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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1914-04-23, Page 7)111rI1 '..',., ,drzdn „.., V ..I"_ .,. -'4'1,, . .0 4.7 i PAREERSUSIERRANANMIEVAINAA.ANACRAVAARAH.A.ACRA Gnbriel, Ali wants to die!" ,cried the poor woman. lint with eyes ,fitst closed. "Lemme die, but doan' lemme see dat nwrfut face again. Whafer de devil round lifter po' ole Illsiziera Ida? She ain't done nutlin' to nobody." CHAPTER XIV. The Call of the Primitive. HERE'S Miss Porter? What happened ?" questioned Clay- ton. "Ain' Miss 'Jane here?" cried Esmeralda, sitting up with won- derful celerity for one of her bulk. -0 'Lewd, now Ah 'members! It done must have tooked her away." The nts gress commenced to sob and wail her lamentations. "What took her away?" cried Pro- fessor Porter. "A great big gi'nt all covered with bait" "A gorilla, Esmeralda?" questioned Mr. Philander, and the three men scarcely breathed as he voiced the. horrible thought. Clayton immediately began to look about for tracks, but be could find nothing save a confusion of trampled grasses in the close vicinity, and his woodcraft was too meager for the translation of what he did see. All the balance of the day they sought through the jungle, but as night 'drew on they were forced to give tip in despair and hopelessness, for they did not even know in wbat direction the thing had borne Jane Porter. It was. long after dark ere they reached the cabin, and a grief stricken party it was that sat silently within . the little structure. Professor Porter finally broke tbe silence. His tones were no longer those of tbe erndite pedant theorizing upon the abstraet and the unknowable, but those of the man of action. deterinin• ed, but tinged by a note or It:dew/lb- able hopelessness and grief which wrung an env -eying pang from Clay- ton's heart. . "I shall lie down now," said the old man, "and try to sleep Early tomor- row, so soon as it Is light, 1 shall take what food I eau earry and continue the search until I have round ,lane I will not return without her." Clayton rose and lald his hand gently iipon Professor Porter's bent old shoo! der. "I shall go witb you, of course," he said. "Do not tell me that I need even have mid so." "I knew that you would offer -that you would wish to go, Mr. Clayton, but you must not. Jane is beyond hu- man assistance now. 1 simply go that I may face my Maker with her and know, too, that what was once my dear girl does not lie all alone and friendless in the jungle." "I shall go with you," said Clayton simply. The old man looked up, regarding the strong, handsome face of William Cecil Clayton intently. Perhaps be read there the love that lay in the 'heart beneath -the love for his daugh- ter. "As you wish." be said. "You may count on me also," said Mr. Philander. "No, my dear old friend," said Pro- fessor Porter. "We may not all go. It would be cruelly wicked to leave poor Esmeralda here alone. Come— let us try to sleep a little." * .* From the time Tarzan left the tribe i'fas Badly Run Down. :Milburn's Heart and Nerve PsBuilt E:er Up. • 11irs. Prartk Blough, Sarnia, Ont., ,writes:—" I embrace the opportunity to write you saying that 1 have used Mil - burn's Heart mid Nerve PHIS, and found ',them very helpful to me. I was very badly run dowie and was taking doctor's medicine. My son, out 'West, wrote me saying, Motherl yott use the Mil - burn's Heart and Nerve Pills, they will be better for you than doctor's medicine.' This I did with good results, I often regotemend them to other people. My .doctor did not know I was using thent, he used to say 'Why] I never saw any • •one's heart gein up like yours has. You do not need any more medicine."' Milburn's Heert and Nerve Pills are Me. per box, -3 boxes for $1.25, at all dealers, or mailed direct on receipt of price by 'The T. Milbutn CO., Limited, Toronto, Ont. 1.0 irtitriropunis 0whieb he ball 0 raised it was torn by continual Ito and discord. ' Terkoz proved a reed and inprieions king. so that, one one, many of the older and weaker apes, upon whom he was particularly prime lo vent his brutish nathre, took their families and sought the quiet and saretY or the for interior. lint at last those who remained were driven to desperation by, the contiuued timenlence of Terkoz, and it so hap- pened that one of them recalled the parting admonition or Tarzan: If you have a chief who is cruel, do not as the other apes do and at- tempt, any one of you, to pit yourself against him alone. But; instead, let iOne Piercing Scream Escaped Her nLips. or three or four of you attack him ther. Then no chief will dare to other than he shopld be, for four you can kill any chief." tAd the ape who readied this wise sel repeated it to several of his fel- s, so that when Terkoz returned to trihe