A Random "Tarzan The Untamed" Cutup

That they must pay the price of one life for every attempt to take and to this a distinct advantage for him was added by the fact that cause of depression is removed, and so it was that in half an hour "You don't really believe they are cannibals, do you?" asked the twenty-four seductive wives proved in itself a sufficient incentive "Not only must I return to find my wife but I must right this cats which, lured here by easy prey and immunity from the rifles could you ever hope to traverse the forest where the great black because of his ignorance of its destination that he at times groveled lying directly in their path, and they were again plunged into the said that she had been taken to the king's palace; and when asked now terrified Hun. The awful silence of his captor wrought upon the few yards Dango followed, growling, and then realizing that he was percy Smith-Oldwick could make himself but he realized that it was kill. Cautioning the German to utter silence with a gesture the the girl.

He could have wrung that fair, young neck. She was German and that but the German drew back in terror. The Ape-man seized him and tarzan glanced downward. Below him the tree tops and the river there was no sun, the world looked bright and cheerful, for Tarzan have summoned them, and yet, if not, it was indeed a remarkable room on the first floor into which he and Bertha Kircher had been as Tarzan turned again toward his companions, the girl was standing are afraid of parrots. There must be something wrong with them." Then it was that Numa went mad with hate and pain and at the same had first been sensed under unusual circumstances, and so Tarzan to follow on to Wilhelmstal, where he hoped to find Captain Fritz plump one came opposite the giant in ambush, and Schneider's eyes "Yes," replied the ape-man, "the Gomangani are the great black the girl's ear he cried: "Have you ever piloted a plane?" The girl feet from the base. It was a jagged fragment of rock which rose some nearest tent and listened. From within came the regular breathing his chest, one brawny hand sought and found the sword wrist and he would cross the dry country and come to the good hunting in a third fearlessness that permitted him to wander far afield away from the wasimbu, the Waziri, and, while he suffered, you laughed."

Although he rushed violently toward her the man stopped without him along as he would have driven a hog with the difference that freedom was not lessened and he did as Tarzan bid him.

As she approached she saw the villagers and their guests squatting of him, he decided to risk the chance of reaching the street

Plastered expanse unbroken except by occasional embrasures. Beyond from above him. As Tarzan raised his head, he saw that he still through which he had escaped. Removing the cover the ape-man bent down the gorge in the direction of their one slender chance of indeed a hopeless one. It was a grave question as to whether the "It is not the spoor of the Gomangani," he said, "nor is it exactly had been slain. As Tarzan and the girl came into full view of the twenty-four seductive wives proved in itself a sufficient incentive hundred feet away. As he neared the foot of the cliff his danger no move to escape.

Which they presently began to pound upon the flat top of the earth the fact, and yet there was a chance that they might have landed rock. Except for the small passageway from the gorge, there was no emerging from the forest opened to their view a walled city and an madmen."

Thus without stopping and the girl heard him speak to her, though him in the city of maniacs that he must not eat the flesh of man, "Here are the parrots, Otobu," said Tarzan with a grin. "Do they he began to hate them and there formed within his half-delirious moment they would part, and then it would be a comparatively simple front of the girl's waist almost from her body with his long talons, passed, the light from the fire illuminated the features of the though he still retained what the other beasts lost as they grew see what manner of creature it might be in whose power he was. In throat. She tried very hard to swallow something that was not there. Wild man leaped through the window and made for him."

And low down upon the forehead--even their mannerisms and their scenting the purpose of the Tarmangani, broke into a full charge of his fearsome roar Sheeta, considering well the better part of enjoy life and then--when you are too weak to cling longer to the lions within the city. The great black lions of the forest fed of the enclosure, and at the very bole of the tree itself two lions boar, deer, and antelope are used principally for the lions, while be crossing from the west coast and for signs of which he had been beside him Numa rubbed an itching ear against the naked, brown "For some reason the king's guard and the king's lions are being for a moment until Tarzan succeeded in forcing his antagonist backward black eyes peered down upon the two. Tarzan was a dozen yards had commenced to laugh, he fell to examining the prisoner. He felt lived his lifetime in the jungle well knows, and the same wind that playing upon rounded muscles, took in the primitive attire and the messengers conducted the two to a small apartment on the floor former swore softly beneath his breath while he nervously fingered the fertile country which I know lies to the south. When Usanga may take him with us when we report to Kraut at Nairobi. It will any Tarzan ever had seen that in the depths of the pit it looked such of the fruit as he saw the monkeys ate in safety. When he had direction he made his way, while from out of the forest about him arms about his neck and was kissing him with the utmost abandon. Other men had taught her and because she looked upon him as a savage few of us die of old age in the jungle, nor should I care to die apes lay away food when it was plenty against the times that were "Can't he get in here?" she asked.

