A Random "Tarzan The Untamed" Cutup

Guardsmen broke before the furious assault of the great beast. Are not dying. There is nothing the matter with you."

When he had withdrawn the shaft from the hyena Tarzan shouldered the conversation of several Boche officers. One of the men reverted toward the west and his thoughts to the far-away cabin by the work, and at last he bade her stop.

Through the frightful ordeal she maintained absolute control of numa standing close to Tarzan's side raised his head and glared at a strange tongue.

That something was afoot that boded ill for him and for the girl. And so she held her peace though she was filled with sorrow in revealing many excellent targets for a rifle placed so high above to the floor of the canyon but for merest chance. How long it took each recalled recent mysterious disappearances from the heart of tarzan looked at the girl, a quizzical expression upon his face. Magnitude--and she was evidently the only thing in the world of but in savage brains fear is more likely to engender respect than usanga's band was again beginning to take on to some extent its across No Man's Land slowly. Presently they will hear a commotion and, although it is hard to believe, I have learned that this is through which they must have passed. It was evident that they were he saw the girl lavishing her kisses upon the newcomer, a much were concerned. His countenance portrayed bored indifference though first appropriating a gourd of beer for himself the warrior

Tarzan had noticed that the roofs of most of the buildings were but if Otobu did not know, Tarzan at least guessed that they had the girl, "I'd let the bounder take it up and break his fool neck wobbled he was held erect by the ape-man. Tarzan brought the sharp their uninvited guests had come, and evidencing much surprise when near as she stepped out of the hut and made her way toward the part steps and advanced toward the tree. In the light from the doorway smith-Oldwick was weak from loss of blood and the hardships he had the open country toward the trim and well-kept farm buildings of had fallen into the hands of the warriors of some savage potentate was of the party--a veritable giantess, a virago of the first to whir, he screamed to the Englishman to stop the thing and permit not go away like that without thanking him or bidding him farewell. Had so nearly claimed his life in punishment for his temerity in length he rose to his feet.

Saw a shadowy form moving in the darkness beyond them, and almost doesn't make much difference what I say now, does it?"

If legend may be credited, their forebears--a little handful of any outcry. By the neck Tarzan dragged his victim well into the wildly as though they would force him to relinquish her, the

Unsuspecting. He saw a buck pass--an old buck--and then a young and window where she laughed and jibbered and made horrid grimaces at "No," replied Thompson, "the country is all cut up with these rolling beneath it and the perfect limbs and head and the carriage white girl being beaten by black women, and again of the same girl danger threatened. They stood stupidly at first and then commenced they did as he bid, their faces filled with questioning wonderment. "This is Tarzan's she," he said. "Do not harm her." It was the only "The same way you came down," replied Tarzan. "This roof is low the trail below him. At sight of him the lion halted. The beast was five years but never have I known these people to leave the city "Good," cried Zu-tag. "We want no old shes to go with us to fight the blood and rain water and the sleep had refreshed him greatly the town was under guard, for he could see a lone sentinel walking of stairs a short distance beyond.

That it hung down his back completed his armament and his apparel. Grapple with the man, cleaving his skull as cleanly as a butcher her protests were of no avail since the beast could not know that bared fangs menaced him and growling faces hideously contorted. "I exception that upon his head was a fillet of gold, in the front of his wishes. He thought of the pistol inside his shirt and then of his grasp as the Xujan warrior neatly disarmed his opponent. With street, how could you pass through the city to the outer wall? And them of the presence of an unseen danger. The concentrated gaze of with numerous spears and sabers. At the far end of the corridor a "I want him to teach me how to fly like a bird," replied Usanga. To watch her, he saw that she was doing nothing of the kind--that from there they would take us north, where I was to be sold into freedom of hate. Clothes he abhorred--uncomfortable, hideous, the barrier and resumed his way toward the east. "A man-eater who hunted in several parts of Africa, but never have I seen or heard itself upon her thoughts, though always she was forced to admit that dead body, charred beyond recognition, and then he stooped and lifted "I think that we should try to return to the white settlements. This simultaneously toward the white girl.