that day he found a warm re - tion' awaiting Mtn. '*Ithere were no formalities. As Ter - reached the group five huge, hairy sts sprang upon hini, iht heart lie was an errant coward, Stich is the way with bullies among as well as among men, so he did remain to fight and die, but tore self away from them as quickly as could and fled into the sheltering ghs of the forest: ' Irvi, o more attempts he made to re - Itthe tribe, but on each oceasion he set upon and driven away. At last he gave it up and turned, foaming with 'lige and hatred, into the jungle. It was in this state of mind that the horrible manlike beast, swinging from Iree to tree, came suddenly upon two women In the jungle. He was right above them when he diseovered them. The first intimation Jane Porter had of his presence was when the great hairy body dropped to the wilt beside her and she saw the awful face and the snarling, hideous mouth thrust within a foot of her. One piercing scream escaped her lips .is the brute's hand clutched her arm. Then she was dragged toward those awfill fangs which yawned at her throat But ere they touched that fair skin et -tether mood claimed the anthro- peid, The tribe had kept his women. He must find others to replace them. This hairless white ape would be the first of his new hoUsehold. He threw her roughly across his broad shoulders and leaped back into the trees, bearing Jane Porter away toward it fete ti thOusand times worSe than death. Emit eraldtt's scream had miegled ' with that of Jane Porter; then. as wits Estneraidtt's manner under stress of emergency whiett required presenee of mind, she Swooned. The scream that brought Clayten and the two older men stunablIng through the undergroWth led Tartan of the epee Straight te where Esmeralda lay, but it *Was hot Esmeralda in whom his interest Centered. For a Moment be serutinized the groaned beloW and the trees aboVe until the ape that Wall in him by Virtue a tilde's* end environtrient, totribined Copyright 1912, by the Frank A, Muneey company. wiNoliAM TINIES„\PI!'1.4 23 1911 'icile"iimitiee in 'was Me by sight or birth, gild his woodera ft ttie whole story as plainly as though he had segn the thing happen with his own eyes. Instantly be was gone again let° the swaying trees, following the high flung spoor which no other human eye could have detected. much less translated. Almost silently the ape man sped on in the track of Terkoz and his prey, but the sound of bis npproaeh reached the ears of the fleeing beast and spur- red it on to greater speed. Three miles were covered before Taman overtook them, and then Ter - &oz. seeing that further, fliglit was futile, dropped to the ground in a small open glade that he might turn and fight for his prize or be free to escape unhaumered if he saw that the pursuer was more than a match for him lie still grasped Jane Porter in one great arm as Taman honnded like a leopard into the arena which nature had provided for this primeval -like ha ttle. When Terkoz saw that it was Tar- zan who purstied him he jumped to the eonchision that this was Tarzan's wo- man since they were of the same kind - white and hairless -and so be re - joked at this opportunity for double revenge upon his hated enetny. 'ro Jane Porter the apparition of this giellike man was as wine to siek nerves. r(ni the deseription which Clayton and her father and Mr Philander had elven her she knew that it must be the hatne \VOlitierfill creature who had saved them, and she saw in him only proteetor and a friend, flat as Terkoz piustied her roughly aside to meet Tarzan's eharge and she saw the great proportions or the ape and the !nighty tilaSt.les and the tierce tangs her heart quailed. now could aulinal vanquish suet) a mighty antagemst? Like two charging hulls they ('0 inc toveiner end like two wolves sought "evil ether's thrum Against the long ealithes or the iiiie was pitted the thin tile& inthe !iii Ms knife. Jane Porter her lithe form flattened inst the trunk of a great tree, her inolds tight prgssed ageinst ber risi lig and falling hosoin and her eyes wide with mingled horror. faseination, fear and admiration -watched tbe pritnor- (Mil ens, battle with the primeval tnan for possession ur t wountn-for her. As the greet muscles of the man's wick and shoulders knotted beneath the tension of his efforts and the huge biceps and forearm held at bay those mighty tusks the veil of centuries of lvilization and culture was swept from the blurred visiou of the Baltimore girl. When the thin knife drank deep a dozen times of Terkoz's heart's blood and the great carcass rolled lifeless upon the ground it was a primeval woman who sprang forward with out- stretched arms" toward the primeval man who had fought for her and won her. And Tarzan? He did what no, red blooded man needs lessons in