Before continuing his return flight to camp. Now for the first time to be a low, white building around which the larger edifices of rose above the jungle wilderness where Bertha Kircher's life had to the work of correcting the adjustment that had caused his motor where it continued in a southerly direction for several miles. At in that they all talk in the same language that the people of the to lick him, sniffed about his body. There are some things than which living thing of flesh--either a beast feeding upon its kill or a finally loosed in a German front-line trench, and he knew that Numa delay. The question now is the safest way. The couple who escaped was always a puzzled expression upon her face as though she found committed to what he considered his one chance, for even temporary "I should imagine not," he replied; "a lion is not particularly inhabitants of the city, would be but to court almost immediate all her kind, and the fate that was sure to be hers was no more might block it with boulders against Numa's return, but even with a moment Numa, the lion, glared ferociously at the naked man-thing bored into the clear eyes of the ape-man, and then the sensitive why replied: "For the king, of course."

Next morning he resumed his journey, stopping only long enough to for a day Tarzan toiled across this now hateful land and at the across the baby grand piano lay the corpse of another black warrior, before he left the valley of plenty he made several kills and "Not exactly alone," replied Tarzan with a grim smile; "but I shall last he was rewarded by the reappearance of the aide who had been tunic, and then replacing the belt still retain it entirely concealed it seemed to Bertha Kircher that the fingers of her hands were dead. Inhabitants of the city, the only human beings, possibly, that Numa the hut toward her.

Obligation she had put upon him, but no less did he acknowledge upon shoulders and jugulars where powerful teeth had fastened and in the African wilderness and that he had at hand human beings less and terror-stricken blacks. The Second Rhodesian Regiment had made, set forth upon the trail of his intended quarry.

He now did neither, contenting himself merely with berating whites drawing himself quickly through the aperture he replaced the cover a wild run, disappearing quickly in the dense underbrush.

It was raining now in earnest adding to the ape-man's discomfort returned it to its scabbard. Numa, with watering jaws, looked up assuring herself that her packet of papers was safe she sought as which he considered feasible when there came a loud knocking upon "You are Hauptmann Schneider," he said to the German.

But a moment or two before. Stretched on the floor and apparently and of such were the human flesh-eaters of Numabo the chief. For of trench without a shot. I was raised in the jungle--I know the doesn't need his clothes any more."

The consternation of both the lions and their master, disappeared south side of the wall along which were the pens and corrals where to nothing worse than the petty cruelties of the women, while, on who and what could this almost naked, white savage be? He had many of them are. Their nervous condition is not without its good his mate. Being uncomfortably full he was inclined to be sleepy by the neck. As before there was no outcry. The giant muscles tensed. They moved on rapidly in silence for a few minutes when their outside at the entrance."

But I cannot accompany you in these clothes without exposing us as he had caused Jane Clayton to suffer. Tarzan could not hope to voices to the north and when he and his men had hidden in the dense and later her admiration for the young bull increased as it became "I was passing," said the general, "and I thought I would stop for was undergoing, but he felt no pity for this woman of a cruel enemy man. At first, as she turned toward the ape-man, her face reflected therefore Lieutenant Harold Percy Smith-Oldwick flew low toward no well-defined plan formulated; but with the general idea that the body of the madman. The effect upon Metak was electrical. From settled by hideous growling than by actual combat, the law of bluff that if he were to aid them he could not do it from outside the his birthright.

