A Random "Tarzan The Terrible" Cutup

Delicious passed her lips. She patted her spear affectionately. It had down between the muscles of his shoulders in an effort to protect this the resolve to pin her faith to this strange creature who had unlocked evident that Om-at, younger and with greater powers of endurance than confidence and safety than she had enjoyed since that frightful day feasible plan for ridding themselves of the old religious order without him from his feet and precipitating him to the bottom of the gorge. Them at the ford about half a mile distant. The blacks responded with depicted in the same crude fashion in the carvings on the

Wall was distinctly audible in the utter and almost breathless silence raised their voices in thanksgiving.

"Stop!" she commanded, throwing her spear-hand backward for a cast. She was rested and now her body was well as her heart was warm. A they are very ignorant and superstitious and when they first saw me and gasping lips were parted and his tongue protruding; and now his brain no sooner, however, was he safely gone than the other followed, finding ease with which he had so far outwitted the high powers of A-lur he protestations of authority you will be dead a little sooner, that is jad-ben-Otho--and I go in state to my sacred city of A-lur."

Asked I were no better alone in the jungle with you than here at the him, "for Lu-don, the high priest, swears that he is an impostor." Various other nearby objects, in each instance repeating what Tarzan "It is sacrilege," cried Ta-den, laying his hand upon his knife; Attacked on land it is possible that he might as a last resort have "I believe we're going to make it," whispered the woman, her voice eyes, followed instantly by one of suspicion, but before the fellow strongest bulwark of defense possessed by the Ho-don."

Appearance, his strange and mirthless laughter, and his unnatural know that they held a superstitious fear of the weapons of a dead look toward the northern wall of the palace where Ta-den was to make pan-at-lee, gather for me some of these beautiful blossoms. I would where Jad-ben-Otho might sit in person and behold the sacrifices that slept. Such were the conditions then when two warriors presented "The three as one!" cried Tarzan of the Apes. "To the death!" and his and that except for themselves the chamber was vacant.

Carried me beyond the city gate. Since then I have wandered far from remarkable resemblance to plucked sealskin. Her loin cloth of yellow if one would survive. And so she came to the trail that follows the lu-don to thus consummate the destruction of this presumptuous impostor. Indeed he is the son of Otho. Behold his godlike figure, his hands, and every reason to apprehend would seal the fate of the mate that he had unselfish of you. I am chagrined that I should have been thus overhead, but some greater urge than fear or caution influenced his embers that Jane Clayton knew would never again be rekindled. Hope was the pomp of modern kings pales into cheap and tawdry insignificance. Means to capture this impostor alive."

Chief he was leading a dozen heavily bribed warriors through the dark and now, moving noiselessly, Tarzan came within sight of Bara drinking the valley and presently, from the conversation of her captors, circular breastplates of beaten gold, revealing the symmetrical lines the tumbling river swung close beneath the overhanging cliff to eddy these."

At first, though presently he stumbled upon an enclosure which lay recess, unslung his long rope and leaning far out shot the sinuous destroying his home, murdering his retainers, and covering the shoulder of a cliff the stranger came suddenly face to face with one so sudden and unexpected her approach that there was no opportunity to is gund. Om-at came back seeking you. He found Es-sat in your cave and conducted him through the temple. It would arouse in his mind no might have crawled away to die later, but she gave up the idea for fear very faintly the rush of feet, and shouts. He guessed that his warriors "I fell in with a band of half-breeds," he replied, "members of a spent, he dragged himself into the village late one afternoon, and freedom and the right to take up such occupations as they choose." Thus die the blasphemers of God!" he screamed, and at the same instant no sound that might have been apprehended by dull human ears. "Whee-oo!" he cried.

From the gossip of the temple and the palace to be cruel and degraded. The true lions of this new, Old World differed but little from those ape-man, emerging from one of the jungle patches, discovered a the man was drifting close in. His canoe would soon be caught in the one another, and now at Om-at and the two who stood upon his either effect in impressing the majority that his claims had not been should carry the assurance of his own faith; but that succeeded only in own temple and quickly transmitted to them the commands of the ape-man. Displeased the Great God?" she asked.

Ta-den smiled and shrugged. "We will not quarrel, you and I," he said now it was directly before him and the GRYF directly behind. There was escape seemed impossible. Yet within a few minutes of his incarceration much had each to tell the other; so many questions there were to be

More frightful ones as well--those of the unknown. She had passed attacked on two sides by a vastly superior force the result was so quick his powerful muscles that even in falling he twisted the beast the two were quite evidently well matched and equally evident was the scrape, scrape, scrape of the ape-man's tireless blade.

Piqued and his desire quickly to master their tongue strengthened, with her lids.

Around the corner of the palace wall, for by this time he had upon the other's chest.

Appearance something of the leopard. With careful eye she scrutinized increase their power, have taught you that Jad-ben-Otho is a cruel god, iron that Tarzan had seen in Pal-ul-don. The bars were let into holes knowledge of an officer of the palace that he could use to compel the his great toes.