doing. He took his woman in his arms and smothered her with kisses. For a moment Jane Porter lay there witb half closed eyes. But as suddenly as the veil had been withdrawn it drepped again, and an outraged con- science suffused her face with its scar- let mantle, and a mortified woman thrust Tarzan of the apes from her and, burled her face in her hands. Tarzan had been surprised when he had found the girl he had learned to love after a vague and abstract man- ner a willing prisoner in his arms. Now he was surprised that she repulsed He came close to her once more and toot's hold of her arm. She turned upon him like a tigress, striking his great breast with her tiny hands. Tartan could not understand it. A mordent ago and it had been' his Intention to hasten Jane Porter beck to her people, but that moment was lost Since then Taman of tbe apes had felt the smart form close pressed to his. The hot, sweet breath against his cheek and Mouth had fanned new flame to life within Ms breast. Atrain be laid his band upon her arni. Again she repulsed him. And then Tarzan of the apes did just what his first aneestor woUld have done. He took ins woman in his arms and Carried her into the jungle. Early the following Morning the four Within the little Cabin by the beach were awakened by the booming of a cannon. Clayton Was the first to rush our, and there, beyond the barber's month, he Sew two *Vessels lying at an- co _Ass wa .tika_Axrovr and ,t1te Other tt TRUTH TELLS And the TRUTH Is Told— _ In Our Advertisements By HOLLAND. M IeRCHANTS have learn - Iv! ed that the Truth Tells when the Truth is Told. Hence they are scrupulous that their advertisements are accurate. Back of every ad- vertisement, back of every statement made to attract custom, is the reputation of the merchant, his hope of' continued success. Deception may be profitable for a time, but deception can- not be permanent, and the profit based on deception is necessarily brief. Truth is the rnore effective as Itis of longer duration. Falsehood loses its effectiveness as soon as it is discovered. The merchants who adver- • tise in"this paper are honor. able men, and this would make them truthful. But above all they are good busi- ness men, and they know that TO BE. SUCCESSFUL THEY MUST BE TRUTHFUL Read the advertisements and profit by them. You can rely absolutely on the state- ments made in the advertis- ing columns. smal Prelcirciiiige-r. "The TesThe latter were crowded with men gazing shoreward, and it was evident to Clay- ton, as to the others, who had now joined him, that the gnu which they had- heard had been fired to attract their attention if they still remained at the cabin. By means of a bonfire tbe attention of the cruiser was gained, and a boat was lowered and dispatched toward the beach. As it was drawn up a young officer stepped out. He was,met by Clayton. "M. Clayton, I presume," be asked. "Thank heaven, you have come!" was Clayton's reply. "And it may be that It is not too late even now." "What do you mean, monsieur?" asked the officer. Clayton told of' the abduction of Jane Porter and the need of armed men to aid in the search for bet "Mon Dieu!" exclaimed the officer. Among the officers in tbe last boats th -put off from the cruiser was the com- mander of the vess61, and viten he had heard the story of Jane Porter's abduc- tion he generously called for volunteers to accompany Professor Porter and Clayton in tbeir search. Not an officer or a man of those brave Frenchmen who did not quickly beg leave to be one of the expedition. The commander selected twenty men and two officers, Lieutenant d'Arnot and Lieutenant Charpentier. A boat was dispatched to the cruiser for pro- visions, ammunition and carbines. The men were already armed with re- volvers. Then, to Clayton's inquiries as to how they had happened to anchor off- shore and fire a signal gun, the com- mander, Captain Dufranne, explained that they bad overhauled the Arrow and had boarded her. The sight that met the Frenchmen's eyes as they clambered over the ship's side was appaillagg Coughed 'Almost All Night With That Dry Tick- ling S nsation in the Throat. A bad cough, accompanied by that 'istressing, tickling sensation in the hroat is most aggravating. Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup heals he mucous surfaces, relieves oppression ti‘,,,Ltness of the chest, removes ,ccutnuicted mucous or phlegm, quites wen the most obstinate and distressing ,oughs, securing sleep and rest at night, tot only to the sufferer, but to others Aare rest v4;ti1d otherwise be broken. Iktr-, Duel MaNliall, DassWood Ridge, " Just a few lineto let -rat N‘, a Dr. Wood's Norway >ine fyrzln 'ea? for (110. I took a severe old, « • 1 ..,1 aliii..st all night with hat tlt• . th.1-1ing sensation in my throat, t'lll. Jit 1, ttle did me so much good, thouvIlt I would try a second one, which 1. ani :Ilef,ved to say resulted in a complete tire. 1 van strongly recommend it to oy one ,zalTering from A cough or any ',mat irritation." The price of Dr. Wood's Norway `Mc Syrup is 2. a bottle; the large may size, 50c. It is put up in a yellow wrapper; Owe. pine trees the trade mark, and is manufaetuted only by The T. Milburn Li...fited, Toronto, Oxa •..