It is the final proof. You have seen it demonstrated a thousand "He came down from the sky," replied the native chief, "in a strange that to you and me might have proven terrifying with its accompaniment apes--warning him away from the girl. It is open to question that not hesitate in an attempt to put it into execution.

In that they all talk in the same language that the people of the a strange tongue.

In the foliage of the lower terrace, flinging back over his shoulder its idiosyncrasies. It was as though he had been suddenly transported that way than to tackle one of these fellows in the street where have caught her scent as yet, though he might be approaching to theory, but it is utterly preposterous."

The great trees, or flew or swung or climbed in the leafy fastness headquarters of the Second Rhodesians occupied a sheltered position painted upon the surface of the wall.

Tarzan stooped to examine the shreds of clothing that still lay more than once had Tarzan reverted to the primitive only to return many soldiers about."

Tarzan regained his feet, though he was half dazed and staggering denizens of his cruel jungle? She tried to put from her mind the on going and at the end of the tunnel, emerging into the outer how wary is Pisah, the fish. The slightest movement would frighten straighter just before he reached the next flare, and as he came the Apes did not wish to be obligated to a German spy; yet in his creatures of destruction.

Weirdly unreal as they seemed to dance in the sunlight as though his voice.

Ferocious growls Numa wheeled to the right, and with raking talons winning a full pardon, but really in the depths of my heart I have we were all familiar with talking parrots who repeated the things for the charge and she looked to see him borne down and slain at conscious of the horror of his position, filled with loathing, of the village into the blackness of the jungle without further as he neared the summit beyond which was a sparse growth of sickly the girl disengaged herself from the embrace of her lover as though approached the spot warily, for he knew that if it were a cave it for many rather than one, and so, as silently as he had come, he "Yes," said the old woman. "What is the difference--a lion is a himself the personification of courage.

Then, being a woman, she entered the hut and, throwing herself upon beyond the last line of sentinels Tarzan moved quickly in the that trench with your own men and enfilade the trenches to its tarzan who had been upon the point of taunting and reviling his and ran down his cheeks. Never, he thought, had an unkind fate electrical. Instantly excitement reigned, and in response to orders of the remote jungle of his youth, for the Germans were now on the "Be seated, Fraulein," he said, and another officer brought her quiet and appease him, she told him that the Englishman was merely "But you haven't a kitchen chair," she reminded him.

Sniffed in each direction at his rear--he would not be taken by but I doubt if you will be in any danger for the short time that horta, the boar--as he whom he handled by a rope for two days and his bared fangs but a few feet from the ape-man's taunting face. And bits of broken twigs, and then the lions growled and bared primitive ways of his ferocious jungle mates, and all the while bertha Kircher was no coward, whatever else she may have been, but otherwise they would not have taken me--alive."

Than any she had seen within the city's walls. An old woman it was threw the noose of his grass rope over the two and swung quickly come in contact here, including the kings themselves, looked upon disturbing scents. He came warily from the flank, but paying no black mane that rippled in the breeze as he trotted majestically notes relative to those few exciting moments of the final attack to recompense him for the great loss he had suffered--nor could he was aware from the sounds that the two had entered the alcove, weeks must have told upon her vitality. He saw how bravely she turning, he trotted quickly back to the outer opening of Numa's the case.

Conceive. Better than another, he realized something of the unsolved country were about the most ferocious in existence, but they are when he had withdrawn the shaft from the hyena Tarzan shouldered the apes nodded. "We will not harm her," said Go-lat.

Before he returned, when the guard was again changed and the girl willing to let them depart in peace, how were they to find their quiet surface of which mirrored the clear cerulean of the sky. Here an idea that these lions are a little different from any that we also.

Followed by the sudden realization of dissolution--the sniper was "They have gone away," replied Zu-tag. "Kudu has come out of his "What is he saying?" called the Englishman.

Her hand inside the blouse and drew forth a little sheaf of papers "Couldn't we build a fire," asked the girl, "and frighten them and seem to take a great interest in them, and again others would bark.

"Go back to the roof beside the city wall where I entered," replied there was a slight rustling among the branches of the tree above eyes and clung to him in terror lest she be precipitated to the got you."

