A Random "Tarzan And The Jewels Of Opar" Cutup

Earth shook to the mighty volume of his noise. He put his head against at last the glare of the camp fire shone plainly through the

Tarzan had almost reached the point where the trail debouched upon the "Deep in the soul of every man," said Tarzan, "must lurk the germ of who had escaped, added strength to his claims, and Mohammed Beyd soon bole, dropping the mangled pulp to charge, trumpeting, after another. "John!" she cried. "Thank God that you have come in time."

The ape-man above sprang out and down upon its back. The weight of the horsemen. Dragging his kill after him the ape-man ascended to the sufficient, I have but just now received from your own lips even more commenced gathering up the spilled contents of the pouch, and the tantor is mad with the madness of love."

Temper the wrath of the emperor, and surely this fair flower of another about for some plan of escape, and the only one that appealed to him as but Achmet Zek was no fool to expose himself to the blackened honor of blade of the knife buried itself in the thing beneath the blankets. Again. There was the sound of a dull thud, the crushing of heavy bone, died upon his lips, suppressed by the fear that it might arouse the march when Werper simulated illness, and announced his intention of shouldering his way through the crowd he approached the doorway, and plain, the winding river, and the distant forests to the north and west. She and the metal it seemed useless to wait for her now that the latter duel in frozen silence.

Exit he had chosen to utilize in making his way from the temple. A naked warriors hunt the lion and the leopard, the buffalo and the of haste, and warriors cannot travel fast upon empty lungs."

It himself--we must leave that to him. Are you ready for the venture?" reached out a strong hand and grasped him by the shoulder.

Forging steadily ahead, until the latter disappeared in the leafy trail a moment later the man walked out into the camp, the body of the woman the girl drew herself up to her full height, and turned her head away; The Sun Worshipers.

Low gutturals, and without waiting to note the effect of his words upon captor, rather than protector, and so she suspected nothing though she hemorrhage.

Thither hunting through the forest for those who escaped its first one find them and take them away. This seemed to Tarzan a splendid werper had but little ammunition, having been hastily armed by Abdul the bottom of the Atlantic. They knew not the meanings of the words woman he had sought to dishonor.

But presently in the very hatred of the man for Belgians, Werper saw a la had followed her company and when she saw them clawing and biting at no evidence of fatigue, as he helped to raise his ebon warriors to the the slow-moving Belgian. The ape-man chafed at the delay, but the watchfulness over him.

Ground. Instantly he was up again and wheeling to renew the battle; His direction was aimless--he merely raced on and on through the occupied, but as she realized that this was but a part of the deception a consideration of their plans for the immediate future. Accustomed to tarzan, roaming the jungle in search of the trail of Taglat and the a contingency? She doubted it. Upon the other hand she was no more man-thing who had dared interpose its puny strength between Numa and into them and let the priceless gems filter through his fingers. He contemplation of the fifty loads of gold which lay but a few days destroy him, the ape-man would have danced about hurling missiles and all this way for nothing more than a knife? Let me go and find him and the grisly scene. Could this unrecognizable thing be the man he had opposite side.

It was upon the third day of their progress from Opar that the keen knife poised for the fatal thrust; but fear stayed his hand. What if belgian and saw that he was unarmed. Stepping quickly to La's side the he watched the blacks scatter their cook fire and depart; but though the Greystoke bungalow was not well adapted for defense. No palisade untoward accident might turn upon him with rending fangs. Not for a gathering the skirts of his burnoose, beneath one arm, that his legs had emerged into the clearing brought her to a sudden stop and a dogged trot, passed toward the east. It was Mugambi, searching for spurred forward toward the head of the column.

Drawn face and he saw tears blinding her eyes. "Tarzan, my Tarzan!" Opened the gates to him permitted their surprise to show clearly in the ape-man to the girl's side was wafted in the opposite direction; Not know positively that it hid an enemy; but he had spent a lifetime recalled, an Arab and an Abyssinian wheeled their mounts close to his nostrils were rewarded with the scent of the fresh spoor of Bara, the their garments to shreds in a similar attempt, he had directed them to where you last saw my wife."

You are many against one," spoke up Tarzan. "Why should you not have until he was directly over the deer. In the ape-man's right hand was the charred ruins of the home he had been almost upon the point of the jungle when one who had sneaked upon him from behind struck him a "And my master, Achmet Zek, was well when last you saw him?" he asked. Their grasp--it was a soft pouch, filled with small, hard particles. Achmet Zek had not deigned to acquaint her with his intentions toward the jungle.

Ground beneath him nor the three apes that swung quietly into the tree him they owed the raid during the absence of the Great Bwana. To his fallen in the fight about the pile of ingots, and now he realized that still more?"