Between them. Having already mastered several languages and a multitude encircled the savage throat and the sinewy legs of the ape-man locked go away and live alone in this hellish solitude." Again he laughed, him! Fall upon him! Back! Back before I kill you."

To one of his fellows. The latter cast a half-frightened look in the time to steal her from the temple and deliver her to Ko-tan. But he in the dark of his cell the ape-man worked at his seemingly endless was warm with renewed hope and her tired brain had found temporary a-lur.

Creature below them. Instantly the great bony hood over the neck was woe betide the women who fell in their paths.

Clubs had sworn fealty to their new ruler, Ja-don dispatched a trusted he stepped out into the water and raising his voice shrieked loudly beast.

Reached them. Skeptical were the expressions on most of the faces; but advanced at his side.

Matter for those who bear the torches to extinguish them suddenly and to her feet. "Tarzan-jad-guru!" she exclaimed in tones of mingled ja-don, taking with him the princess, her women, and their slaves, she could but hope that he had continued on up wind and in this "Differ!" almost shouted Ta-den; "and why should we not differ? Who priest could prevent she had seized that which controlled the partition domain. If ever again I see you within these limits I shall kill you." Below it, which is called Jad-bal-lul, which freely translated means tarzan looked ruefully down and scratched his head.

Priest could prevent she had seized that which controlled the partition beyond the mountains and Ta-den was convinced that the newcomer sought have been upon an order from Ko-tan. This being the case the natural mercies of these degraded blacks."

Palace grounds. The garden he knew to be devoted exclusively to the he found the garden deserted, nor any sign of her he sought. That she it was evident that O-lo-a did not quite understand this interpretation through the water and upon the opposite shore he stopped as though tomb.

One by one the diners succumbed to the stupefying effects of the liquor roistering company. Every eye turned upon Bu-lot and Mo-sar, who sat with another signal put in motion whatever machinery it was that raised opposite side from the great nocturnal prowler, and, closely followed heavy, shaggy black figure moved across the face of the perpendicular to Pan-at-lee he was all that was brave and noble and heroic and, too, other walls of the city, palace, and temple, it was ornately carved and thus they moved in silence between the verdure-clad banks of the little who tore and beat at each other with hands and feet and lashing tails. The trail over which Ta-den and Om-at led and which scarcely could be of battle had ceased and presently the ape-man saw Ja-don being led about him his mind will entertain no suspicion of harm."

Examined the ground to the right and to the left, then he stood erect than mere dust. She had however saved a little pile of twigs from the viciously to the ground and seizing Pan-at-lee by the hair drew his "I," said Tarzan, "will go with Om-at to search for Pan-at-lee." to one of the latter Ja-don relinquished his charge.

Ape-man, emerging from one of the jungle patches, discovered a unscrupulous Hun, whom she had always distrusted and feared, and whose iron that Tarzan had seen in Pal-ul-don. The bars were let into holes from their hold.

Trapped him in the Temple of the Gryf. As he stood there his eyes his place beside the man ere the fellow touched his arm and pointed. Ease with which he had so far outwitted the high powers of A-lur he guest was filled with chiefs and warriors awaiting the pleasure of with weapons that require great physical effort in their use, a voice "No, they speak of another who came with her but none seems to know but it was an hour before the king re-entered the apartment and in the the cliff, left there no doubt in the final exodus of the tribe when the now thoroughly frightened Dak-lot did as he was bid, and Tarzan of chamber he finally discerned a small aperture, possibly three feet in still in the south, lighted the interior of the first apartment. It was ko-tan, your king."

The beast had emerged into the larger chamber. Without hesitation environs.

And the two who had formerly been locked in mortal combat stood facing countenance of the high priest and then she saw him spring forward and sight and only a faint shouting came down to Pan-at-lee to tell her the other thong. "This releases the fastenings of a trapdoor in the divine favor. There was also another and a potent cause for defection the way led through several apartments and long corridors, up at least the three remaining pegs in each of her feet, leaving the fifth grasped and consequent to this thought there enveloped him a blind frenzy of high priest, "and even though the torches were extinguished he could delay or prevent their escape from Pal-ul-don. How they were to recross and so Tarzan would gamble now, pitting the seemingly wild deductions in the casing, and the whole so strongly and neatly contrived that in the moonlight he could see the sheer cliff rising from the water for ape-man to lie down that he might treat the wound, whereupon, spreading reverence for the office of the high priest that none dared raise a and then the ape-man was on Numa's back and the blade was sinking again when I am done with you you shall belong to all of the men of Es-sat's he knew too that Om-at would not hesitate to carry out his threat if he walked over and sniffed about it, but did not offer to devour it. Annihilation. The mighty body seemed already to tower above him as the and place Mo-sar in power--with Lu-don the real ruler of Pal-ul-don. He was occupied in going over her smooth, glossy coat which bore a route accurately without hesitation.

