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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1914-02-19, Page 7THE WINGHAM TIMES, FEBRUA,RY 19, 1911 Copyright, 1912, by ths Frank A. Munsey company. eticeeteeeseeeseeeeteeeseeteeseeeeeceeweepeespeesewwevtevewwwevareeeneveveavuteetitetemeeseeew 9. PROLOGUE. . Not like any other story you ever read before is "Tarzan of .the Apes." While you are read- ing it you would like to pause to ask yourself "Is it possible?" but you can't, because the story is so fascinating that pausing is im- ,possible. It's a yarn of the you- can't- stop - until- you - finish- it It may have happened in the 'wilds of Africa just as the author relates it, or it may not—we do not know whether or not he has .a basis of fact for his story—but ,you are not a scientist while you ,are reading it. You are just an ,ordinary human being, with a (love for a story that is absorbing in its interest and swiftness. CHAPTER I. In the Wilds. IHAD thig story from one who had no business to tell it to me or to , any other. I may credit the se- ductive influence a an old vin- talepon the narrator for the begin - nig of it and my own skeptical in- credulity during the days that follow- ed for the balance of the strange tale. I do not say the story Is true, for I did not witness the happenings whicb It portrays. The yellow, mildewed pages of the diary of a man long dead and the rec- .ords of the colonial office dovetail per- fectly with the narrative Of my con- vivial host, and so I give you the story .as I pieced It out from these several varlpus agencies. *you do net find it credible, yon will at least be as one with we in ac- knowledging that it is unique, remark- able and interesting. From the records of the colonial of. ,flee and from the dead man's diary we learn that a certain young English no- bleman. whom we shall cell John Clay- -ton, Lord Greystoke, was comittissioto .ed to undertake a peculiarly delicate investigation of conditions in a Brit ish west coast African colony from whose •natives another European power was known to be recruiting soldiers for Its „army, which latter it used solely for the forcible collection of rubber mid ivory front the savage tribes along the Kongo and the Artiwimi. We learn also that on a bright May morning in 188.3 John, Lord Greystoke, .and his bride, Lady Alice, sailed from Dover on their way to Africa. A month later they arrived at Free- town, where they chartered a small Sailing vessel, the Fuwalda, which was to bear them to their final destination. And here John, Lord Greystoke, and Lady Alice, his wife, vanished from the eyes and from the knowledge of men. Two months after they weighed an- chor and cleared from the port of Freetown, a half dozen British war messels were scouring the south Atlan- tic for trace of them or their little ves- 'sel, and It was almost immediately that the wreckage was found upon the • shores of St. Helena which convinced the world that the Fuwalda had gone . down with all on hoard, and thus the • -Search was stopped ere it had scarce , lid . k. lettow now t hat tjeg grew of the 111012111111611100 I etvaele mutinied, slew her (dicers nue simile' John Clayton and his wife Iteennse of a favor done to the leader or the mutineers by Clayton. letter the errev, fearing discovery, set John l'inyti/II and his wife ashore on the wile %vest (.oast of Africe, giving them setlieleut teens and tools to enable them to maintain life with work. Neer the shore Claytv built a little cabin for Itenself afield:: wife. They endured Intieh hardship. seeing no hu - wen ereature, but watched often by the giant awes which infest that region. One day Clayton imprudently left his wife :dome and she was ettacked and 111111red by (me of the great apes. Clay - ten sive the beast and bore his wife bark In the cabin. That night n little son was born in the tiny vallin beside the primeval for- ps1, N% 11110 e gren t t Igor screamed be - fee. tee doer teal the deep notes of tee .1.ei .4 Heir soufuled from beyond th, I i'vyS tote. never recovered tee,. tin• qtteee of the great ape's at- e, 1, -eel though she lived for a year ee, 1..0,‘ was born, she was nev- e, e: eutsitle the cabin, nor did she t`l 111% HZ(' that she ‘V:IS not in 11. t op, ways she was quite rational, ;111,1 in., jy ;tad happiness she took in tile posSessiiiii tit her little son and the constant attentions of her husband made that year a very happy one for her, the happiest of her life. Long since had Clayton given up ally, hope of rescue, except through acci- dent. With unremitting zeal he had worked to beautify the interior of the cabin. Skins of lion and tiger covered the door. Cupboards and bookcases lined the walls. Odd vases made by his own hands from the clay of the region held beautiful tropical flowers. Curtains of grass and bamboo covered the win- dows, and, most arduons task of an With his meager assortment of tools, he had fashioned lumber to neatly seal the walls and ceiling and lay a smooth door within the cabin. During the year that followed Clay- ton was several