now that authority had come from a high source with a om-at is not gund of Kor-ul-JA?"

Wild freedom that had been denied him so long. Though it was dark and slept--it dropped to the ground among the dense shadows. Now it moved, surely insinuating itself about his neck though he had drawn his head "Good-bye, Tarzan-jad-guru!" she called after him. "Fortunate are my the terrors of the mad frenzy into which trivial things sometimes threw a matter of fact so accustomed were they to the comings and goings of choked. She moved along to another recess and still another, but all "And here in these gorges live the Waz-don," exclaimed Om-at, "who do mountains beyond Jad-in-lul. And yet she hesitated to loosen the eat the kernel, Tarzan followed the example thus set him, discovering the Kor-ul-JA where he planned to stop to pay his respects to Om-at and palace. A young and beautiful woman stood in the center of the little pan-at-lee voiced a cry of despair. "A Tor-o-don!"

An old warrior spoke. "Pan-at-lee should be in her cave. Who should made his way with the celerity of long habitude and hereditary the city and prepare the faithful warriors that they may be in elsewhere in the mazes of his temple."

And now," said Tarzan, "you must sleep, for tomorrow we shall return the fugitives scarcely paused as these unexpected reinforcements joined "You saw me kill this buck and you have said truthfully that no one aperture at the base of the wall upon the opposite side of which there the lesser reptiles of the swamp fled hissing in terror. Upon the was nothing more of a religious nature to make call upon their time he had little fear of immediate apprehension here since he believed corridors beneath the temple to slay Tarzan in the lion pit. Night had the location of heaven and equally so the means by which the gods girdle which glittered in the moonlight as though encrusted with virgin warriors.

As the din of battle rose above A-lur, Lieutenant Erich Obergatz turned his arms outstretched in the attitude of one who bares his breast to him they took prisoner which, strangely, only added to his terror since earth upon a grassy slope beneath a great tree whose branches overhung and cooked the haunch of venison that Tarzan had left her, and from one as with ague. Was it he, or, O God! had she killed him then and was om-at smiled. "What a wonderful creature you would be if you were not ahead. Generally the trail followed along the banks of the winding hold him there unharmed until I return."

Those of her own tribe. The floor of it, though, was littered with blow upon the head with his knotted club that felled him, unconscious, hand. "See that there is always plenty of flesh for him," he said to "I do not know," he replied gloomily. "I have fled and fled and fled. I "My life will be your guarantee," replied Tarzan. "If you find that I adult returns with it to Jad-ben-Otho at night.

Injunction to make good her escape while he engaged the Tor-o-don, for that of his son.

Partly of houses carved from the soft rock at the foot of the cliff. Always in doubt. He might return; but at least she would not have to zigzag course that he tried to select with an eye for the difficulties carry. Only another club, deftly wielded to deflect the course of an bucks fidgeted restlessly and eyed him; but there was no reply. Presently one of them tripped the other but in that viselike embrace chiefs. For this reason he had deserted the cause of the high priest just room between the two for the high priest to stand during the beside the flesh it would give her, and the gut for her bow, the hide bandoliers across the broad brown shoulders and the lean waist. Race as you. Your priests have told you that Jad-ben-Otho is tailless. Look once more and who would be glad to look upon me. Yes, I will go as Tarzan dropped to the ground beyond the temple wall there was in his a thought that brought a grin to his savage lips--a thought that was replica of that of the king of A-lur. "We come from Lu-don, the high hideous challenge of his kind, but the cunning brute-mind saved him says that a demon of the temple is imprisoned there--a huge GRYF." What is it?" asked Om-at. "It is she?" and he started toward the spot. While I am away--look to him for guidance and to me for an accounting abandon you."

The warriors had previously entertained, until presently there appeared his club at the nearest fugitive. The Great God was pleased with the dor-ul-Otho has come to Tu-lur and demands to see Mo-sar at once," he than you that you need have no fear in acquiescing to his demands, but the cliff looming high above them with its innumerable cave mouths find friend and protector in a strange male other than he?"

Ah, dead Hope; upon what slender provocation would you seek to glow necessary."

Him that I will send my warriors to join with his against Ja-don jungle where the trees overarched the way and trailing creepers sensation of ease and comfort and happiness pervaded her being. She have been a man, with so grotesque a brush does the moon paint--master the meadows that skirt the lower end of Jad-ben-lul, with Jane Clayton seemed as much at home upon the perpendicular wall as upon the level the walls within a radius of a few feet--enough at least to prevent him quiet because of a great fear that had crept into his warped brain that quickly forward toward her kill.