Knowledge of the Ho-don tongue, his great strength and his native wit. Moment's search revealed to Tarzan the stone pegs upon which she had so effectively hidden his features.

But added evidence of the falsity of your claim. He who poses as the of Ja-lur as they had approached it the previous day; and he was the as the three canoes reached the portage on their return journey the thorn-covered steppe awakening him to another day of tireless tracking achieved. But there was no time now for idle self-reproaches. The shaggy black shrugged his shoulders and smiled. "Shall we make our nothing and so he walked through the strange night as undisturbed and man should ever touch her she should scream, and, possibly, even faint. "What?" she asked.

Scream and a curse from without, followed by the crashing of a body over the cliff face between the entrance porches, suggesting that the [1] I have used the Pal-ul-don word for gorge with the English plural, he ascended to find the windows of the second floor not only barred but to Om-at, "over that which all the ages have not proved sufficient time corridor and they were twelve to one.

Mo-sar had passed. "They would have taken the princess and the stranger he wills it; how the rains come at his bidding, and the fruits and the moved upon the cliff face, nor did another hairy body protrude from any were some that looked like knife blades, and some that could easily be themselves about the gaunt belly.

Tinder, moving it slowly until she had focused the sun's rays upon a "Ah!" he exclaimed. "I have it!"

And swiftly he ascended toward the cave of Pan-at-lee while from below answered, too, every purpose of a shield, combining the two in one and repeated several times and then he held up one hand with the fingers dead in her breast lay hope. Battling for life during harrowing months tarzan was awakened by a violent shaking of the tree in which he had followed directly in the tracks of its maker.

As they ate Tarzan's companion pointed to the nuts, the dried meat, and creature.

Stealth he might even at this moment be holding her in his arms while armor-coated hide with his little knife. The thing was almost upon him pal-ul-don protect their ruler!"

And stepped from the apartment, to all appearances a priest of the the hideous mask of a priest peering down upon him. In the priest's guard kept at every entrance to the chambers of Ja-don and his you indicates that Jad-ben-Otho chose well when he breathed the spirit "Stop!" he cried, raising his palm against them. "What is the meaning entered the river where it stood drinking for a long time.

There was a bloody altar at the east end and the drowning basin at the before her was a low-ceiled room of moderate size. In each of the four no matter what suspicion lurked within his crafty mind, Lu-don, the unprotected from its hideous dangers she yet felt its lure upon her and that haunted her even now in this remote, uncharted corner of the arresting hands upon the blasphemous impersonator rushed forward with table, the blade buried in his heart.

Partition that fell between them and the intruder, effectively barring lose so priceless a weapon.

Of the race that could produce two such as he and Tarzan-jad-guru. Stranger bearing an Enfield upon his back. Silently he moved downward warriors, one whom all did great reverence, and when he came to the other thing she could not place, though in the moonlight she could see from Lu-don, she was not safe, for Lu-don was not as they, since the he attacks with the fearlessness of JA. We brought him alive, that you as possible between himself and Jane Clayton. And so he moved on, still no expression of terror reflected in them, nor did she scream or even the altar stood close to the western wall of the enclosure. There was concealing whatever emotion the sight of Tarzan may have aroused. Those never-failing havens of retreat--the trees.

And at the same instant Tarzan flung himself upon its back. Strong, cruel, half-crazed mind enjoy these spectacles that at times he even and behind them the shouting of the pursuers rose louder and louder as find friend and protector in a strange male other than he?"

Were out on the lake, she would be as safely imprisoned as though he earth; visions of a strong man whose protecting arm would never press ta-den having difficulty in keeping out of the way of the contestants failed in this also. And then, well out of reach, Tarzan came to a stop always the vision of the crude simple bungalow rather than of the dead man with his hideous face bathed in the cold light of the and if the construction of the interior resembled even slightly that of do to rid herself of him. She could not conceive of a prolonged commenced to belabor the huge beast across the face with his stick. To means hypocrisy and duplicity. I must be praised and rewarded. What in A-lur the fortunes of the city had been tossed from hand to hand. Defeated you will have time to escape this slow thing; if I am not I proof that he is only mortal, a strange creature from another country. The limestone of the country, close-grained and of marble whiteness yet with bold steps he moved along and was about to turn into a diverging almost immediately there was a crash of stone on stone before him materially impede progress. It is a condition that exists perhaps not "Let us remain together as long as possible," urged Ta-den. "You, bitter hatred for the followers of Lu-don because of the high priest's the ape-man laughed. "Not quite, though I'll admit he looks quite as prisoner. They would take no chances, for the stories that had his way up stream with a single paddle. It was his intention to put as and when the brief ceremony was over and the warriors with upraised pursuing company dispatched either by Ja-don or the high priest, both though neither the muscles of his eyes or his mouth reflected any the name of Jad-ben-Otho in whose hands lies the fate of Ta-den!" At sight of Tarzan, who in his haste had forgotten to recover his never would regain it, that she knew, for she felt her fingers numbing other than the messenger who stands here now."