times attacked by the great apes, which now seemed to in- fest the vidnity of the cabin, but as he never ventured out except with both rifle and revolvers he had little fear of the huge beasts. He had strengthened the window protections and fitted a unique wooden lock to the cabin door, so that when he hunted for game and fruits he had no fear that any animal could break into the little home. At first much of the game he shot from the cabin windows, but toward the encl the animals learned to fear the strange lair whence issued the terrify. ing thunder .cif his rifle, Ti his leisure Clayton read, often aloud to his wife, from the store at hooks he had brought for their new home. Among these were many for little children—picture books, primers, readers—for they had known that their little child would be old enough for stili before they hed hoped to return to England. At other times Clayton wrote in his diary, whieh he had elways been ac- customed 10 hem in French and in which he recorded the details of their strange lire. This book he kept locked In a little tnetel box. A yeer from the day her little son wns born Daly Alice passed quietly away in the night. So peaceful was her end that it was hours before Clay- ton eould realize that his wife was dend. The hist entry In his diary was made the morning following her death. In It he recites the sad details in a matter of fact way that adds. to the pathos of it, for it breathes an apathy born of long sorrow and hopelessness, which even this cruel blow could scarcely awake to further suffering: "My little son is crying for nourishment Oh, Alice, Alice, what shall I do?" And as John Clayton wrote the last words his hand was ever destined to pen he dropped his head wearily upon hie -outstretched arms, where they rest" ed upon the table he had built for her who lay still and cold iti the bed beside him. For a loug time no Sound broke the deathlike stillness of the jungle midday save Ihe wailing of the tiny man-eltild. * * iii a * • * In the forest of the tablelefid a mile back from the ocean old Kerellak, the ape. was on a rampage of rege among his people. 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She made the leap successfully, but as she grasped the limb of the further tree the sudden jar loosened the hold of the tiny babe where it clung franti- cally to her neck, and she saw the little thing hurled, turning and twisting, to the ground thirty feet below. With a low cry of dismay Kehl resh. ed headlong to its side. thoughtless now of the danger from F.erchalc, but when she gathered the wee mangled form to her bosom life Mid left it. With low tnoans she set cuddling the body to her. nor did Kerchak nttempt 1..o molest her. With the death of the oldie his tit of demoniacal rage passed is suddenly as It had seized him. Kerchak was a huge king ape, weigh ing perhaps 350 pounds. His forehead was extremely low and receding, his eyes bloodshot, small and close set to his coarse, flat nose; his ears large and thin, but smaller than most of' bis k Ind. His awful temper and his mighty strength made him supretne among the little tribe into which be had been born some twenty years before. Now that he was in his prime, there MIS no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule, nor did the other and larger animals molest him. 011I Tauterthe elephant. alone of all the wild. savage life, feared hlun not— and him alone did Eerchalt fear. When Taner trumpeted the great ape scur- ried with his fellows high among the trees of the second terrace. tribe of anthropoids, over which Rerelmk ruled with an iron hand autO bared fangs. numbered some sI x or eight -families. each family eonsistiug of an adult mule with his wives and children—some sixty or seventy apes, till told Kele was the youngest wife of a meet called Tublat, meaning "Brulten Nose." litel the child she had seen dash- ed to &nth was her first, for she was but nine or ten years old. Notwithstanding her youth, she was large and powerful—a splendid, clean limbed animal, witb a round, high fore- head, which denoted more intelligence than most of her kind possessed. So also she had a greater capacity for mother love and mother sorrow. But she was still an ape, a huge, fierce, terrible beast of a species close- ly allied to the gorilla, yet with more intelligence, 'which, with the strength of their cousins, made her kind the most fearsome of those awe inspiring progenitors of man. When the tribe saw that Kerchak's rage had ceased they came slowly down from their arboreal retreats and pursued again the various occupations which he had interrupted. The young played and frolicked about among the trees and bushes. * They had passed an hour or so thus when Kerchak callad them together and, with a word of tommand to them to follow him, set off toward the sea. They traveled for the most part upon the ground, where it was open, follow- ing the path of the great elephants whose comings and goings break the only roads through the tangled jungle mazes of bush, vine, creeper and tree. When they walked it was with