Kill. Cautioning the German to utter silence with a gesture the sat down beside her.

To this opening she pointed and then again to the corpse, indicating of the arcades upon all fours. At first the ape-man thought she was different points, building cairns of rock to mark their locations. The girl.

Slightly more comprehensive realization of the limitations of time; His rage had become an almost equally consuming passion with

To be a low, white building around which the larger edifices of at the sound of the breaking limb and the crashing body falling sudden realization of the futility of attempting an explanation, lion, and when at last they reached the bush and had turned and all Africa. His was absolute freedom--the last tie that had bound with the saber still in her hand and an expression upon her face they endeavored to force the body of the man into the small space skin, or coat and trousers more graceful than the gentle curves of able to open her eyes and view her surroundings with increased said. "It was my wife you murdered in the Waziri country. You will up at Tarzan, "you, who have done so much for us to whom you are plane shrinking to diminutive toy-like proportions in the eastern there dropped suddenly into the clearing from the trees upon the tarzan stooped and picked up the dead man's weapon, a smile upon the woman go to the river for water, and it was he who confronted even consider descending and engaging in so unequal and useless a at last, satisfactorily disguised, and with even his shock of black "I do," continued Tarzan, "and it was not a nice way to die--even in my flesh and the cruel fangs munching upon my bones--it is as machine.

The man was gradually departing, and she was full of a thousand or not, and so immediately assented to the proposition.

Had he reached his position when the door opened and a herder's head unseen creature. They thought of the marks upon dead throats--made he will make short work of me with the result that the machine will like the wind. He saw the great cat veer in his charge as though comparatively greater safety of daylight.

Bit inland. Narrow gorge. Saw the plane all right but can't reach concentration would be impossible. Tarzan possessed the ability to of growing plants; and behind him came other men carrying burdens have never been outside of this palace. Come," she said, stretching almost at will; but if you have them for sentinels no one could "Is there no escape?" asked the girl. "Is there no way even in for a moment he seemed paralyzed by anger, and then with a loud and near the alcove was a closed door, apparently the only exit near as she stepped out of the hut and made her way toward the part dropping down to Oldwick's side he told him what he had heard. "We she heard was an explosive sigh of relief from Smith-Oldwick and hands.

Smith-Oldwick and now, to his chagrin, he saw that the girl was "Poor child! Poor child!" moaned the old woman. "Far better to have it had steadily grown deeper as they followed it downward until now smelled of the haft of the weapon that had slain the black. A slow reached with ease; but weak from his wounds and loss of blood he she saw him swing lightly into a tree and disappear from view, and they may appear, are often timid animals and Sabor, being of the downwind. For a long minute the yellow eyes stared intently at the "The first thing," he replied, "is to find out just how serious unexpectedly upon the scent of man. Heretofore the lord of the jungle the two before him saw that he was naked beneath the coat which he the apes nodded. "We will not harm her," said Go-lat.

Alone. He evaded a sentinel, passed the out-guard and support, and their coarse, bristling hair grew so low upon their foreheads as, in a mirthless grin.

Lived his lifetime in the jungle well knows, and the same wind that prize. It was evident to the girl that, though her captor was the aware of his passing.

Airship. Of what good were eyes, or ears, or the sense of smell the heavy spear that the Tarmangani carried so ready in his brown, as tortuous as that through which they were being conducted. The fraulein Bertha Kircher was by nature a companionable and cheerful "Ago told me that many generations before his time the forest was resentment that he was unable to do so now, for the quick movements you how and then they will respect and fear you."

Was fully fifteen minutes before he again noticed the prisoner, and an actor amid the settings of a well-appointed stage, and, as though and at the same time closed his awful jaws upon Sheeta's throat. Hide. Several times she attempted to press the point home into "Thank God!" from the girl, even though she could scarce credit the happiness.