The two Europeans followed along the same trail, nor was there any chamber where several priests were congregated after the evening meal. People were semi-arboreal; but she could not track him through the achieved. But there was no time now for idle self-reproaches. Picture of peace and harmony and quiet. Nor anywhere a slightest upon the platform at the left hand of the altar and directed Tarzan to should have the place of honor above their hearth as the ancient the warriors knew these things, knew them better perhaps than a simple now and whatever form of defense he chose must be made quickly. There permanently fixed; but the door was small, the opening just large work upon the bonds with his strong teeth, but ever a wary eye was upon and that they also were probably too strong to be broken even if he the gorge next above Kor-ul-JA is uninhabited and here the wily Ja-don nevertheless, the ape-man gave a good account of himself, being ta-den grinned. "Each of the others presents precisely the same "Here they come," said Ta-den.

"The Kor-ul-JA shouted aloud, 'Tarzan-jad-guru!' and we thought that he progressed upon his way he avoided the cave mouths, passing either "And," supplemented Pan-at-lee, her savage little heart loyal to the very faintly the rush of feet, and shouts. He guessed that his warriors partially opened an eye and cast it upon In-tan. The warrior stood at father's people?"

As he ceased speaking a murmur of evident approval ran through the generations and passed on to him through the lips of Pan-at-lee. Of the princess even though it might not avail him; "and," she said, reptiles, the man advanced only by virtue of Herculean efforts gaining the river. He watched them for a while and then he sat down beside the following the winding river which bore a considerable distance to the meet him. Tarzan, loath to enter an unnecessary quarrel, tried to turn brought word that the Dor-ul-Otho was becoming impatient and if the jad-ben-Otho is sufficiently powerful to look after himself." Of the chiefs and while Ko-tan looked with fear upon Ja-don, too, he into this icy pool the girl shot, and down and down beneath the watery at his own caudal appendage, a look of puzzlement upon his face, the "Is there anything beyond you?" exclaimed Pan-at-lee. "How could you we three must have no quarrels. I, of course, am interested in learning can do. Give me your spear, and--don't run. The only hope we have lies liquor and now on their way here. We must get you out of A-lur at way quickly to the flesh, assisted always by his long, strong sinuous specimens of antelope, all species of which Tarzan had known since as their evening meal was being served to them in the banquet hall of at a sign from Mo-sar, who came and stood beside her as the warriors dream--slowly, sluggishly. It might have been a huge sloth--it might pal-ul-don is thus so sure that the creature is an impostor as to stake in the morning the memory of the fragrance that I love best and which I they descended toward the cliffs of Om-at's people.

Thought, but had been too busy to put it into execution so long as fire of each tree when we would descend. It will never give us up." For some time neither spoke. It was enough that they were reunited and mountains beyond Jad-in-lul. And yet she hesitated to loosen the tu-lur. It was almost identical in every respect with those at A-lur. Om-at. "Back!" he said. "This fight is mine, alone."

Enough bars to permit him to pass his head through the opening, so that he waited for a taker of his challenge. One or two of the larger young "We are alone," the priest assured him. "None in A-lur save Lu-don seize her. Pan-at-lee turned sharply to her left. Just a few steps she "Come!" said the ape-man, presently, and led the way toward the outer the development of the strange creatures with which Fate had thrown "All here are hers," said Om-at, "except the war club lying on the conceived the idea of inflicting further suffering upon his mate. And at the same moment, a hundred miles away, a lithe figure, naked but chance of error by the process of elimination that he had carefully that he had circled this whole country and found no place where he "We will go this way," said Ko-tan and preceding, led Tarzan in another explain to the stranger what he knew of the whereabouts of Tarzan. Entrance to the Forbidden Garden and there he paused and scanned happened--the two, locked in murderous embrace, rolled over the edge unscrupulous Hun, whom she had always distrusted and feared, and whose gund of Kor-ul-JA and with whom I should have mated had the Ho-don not they had taught her how to use them, too--them and the heavy war him up carried him from the chamber. No word did they speak to him as instantly a warrior barred his way and simultaneously the fellow some huge reptile feeding upon the carcass of the lion that had been shaggy brute and throwing his weight forward hurled the thing over his discovered that he was tailless by nature rather than by accident, and of sadness creeping into her voice.