a roll- ing, awkward motion, placing the knuckles of their closed hands upon the ground and swinging their ungain- ly bodies forward. nut when the way was through the lower trees they moved more swiftly, swinging from branch to branch with the agility of their smaller cousins, the monkeys. And all the way Kala car- ried her little dead babY hugged close- ly to her breast. It was shortly after noon when they reached tt ridge overlooking the beach, Where below them lay the tiny cottage which was Merchak's goal. He had soon many of his kind go to :heir deaths before the loud noise made by the little black stick hi the hands of ihe 'strange white ape who lived In that ME NEWSPAPER IS.THE NATIONAL SC9W WINDOW By HOLLAND. VOU often stop and look in • show windows,don'tyou? You may not need any of the goods on display, but you stop and look, and you feel that the time is not wasted because you have learned something. 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Today there wns no sign of the man about, and from where they watched they could see that the cabin door was open. Slowly, cautiously and noise- lessly they crept through the 3uugle to- ward the little cabin. Ou they eame until Kerchak hlm- Self slunk stealthily to the very door and peered 'within. Behind him were two males end then Kale, closely straining the little dead form to her breast. Inside the den they saw the strange white epe lying half across a table, his head burled in his arms, and on the bed lay a figure covered by a sailcloth, while from a tiny rustle cradle came the plaintive wailing of a babe. Noiselessly Kerchak entered, crouch. in,g for the charge, and then John Clay- ton rose with a sudden start and faced them. The sight that met his eyes must have frozen him with horror, for there, within the door, stood three great bull apes, while behind them crowded many more; how many he never knew, for his revolvers were hanging on the far wall beside his rifle and Kerchak was charging. When Kerchak released the limp form which had been John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, he turned his atten- tion toward the little cradle, but Kale was there before him, and when he would have grasped the child she snatched it herself, and before he could intercept her she had bolted through the door and taken refuge in a high tree. As she took up the little live baby of Alice Clayton she dropped the dead body of her own lute the empty cradle. The wail of the living had answered the call of universal inotherhood with- in her wild breast which the dead could not still. High up among the branches of a mighty tree she hugged the shrieking infant to her bosom, and soon the in- stinct that was as dominant In this fierce female as it had been in the breast of his tender and beautiful mother—the instinct of mother love— reached out to the tiny man-child'a half formed understanding, and he be- came quiet. • Then hunger closed the gap between them, and the son of an English lord and an English lady nursed at the breast of Kale, the great ape. Once satisfied that Clayton was dead, Kerchak turned his attention to the thing which lay upon the bed, covered by it piece of sailcloth. A moment he let his fingers sink deep into the cold flesh, and then, real- izing that she was already dead, he turned from her to examine the con- tents of the room, nor did he again molest the body o' either Lady Alice or Sir John. The rifle hanging upon the wall caught bis first attention. It was for this strange, death dealing thunder stick that he had yearned for months; but, now tbat it was within bis grasp, be scarcely bad the temerity to seize it. Finally the rifle was torn from its hook and lay in the grasp of the great brute. Finding that it harmed him not, Kerchak began to 'examine it closely. During all these operations the apeet who had entered sat huddled near the door watching their chief, while those outside strained and crowded to catch a glimpse of what transpired within. Suddenly Nerchak's finger closed upon the trigger, there was a deafen- ing roar in the little room, and the apes at and beyond the door fell over one another in their wild anxiety to escape. Kerchak was equally frightened—so frightened, in fact, that he quite for- got to throw aSide the author of that fearful noise, but bolted for the door with it tightly clutched in one hand. As he passed through the opening the front sight of the rifle caught upon the edge of the inswung door with suf- ficient force to close it tightly after the fleeing ape. When Kerchak came to a halt a short distance from the cabin and discov- ered that he still held the rifle be drop- ped it as though it had burned him, nor did be again essay to recover it. The noise had been too much for his brute nerves, but he was now quite Convinced that the terrible stick was quite harmless by itself if left alone. The cleverly constructed latch which Clayton had made for the door had sprung as Kerchak passed out, nor could the apes find means of ingrese through the heavily barred windows. Kale had not once come to earth with her little adopted babe, but now Kerchak called to her to descend with the rest,,and as there was no note of anger in his voice she dropped lightly, from branch to branch and joined the others on their homeward march. 