Was what appeared to be a curtained alcove, the heavy hangings of simultaneously she was sure that she heard the sounds of stealthy was even quicker than Sheeta. As the panther came to all fours the victims while the warriors, hideously painted, were forming instantly the apes became a roaring, snarling pack of angry beasts. Woman, "that this is true. It is just one of their many legends." Then, in a fit of rage, he seized and mauled the body only to drop "And the Tarmangani she and bull--" asked Tarzan, "are they safe?" distance.

He stood unbroken to the north to the next street intersection. Either side. There was also the ever-present danger of meeting some placing his eye close to the aperture he saw the girl and the young cautiously and after infinite patience Tarzan passed the final finished his repast, he fell to making insulting remarks to first he crossed the first deep gorge and circled far beyond it. Occasionally flying swiftly in the direction of his comrades and his duty, and claw-like fingers poised in anticipation of the moment they should the matter of scent did the man differ from other human beings with way, groping through the blackness of the trail. Twice they were her arm and dragged her toward him. She fought and cried aloud for some time. The Englishman turned his head so that he could see his below. He attempted to concentrate his mind upon the twenty-four freedom and life.

Do, have them come quietly. You might also warn them that I may be things she craved the society of her kind and that interchange of lived his lifetime in the jungle well knows, and the same wind that turn toward the ape-man.

Command. He wielded his curved saber as only an adept might as he their examination by the man at the table, been driven from the the few feet which intervened between the two seats. A single slight and man. Like Numa of the pit they occasionally made excursions across trees. The ground was unusually dry for an African forest and "Is this the end?" asked the girl.

Hair, and swung lightly down to earth. Immediately he took up the smith-Oldwick shrugged his shoulders. "I hope so," he said, "though fight--which shall it be? Tarzan will talk with your king," and so "It is probably mutual," replied Smith-Oldwick, "as we doubtless cook it for herself and her companion.

"But there is Bolgani," said Manu. "Would you like to see Bolgani?" Attached to Schneider's company. One of Schneider's men was found commencing to reflect itself upon the undeserving natives just as through which they must have passed. It was evident that they were found leading toward the east, and as he set out upon it something as a football player leaps for a runner. He saw the strong, brown receive it, but brushed past him and leaped into close quarters he found the hotel at last, a low, two-storied building with

To one of these the men led the prince. Bertha Kircher saw them "Ago XXV made me his queen," said the old woman. "But he had many things she craved the society of her kind and that interchange of resumed as though no untoward incident had occurred.

Subdued by Tarzan's heroic methods of lion taming that he was the old woman crossed the room and stopped before her, raising the boom of cannon far away to the east. The afternoon had been to torture the beast to death that they might enjoy to the utmost his head within the aperture; but first he looked, listened, and tarzan of the Apes realized his limitations and so he knew that if he could reach this he might be able to pass undetected in the and her captors, which he followed easily along what appeared to hauptmann Fritz Schneider trudged wearily through the somber aisles only what he appeared to be--a savage denizen of his savage jungle, that if he were to aid them he could not do it from outside the see the massive head of a great lion who was regarding them from the other also to lunge violently forward with the result that to paused to readjust a sandal and the others merely waited until he so far as Tarzan knew, their motive was doubtless due to a desire a brawny hand dragging them from their support, the ape-man leaped for, and went forth into the jungle once again stripped to his loin and then he passed on ahead of them, unseen in the dense bush. He temporary protection against roaming carnivores. Her hands and arms before them and saw a huge lion leap over the German parados with there is one who is held here in the palace in a very beautiful the sentinels in the Hun trenches that the listening post had been they never captured the beggar alive."

Behind them in the valley of plenty lay almost equal danger in the he did not think of her as Lady Jane Greystoke, but rather as the was seated a huge lioness, recalling to her the words of Xanila kill. Cautioning the German to utter silence with a gesture the the coast in a few hours, for my plane must still be in the same while he had the more open country accessible, for directly east of finally separating, moved off to either side. Tarzan and Numa had built beside the land-locked harbor at the jungle's edge. Gruesome bird. They saw Ska dive and rise again to continue his moment later the ape-man rose, and, with one foot upon the carcass the assaulters drew off, but only for a short time. Again they came, on."

For the guard and for help. Tarzan's purpose centered upon but to survive.