Then another, alternating his efforts, or rather punctuating them, with his tree brought him to alert and ready activity. Tarzan does not gridiron. His right arm circled the beast's neck in front of the right the first and second fingers of his right hand upon the floor of the alleyway leading in the direction of the outer gate that opened from since Ko-tan, the king, said that only this morning he found him here, to meet him since they had been sent to look for the escaped prisoner expecting that his recent antagonist would grasp the opportunity for presently he looked up and at Pan-at-lee. "Can you cross the gorge evident that Om-at, younger and with greater powers of endurance than cliff's base. Then he moved outward upon the sheer face of the white jad-ben-Otho. He commenced to laugh aloud and stood up very straight will obey the commands of Lu-don, the high priest. Only with Lu-don's sensed the GRYF, too, but faintly as at a great distance." Tarzan escape seemed impossible. Yet within a few minutes of his incarceration the warrior with the woman had seen Tarzan at the same instant that the left hand over his own heart laid the palm of his right hand over the the name of Jad-ben-Otho in whose hands lies the fate of Ta-den!" Ancient caves of these strange people and then they moved on, avoiding there. The place is vacant. Once it was used but not now for many which one was conducted just before sunset each day, never to return. The floor of the throne-room, nor was Ko-tan far behind his warriors, numbers upon one of your villages. You cannot even flee, for upon fellow-tribesman of his lost friend, was more than glad to accept this again silence. A minute passed; a second, and a third, and then the "That is wiser," agreed Om-at; "but I might mention, for your to overthrow the government of Pal-ul-don. One knew a slave who, as the priests turned to him who guided the destinies of the temple at demeanor. She feared him now with a new fear as though he had suddenly the fugitives scarcely paused as these unexpected reinforcements joined of the two priests from the Ja-lur temple directed their steps toward a "But why do you seek to escape then from the hands of mortals if you waters. If Pan-at-lee does right she is greater in the eyes of and bright upon the nerve centers of his brain, were registered the they bore him upward to the temple yard.

The inner rooms. Nor here did she find aught that was new or strange has not brought us together at last for nothing."

Direction. In his search he had many times crossed the fresh tracks of "No, they speak of another who came with her but none seems to know inclinations of friendliness toward the ape-man, and now he regretted weight and strength for Bolgani, the gorilla. And knowing this he no matter what suspicion lurked within his crafty mind, Lu-don, the showed above the surface of the water most certainly would not. His she cried, laughingly.

Om-at, must seek Pan-at-lee by night and by stealth, for three, even we the quarrel between Ta-den and Om-at, in which the Waz-don had claimed descended the broad stairs that countless naked feet had polished to a to life at his divine direction; you have witnessed birth and death, a-lur, the City of Light, he could not see as it was hidden by the breathing. Suddenly she stooped and removed Es-sat's knife with its been contrary to their savage and primitive code for the chief-battle questionings arose when it was found that the Dor-ul-Otho with his mate would have gladly quit, and when there were no more Kor-ul-lul who were moment he stood there thus and then swiftly, but with a caution and at sight of him her eyes registered only her surprise though there was "Ah, but you do not know him," replied Pan-at-lee.

Forget that day--it had seemed one hideous succession of frightful but just sent three canoes full-manned in search of her."

We shall find her there. And now, Pan-sat, be upon your errand." Found shelter. As he opened his eyes he saw that his companion was also the knives and clubs of the Wazdon; your hunters are taken by JA and fellow-tribesman of his lost friend, was more than glad to accept this ta-den and O-lo-a were wed, and Om-at and Pan-at-lee.

Least might hope to escape--those in the chamber with me must be blow upon the head. Almost instantly it was up and though the men kor-ul-GRYF--the horror place of the folklore of her race. Dank and he wills it; how the rains come at his bidding, and the fruits and the from the battle that was to be fought at A-lur.

He arrived at A-lur, nor did he know that a secret grave had been and that he had listened was evidenced by his hasty withdrawal to the "Yes," said Pan-at-lee, "I have heard it spoken of among the other placid waters of the pool, while down upon him from before thundered dangers through which she had passed she attributed solely to the months. This little corner of the world is mine by right of discovery of the Kor-ul-GRYF. She shuddered.

Suggested it, he recalled that the Waz-ho-don had thought him asked and answered.

Charge. Charge it did and in those close quarters there was no room to within my power. But it would be best, O Dor-ul-Otho, to communicate also his kindness and his honor: for when he might have harmed me he a refuge wherein they might take their last stand against the her safe return to her people. It was upon the third day of their still a woman of today, and strong upon her were the iron mandates of tarzan and Ta-den watched him.

Return that she might accompany him back to Om-at, for her experience he thus addressed did as he was bid and as the bars came down the had no fear that the old Lion-man would attempt to seize the throne, greystoke, slid quietly over the stern of the canoe into the chill the palace and the palace grounds without the temple. Swift runners "Come," he said in a conciliatory tone, "let us discuss the matter," By ill-fate I meet the messenger, I scaled the great wall that guards only her ability to sleep quickly and soundly made them endurable. The that night a great feast was spread in the pal-e-don-so and for the following the winding river which bore a considerable distance to the sky and then extended his right palm toward Tarzan, placing his left german to his place behind the altar, himself standing upon the other's surface was all smooth and straight. Then she split one end and the throne of Pal-ul-don.

Done she scampered high into the safety of her tree to enjoy her meal and witness the wrath of this divine hand," and he held aloft his right his curiosity was aroused by the very evident fact that the place was grinning. He caught the woman suddenly to his breast and kissed her. Apparently, of all else than the ferocious lust to kill and while it es-sat, was gaining an advantage. Now was the chief almost wholly on remarkable resemblance to plucked sealskin. Her loin cloth of yellow pan-sat ceased speaking and waited for the other's reply. The high such a theory was belied by their knowledge that priests never accepted the priests led their own forces through the secret passageway into the beauty that only the man-mind may attain and then Nature asserted "Is it a message of peace or of war?" asked the warrior.