To the Dor-ul-Otho? And so he invited Tarzan to ascend the pyramid and wall of the GRYF pool and out into the lake beyond. The ape-man smiled nimbly as a little monkey to the lower branches of the tree, made his hairy giant beside him.

Himself upon the creature's back, and then again imitating the acts of his advice prompted by the petty shrewdness of his defective brain this was tied one end of a braided rope fashioned from strips cut from windows were barred.

Alone, unarmed, all but naked, in a country overrun by savage beasts clubs had sworn fealty to their new ruler, Ja-don dispatched a trusted they find favor before their god," and Tarzan turned and signified that these guards, however, were small, consisting usually of not more than and strained his eyes to see. Yes, there was something there. It see by night as well as they, but that lack was largely recompensed for that no harm shall befall you at my hands, Lady Greystoke."

And then the warriors discussed the future of Pal-ul-don and the was no strong bond between the temple and the palace at Ja-lur and that ja-lur.

Meet above it so he was forced to descend to the ground and wade of which a tumultuous river tumbled downward along its rocky bed, then ko-tan, the king, had wanted her and all that had so far saved her from prone upon the rocky floor. The muscles of the Tor-o-don relaxed in pal-ul-don rejoices to honor you; if you are not he, swift and terrible shrubs and trees there were he came without mishap at last to the last before a wide entrance-way leading into another apartment of the swung a sheathed knife which he made no effort to draw. That would have woman struggled incessantly to regain her freedom. He tried to compel "It would please my father," said Tarzan, "if you were to cause the temporary defeat of those who had opposed Ja-don. This force, "The swine think it is a great joke," growled Obergatz, "that the swinging one he hurled it at a warrior before him and as the man dodged partly of houses carved from the soft rock at the foot of the cliff. And again into the savage side. Nor was the man-thing either longer embankments and rivers proved no slightest obstacle to the ponderous that--you could never reach it. There are too many to pursue and and drag him down; but the loosed arrow sank deep into the savage heart a comfortable resting place.

They had flung their clubs was a pile of skins torn from the windows of her nude figure in all its beauty and harmony of contour, for even forbidding mountains blocked his way, torrents tumbling from rocky "First," whispered Om-at, "I will go to the cave of Pan-at-lee. Then master. Twice Tarzan repeated his cry before the beast moved slowly countenance of the high priest and then she saw him spring forward and faintly the reptilian odor that he had learned to connect with the summit of a small hillock and all were without roofs. The western subject of their conversation.

Influenced as much by the fearful attitude of his followers as by the permanently fixed; but the door was small, the opening just large "It is well," said Om-at. "Id-an, you are swift--carry word to the "It is well then," continued the ape-man, "that you should assure the floor beneath him tilted and he shot downward into a darkness even through the trees and be back in the cave before it knows what has gateway into the palace, and with the example of these to bolster their he would raise his brows questioningly and voice the universal "eh?" of some huge reptile feeding upon the carcass of the lion that had been existence with him as her sole companion. Better, a thousand times "And now," said Tarzan, "you must sleep, for tomorrow we shall return hoped; instead the creature gave a single vicious side snap at the the slave saw him the princess says that she cried aloud in startled but always the tousled black head remained half buried in the dark "Dor-ul-Otho!" he exclaimed, "I did not know that it was you," and slopes, it led through dense forests where the ground was so matted there was no instant to waste, nor was it the way of the ape-man to him from his feet and precipitating him to the bottom of the gorge. Not as are the people of Pal-ul-don. He is, we think, the same of whom the moonlight glistened from the shiny barrel of an Enfield that was the mountains brought to his nostrils a diversity of scents but there freedom and the right to take up such occupations as they choose." Protected me, and when he might have saved himself he thought only of stone--until the pouch that hung at her right side was almost filled. Outdoor life that she had been leading had strengthened and rebuilt her it--not yet. Not until Ko-tan is no more."

Same side of a long, straight corridor. Each has a single door leading peremptory and arrogant manner left Mo-sar in doubt as to whether to be water, one side of which lapped the foot of the wall at this point. It participation.

And three and four in a cluster--but always of the same glaring in pain and rage upon the surface of the water behind him. That it was entrance where he tried the bars only to discover that they were suddenly ceased speaking and looked down at the bellowing creature presently there came to her keen ears another sound. Something "Where is it?" she insisted, and "is it far?"

With the coming of a new day he was awake and wandering about the and relatives of the palace warriors, who were largely also the friends responsibility in the matter. This suggestion was more than

Valley after slaves. This Pan-at-lee knew for the occurrence was by no and so after a time he came up the southern shore of Jad-ben-lul until successfully terminate her venture and be restored once more to her own enemies or slaves."

Before a multitude of people, since he was not without evidence that those of her own tribe. The floor of it, though, was littered with right extended until the palm touched Tarzan's breast. It was the same awaken as you and I with the weight of slumber still upon his eyes and ordinary man spent and dying in the sticky mud, yet he was less than go away and live alone in this hellish solitude." Again he laughed, "You still have hope?" she asked.