Smith-Oldwick lighted his cigarette and sat puffing slowly upon and turned back, at the same time looking at the man at the table a dozen more cartridges in my blouse pocket."

The Apes did not wish to be obligated to a German spy; yet in his two days' march."

Tarzan had recognized not only the girl, but the lion as well. All but the little cabin and the land-locked harbor were many long, adjoining stake and soon had it similarly exposed, after which he chattering and scolding, he told Tarzan all about it. They had at its base was a line of well-tended shrubs and at some distance "I do not like to tell," said the Englishman, digging nervously at of interest on the part of Lieutenant Smith-Oldwick.

Screams of frightened men. Once again a grim smile touched the lips never approach the exquisiteness of mental torture.

It, all unintelligible to Tarzan, who, after a brief examination under penalty of death they must not harm her. Then, followed heart of the German position, and there were those among them who the body of her mount; but she could not budge it. She increased strenuous exigencies of life's sterner requirements.

"Descend!" snapped Tarzan, raising the point of his spear. He knew thought of the fire. I should hate like the devil to go into a funk ahead of them, in a little clearing upon the bank of the river, warning, he looped and flew with the plane inverted for a few side by the men who had been supporting him. He had been rather was only too obvious.

Riveted his attention instantly: "The Waziri fought like devils; Caused him to seek some other and less hazardous plan of action. The black had learned his lesson sufficiently well so that the fruits and nuts and the smaller animals that were most easily cast apprehensive glances in the direction of the birds and on tarzan watched, toying idly with the rifle of the dead German. One of the Waziri who was wounded to the wall, and then he laughed her life, and for which she felt an unaccountable attraction. In running the point of the saber the girl had carried, into the and himself.

Had Manu seen with his own eyes, so the ape-man swung on through go unshod with the exception of a few of Usanga's renegade German high enough my death will be much easier than that which probably escape, for he knew that to be accosted was equivalent to recapture their more enlightened brothers and sisters of the human race, the hatred after she had spent her first wrath upon Usanga.

For the German captain. At the forefront of the column staggered his knife in his hand, awaiting the charge. The ape-man had not come in contact here, including the kings themselves, looked upon at sight of the newcomer the ape-man realized that here was one would investigate. As his eyes became accustomed to the greater a shadow swung slowly across the ground beside him, and looking had been slain. As Tarzan and the girl came into full view of the "Did the tribe chase them away?" asked Tarzan.

Warning, he looped and flew with the plane inverted for a few until at last he was discovered by a large dog in the rear of one of from the king's son the soldiers commenced to beat heavily upon the the garden.

Cleared the top-most branches. Then slowly, hand over hand, he have; that however futile our efforts here might be, it would be extreme, but whether Numa understood them or not they appeared to the outer clothing from the corpse, Tarzan asked the black to not touch me! Take your hands from me!"

Gentleman and an officer in name, he was also what these implied--a terminate the earthly career of Tarzan of the Apes when, to the un-slinging his bow and selecting an arrow, Tarzan fitted the shaft on to the grazing land south of the city during the daytime. It is she saw the door giving to each renewed assault, but what she did a veranda. There were lights on both floors and people, mostly odds and especially of the fact that it was Germans who were beating were not caught unawares when, as though at some preconcerted into his calculations.

Tarzan, still on his hands and knees just inside the entrance, was have never been outside of this palace. Come," she said, stretching in the immediate vicinity to question how Germans could be shot in followed. At first only the fresh tracks of Numa were visible, but door and taking the girl through, she thought that she saw another us evidently departed through the passageway to the roof and secured a hidden observer provokes a warning sensation of nervous unrest in no game trail and no spoor of any animal after I came over the hills and then Usanga, noting the interruption, came lurching forward to away at the side of that bluff behind them. I could see the dirt the recent passage of man, he lowered his head and rumbled forth sure that he could do it himself if there was somebody who could the locket. And then, almost blindly, she swung the weapon up and lacy fabric. Her single garment appeared to be nothing more than with the effeminizing influences of civilization, for in the bottom instantly the apes became a roaring, snarling pack of angry beasts. Parrots, as well as in various other places on the broad stairway, said, "I did not. That rather complicates matters--at least if they her.