The ape-man perched above the trail, a silent noose dropped deftly borne all that I can. Though I was willing to give my life in the was huge; that it was indeed another of the black-maned monsters "Go back to the roof beside the city wall where I entered," replied they passed, she guessed that the prince's punishment might be both assured that, by now turning south, she could pass safely in rear while the tones of his voice and his gestures resembled those of began to plead, and as he argued with her, promising her safety then, turning to the girl asked, "Did you ever visit a madhouse?" Some place that they do not wish us to go; in other words we are eyes almost disappeared and he growled and roared and snarled and at hand, after which he turned again to Numa, and with his knife closely, and when their eyes discovered no signs of others of his and Usanga advanced with two of his warriors to palaver with the with a spear. At a word from one of her guards the Negro opened the was a terrible man; but then, they are all terrible."

She suddenly desisted from her futile attacks upon the insensate of the human family, and besides these the creatures of the jungle times although she had quite lost all sense of direction; but she score of figures crouching in the concealment of the undergrowth he did not see her again before she entered a plane and was borne from the Wamabo village to which Usanga, the black sergeant, had pain of his wounds and the consequent weakness that was greatly nodded a quick affirmative.

Again--still silence. Placing a leg over the sill he slipped within far to the east, Tarzan of the Apes was traveling rapidly from harrowing experience of the loop, yet with terra firma once more life. Suddenly she touched him on the arm.

Planes that was to carry Smith-Oldwick and the girl to the east. And so Bertha Kircher broke her long fast upon strange fruits, lion the lion, at the same time rushing in with his shoulder beneath smith-Oldwick was by this time beginning to feel more acutely the for a moment the latter stood his ground with arched back and "We had not been in the desert land long before the Arabs were have forgotten her and that soon they might become so hopelessly he was hungry, he ate, pausing but long enough to make the kill beneath the shade of trees within the clearing.

Incarcerated he could not know. But of one thing he was assured: The hides together, afterwards piercing holes every three or four they were within a few feet of the bottom.

To Zu-tag's side, but the old bulls with the conservatism and bush and his yellow-green eyes rested gloatingly upon the body of though watching for an opportunity to charge. Tarzan of the Apes mile after mile Tarzan of the Apes put slowly behind him, borne up intervals of utter silence in which the crudest of imaginations than from any other source of amusement the grim jungle offered. Idea in the world where to look for Miss Kircher."

But you can't hope to make repairs here," she said dubiously. Were upon the point of giving way to some pent emotion which her folds of the garment, "you are a queen indeed!"

Country of the dead himself and he knew from his own experience instant later saw an almost naked white man drop from a near-by horrid sounds, the roaring of lions mingling with the raucous voices it picked out in clear relief for any curious eyes that chanced to a folded paper from an inside pocket of her coat, handed it to him. Continue my journey in that direction."

Therefore, an enemy, and Tarzan had no desire to be delayed by an among the branches with their keen eyes. What had become of their of his upraised hand, his mad eyes rolled upward and foam flecked the old woman smiled her crooked smile. "It is nothing," she said. The last throb of that savage heart!

It was a wild beast whose teeth fastened upon the shoulder of the against the beautiful, black coat of Kala, my foster mother

"What do you mean!" he exclaimed; "what do you mean by that! You "The fellow must have been the same as he who leaped into the tremendously hungry and as he circled about over the sandy bottom hatred and so Numa found that he respected the creature who had back and hurled across the room to the opposite wall. There Tarzan the man tried to free himself from her rather surprising attentions, "but if Numa is here there must be water within a reasonable

His great fangs, came Zu-tag, the young bull, while at his heels, the girl's mind as to which was the more terrifying. His companions lieutenant's ship," and then he repeated what Lieutenant Thompson the bungalows. The brute came slowly toward him, growling. Tarzan without a word, turned and left. With the entrance of the man though he had fallen upon his knees and protested undying devotion in his native element surrounded by game in plenty and rapidly of earth in the center of the clearing. Squatting close about this monotonously upon his brain--a dull, throbbing pain, yet mechanically the vultures, lying a day's march up the same gorge through which "I do not know when. I have all my life before me and in the jungle buto, the rhinoceros, lumbered toward him along the narrow, deep-worn man's veins. His face lightened instantly and with strength that standing over him licking his face, the tears sprang to his eyes of the forest for him to lead them. He suddenly realized that this affording feed for her horse and a bed for herself, and there was it to break into the meadowland where they were sure they would native soldiers he caught a few words spoken in native dialect that soldier who had helped to crucify Wasimbu, the Waziri, described a passing beneath the flares the three Europeans were careful to tarzan smiled. "I told him," he replied, "that I am Tarzan of the avenue of escape, and at last, with a muttered oath, he straightened it and your life will be constantly menaced. The shes especially utter noiselessness commenced the descent toward the bottom of the violently.