Recourse to the protection of friends and relatives and the civil retained them through life as definitely marked as those of the leopard. Name that the slave from Kor-ul-lul gave him. This woman is not from "I will not forget," replied the chief. "Go your way. We are enough to the fact that an attempt had been made to keep Lady Jane in hiding in temple of Jad-ben-Otho unless one examined too closely his thumbs and liquor and now on their way here. We must get you out of A-lur at still a woman of today, and strong upon her were the iron mandates of partially opened an eye and cast it upon In-tan. The warrior stood at found a safe resting place such as Tarzan had taught her was best and sought sleep.

Making fast the catch that prevented the trapdoor from opening beneath nameless sounds that are a part of the night life of the jungle--the seemed to beckon and to taunt them. It was so near, yet eternity yawned slowly grew accustomed to the darkness and he became aware that a dim prisoner. They would take no chances, for the stories that had there you will remain with O-lo-a, the king's daughter. It will be om-at. "Back!" he said. "This fight is mine, alone."

A king to do things and enjoy things that he would never even think of they had no time for conversation, the only vocal sounds being confined apparently less cautious was the hunted thing moving even as silently perceived a grotto in the miniature cliff into the interior of which over the cliff face between the entrance porches, suggesting that the ta-den glanced down and discovered his pursuers just before the Ho-don attacked the palace and the temple. Even now they are fighting in the chamber, which a quick glance revealed in the semidarkness as of remain faithful to Ta-den and Ta-den's friends."

It have sprung, for only such as this might have survived the horrid than at the moment the first bellowing GRYF had charged him as he from the gossip of the temple and the palace to be cruel and degraded. Jad-ben-Otho; how his lightnings gleaming out of the sky carry death as seemingly the attack was one of mad, senseless ferocity unguided by "It is as I have told you," said Mo-sar, "and if they find her, assure off.

He realized, however, that his only hope lay in seeming indifference to lion lunged hither and thither, clawing and biting fearfully and moved stealthily from tree to tree in its closer advance upon the and Om-at that would ever make his tribe and the Ho-don allies and "Yes," said the girl, "Es-sat came to my cave and I struck him down watcher in the trees to have decided as the lion's prey resumed its way effort to pursue him, and so, to the accompaniment of the shrill a topic of conversation for the good of the morale of Mo-sar's process of exchange from one prison to another might offer some great God, the two arose and followed Obergatz towards the palace. Dor-ul-Otho while leaving his dignity a loophole of escape should it direction. In his search he had many times crossed the fresh tracks of "There indeed we do differ," cried Om-at, somewhat bitterly and with a outspread above her face. "Now," he whispered and simultaneously he slimy mud and hungry reptiles. Have I not tried it! And the beasts that never would regain it, that she knew, for she felt her fingers numbing trust to the chance of finding it again in the morning.

An expression of rage contorted Obergatz' features. He raised his club a king to do things and enjoy things that he would never even think of the Ho-don cities, covered a much smaller area than those of the larger before definitely abandoning search for Lady Jane therein.

The Kor-ul-JA where he planned to stop to pay his respects to Om-at and uninterpreted by her.

So this was O-lo-a, for love of whom Ta-den had chosen exile rather "What is it?" asked Om-at. "It is she?" and he started toward the spot. The cliff, left there no doubt in the final exodus of the tribe when own fighting men. Were it not for Lu-don's command that he be taken foe. How the urge seized him to roar forth the victory cry of his kind! Jane had made her first kill and she was very proud of it. It was not a prisoner was examined, he whom they had taken first--the unarmed through the trees and be back in the cave before it knows what has figure of the striped saber-tooth hybrid, eyeing him with snarling, "Why, then, would he make me queen?" she asked.

Of an entirely different race, Tarzan could not, of course, determine. Buildings of corrugated iron, doubtless, for of such are the pioneer corridor the GRYF paused, turning its weak eyes in all directions as tarzan looked him straight in the eye. "You are Lieutenant Obergatz of confidence that was little short of practical assurance that she would "It would please my father," said Tarzan, "if you were to cause and each of them, as he came, returned the signal that the warrior had breastplates. Without a sound Es-sat, the chief, sank to the floor of was, primarily, a test of the latter, since beyond the open water was concealing whatever emotion the sight of Tarzan may have aroused. Beyond the stone door of his prison. Long since had the rope of hide resemblance to spears than to tools of peaceful agriculture.

"And if I go with you to the battle at A-lur," asked Tarzan, "can you nimbly as a little monkey to the lower branches of the tree, made his with Lu-don's enmity toward him, or whether it was the shrewd design of that his eyes love to dwell upon blood and upon suffering. But the deity. Under the influence of their vile liquor they would be ripe for the latter was not there and it was mid-afternoon before he returned, slaves. It is something of which all whisper among themselves but of any chance observer above, down one of the stone stairways that led to and withering fear. Tarzan looked at him questioningly.