Hereditary enemies of her people, she experienced a renewal of into the path though thereafter for a long time it was sullen and more might, since, unlike its grim stalker, it walked erect upon two him--monstrous and awe-inspiring; but it did not terrify Tarzan, it queen," he said. "That he told me himself and surely that were understood how they had trapped him. Two nooses had lain encircling the instead, afraid though she was, she descended into the gorge for the a secret, Om-at. The Ho-don live together in greater or less peace was notorious, but whose power had as yet protected him from the always in accord. The high priest saw in the stranger a mighty force within my hearing.

She felt that she must have, in addition to a good spear, a knife, and his plans a secret from the enemy he would have the advantage of she shook her head, "I want my boy," she said.

Been taught that he was solely the god of the Ho-don in every sense, of a larger force of Lu-don's followers, although the correctness of face of which was no slightest foothold. To his left lay a pool of moved aside, as though afraid. Tarzan watched intently. The Tor-o-don thatch upon its head; its arms were well shaped and muscular; its hands to the opposite side of the chamber, silently as the wraith of a until his forehead touched the feet of the stranger. Before the eyes of sacrificial knife to Obergatz. "I am the Great God," cried the German, that night a great feast was spread in the pal-e-don-so and for the the others, and in his keen anxiety to close with the enemy he gave too tarzan turned his eyes toward Jane and nodded in the direction of moment as with face raised to the heavens he screamed forth the horrid the fifth peg in one of the holes of the center row and then, shadow of the opposite wall, then the flare of the torch in the might cross the morass."

May it be always tomorrow," replied Tarzan, "for tomorrow never comes." The spokesman almost collapsing in evident terror. His apologies, when lu-don to thus consummate the destruction of this presumptuous impostor. Cloth of JATO-hide, the harness and ornaments that constitute the tarzan, following a natural impulse to aid his ally, leaped forward to night is afraid, for he has spent his life since infancy surrounded by in London and a figure of one restored. I always thought that the tarzan nodded. "I do not think the lion got her," he added; "but that beyond the altar was Lu-don with drawn knife advancing toward him. Was climbing up after you. I was coming to investigate when I heard hollowed into an oblong basin. Those at the eastern ends were similar root. Near by at his right was a small chamber from which the priest cunning eyes and a cruel, thin-lipped mouth.

Have been upon an order from Ko-tan. This being the case the natural pan-at-lee voiced a cry of despair. "A Tor-o-don!"

Heavy, shaggy black figure moved across the face of the perpendicular garden, reasonably free from detection. From beyond the garden he heard heard the scuffing of a body against the bark of her tree and again the that day was one of nervous starting to every sudden sound. The day looking further. This one seemed large and commodious. With her knife fish and lay down and tried to swim by wriggling his feet in the water people had fled after many had been seized and devoured by the hideous was to live and prosecute his search was far from clear to him. Posterior and anterior aprons.

Upon the hideous priest-mask which he held in his hands he became aware the "Whee-oo!" was repeated, coming ever closer.

The experiment some slight chance of success. To be overtaken here in the ape-man smiled. "Fear not," he said, "I will go willingly to the om-at's ancestral cave, and early the next day following the morning pausing momentarily in the full light of the gorgeous African moon the om-at called to the missing one: "Tarzan the Terrible! Tarzan the the former he was slowly mastering and at this new evidence of and as none of the warriors recalled when she had last been seen, it "It is as I have told you," said Mo-sar, "and if they find her, assure during the night she escaped from me between here and A-lur, and I have word into his own tongue. "And where is A-lur?" he asked. "Is it your one foeman could attack them at a time. But their plans were frustrated the dark furry pelt beneath which she slept, and the perfect profile a neighboring city Tarzan strode into the Ho-don city of A-lur. The ingeniously locked in place by some device with which he was unfamiliar hoes nor spades, but instead possessed the appearance of an unhappy barred gateway leading to the chamber in which we wretched ones awaited it was Tarzan's intention to choose a way above A-lur and the scattered they had first entered the camp of Ja-don in the uninhabited gorge next lofty range towering above. Often were they menaced by the savage two hands leaped from their bonds--one to seize his own wrist, the she had experienced many dangers and hardships. What wonder then that a slave squatting upon the floor at the foot of his couch shuddered and cried Pan-at-lee.

Accompanied Tarzan from Ja-don's camp to Ja-lur, looked questioningly repulsiveness was now immeasurably augmented by his unkempt and filthy who salutes you," raising her fingers to his lips.

Sentiments of passion or pity as might stir in the breasts of normal dead as she faced Lu-don, the high priest, in her prison quarters in "Lu-don, the high priest, desires the presence of Ko-tan, the king, in twenty-eight days; but I doubt that your woman could have entered our at the moment that Tarzan lifted the hangings, the warrior threw O-lo-a ta-den smiled. He knew that they would not take prisoner all the "The Kor-ul-JA shouted aloud, 'Tarzan-jad-guru!' and we thought that they had come down out of the mountains they had been surprised by a last before a wide entrance-way leading into another apartment of the keen eyes and sensitive nostrils.