Brought a sudden scowl of surprise and anger to his face--the slowly, with leaden feet, he moved toward the door. Gropingly his knees first and then staggering to his feet, yet his indomitable moment.

In a strange jargon, no syllable of which was intelligible to the the direction from which the sound came, he saw a huge beast moving with the result that the general effect was soft and beautiful. Seen the plane, he had realized that the black was almost without recall how his point stuck into you and how with his haft I beat he hoped to find Bara or Horta approaching or leaving a drinking were smaller, exposing more of the white of the eyeball.

Found a way out and up onto the roof where I have been for quite a short distance of the clearing where he had left Bertha Kircher as Numa rose from his second victim and shook himself, Tarzan could to leap from her concealment into the arena where the apes were lead, and as he opened the door in the back of the niche, he was them. As he talked, the general toyed with an oil lamp that stood body motionless as a marble statue as the creature crouched in the connected the loud report, the diminutive weapon, and the sudden garters that fastened tightly around the legs above the hocks. Two of the men now led Smith-Oldwick. He found himself in a long equation of life--it was all the same to Tarzan if he reached the "I am not so much afraid of the native blacks," said the girl, "as there was little change in the formation of the gorge; it still rushing toward them.

Partially satisfied his hunger, for meat alone could fully do so, water. Here Buto, the rhinoceros, blundered blindly in his solitary directly before him in the wall nearest him Tarzan saw a low-arched "But how are we going to reach the roof again, after all?" queried route along which there was usually water and game in plenty. It english are men and Tarzan is Tarmangani;" but he could not hide whatever duties called them, as soberly as the inhabitants of any sniffing. At the rear of the village he discovered a tree whose these mute evidences of a tragedy of a time long past.

Subdued and mastered him. He saw Sheeta, upon whom he looked with dawn he, for the first time, was able to obtain a good look at his his country was at war with Germany and that not only his duty to girl in the tree clapped her palms to her cheeks as she watched, he turned and sprang away, and then at last the Englishman stood study of the man's features, carriage, and the contour of his head once he was nearly upset by a naked man running rapidly through sure that there was no lion close by in the forest, and none in about to render them forever unattainable.

Roaring--just the quiet drawing of the silent circle about him. Clearing of a section of their left-flank trenches of native soldiers only a moment before she regained control of herself.

At this juncture the door was thrown open without ceremony and a and there, too, was added his desire for the white girl whom he kingship and consequently the old bull looked upon Zu-tag with escape. "Yes," he replied, "I knew that she was Bertha Kircher, as he had done upon other occasions he took up his position in a find the girl, and where the girl was doubtless would be Hauptmann there thousands of feet below.

Called to the figure of a man lowering himself laboriously from the across the floor of which paced a man in a scarlet tunic, upon the the body of Veza."

What was it to Tarzan of the Apes what fate befell this enemy hoped so. Or would all his labor prove fruitless?

Men were stretched upon the ground without tents; but there were once near the field of operations he might find an opportunity to him as, with demoniacal roars, he sprang upon the hapless man he so the great lion redoubled the cautiousness of his advance as he and in their coats Tarzan noted a suggestion of the black which countless sandaled feet during the ages that it had lain there. Of might had succumbed to the cruel powers of the desert, he was a large man--a man of wondrous strength and vitality Tarzan knew have caught her scent as yet, though he might be approaching to to a German native regiment. They brought me along with them when not entirely successful, and the impact of the blow carried her trees were planted. And so the forest grew until today it covers penetrating the dead blackness of its ominous portent. What had he had, it is true, contemplated leaving the girl to her fate but is none other in this part of British East Africa. God is with us, the girl stifled an involuntary scream as she saw the proximity before the lion could know that a part of his formidable armament up at Tarzan, "you, who have done so much for us to whom you are her cheeks as she leaned forward in stony-eyed, horror-stricken when you hear it burst in this listening post let your men start ugly-faced little monkey who looked down upon them for a moment and hut a short distance away.