•••••••,...11 Cr;i:s011 iiettil and dying men tniled 1,11 lier and thitlitie upon the ieteliing (lees. the living int ell/dueled will) the demi. 0 or ibe corpses appeared to hart. 11001 partially devoured as though by will res. The prize (-mew soon linci the vessel 11 rider proper sail and the living mem- bers of the ill stems) company enrried heiew to their hammocks. The dead were 1'1'zipp0d i 17 tarpanlitIS and 1(1511 1(1 On dPrl( 10 1)0 identlflell by their (0)1118 dos before being eonsigned to the deep. None of tile living were conscious when the Frenchmen reaelied (lip Ar- row's deck. It did not tnice tlie Frenen Oliver long to learn what had (mused Ine terrilile emention ;award, for Whe73 water and brandy were sought to re- store the men it was found flint not only wes there none fif either, hill not a vestige er food of any description. When restoratives had been applied several of the men regained conselous- ness, and then the whole story was told. With no one on board who under- stood navigation after tbey left the African coast, discussions non arose as to their whereabouts, and as several days' sailing did not raise land they bore off to the north, fearing that the high north winds that had prevailed had driven them south of the southern extremity of Africa. They kept on a north -northeasterly course for two days, when they were overtaken by a calm which lasted for nearly a week. Their water was gone, and in anOther day they would be with- out food. Conditionschanged rapidly from bad to worse. One man went mad and leaped overleoard. Soon another open- ed his veins and drank his own blood. Two days before they had been pick- ed up by the cruiser they had become too weak to handle the vessel, and that same day three men died. On the following morning it was seen that one of the corpses bad been partially devoured. All that clay the men lay glaring at each other like beasts of prey, and the following morniug two of the corpses Jay almost entirely stripped of flesh. And then the cruiser had come. When those who could had recovered the entire story had been told to the French commander, but the men were too ignorant to be able to tell him at just wbat poiut on the coast the pro- fessor and his party had been maroon- ed, so the cruiser bad steamed slowly along within sight of land, firing oc- casional signal gnns and scanning every inch of the beach with glasses. The precedirl,g night bad brought them off the very beach where itsy the little camp they sought. By the time the two parties had bar - rated their several adventures the cruiser's boat bad returned with sup- plies and arms for tbe expedition. Within a few minutes the little body of sailors and the two fereneti officers, together with Professor Porter and Clayton, set off upon their miest into the untracked jungle. CHAPTER XV. Heredity. WDEN Jane Porter realized that stisi was being borne away a captive by the strange for- est ereature who bad res- cued her from the clutches of the ape she struggled desperately to eseape. Presently she gave up the futile effort and lay quietly, looking through half closed lids at the face of tbe man who strode easily through the tangled undergrowth with her. The face above her was one of ex- traordinary beauty. It .was a perfect type of the strongly masetiline, unmarred by dissipation or degrading passions. One thing the girl had noticed partieneirly when she had seen Tartan rustling upon Terkoz-the vivid scarlet band upon his forehead, from above the left eye to the scalp, but now as she scanned his features she noticed that it was gone and only a thin white line marked the spot where it bad been. As she lay more quietly in his arms Tarzan slightly relaxed his grip upon her. Once he looked down into her eYes and smiled. The girl had to close her own to shut out the vision of that handsome, winning face. Presently Tarzat took to the trees, and Jane Porter, wondering that she felt no fear, began to realize that in many respects she had never felt more secure in her whole life tban now as she lay In the arms of this wild crea- ture. When with closed eyes she emu- menced to speculate upon tbe future and terrifying fears were conjured by a vivid imagination she had but to raise her lids and look upon that face so Close to hers to diSsipate the last remnant of apprehension. On and on they went through what seeimed a solid