The chief rose and approached the ape-man, who closed his eyes and roar sounded almost beside her. It terrified her beyond description, he sought cautiously and silently to melt away among the foliage of the temple boomed the deep tones of a metal gong. Five times the clanging ape-man but an unusual sound, however imperceptible to the awakened ear himself forward struck out to swim across. He swam with long, easy, lofty range towering above. Often were they menaced by the savage and down the verge of the stagnant water for traces of an old spoor he ran his fingers through his matted hair and beard. The water had must be placed definitely above that of the palace. Ko-tan must make he followed the scent easily since none had passed that way since southeastern side of the gorge he sought some point at which the trees slain there earlier in the night.

Giant hands and with the swiftness of a striking snake buried his fangs "Lu-don saw to it that the priests instructed me," explained Jane; "but had the laws of man not interfered with the laws of nature.

"We know that he is not," replied Lu-don's emissary. "We have every the morass, to be lost there, even to his trained senses? If he found risen in that of their ruler at the discomfiture of Lu-don.

Courtyard which led toward the principal entrance to the palace ground. The apartment. For a moment Pan-at-lee bent over him, her improvised taking her by force, and then his eyes fell upon Jane Clayton and he the temple.

In one corner of the room beyond the table had been left a dais of who was ascending the gorge.

Cunning craftsmen into bowls and urns and vases of considerable grace the apartment so great a number of warriors that they choked the had evidently just emerged and into this Tarzan dragged the corpse, the "It described, perhaps, a woman of another race?" As he put the his companions Ta-den, the Tall-tree, son of Ja-don, the Lion-man, chamber where several priests were congregated after the evening meal. Those from A-lur spoke. "It should not be difficult," he said, "if we cause of Lu-don, the high priest. Mo-sar lost no time in placing diameter and it was through this that what was really only a lesser of Bara, the deer, adding to his repast some fruits and berries which also his kindness and his honor: for when he might have harmed me he the others. I could learn but little from frightened slaves who had never would regain it, that she knew, for she felt her fingers numbing strange noises fell upon her ears. They came from the lonely reaches of slaves and take your god to his temple." But the distance was great and sent a shiver through the woman's frame.

Meaning of his words Lu-don's cunning eyes narrowed. The high priest beautiful stranger.

"And Ko-tan?" she asked, a shudder passing through her slender frame. Approached so closely without disturbing him filled Tarzan with both reminded Tarzan of a visit he had once made to the famous Berkshire the entire area of the floor. In the exact center, directly beneath the there he found that the wall surrounded an enclosed garden in which separated him from the chamber from which issued the sounds of might identify it. She raised herself upon her hands and knees and occasions since his introduction to Pal-ul-don.

Headdress from its shoulders, for the first sight of the creature had as Obergatz talked Jane had recovered her spear from the carcass of the when she had gained the summit, the girl moved quickly through the knowledge of the Ho-don tongue, his great strength and his native wit. Priests may come and go without interference."

The girl paled. "Have mercy!" she cried, "and for the sake of Ta-den I tail coiled about his own throat and then commenced a battle royal of upon his heart, his tail sought Om-at's side and the handle of the trees and shrubs and flowers with which he was unfamiliar. He sensed obergatz, the last of the three, stood face to face with the Nemesis bring happiness and surcease from worry, while several would cause even fatal. Already Tarzan had come far by his wits and now that within a disturbance, the ape-man was astounded at the sight which met his eyes. Reached the tree he would have to climb high in an incredibly short toward the shaggy manlike ape who halted in his tracks with upraised north which, being far removed from the influence of the priesthood of raised his body to the threshold of the entrance-way, his smooth brown here then recently?" he persisted.

Upon the side of the enemy might easily work havoc with Lu-don's plans. Cried Pan-at-lee.

Of a larger force of Lu-don's followers, although the correctness of find himself, when the hangings dropped behind him, in utter darkness. Meaning of his words Lu-don's cunning eyes narrowed. The high priest at its base. This he cut from the tree with his knife, removed the village of Dak-at, who had refused to pay his tribute to the king, of a tree, for he knew that it would handicap him in his ascent of the great God. Presently Tarzan touched O-lo-a on the shoulder.

The fugitives scarcely paused as these unexpected reinforcements joined "Why not?" asked Tarzan.

Go!" She pointed a slim forefinger imperiously toward the doorway. Be king of Pal-ul-don long before this."

There could be no questioning of this creature's statements without the set out from A-lur and made his way northwest in the direction of om-at nodded. "Go your way," he said, "and Ab-on, send warriors to the side of the gorge, and again it wound in and out among rocky heart of the ape-man. To the latter the action appeared as a form of his throne, but Tarzan laid a detaining hand upon his arm.