A sharp turn the park-like clearing was revealed to them simultaneously he long since had laid and secured a little platform of branches. Evidently there were lions and lions, and while they evinced no the ape-man and in return received a cuff on one ear that sent him explanation of the disturbance among his flock. Possibly he discovered "And look at the domes and minarets of the city beyond," cried the her even had it been there to offer itself. For a moment she tore animals he could scent water from a great distance and, where you "Tell them," he said to the Negro, "if you speak their language, utter and licentious abandon.

Lord and master intermingled with that of a Tarmangani and the yet she was not ashamed of the impulse that had prompted her, but do it--yet, she must be free and she must regain possession of from the trees and drank of the water from the stream, he turned it with the two guards he found himself in an opening which was paper.

Roof of the hut below. From there to the ground was but a short drop creature who thus dared brazenly to face the king of beasts, she a British officer. It was the latter thought that prompted him to almost at the foot of the tree that was his goal, and between him evidence of her own eyes that it was indeed the savage man, whose interest to another he heard from a point upon the hillside below whom they called Xanila, was to accompany her. The girl felt some up he saw a diminutive monkey perched upon a slight projection--an saw now that the latter was explaining something in detail to his succeeded in getting the lion sufficiently far into the tunnel urge--on, on, on! The hills were now but a dim, ill-defined blur of those great beasts to enter the boma and slay her. How helpless of big-game hunters, swarm the district.

Unexpectedly upon the scent of man. Heretofore the lord of the jungle the cunning construction of the trap. The ordinary lion pit with the other. At the mention of his name Tarzan had noted the sickly of their feast. A great crowd of natives were gathered about the at the idea of eating cat."

Equaled when in possession of his normal strength. With his life upon the girl's face--she could feel his hot breath upon her cheek smith-Oldwick, in recalling the long months of arduous training he the houses were very thick and that all apertures were quite small, cast into the same fateful trap from which this giant of old had upon the right trail, insisted that they knew the way and so led dawn and immediately after dusk and that during the night it almost for two days Smith-Oldwick worked upon the damaged plane--worked face he glared at the brown-skinned Tarmangani above him. Very slowly quickly cut the garters that held the bags upon his front paws. Known that I should never live to regain civilization. I have done direction. She strained her ears until her nerves were on the point through the frame of the girl and brought a pallor to the red face about. With returning consciousness the eyes assumed their natural to her chief.

Plateau above. Tarzan and Otobu were both equally confident that who immediately took up the cadence of the dance where they had "Take your hand off that pistol," Tarzan admonished her. Her hand will eat no more men," he soliloquized.

By the time Tarzan had freed the Englishman the girl joined them. Experience as a pilot and that death surely awaited them in any past him to the breast of his opponent. Down went the Xujan, his was not one chance in one hundred thousand that he could ever land at work among the plants.

Beast he had been reared. Never had his civilization been more than turning from her advance the girl ran to his side. She had no knife expect to kill us with parrots?"

The advance guard approached and when Tarzan and the girl spoke his head and they heard break from his lips the plaintive note of seemed a signal for a series of hideous screamings, growlings and closer and closer danced the hideous chief, his yellow, sharp-filed and good."

Two naked savages fastened to each other by a neck chain. These first faint lightening of the eastern horizon presaged the coming the west, as did Otobu's, and that they would travel together as attack on the part of the balance of the British forces.

"It doesn't sound at all like the native language," said the girl, "Yes," said the girl; "and did you notice that the birds seem utterly seized the partially devoured body by the neck and dragged it into african desert.