Loosened up the earth, and with his hands he scooped it out until he they had hidden meat there in the past and now had come for it. Then along this he passed; but now he went warily, for Tarzan of the Apes "And you are willing to become the plaything of a black sultan?" Terrified by night and by day, came Albert Werper. A dozen times he escaped. His original plan had contemplated connivance in the escape the top of the wall. To scramble then to Tarzan's side was the work of adventure had not Tarzan continually filled his mind with alluring further delay. The knife was pressed against his side and La's face apes had been forced in childhood to develop senses that an ordinary jagged fragment of rock which gashed a deep cut upon his head. A couple of the apes turned and fled at the sound of the firearm; but vault. Taking the candle from its place he commenced a systematic reeds along the river below them a small party of naked, black warriors lesser boulders that were scattered over the top of the hill, but, peacefully in La's embrace.

Early the next morning Jane Clayton, after an almost sleepless night, upon his nostrils, and told him that he had found the creature for whom lay, the ape-man discovered that the tent wall had been loosened at the them back?"

Considerable burden of apprehension from the shoulders of Achmet Zek's her? It was worth trying. Tarzan slipped the thong of the empty pouch advance with Achmet Zek, hovering above him, as silent and as sure as of it and with the clear vision of an unspoiled mind he had penetrated saddle of him, whom he had slain.

"The serpent is less wise than thou, Werper," said Mohammed Beyd with a understood the rage of the Arab, for instead of the glittering and here. There can be no peace between Arab and Waziri."

In a spirit of play and adventure, elected to return for a few hours to resumed his drinking, and man and beast quenched their thirst side by peering from beneath their shaggy brows at the figures of the two men guard.

Escape. With this idea always uppermost in his mind, he courted the late in the afternoon when the ape-man settled himself upon his his half-formed intention to call for help was expunged by the three bodies as the three apes leaped upon him and hurled him to the where a foot is placed an effluvium remains for a considerable time. A hundred yards from where he stood grew a large tree, alone upon the one of its bullets found a mark, for as the jungle closed about the rustling of the leaves above, the horse snorted and plunged as a chief.

The day was half spent when there broke unexpectedly upon her startled "My liberty," replied Werper.

Fortune in his stolen pouch, and Abdul Mourak lay awake in greedy "I know where it is hid," said Werper. "Promise, and I will lead you is doubtful that the ape-man even speculated upon what came after against the leaping beast like a huge, animate battering ram. She saw secret for which he had come, and now he could return at his leisure to commenced gathering up the spilled contents of the pouch, and the tantor. Cut my bonds before it is too late. Already he is almost upon village of the Tarmangani.

Pictures of the great stores of food which were to be found in the muscular companions, and so the speed of all was limited to that of the terror-stricken animal, brushed her so closely that she was again greater even than you will rise up and strike you down. Turn back, vividly before the ape-man's recollective eyes, the flight of the precious ingots to hide them where no robber eye ever could discover lay, the ape-man discovered that the tent wall had been loosened at the "And if you have lied to me," said Achmet Zek, "I will kill you at any the tribe of great anthropoids that had dwelt from time immemorial in saw the beast-faced fanatic who would one day be her mate, unless she to the stream had forded it and advanced through the reeds until they to, and Mugambi lent a hand in the work as though the best of his life nervous movements of the man that he was afraid.

Inches in depth. Into this he placed the pouch of jewels. Werper man. The hard outlines of the contents brought an exclamation of the woodcraft of Mugambi. Tarzan might have followed them; but no they had always called Lady Greystoke thus.

Tarmangani to me alive and unhurt. The vengeance is La's. Go; but along well-worn, granite steps. He advanced quite to the dark mouth of with his shining baubles. Werper asked him what they were and where he slowly back along the trail in the direction from which he had come. Semi-barbarian, who esteemed the life of an unbeliever less highly village, made directly for the hut where Jane Clayton had been for a last glimpse of the fabulous wealth upon which his two inroads bottom, and presently he sensed that the Belgian had recently passed ordinary mortal could perceive them, or perceiving, translate. Escape from dishonor. So long as Tarzan lived there was every reason upon her face, nor the dripping of the saliva from the frightful jaws countless ages since it had lain forgotten of man, Tarzan's mind himself of her as quickly as possible and it was also well to obtain familiarity had bred contempt. He hated the shams and the hypocrisies darkness beyond the camp made imperative. The moans and the coughing painfully upon his hands and knees and crawled slowly toward the the fall had not injured him, and when he rose to the surface, he shook by charging lions, by plunging horses, or by the wildly fired bullets the anthropoids a sustained interest in their venture. Chulk was months had passed. The labor of the Waziri and the gold of Opar had the menace of the ape-man's presence.

"Achmet Zek," he cried, "Allah alone knows which one of us may leave from the shelter of the reeds along the river, Werper and Tarzan rolling over and over upon the turf the two battled with demoniac fury, the age-old, golden tablets set in the walls of nearly every room and land and made his report to Menelek; but an acceptable gift might jungle and look for Chulk, and so he turned his steps once more toward tarzan dropped to the trail, ran quickly to the beast's side, and drove tarzan's arrows, the latter sat lost in speculation. He seemed thick and hanging lips.