Suspect that this GRYF might never have felt the restraining influence the nights, filled with their weird noises, were lonely and depressing. Can scarce be doubted, so marked are the indications of antiquity about and withering fear. Tarzan looked at him questioningly.

With the fierce chief, or bide his time until treachery and intrigue no foot other than a king's had touched the surface of the apex of the know that better than you who are there now? Her father and her "You have not defeated him yet?" asked Tarzan. "Why I thought you would "Your problem is a simple one," said the ape-man, "if you but wish to through a window near her couch shone full upon her, revealing the principal river of the valley empties into the morass. They are called aught of the German since that time and she did not know whether he had a warrior who may be overcome with the same weapons that subdue your architecture. There were several ceremonial places of varying sizes, that to the lesser villages all the way from A-lur to Tu-lur. Her lids.

Tu-lur thought that he had been commissioned to kill Tarzan and bring "I swear," he replied solemnly, "in the names of my God and my Kaiser jad-ben-Otho upon this man if you would ever convince us of his guilt." cities of man he is little better than they."

Here for someone to come along and eat part of me and then feed the toward the temple.

The meadows that skirt the lower end of Jad-ben-lul, with Jane Clayton there is a Pal-ul-donian proverb setting forth a truth similar to that but dared not, since the wrath of Lu-don might fall heavily upon windows and the door were matters of great importance and consuming charge. Charge it did and in those close quarters there was no room to she saw framed in the entrance-way to the apartment the mighty figure the silent gorge where lurked the fearsome creatures of Pal-ul-don. And of beauty--a green valley girt by towering cliffs of marble

Cliff face below her. She could see caves there and the stone pegs waiting for his decision, the ghost of a smile upon the lips of the she cut the spear shaft to the proper length and removed the twigs and confidently up and seating himself upon the throne. The abashed Ko-tan palace of Ko-tan filled with rumors, but how much fact and how much them clattering to the floor of the apartment within.

Deer's loin with his keen knife. From his crotch in the tree Tarzan eastern altar. What greater sign of his displeasure could you require, dignified even by the name of trail was suited more to mountain sheep, current that ran close to shore here and carried toward the river that fortune jumped they wished to be upon the right side of the fence. For tree in which they stopped.

Tree. The woman reached out in the darkness and grasped her spear. Now kor-ul-GRYF. But the result was the same--no, not quite; it was worse, while they remained in the city. It was with difficulty that Tarzan had humming softly a little tune. She caught herself and smiled--it was the bench of hewn rock that was his throne.

Priests had pulled quickly upon their ropes and he had been made an and the words of the high priest gave him the clue to safety. There was but a single question: would they be large enough to admit brave men and good friends shall no longer be slain by the Waz-don of ape-man's exploits, which lost nothing by repetition, in conjunction onward in his wake. He was nearing the opening--would it be large taunted, with a sneer that he meant to still further anger the high "It is true," he said, "this man's sin is against the temple. Let him "Yes, master," replied the priest, and so it was that a lone warrior of dialects the ape-man felt that he could readily assimilate another the base of his brain dropped him, lifeless, to the floor. Bu-lot, tarzan smiled. Even here was the racial distinction between white man forging at last through a narrow strip of dense jungle vegetation the and angry rabbit might commit a rash deed. Upon no other hypothesis is and as no plan suggested itself, he determined that he should have to altars invariably were a single block of stone the top of which was caves. It was quickly evident that its owner had discovered Om-at for "are free to go among my people; the cave of my ancestors is yours, do kor-ul-jaians entertained the same conviction.

Log to the flames and pushed an end of it into the fire which was him from them and at the same time leaving him to grope upon its elsewhere in the mazes of his temple."

And the warriors of Ja-lur touch their foreheads to the feet of Lu-don spare a boatload of his warriors from his own protection to return in had never yet seen except as a denser shadow among the dense shadows of beast that held her crouched and the creature that faced it crouched street and pointed his steps toward the outskirts of the city in search wheeled about that the other might see that he was tailless, for it was lu-don's high priest.

His tree brought him to alert and ready activity. Tarzan does not the original outlines of the hills in an evident desire to economize and selecting a handful of arrows set forth cautiously in search of older and greater god.

Interpreted it was quickly apparent, through the fact that two of the that you call a GRYF is a triceratops and it has been extinct for the temporary defeat of those who had opposed Ja-don. This force, event that Mo-sar declare war upon Ko-tan, the king could not guess. Guest had no desire to gorge himself upon rich foods and that he would a careful search of the temple grounds revealed no trace of the quarry. Opposite side of the swamp.

So-called son of Jad-ben-Otho was there he gave this one every cause to from the abundance and diversity of the game it might have appeared "But whether god or man he is too wonderful to die," cried Pan-at-lee. "How beautiful you are," she said simply.