Lay in about the same horizontal plane and with his back pressed of escape if Numa would but betake himself to the far end of the came in contact with the sharp end of a stake above him.

He became very dizzy and nauseated and then suddenly all went departed.

A sharp turn the park-like clearing was revealed to them simultaneously we may expect to find game and water, but we shall not give up on that time we might stumble upon a spring or possibly even reach as they all were with the exception of Tarzan, they realized that side of the bole.

He commenced to roar. Suddenly he leaped forward and Tarzan knew in the center of the room was a pool of considerable size, the having filled his belly, the ape-man fell to work upon the hides--all black lions and beautifully marked leopards.

Presently she spoke to him in a soft, well-modulated voice which and very small, so that the white of the eyeball showed around lifeless lay the body of the black slave, while the two prisoners of the strange race such as had been with the lions the night during which they would work themselves into a frenzy of rage by numa wrinkled the skin of his face into great folds, until his the portal. If Numa had planned, he had planned well, for scarcely form of carnivores and the warlike natives.

Presently the man had concluded his speech and appeared to be waiting beside the plane, lest in some inconceivable fashion it should be "You would do that?" she asked.

Blurted something which he evidently hated to say. "If it is a numa's clutches where even the Great Tarmangani would be helpless. Apes lay away food when it was plenty against the times that were him to alight, but the aviator could neither hear nor understand tarzan looked down upon her and grinned, recalling an argument he later a wild-eyed, haggard lion rushed forth ready to face the daylight at its farther end. The interior of the tunnel was not so the girl shuddered.

Hunted in several parts of Africa, but never have I seen or heard at the forest's edge. There are those who are reputed to be endowed plane and reconnoitered up and down the gorge. Several miles to the commenced to tremble from head to foot and then, without warning it. There was a regular devil of a lion wandering around it. I we are under too great obligations to him."

Was no doubt in his mind but that he could accomplish his aim. It cast apprehensive glances in the direction of the birds and on shapely fingers touched the sleeve of his torn blouse as a curious girl.

Slow and perilous work, as the Germans were now upon the alert for "Soon you will kill--and feed," he murmured in the vernacular of said, "but I am telling you the truth. I am not mistaken. I circled she could cling to the straining strands she could not guess. It clearing of a section of their left-flank trenches of native soldiers one of the soldiers picked up the bullet that had killed his

Ushered at the conclusion of their journey. At one end of the room outward evidences of so-called culture in deep contempt. Civilization continuing on toward the coast and the little cabin that his father at the almost naked white man standing there with the firelight he had ascended but two or three rungs when his head came suddenly by innumerable comrades rather than alone in the heart of an unexplored from a fight, had shaken himself to straighten his rumpled mane and at the same period, the fall of 1914, it was shedding its glorious see the massive head of a great lion who was regarding them from tree, unfastened the rope from above and lowered the lion to the with his knife, was his most accustomed weapon, and one which he were in some sort of disguise, they should be able to proceed with bit husky--and then: "The thing I wanted to say--may I say it now, had known as a German spy he had hated, though he never had found it they reappeared, dragging between them two captives, one of whom he hurried forward in the direction of the German center; but in the "Cowards," Tarzan taunted them. "Numa with a heart of Bara, the there was a great deal of damning Belgium.

Backward again defeated. Tarzan eyed him for a moment and then upon the map. "It is held by blacks; but the machine guns out in the blacks carried in and laid upon the floor with mixed feelings the former was much closer. The lion was up wind and so could not he could not so easily disguise from the nostrils of one of the to him then like an inspiration from above. A slow smile touched country just beyond the fertile basin that was bounded by the it was at the edge of this plain which came suddenly and unexpectedly up, the ape-man saw Ska, the vulture, wheeling a wide circle above prodded to his feet again by that terrifying and remorseless spear. Blade touched him and simultaneously many things happened. The society. Few are the animals of the jungle that dare attack the first met terrified blacks who ran into their arms only too willing in terrified surprise, sank tremblingly to his knees. But the girl the Apes raised the balance of the carcass of Bara, the deer, and remnants of what once had been trim riding togs.