The sentries at the gate returned Werper's salutations, and viewed with the scarred and wrinkled face, the light of a dawning recollection. With him fifty fighting men, turning porters for love of the only the three warned them of the proximity of the Arab camp. Stealthily but she did not reply. She feared lest her knowledge of the ruse that brought with him from Opar, he had made his way through as savage a in digging for edible roots, and searching for water.

But never before had need been so insistent. The sacred knife was after their first terror had subsided subsequent to the shock of the further, and I shot and killed him; but the pouch was not upon his hands scraping dirt, and later patting it down. He knew then that the figure of the rider; but that it was M. Frecoult the girl well knew, the jungle bred who walk hand-in-hand with the grim specter by day and new-found chances of escape. His one hope seemed, then, to lie in the man's eyes bored steadily into the screen of leaves upon the pile which Abdul Mourak fondled and petted in an ecstasy of greed. Golden ingots. Where had he seen such before? What were they? Why guides to lead them safely back into country with which Frecoult's head light.

The black was upon the point of hailing the Belgian when something firing as they ran, the bloodthirsty horde raced for the veranda. A in the great apartment where the treasure lay less damage was wrought sense that is inherent in all the lower orders, a strange fear of man, mugambi, although not born in Waziri, had been adopted into the tribe, scrambled to the top of the barrier. Fearing lest the apes should rend with silent intensity and curiosity. From beneath beetling brows the being put to death. The Belgian had no wish to take the slightest coast and take passage for America, where he could conceal himself places, Tarzan followed it with comparative ease. A white man could "Good," said Mohammed Beyd. "I go now to give the order for the quitted his kill and was well filled, merely made a slight detour and crime against his superior officer be charged against him.

Was delegated the business of tracking the quarry, a feat beyond the though in a more regular manner.

Smoking, as mute evidence of the wrath and vengeance of a powerful the approaching elephant and then back at La.

Home, and discussed in affrighted whispers the probable nature of the and the slaver drooled and dripped upon the dead face of Taglat. Center of the temple, and already a single victim lay mangled beneath affectionately he let his fingers press the hard outlines of the it was the beating of the beast's tail against the reeds which awakened single piece of the rocky ceiling splintered off and crashed downward forth her jabbering company to retrieve the sacred emblem of her high subsidiary design completely dashed. From the moment that he had first proceed to the ruins of the Englishman's DOUAR on the morrow and bring at last unfolded to him a pet scheme which the Arab had long fostered, through them and upon the point of dodging into the concealing mazes of when all had passed, Tarzan rose and emerged from concealment. He handiwork and be pleased."

You," he said, simply, and stepping to Werper's side he cut the suspicious attention.

The ape-man was at a loss to know where to turn or what next to do. It was upon this scene that Jane Clayton at last opened her eyes. The ape-man's mind was untroubled by regret for the past, or aspiration wonderingly she moved a hand. What miracle had been performed? It was scrambled to the top of the barrier. Fearing lest the apes should rend affection. What harm could befall her with such as these to protect days passed he came to center his resentment upon the representative in temples of the ruined city whose crumbling walls rose upon the very odors; but clear and distinct among them was one that half aroused a silenced them with a gesture.

The nearest tree was a hundred feet away, the lion less than fifty. To little food, so that after several days of wandering he found himself in itself the hunt was a success, and ten days after its inauguration, in the end his loyal devotion brought him to disaster.

Upon the contents of the pouch, Tarzan paused directly above him, had seen.

That he was a Frenchman, hunting in Africa, and that he had been counted them--only roughly had he guessed at their value.

Between the stately piles of the half-ruined edifices and the inner immediately Tarzan was alert. He lifted his head and sniffed the slow, large tree with spreading branches, buckled a cartridge belt and of shattered rock. Once more he turned and re-entered the treasure and the laughter awoke the echoes of the somber wood. Again and again anthropoid a desire for similar mimicry of the Tarmangani. The cylinder, which now seemed infinitely more precious to him than all the kneeling Waziri who discharged their volley of arrows from behind their him, and the rows of priests and priestesses awaited, in the ecstatic well. Achmet Zek would never permit the wealth that he had discovered facing one another, making all sorts of hideous noises the while they the habitation of the raider chief; but no pouch or pretty pebbles crash of twigs as Numa charged through the bushes into the game trail more safe from the sins and dangers of mortality?

Last he found it--the heavy war spear that in past years had formed so at last they seized upon a faint picture, faded and yellow with the fostering Mohammed Beyd's belief that the jewels were still in his unless Tarzan desired to fight there was nothing to do but wait until to have accompanied me from the last village we passed knew even less and that was the end.