Repast and settled himself comfortably for the night high among the "Only the high priest may perform the marriage ceremony for a king," he annihilation. The mighty body seemed already to tower above him as the disclose a full set of powerful teeth.

Needed now but the slightest spark to detonate the mine of revenge and of the creatures across the face with his staff, and instantly there as the three canoes reached the portage on their return journey the save herself from such a fate who may save a slave woman? for such in arranged it in such a way that it might be quickly assumed or projected beyond the wall, was soon climbing with the ease of a monkey "Lu-don is your accuser," explained Ko-tan.

"And why do you pray that?" asked O-lo-a. "Has not one who has so for a moment the Waz-don gazed down into the green rift at the bottom only his dilating nostrils bespoke his pulsing vitality. For a long "What do you want?" she whispered, though she knew full well. With the stealth and cunning of a panther she crept through the forest, priest at A-lur.

Pan-at-lee hovered about, breathless, her dagger ready, but there was one accosted or detained him, and thus he came at last to the guard of "I am Jad-ben-Otho," cried the German. "I came from heaven. Where is my trees for her to risk it until she became more familiar with her the eyes of the owner of the secret of the treasure vaults of Opar. Were far enough away to insure her safe retreat she dropped swiftly his consent since he was aware, when the great black had made it plain combining with the personal discomforts he was compelled to endure, his scarce hope for a successful outcome to the one great issue upon which attention for their masculine beauty in any of the great capitals of the journey to Ja-lur was made through the scattered villages where to and fro perilously for a moment and then the inevitable

Of the head. The beast rose now upon its hind legs and dragged her from him--a warrior half carrying, half dragging the figure of a woman. In pain and rage upon the surface of the water behind him. That it was ja-don looked at her for a long minute. "Ko-tan would make you his pan-at-lee, her father, and her brothers?"

Spirits in a dead world the two moved in silent swiftness toward the see by night as well as they, but that lack was largely recompensed for the very boldness of Tarzan's entry into this hostile city had had the the ways of the GRYF--they know the weak eyes and the keen ears, and been abandoned by men. Of course Pan-at-lee thought no such thoughts, main entrance-way, loitered a small guard of palace warriors and these precious moments, but now he lost no further time in seeking to great God, the two arose and followed Obergatz towards the palace. Of Lady Greystoke. The bare feet of the intruders gave forth no sound in the cave of his ancestors, Om-at, chief of the Kor-ul-JA, bemoaned god?

Ceiling were blackened with the smoke of many fires. Scratched in the the guide's story told, Tarzan was conducted into the courtyard where north which, being far removed from the influence of the priesthood of appear. It was better to fly, carrying in my bosom a shred of hope, raised his voice.

This time, Om-at, do not kill your prisoners. Take as many as you can es-sat was unarmed--Pan-at-lee had seen to that--but at Om-at's side reconnoitered as best he might from the window after he had removed this strange GRYF with the tactics of the Tor-o-don that he had found pal-ul-don toward the north.

Lay in the lion pit at Tu-lur while messengers passed back and forth the priests were rushing around wildly, exhorting the warriors to had assumed the better part of valor and taken to trees, accordingly. Obergatz thoroughly enjoyed being a god. Plenty of food and peace of said Ta-den.

Such things with impunity. He is then the same Tarzan-jad-guru of whom him from them and at the same time leaving him to grope upon its jane Clayton sat alert in the stern of the last canoe. For months she "Ah, then our happiness is not quite complete," she said, a little note of fear to every inhabitant of Pal-ul-don; below her, in the valley, "Perhaps," he replied.

"O-lo-a, Princess of Pal-ul-don," said one, addressing her, "the want him or his throne."

Lu-don paled. "It is sacrilege," he cried; "for countless ages have the time hung heavily upon the hands of the lieutenant and with idleness best of all--home.

The wicked little eyes looked up at him and the horny beak opened to of the trickling streams that ran down the face of the escarpment she kor-ul-lul for killing our friend and ally."

Outnumbered those who remained loyal to the palace, they caused the rose again to his feet.

King was celebrating the morrow's betrothal of his only daughter to fly and raise the cry that Ja-don has killed the king and is seeking to which none dares to speak aloud. They say that there is a strange she was and what the words she could not distinguish. Then she saw Lu-don door but they were fastened from the inside, and at last, impatient her belief--that there was but one god. For the rest she had always attacked on two sides by a vastly superior force the result was with water in which floated the naked corpse of a new-born babe. "What priest at A-lur. Lu-don had decided that Mo-sar should be king and he tail coiled about his own throat and then commenced a battle royal of what you will."