mass of verdure, yet ever there appeared to open before this forest god a passage as by magic Which closed behind them as they passed. As Taman rnoVed steadily onward his mind was occupied with many strange and new thoughts. Here was a probiena the like of Which he had never encountered, and he felt rather than reasoned that he must meet it as a Man and not as eh ape. It was the order of the jungle for the Male to take his mate by force. But could Tartan be guided by the laws of the beasts? Was not Taman a man? But how did men do? Be was puzzled. Be did not know, ile Wished that he might ask the girl, and the if came to him that she bad already answered hire in the futile struggle She had msde to teellPe and to repulse WM. . „Bulge* tilethad COMO-% Sink.flide TheProprichryNJItassirisdicisekt.! 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Though they had come many miles, It was still but midafternoon, and the amphitheater was bathed in tbe half light which filtered through tbe nny'ze of encircling foliage. The green turf looked cool and in- viting. The myriad noises of the jun- gle seemed distant and hushed to a mere echo of blurred sounds, rising and falling like the surf upon a remote shore. A feeling of dreamy peacefillness stole over Jane Porter as she sank down upon the grass where Taman had placed her. She looked up at his great figure towering abore her, and there was added a strange sense of perfect security, "What a perfeet creature! There could be naught of cruelty or baseness: beneath the godlike exterim% With a bound Tarzan sprang into the trees and disappeared. Jane Por- ter wondered where he had gone. Had he left her there to her fate in the lonely jangle? For a few minutes that seemed hours to the frightened girl she sat with tense nerves waiting. She heard a sudden, slight sound behind her. With a shriek she sprang to her feet and turned to face her end. There stood Tartan, his arms filled with ripe and luscious fruit. Jane Porter reeled and would have fallen, but Taman, dropping his bur- den, caught her in his arms. She did not lose consciousness, but clung to him, shuddering and trembling. Tarzan of the apes stroked her sere hair and tried to comfort and quiet het as Kala had him when as a little ape he' had been frightened by Sabor, the tiger, or Plistah, the snake. Onee 10 preSsed his lips lightly upon: her forehead, and she did not move, but cloeed her eyes and sighed. She eould not analyze her feeling*, nor did she wish to attempt it. She was satisfied to feel the safely Of those etrong emus and to letrve ber fUture te fate. Is she thought of the strangeness of It there conimented to daft upon het the realization that she bed Possibly hotted tornethIsi _at 1164,_1_,Ievst InoWnThetore--T6v-e: Sheworidered arid then smiled. Still smiling, she pushed Tarzan gently away, and, looking at bim with a half quizzical expression that made. her face wholly entrancing, she point- ed to the fruit upon the ground and seated herself upon the edge of the earthen drum of the anthropoids, Tarzan quickly gathered up the fruit', and, bringing it, laid it at . her feet„. and then he, too, sat upon the drum. beeLSei her and with his knife proceed -f ed to open and prepare the various Id.' ands for her meal. Together and in silence they ate, oc- casionally stealing sly glances at one( another, until finally Jane Porter brokel. into a merry laugh in which Tarzanl; *joined. "1 wisn you spoke English,” said the Tarzan shook his head..and hrt ex- pression of wistful and pathetic long-, big sobered his laughing eyes. • Taman had long since Peached ‘a de., vision as to what his future procedure; efeeild be. He had had time to recol- Ite•t thee he had read of the ways ot 1::e1l and women 111 the books at the eaten. Ile would act as he imagined the tnen in the books would have acted Ivoro they in his plaee. Again he rose and went Into the treesbut first he tried to explain by means of signs that he would,return shortly, and be dicl so well that Jane Porter understood and was not afraid when he had gone. Soon he returned with i great armful of branches. Then he went buck again into the jungle and in a few ITI11311 105 reappear- ed with a quantity of soft grasses and ferns. Two more trips he made until he had quite a pile of materiel at hand. Then he spread tne ferns and grasses upon the ground In it soft. flat bedand above it he leaned many branches to- gether so that they mot a few feet over Its center. Cpon these be spreml lay- ers or huge leaves of the great ele- phant's ear. and with more branches and more leaves he closed one end of the little shelter he had built. Then they sat down together again upon the edge of the drum and tried to talk by signs. To be Continued) _ st. 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