"It was for this that you sent away my father and my brothers to spy the wind in the trees was gently soothing. Before, it had carried a of the GRYF--it is said that man never knows of its presence until it detaining fingers upon his arms. "You are in the temple of

Than at the moment the first bellowing GRYF had charged him as he have long to wait for almost immediately the attitude of his questioner language with which Tarzan was unfamiliar, the thoughts of a man of the corridor was a sentinel, the main body of the guard being temple and the palace--towering high above him, a seemingly impregnable not find him."

Cross belt supported a pouch at its right hip. Confining these straps and closer it approached her hiding place. Then, through the veil of and from the nearer foothills and once, in the distance, she heard what fruit as it bounded from his skull and then turned sulkily away, would be no temporizing upon the occasion of their next meeting--the temples, and the wrath of Jad-ben-Otho was prophesied for those who ape-man moved rapidly across the ridge in the direction of the and so they had crossed the great thorny, waterless steppe and come at were the three white horns, the yellow face with the blue bands followed a moment later by a similar crash behind. No other evidence sinister and awe-inspiring proportions; the hoot of an owl, the distant tarzan, "and sometime the thing will leave."

Can reach as easily into the chambers of the temple as into the rage was at white heat. Later, perhaps, her father and brothers will ever know what we do or what becomes of us and now you ask me to old hope revived. She knew that he would come some day, if he lived. Sight and only a faint shouting came down to Pan-at-lee to tell her the palace guard that had just been summoned by one of the lesser call. The ape-man advanced straight toward him, Jane Clayton at his during the ages that have elapsed since the paleontologist's specimen disposition of a devil. To Tarzan it presented evidence that tigers had "Seize all the priests," cried Ta-den to the warriors, "and let none friends ever discover him in this hidden chamber in the bowels of the at the bottom he picked up the head of In-tan and disappeared among the gallery when his attention was aroused by voices coming from a room the entire area of the floor. In the exact center, directly beneath the and gathered a little pile of powdered bark that was very dry, and some it was Obergatz; the curse had told her that. From below came no we have nothing in common other than those sentiments which may have "I am Tarzan," he replied, "and just now I came from Om-at, of adult returns with it to Jad-ben-Otho at night.

The narrow winding, uneven tunnel, Tarzan lighted a torch which had brought to O-lo-a."

Landed upon the bank of the stream, and fell dead. Jane Clayton sprang the signal sounded from the temple gong, would thrust a knife into the he had espoused the cause of Mo-sar, in whom he would have a willing reeled and his sight grew dim; but not before he reached his goal and a presently he heard the clanging of a gong from the corridor without and implacable. Forty, perhaps fifty of them. She waited breathless; but clung were broken short in their sockets.

Forgot to be a coward, since his reasoning powers were so effectually with a shrug he descended the steps of the pyramid. "It matters not to the guards, and even had he, the priest who preceded us must have seen publicly sacrificing the false Dor-ul-Otho could the high priest at "Prove it, blasphemer! How can you prove it?"

Great throng of savage fighting men seemed even to the giant ape-man a o-lo-a looked ruefully at Pan-at-lee. "She was brought to me but situation apparent.

Been sufficiently fortunate, or powerful, to withstand successfully the "And now," replied the ape-man, "that I have fulfilled my promise I back upon the dead body of his master.

Not even remotely conjecture. A leer of lust and greed shone hungrily going now--be sure that you do not follow me. As far as you can walk in the German Army," he said in excellent German. "You are the last of the was illy lighted and like nearly all its kind in the Ho-don city wound was not she too among her own people already as good as a princess? Sentence upon him as well."

The ridge above, and the Kor-ul-lul threaten upon the south and the "Lieutenant Obergatz!" she cried. "Can it be you?"

These ropes and at opposite sides of the chamber. When he had climbed cliff into Kor-ul-lul, but why you were not killed is beyond me." Ta-den, assuming that one so like Tarzan the Terrible must be a him to the temple court," cried the high priest. "He shall witness the all unusual that the end of the tail be carried in one hand, and so he tarzan explained to his companions the purpose of his mission but strength of his giant sinews he hurled the corpse heavily upon the flickering light dimly visible from an aperture in the floor before them.

Wherewith to hold forever his power over all Pal-ul-don and thus the they call Lu-don, the high priest at A-lur, was very angry, and that from those two feminine tongues.

Search for her. It is strange you did not see them as you came." Presently he looked up and at Pan-at-lee. "Can you cross the gorge of battle had ceased and presently the ape-man saw Ja-don being led approached it, he took silently to the trees and still in his nostrils she reproached herself for her weakness, repeating over and over that obergatz himself being held in leash by the orders of his distant pouch was brought into requisition and slowly the ape-man began to eggs near the foot of the cliff, the last two, possibly, in the caves common language. The hairless one replied and the two approached each killer, worthy son of the mighty ape-man.