Of hunter and quarry or would fear of the goad continue to hold its in fact. He told them that if I was a god I would not bleed if a knife lion lunged hither and thither, clawing and biting fearfully and thinking to make a good impression on her he removed the gag from her corridor, Tarzan saw within a great company of pithecanthropi of all the warriors knew these things, knew them better perhaps than a simple hope that you escape and that Jad-ben-Otho is pleased with what I have brooks that watered the plain below and fed the morasses in the bucks fidgeted restlessly and eyed him; but there was no reply. Cry. They pursued but three and when they see eight charging upon them the defensive. Holding him by the cross belt with one mighty hand Om-at the son of Jad-ben-Otho might wish to visit the temple in which were wanted to sacrifice him upon the eastern altar with his own hands his fear that this indeed might be the son of god and his hope that it they neared her. Again she caught sight of the fugitives crossing the they watched her, and a red tongue licked flabby, pendulous lips. They priest, breathless and excited.

He wondered if this creature was representative of some strange race or has in the temple one whom he claims to be Jad-ben-Otho many of my moved upon the cliff face, nor did another hairy body protrude from any to the trees it might suggest to the mind of the GRYF that the creature that the whites should bring them in one more mess of meat before they critically.

Spread the news among his followers that the false Dor-ul-Otho was a baiting the blacks of the distant jungle of his birth. He turned back lightning."

Thrills that crept along her spine. The hair at the back of her head his plans a secret from the enemy he would have the advantage of lu-don. And they had put him to death and scaled the walls and come to therefore that if Jane had been brought to the garden it could only purpose of overhauling Tarzan and warning him in whispers of his tarzan was not surprised that at a short distance he aroused no weapon since he had arrived in Pal-ul-don. And as he learned great had "Who dare believe," he cried, "that Jad-ben-Otho would forsake his gryf, but how he was to find his way again into the temple grounds was broad steps well up under the dome in which were a number of round "But whether god or man he is too wonderful to die," cried Pan-at-lee. Time enough to consider that matter when it became of more immediate those who had brought Tarzan took him away then as Obergatz had high priest?"

Looked down upon another heroic figure miles away--the figure of a led him, and finally, with torch bearers to light their steps, into a of Kor-ul-JA down the precipitous trail from the mountains, a naked high priest would indeed commit murder and treason to attain the high guessed that diligent was the search that was being prosecuted for him. Prisoner in the temple." The persistent cries reached even to the ears meantime the ape-man had occupied himself in examining the carvings and uncompromising authority.

At the same time. From there on the stories of the chiefs and the thorn-covered steppe awakening him to another day of tireless tracking themselves not only leaderless but facing a vastly superior force. They hesitate in the carrying out his plan.

Upon the summit of the temple wall they saw two figures--a Ho-don ta-den's favorite flowers."

That they were entertaining a god and a goddess within the city of the princess."

And so after a time he came up the southern shore of Jad-ben-lul until the only one at fault he naturally sought with great diligence to fix being entertained by a ferocious and warlike tribe who never before the creatures, leaving their caves untenanted for no man living knew how paralleling each other in zigzag rows up the cliff face. He sprang and seeking its deadly hold with a formidable persistence that would not be and so the warriors sprang forward now with alacrity and surrounded the was safely dead. As Tarzan stooped to lift it to his shoulder there escape. He came thus it is true through a portion of the grounds with beast. Great indeed must be the warrior who slays one single-handed." Starting out alone in search of her, Tarzan had succeeded in finding the word adenen until the stranger understood that he meant five. Again bu-lot, now entirely sober, demurred. He had had enough of fighting and wild beast cunningly fitted over the head of a man. The high priest results doubtless of the antiseptic powder his strange companion had been accounted more than lovely.

Pouch was brought into requisition and slowly the ape-man began to was not, but at last his fear won and he bowed his head. "The son of he would have returned in search of her had he not feared to meet a jad-ben-Otho.

Not reach him, and then turned sullenly away, precisely as it had when the only answer from within was as the sudden indrawing of a breath that no harm shall befall you at my hands, Lady Greystoke."

Frantically to avoid a meeting with him had indeed come from the high it had been last night. Her hands trembled as she placed the point of "What?" asked Pan-at-lee.

They seemed confused and far from sure of themselves. The high priest and drag him down; but the loosed arrow sank deep into the savage heart so he redoubled his efforts to carry out his design.

After the manner which was customary in Pal-ul-don, but at the same was answered from above the village.

Eyes, followed instantly by one of suspicion, but before the fellow fruits. A cunning jungle creature, if he could reach the spot apparently, of all else than the ferocious lust to kill and while it at Om-at, the chief, for a sign.

The palace and passed through the darkened city. My name and rank cunning eyes and a cruel, thin-lipped mouth.

Headroom to a tall man, and it was broken often by flights of steps civilization to teach us to weigh the relative rewards of loyalty and the others looked their astonishment and incredulity; but of the fact except that the latter must greatly outnumber the former, else these other thing she could not place, though in the moonlight she could see waned. Then followed a sortie from the temple which resulted in the had left the ape-man in possession of his weapons though there seemed "Ah, then our happiness is not quite complete," she said, a little note and bliss would be hers! She longed for no more than this. The parade she shook her head, "I want my boy," she said.

"But I am already wed," cried Jane. "I cannot wed another. I do not and that was the end.