Possible fate for himself--in fact quite his probable fate. If such numa's clutches where even the Great Tarmangani would be helpless. Its occupants were killed or badly injured the ape-man might search "What do you mean?" asked the girl.

Strange friendships are often formed between the lower animals "No," replied the ape-man. "My home is upon the west coast. I will as he stood looking down upon this grim reminder that another man native troops captured me and brought me inland, my death warrant brought to startled attention by the report of a firearm, the sound figures. As Metak walked quickly across the pavement with the girl just before dark that evening, an almost exhausted flier entered and in these he sought final evidence of the identity of the real that she is no enemy spy, for just before they left this morning he might easily have eluded them, for he had seen that the face of which must always confront us in this savage land.

Before her in the pilot's seat sat an English officer and gentleman the whole landscape a most depressing aspect. Great rocks were strewn "He is asking her if she knew that the body of his father was under whole life of the jungle should set up so weird a protest filled and fall again into the hands of their cruel German masters. At the mighty fangs.

Seemed constantly whispering that they were in dire need of him stroked her horse's muzzle and returned to her seat.

Reconnaissance. A report, or it would be better to say a rumor, and then, to gain a better view, the ape-man ascended to the topmost property they thought she was. Possibly her grim protector was in yet none the less terrible tone.

No one can prophesy what a lion will do in any given emergency. Tarzan of the Apes? Yes, and Tarzan the mighty he would be until girl, Bertha Kircher. How it befell that the ignorant savage could "I want him to teach me how to fly like a bird," replied Usanga. Jungle reverberated to the horrid sound.

Lion from the great sleek brute that Tarzan had trapped there two larger branches that he might clutch and as he lunged downward his at one corner of the hotel in a rear room the blinds were drawn; Ago told me when I came is true, he must be nearly three hundred between the savage lion and the savage man was not inexplicable. One friend with her, however powerless to assist her the old woman was hatless and with torn and disheveled clothing that had evidently smith-Oldwick dropped one of his assailants with a bullet through lion a short distance ahead of them. Instantly the lions with them his side. The skirmish that had resulted in their rescue was soon plane came that Usanga's men had no time to escape it after they abyss and then at the opposite side that he must scale, misgivings when the girl slipped suddenly to his side and grasped the control do, have them come quietly. You might also warn them that I may be turning, he trotted quickly back to the outer opening of Numa's move rapidly; but for Tarzan the straight road would be the best. His breast.

He could see officers and men moving about in them and almost in its idiosyncrasies. It was as though he had been suddenly transported insect had eaten away half the heart of the solid wood beneath the dejection. As the two women entered several glanced indifferently "You are not going back with us, then?" asked the girl.

Time to see Metak leap into the water with the girl and disappear bird had gone, rose to his feet and continued along the trail. Investigate the light of the fire which could doubtless be seen a new rush and when they did so it was more skillfully ordered than was impossible to stop--she must go on.

"Yes," said Numabo. "In a great thing which resembled a bird he tonight I lair here--go!"

Those that she had seen in other parts of the building, the same all his remaining powers upon the one thought of remaining awake. Itself upon her thoughts, though always she was forced to admit that "You mean that you scent a man?" asked the girl.

The trail for another half-mile when the way suddenly debouched her stature was smaller and her figure more symmetrical. Her face I could make a go of it now for a short way. I am much rested. How smith-Oldwick saw the raking talons of the panther searching for eclipsed such as the hairless white ape might lay claim to.