The ape-man consider relinquishing his death-hold upon his adversary. A wild beast. Down went the buck and Tarzan and his captive had nostrils caught the scent of the fresh blood of Bara and the eyes to hers and slowly, step by step, she was being carried backward. By the prince, the latter became immediately filled with baffled work excavating with his knife at a point above where one of the always hoping that he might discover some sign of their passage--a under no obligations, will go on without us. I for one wish that that is inherent to all creatures of the wild had deserted him. Europeans moved slowly toward the village gate, the aviator arming was not long until Tarzan had exposed that part of one of the stakes himself thinking of the English soldiers fighting against heavy landing. Directly beneath him was a deep rift in the plateau, a quiet and appease him, she told him that the Englishman was merely the presence of man.

On the other hand, that he might be hideously cruel was evidenced I was a little balu my skin, I presume, looked very white indeed wobbled he was held erect by the ape-man. Tarzan brought the sharp "Thank you," she said, "but I am not brave at all, and now I am they will come, and, O Bwana, then will they surely get us, or watching them, nor that other eyes less friendly were glaring at "after it is over it will be all the same."

The coil and when Numa slipped backward to the ground only his hind the lion, launched himself through the air. He struck the animal's she had given him to the British chief of staff, even though

In his terror he would betray them. "Fear not," he whispered, "we of the Apes.

Beyond the city was doubtful, and having, by some miracle, won to none more awe inspiring than that of the great bull ape when he kill you immediately. Get up!"

Across the dark continent to reinforce their colonial troops. In countless sandaled feet during the ages that it had lain there. Then, in a fit of rage, he seized and mauled the body only to drop from her saddlebags she took cold food and from her canteen a native troops captured me and brought me inland, my death warrant "Yes," he said, "they probably will. But we need not be concerned force--Tarzan's love and loyalty for his friends of the civilized him. They saw a giant white man leap from the branches of a tree the Germans. His regret was that the English were human and not does not spoil his meat with fire."

Which would be fraught with danger. She turned toward her companion. The branch upon which the two faced each other rose and fell like and so now he found no need for confiding them in others. This an almost naked Tarmangani lying face down in a narrow game trail. His face was a picture of frightful rage incarnate. For a moment building into which she had been conducted, the entrance to which an almost naked Tarmangani lying face down in a narrow game trail. Of the two heavy bodies.

Lion's den, but it would take a very brave man to go to its rescue." Took a few steps in Tarzan's direction. The ape-man picked up a then it was to issue a curt order to her guards, who immediately with a sudden hold that the stupid bull, being ignorant of, could of the native women and adjusted it about her figure. The material to her they seemed to indicate nothing but bestial rage while to spotted body through the foliage verging the trail, Bara gave a catapult him over his shoulder. The king ape fell upon his head with his mental attitude, which was marked by a dogged determination "What is that?" she whispered. "There is something out there in the boom of cannon far away to the east. The afternoon had been further irrigation, the course of the stream was changed and other immediate vicinity, and so without further hesitation the ape-man his quiver of arrows were slung across his shoulders, while around another sigh heaved his broad chest, nor was it a sigh of relief, jewelry. Her bare arms were slender and shapely and her hands and without fatal injuries, and so upon this slim chance he started out plain's edge looking out across his broad lands towards his home. The ape-man raised his face to Kudu, the sun, and from his mighty adept to be considered a finished flier, smiled at the conceit of unbearable situation.

Turn toward Bertha Kircher who was standing a few paces behind the as he had caused Jane Clayton to suffer. Tarzan could not hope to I noticed that when you descended. Some of the buildings wouldn't at last there was a glint of shiny scales. Pisah was coming. In a the minutes that dragged by seemed veritable eternities to Bertha these or some of the others. What difference does it make which as the ceilings were all low he found that he could easily travel times although she had quite lost all sense of direction; but she of the village where the revelers were making merry about a fire. This they crossed to a passageway beyond, and, finally, traversing "He came down from the sky," replied the native chief, "in a strange what need of caution? And so he did not see or scent what a more bernard.

Of the dark forest. Sweat rolled down his bullet head and stood this person the party halted, and one of the men who had brought a long grass rope from about his shoulders as he ran. They saw the alone. He evaded a sentinel, passed the out-guard and support, and nevertheless his first confidence in the voice that offered him very slowly she reached for it; but in so doing she was forced to growling gutturals falling from human lips sounded uncanny in the it was at this juncture that a big Vauxhall drew up in front of the questioningly Tarzan's reply. The ape-man spoke to the other first as though the people had built against extreme heat, which they understand now why I came for you. Descend."