The Present fitted an arrow to his bow and drew the shaft far back. The "You still have hope?" she asked.

Warriors who stood upon either side of the chief. Truly it seemed to hands, stricken with awe at the thought of the awful nearness of the peculiar, double sensation of relief and regret. Now she would be do with him as you will. But if possible, Mo-sar, and you would win the rumbling sound and without even a glance at Tarzan it turned and indifference of her race. When they directly confronted and menaced her with Lu-don's enmity toward him, or whether it was the shrewd design of nothing different.

Heart of Ko-tan, for the price of liberty. Another held personal sensitive nostrils scarcely apparent to his companion who only wondered the two priests were conducted from the apartment by the slave through himself but it occurred to him that it might prove embarrassing and their repeated prayers for his presence were unanswered, the weaker "She was very much impressed and lost no time in leaving, calling back at last came the tardy dawn. Slowly the sun topped the distant of old masters, the other the cheap imitation of the chromo.

Discovering the true intentions of the newcomer. And so again through here she cached all of her treasure except a single knifelike sliver. Obtained water to satisfy her thirst.

At the same moment the hideous headdress of an under priest appeared in ja-don led Tarzan and Jane to the quarters of the Princess O-lo-a who, such things as these? And where in all Pal-ul-don would virgin maid the valley but after two of them had seized her by the hair and dragged hewn from what had once been a natural cliff. This group of buildings and so a dozen paces from the temple wall he disappeared from sight of jad-ben-lul and paddling strongly passed within sight of the very tree or perfect blooms the two moved from place to place upon the outskirts an accompaniment of rapid breathing as of one almost spent, either from longer chief of Kor-ul-JA--instead he was a whimpering craven battling opposite side from the great nocturnal prowler, and, closely followed him. Here were men with the tails of monkeys, one of them as hair years," and he moved on toward the gateway which led back into the "Come!" cried the ape-man peremptorily, "lead the way, and let these enemy she lay hid within a few yards of them.

Dor-ul-Otho has come to Tu-lur and demands to see Mo-sar at once," he with his tail the Tor-o-don sought one of Tarzan's ankles, and finding of the latter of weird form suggesting the extinct creatures of the fact that Ja-don, the chief, is her guide. Stand aside!"

The business of the day. The women and children prepared to descend to doubtless permeates the entire jungle because of the long presence of her hands and fasten a piece of wood between her teeth by means of therefore none of us reached the village of our people and only one of "Only that Ja-don took her into the palace where he threatened the "There is fighting in the pal-e-don-so," Mo-sar announced in feigned tarzan's curiosity was aroused, but the only explanation at which he of the chiefs and while Ko-tan looked with fear upon Ja-don, too, he that every known species of bird and beast and reptile had sought here valley after slaves. This Pan-at-lee knew for the occurrence was by no who stood before him, no less a source of surprise to him than had his stone--until the pouch that hung at her right side was almost filled. Her safe return to her people. It was upon the third day of their himself astraddle of the huge back. "Whee-oo!" he shouted and prodded forgiveness at Tarzan who returned a smile of encouragement and gorge of his friend, the chief of Kor-ul-JA. He contemplated the the man made no attempt to assist her, but stood by talking and many jungles--one does not win the respect of the killers with bonbons. Races of Pal-ul-don. He is more powerful than many men put together and a chamber beneath the temple where are held for sacrifice the victims depending upon his keen observation and sense of location he felt safe recess.

That she and Obergatz had spent their last cartridge. She would never "Throw down your arms, warriors of Ja-don," he cried, "lest I call down always in doubt. He might return; but at least she would not have to goal his wrist was seized from behind and a terrific blow crashing to him, and she knew too that Tarzan knew that he would die, but that he desires you to come at once and has sent us to guard the apartments of successfully assert any authority over the great monsters, realizing warriors came panting into A-lur, spreading a weird story of the ape-man moved rapidly across the ridge in the direction of the time there was no indication that she had leaped over the edge and a of the creature's existence. There he was, however, a tailed man with could be of no immediate use to her. Now it was different--she had fathers from blasphemers. Ja-don was painted to them as a defiler of more than either of us guess."

Was not among them the slightest suggestion of her whom he sought. The chief who, only by the exertion of his utmost powers of will, hid the about him his mind will entertain no suspicion of harm."

Not difficult for them to swing quickly back to the latter, especially developed by the long-dead builders of the caves so that fresh, pure breast. In-tan struggled to release himself--struggled to draw his "What do you intend to do with him?" asked one of the priests. It were easy to assume were windows through which light and air might leaving Pan-sat and the other priest to guard the woman he hastened fortunate it was for Tarzan that Pan-at-lee had not obeyed his irrelevancy.

Dispatched to Ta-den whose forces lay northwest of the city. Tarzan, "I am the high priest," replied Lu-don.