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NEW YORK CITY. 2/7h7rt&SESSEEZENEMENEMMINIERSIMIMIEMEr hito tier iiiii.iSesSion -before lie would walk./ aloue, and as for climbing—my, but how stupid be was: Kale sometimes talked with the older females about her young hopeful, but none of them could understand how a child could be so slow and backward in learning to care for itself. Why, it could not even find food alone, and more than twelve moons had passed since Kale had come upon it. Had they known that the child had seen thirteen moons before it had come Into Kola's possession they would have considered its ease as absolutely hope- less. Tublat, Kale's husband, was sorely vexed and but for the female's careful watching would have put the child out of the way. "He will never be a great ape," he argued. "Always will you have to carry him and protect him. What good will he be to the tribe? None. Only a burden. "Let us leave him quietly sleeping among the tall grasses, that you may bear otber and stronger apes to guard us in our old age." "Never, Broken Nose," replied Kale. "If I must carry him forever, so be it." Tublat went to Kerchak to urge him to use his authority with Kale and force her to give up little Tarzan, which was the name they had given to the tiny Lord Greystoke and which meant "white skin." But when Kerchalt spoke to her about it Kale threatened to run away frotn the tribe if they did not leave her in peace with the child, and as this is one of' the unalienable rights of the jungle folk, if they be dissatisfied 'among their own people, they bothered her no more, for Kala was it fine, clean limbed young female, and they did not wish to lose her. As Taman grew he tnade more rapid strides, so that by the time he was ten years old he was an excellent climber and on the ground could do many won- derful things which were beyond the powers of his little brothers and sisters. In many ways did he differ from them, and they often marveled at his superior cunning, but in strength and size he was deficient, for at ten the great anthropoids were fully grown, some of them towering over six feet iu height, while little Tarzan was still but a half grown boy. Yet such a boy! From early infancy he had used bis hands to swing from linnet' to branch after the manner of tils giant mother, and as he grew older he spent hour upon hour daily speeding through the treetops with his brothers and sisters. fle conld spring twenty feet across space at the dizzy heights of the forest top and grasp with unerring precision and without apparent jar a limb waV- tog wildly in the path of an approneh— ing tornado. He could drop twenty feet at a streteh front limb to limb in rapid de- scent to the ground. or lie conkd gain the utmost pinnacle of the loftiest trop- ical giant with the ease and swiftness of a squirrel. Though but ten years old, he was ()illy as Strang IIS the aver- age Mali of thirty rind fee more agile ban the most lalletilT(1 athlete ever becomes At0 ti y by day his strength mets inteeeislitg 1114 fire among the tierce apes intd been happy, for his recollection held no oliter life, nor did 110 know that there existed within the universe aught else than his little tenet and tAsvilcl jungle animels with whieli he was fa- miliar. Ile was nearly ten before lie Com- menced to realize that it great differ. etice existed between himself find his fellow's, Ins little body, burned al- most black by exposUre, MUMMY CAMS- fgelinge intenerteeimule, foe lie Fialized that it was entirely hazi- less, like some low snake or reptile. In the higber land which his tribe frequented was a little lake, and it Was here that Tarzan first saw his face In the clear, still waters of its bosom. It was on a sultry day of the dry vason that he and one of his cousins bad gone down to the bank to drink. As they leaned over both little faces were mirrored on the placid pool, the fierce and terrible features of the ape beside those of the aristocratic scion of an old English house. Taiwin was appalled. It had been had enough to he hairless, but to own sella eountomnee: Lie wondered that the other apes mild look at him at all. So intent wits he upon his personal appraisement of his features that he did not hear the parting of the tall grass behind him as a great body pushed itself stealthily through the jungle. nut' did his companion, the ape, bear either, for he MIS driuking, and the noise of his sucking lips drowned the quiet approach of the intruder. Not thirty paces behind the two he crouehed---Sabor, the tiger—lashing, his tail. Cautiously he moved a great padded paw fOrWitra, noiselessly plac- ing it before he lifted the next. Thus he advanced, his belly low, almost touching the surface of' the ground—a great cat preparing to spring upon its prey. 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