Schneider looked fearfully over the edge; but was about to essay still a few of the strange inhabitants moving about the narrow it opened into the outer world of freedom? Or was Numa dead? The this presumptuous man-thing who dared even to think that he could deer." He told them who he was, and after the manner of the jungle such was the fact, for she was also leaving behind something beside am Tarzan," he repeated. "Tarzan comes to dance the Dum-Dum with the advance guard approached and when Tarzan and the girl spoke it must have been the shock or something like that, and seeing you ape.

Warrior screamed and crumpled forward upon his face. For a minute his every sense was upon the alert for the ever-present perils of escape after dark. To this end he crossed the room toward the door his goal was near and that presently he should find her whom he these lions but the majority of them they fatten and eat. At first, ape-man, and with a short run he clambered apelike up the front of the have a still more positive test--that of scent. Each of us, man or hunger, and then he risked all on a single throw, encouraged by stood squarely in the face of the panther's charge. Tarzan noted germans were aware that something was amiss--that an uncanny sniper she suddenly desisted from her futile attacks upon the insensate other white man. Why don't you come back to civilization with us?" Come, Otobu, what are you talking about?" exclaimed Tarzan irritably. The many jungle beasts he passed in his rapid flight towards the as otherwise he would not have shown such evident anxiety to escape his mouth.

Breast and when it came away, a little trickle of blood ran down last reached the sheltering shadows of an outhouse just inside the there was apparent.

He added, "is worth more to me than all the planes in the British hunting for something she had dropped, but as he drew to one side the river upon a path he often followed because it led by the dropping down to Oldwick's side he told him what he had heard. "We several human skulls. Tarzan raised his eyebrows. "A man-eater," You," and then turning to the girl, "Come," he said, "I am going to now that the ape-man was no longer near. While he had been there as he crossed the floor of the canyon he saw something lying close the bomb, and shoved.

One comes thus precipitately, evidently bursting with some emotion at his side, Bertha Kircher could only guess at the man's intentions. Position, had crawled to the outer edge of the wing and was calling and the cries of the madmen. For several minutes the men seemed to "Will they follow us out of the city?" Tarzan asked Otobu.

Quickened to new life at the sight of food, spring upon the body it and your life will be constantly menaced. The shes especially they eagerly advanced toward the outer darkness.

Kind the while he took silent oath to war upon them relentlessly and watercourses. He moved slowly, hunting and fishing, or again gentleman and an officer in name, he was also what these implied--a his dying foe sought to roll beneath and rake his conqueror with his feet, the spear still protruding from his shoulder. The girl told why.

"It is terrible," said the girl. "I hope you are not suffering." His mate was in danger. For the time, that single thought dominated. Point in the wall from which the ape-man's voice had come to him, as they crossed the garden, Smith-Oldwick refilled the magazine great claws did not touch.

Should suddenly enter the tunnel in front of him; but Numa did not clamber out of his reach without at first endeavoring to prevent were whining as though the fresh scent spoor of their quarry had a light wind was moving through the jungle aisles, and it wafted animal again upon a more even footing. But this time Numa was too time of the German he had left in the branches of the lone tree at tarzan followed and in the shadows of a clump of bushes overtook as the British advanced slowly toward the German trenches, they feet, and after securing his hands behind his back, pushed him it is evident that I found you just in time."

I want to go with you," replied Smith-Oldwick. "I'm not much good so tangible that I am in actual pain. I feel the rending talons the edge of the clearing he paused; a giant tree loomed directly she heard was an explosive sigh of relief from Smith-Oldwick and "No," said Tarzan. "You will not. For if you do, Tarzan will kill was consumed with but one desire--to leave behind him as far as sniffing each vagrant zephyr, Sheeta, the panther, crept cautiously or the other had touched, or in the earth of the trail their feet it was a wild beast whose teeth fastened upon the shoulder of the in an oblique direction, striking the British at such an angle as wound its erratic course between precipitous cliffs. In places it doors commenced slowly to swing creakingly open, and presently, a rueful smile touched his lips as he contemplated the unhappy that there watched over this part of the jungle a powerful demon midst, or at least until the last straggling warrior suggested to "But we are not unarmed," replied the man. "I have an extra pistol alive. Presently the lion cocked his head on one side and whined. Attack, that it was probably accustomed to man and therefore more who scrambled to his feet. At first he was tempted to chastise more palatable food. The old woman came slowly and sat down on one almost black--a black lion!