Place as best he could. Then he fitted the headdress over his shoulders was no Ho-don and though she feared the Ho-don she feared this thing did to each of the other captives--that occasionally the prisoners him hear Lu-don's charges and the testimony of his witnesses, and then she knew the arborescent grasses that yielded the longest and toughest treachery."

Would be better that I called the chief and turned you over to him and "We are alone," the priest assured him. "None in A-lur save Lu-don grasp than in aggressive, offensive tactics. But presently the ape-man did you know that I was here and what do you know of Om-at and where him.

When Tarzan realized the trick that had been so neatly played upon him casting aside his loin cloth and weapons Tarzan entered the little pool be killed and which to be delivered to Lu-don. Pan-sat, knowing himself spread it that Ja-don has threatened to destroy the priests and hurl meet him. Tarzan, loath to enter an unnecessary quarrel, tried to turn native woman who had conceived a doglike affection for Jane Clayton quarrel with him. What you may command shall be the command of Lu-don, "Wait," cried Lu-don. "If I do not produce him before the sun has moved warrior whose duty it had been to conduct and announce him. The ape-man some plan would suggest itself before her powers of endurance failed. Jad-ben-lul and paddling strongly passed within sight of the very tree whiteness--a green valley dotted by deep blue lakes and crossed by the he found many other craft of the same description moored along the his wicked blasphemy. The temple, and the palace, and the city are fights with the ferocity of JATO," mused the chief. "Powerful indeed done she scampered high into the safety of her tree to enjoy her meal the two women dropped to their knees, covering their faces with their expression in his eyes.

It was then that Tarzan regained consciousness. He could not know what danger-ridden miles without recourse to it, though again and again had of human scalps, taken, doubtless, from the heads of the sacrifices now and whatever form of defense he chose must be made quickly. There at last she slept, the sleep of utter exhaustion. How long it lasted quick wit had shown him how to differentiate between Kor-ul-lul and and it was so dark within the chamber that he might easily have

Been sufficiently fortunate, or powerful, to withstand successfully the om-at and his Pan-at-lee in owning such a friend."

Simultaneously. Pan-at-lee fell upon her knees and would have bowed her jad-ben-Otho strode into the passageway.

White stone for the edification of Jad-ben-Otho, and that when the sun his alliance with the ape-man and Tarzan, glad of every ally he could was the faint reptilian odor that spoke of a great creature which he suddenly he seemed quite sober. He was so drunk that for an instant he "There are ceremonies," explained Ja-don, "that may occupy several days lions.

Questioned him further, but now he was approaching the Tor-o-don and about the ape-man.

Surface of the vestibule; but now their tactics were slightly altered, om-at's cave while the JA and JATO roar from the gorge below and from are but a woman. No, no; I am an officer of the Kaiser and I cannot

The warriors had previously entertained, until presently there appeared unfortunately however Tarzan was not there to inspire the followers of king entered, turned and faced him he was almost shocked by the along the upper tier. The ape-man raised his eyebrows when he saw the back and raised him with giant arms high above the altar. Close at his again and again during the day following their unexpected meeting the barrier to protect this country effectively from the inroads of mankind. Cost her; but time was a cheap commodity--she had more of it than of know."

Have mercy, O Dor-ul-Otho," he pleaded, "on poor old Dak-lot. Precede forms during the brief moments of the terrific climax she had realized uninterpreted by her.

So they followed him, the giant ape-man with a dead tail dragging the slayers in search of them and that when he found them he would kill the comfort and safety, for the ape-man, now that he had found his mate, that he was not alone in the garden. He sensed another presence and priests of Tu-lur encompassed their shrewd design.

Things more than compensated for his lack of experience with the war glass which revealed an edge that was almost razor-like. Jane Clayton pan-at-lee, lulled by a feeling of security, slept peacefully into the "And after the false god," he cried, "the false prophet," and he face your accusers. If you are what you claim to be none knows better instantly the shaggy black rushed in with drawn knife which it buried thorn-covered steppe and the hideous morasses had formed a sufficient he bore his weight upon it to see if it would hold him. Then he that his eyes love to dwell upon blood and upon suffering. But the own altars if it pleases the Dor-ul-Otho to give the word."

Stooped over the carcass of his kill: but with the falling of night his goal now was the Forbidden Garden and this he had little difficulty slain there earlier in the night.

And at last out upon the waters of another lake, the black shores of apparently, of all else than the ferocious lust to kill and while it the warriors of the palace but they have no head, while Ja-don leads a careful search of the temple grounds revealed no trace of the quarry. Trust to the chance of finding it again in the morning.

Head, were a series of small round holes placed one above another in alleyway leading in the direction of the outer gate that opened from presently he paused and turned toward Om-at. "Here she moved swiftly, jATO; no day goes by but witnesses the deaths of few or many in the use the wits that Jad-ben-Otho gave us instead of the worldly muscles might indeed be the Dor-ul-Otho. Lu-don wanted Tarzan himself. He the duration of a moon I was with him constantly."