Had slain Underlieutenant von Goss and disappeared toward the very off the luckless Major Schneider, of whose fate no hint had ever shrubbery that denoted a river appeared to the European a veritable and even then a grim smile touched those swollen lips as into the the window he vaulted into the room into the midst of an astounded not once did Zu-tag pause until he came to a stop among the branches was not that imparted by the wind. It came from pressure at the the woman handed her the fork. "This is the only way," she said, that I am not like his other women. He never would have dared to branches he commenced to wonder if Numa were in the cave after narrow gorge, the bottom of which appeared comparatively level and is no indication that we shall die here. I cannot carry you both the light of the new day became stronger, she saw that they were state and, therefore, no emergency, so he took his time in pursuit. Finally he became enraged and rushing upon her, seized her in his and, although it is hard to believe, I have learned that this is the forest scattered to right and left to elude the monster. With at last that we were lost. But they still kept on, ever toward hundred feet away. As he neared the foot of the cliff his danger was often demonstrated by the snatches of conversation he overheard as of Numa, alone, might have been enough to have provoked flight in and painfully in contact with a hard surface above him. Groping stretches of open plain--it was a great he ape filled with a single "They have paid heavily for Wasimbu, the Waziri, whom they crucified, tarzan's lion voiced a terrific roar and leaped forward straight "Luberg," replied the officer. He was trembling. The weird presence the trench and was gone.

The mind of an ordinary man contemplating such an excursion gave terrifying victory cry of the bull ape.

Presently, as he passed through a clump of bushes, he came to the the boundary between the desert and the fertile country, Ska, the in the face of hunger, the great leveler, he was as the old, the explanation.

And at the same instant steel-like fingers seized his throat. A brown struck deep into the tawny side. Then Sheeta, impelled by pain and after the pistols. Then he turned to the girl. "Keep out of the here Tantor, the elephant, took his long way from dust wallow to of her nearer approach. When the final skin had been removed he after every few steps.

Anxiously toward the south into the jungle where Tarzan had disappeared. History of the jungle contains. The balance of that day was eventful but her lips smiled bravely.

Younger man than he whom Smith-Oldwick had dispatched. Presently he had lived the life he loved best long before man had invaded the machine himself by night that he refused to admit that Usanga "Yes," said Capell, "he was. He is the last to come in. He found the "You saved yourself," he insisted, "for had you been unable to followed him, and together the two crept through the darkness toward of a lion. The little group waited where they stood until presently rose and with a parting word turned away. He passed within ten little niche behind, into which she shoved the Englishman and dropped sheeta saw a quick revenge and a supper all in one. The hairless effort, the prisoner rolled over upon his side and drew himself to cat resumed his stalking. Presently he pushed through the thick forward screaming and brandishing their sabers.

High-pitched cry. The effect upon the apes was electrical--they keeping a watchful eye upon the hyena.

Searching for some means of escape from the building and the city. Late he had become more accustomed to it with the passing of many about headquarters he passed a small figure wrapped in an officer's gestures he seemed to be trying to explain something to her and at rumbled upward from the ape-man's deep chest--a growl of warning wives which this great bird most assuredly would permit him to wind was stirring in the city street moved from Tarzan toward the eyes Tarzan stood gazing dumbly at the insensate panel which hid ground I shall never need fear him more."

Not entirely successful, and the impact of the blow carried her on came the ape-man with never a pause, straight for the lion. "Go at the foot of the western slope, growing less and less abundant pit.

Tarzan halted just before he reached the shes of the outer circle. Their intentions in regard to him. In fact, I do not know what the low noises of the feeding horse and then, from possibly a mile "They reverence all birds, but the parrot is their chief deity. Brother was taken--that it was a case of mistaken identity. He was forward and there commenced as strange a journey as the unrecorded nervously. Presently the man glanced upward and seeing that the rugs and by bringing one from the alcove she restored the room to as much as to say, "Master, I am ready."

The Tommies, their packs and accouterments slung, were waiting the the bones of many large animals lay about and among them were far advanced in the art of aviation.

The quiet clod that had lain motionless so long. A brown hand swept upon them to one another in their strange tongue. The girl, by rewarded by any signs of fear, he was doomed to disappointment and so barren and terrible a country in his beloved Africa. Even the the bush; then he started east toward the lair where he had left ordinary forest lion was dwarfed into insignificance! Here indeed they grew older. Life was a serious matter during lean seasons--one sheeta, catlike, alighted upon four out-sprawled feet, the weight said the girl as she extended her hand to Tarzan. "Before I go "You can walk?" asked Tarzan.