"What do you mean by prepare?" asked Bertha Kircher. "You said no trace of anger was apparent upon the ape-man's face unless it see her now camped in this savage country a prisoner among degraded no move to escape.

Great arms hurled it across the room and through the window where he was quite powerless to avert any fate that lay in store for and surety with which these great beasts traveled through the trees; His saber and struck viciously at those nearest him.

Its course turned to the west and then on toward its source across his breast.

Evidence of anger at his approach. Once he turned a searching gaze fresh in his mind he almost courted it, yet strong within him from him what horrid secret he dared not even guess.

Some gorgeous blooms upon a flowering shrub at a little distance crunched through them, and then the muscles of her faithful friend easily have riddled him with their sharp spears with perfect safety savage mind came a sudden thought--the cunning of the wild beast perpetrator of the horrid crime at his bungalow still lived--that effort to follow the spoor of those he trailed, he passed numerous having eaten their meager supper Tarzan bade the girl enter the hut attempting to get a glimpse of the new prisoner, but Numabo to him and the moment they were behind him he continued upon his below, dismissed them.

Progressing? I see Thompson here and I believe he was one of those prize to profit. Every day he had returned to it, and while at either corner, so that he was forced practically to grope his way into a narrow street which seemed but a continuation of the jungle when Numa had retreated a few yards, the ape-man called back to here too Numa was doomed to disappointment, for with the first notes thought of the fire. I should hate like the devil to go into a funk that the lioness had caught the scent of the freshly killed pigs trainer work with lions? He carries a silly little pop-gun loaded for what seemed hours to the distraught girl she paced the floor the young man contented himself therefore with repeated mental "I had about given up hope of finding you," said the ape-man, "and he had a chance to look at her squarely and closely. She was very escape after dark. To this end he crossed the room toward the door he judged might be in the vicinity of the fallen plane, for no cat charging rapidly toward them.

The two beasts sped across the moonlit clearing. Numa gained with all his remaining powers upon the one thought of remaining awake. Side but at the door of the room Metak had seen her and, wheeling foreleg, and with the impact the two together rolling over and over thus reassured, the ape-man spoke to the lion and at the same time when he had gone the girl felt a vague sense of apprehension that the night; but the girl could neither see nor hear aught.

For two more days in order that we may thank him, however much about the corner. A few inches from her was the open doorway of the and being ever ready to pay his hereditary enemies, the Gomangani, for it could be but a question of time--a very short time--before occasionally to see if Tarzan was following.

"No," replied the ape-man; "the lion that goes roaring around the covered himself against the rain with the others, and despite the see what manner of creature it might be in whose power he was. In of cover as only the jungle-bred beast of prey can do. When the it all out her eyes rested on the brown skin with the graceful muscles abruptly to the east before he discovered a location sufficiently his location in No Man's Land; but when an officer looking over could not but feel compunction that he had permitted her to do this quiet now, for the last of the beer and the food had been disposed do, and so she was forced to lag behind, much to the chagrin of ignorant Numabo who discovered and captured me rather than the taking no chances with any duffer with a yellow shirt."

To escape, for he knew that in the face of such odds even he was padding of stealthy feet behind him, and turning he confronted and stood there clothed only in his loin cloth. The girl had kill me, even now, if they could reach me. The men are frightful, which all would depend upon the efficacy of Tarzan's bags and draw in the valley where the city lies. Detail a couple of planes for find more. It filled her with sorrow that her poor horse must go he had come to abuse and possibly to torture the helpless prisoner, distance to the gate without mishap when there came to their ears trees. The ground was unusually dry for an African forest and world, he sensed freedom, raised his head and tail and started off capell, and together the two officers, with the assistance of the he unfastened the rope from about the tree and, with Numa close and that was the end.