Loading...
The Wingham Times, 1914-05-07, Page 7heo* iwer,oepnari WING11/01 TIMES, *I do not understand." said Clayton, "Whom do you menur "Ee who has snved mull of us -who saved me from the gorilla" "Ohl" cried Clayton. hi surprise. "It Was he who lessened you? Von have not told me anything of your !nivel)• ture, don't you know. Tell me; do." "But the woodman," she urged. "Elave you not seen him? When we heard the shots in the jangle, vet" faint and far away, he left me. We had just reached the clearing, and he hurried off in the direction of the fight- ing. I know he went to aid you." Her tone was altnost pleading, her manner tense with suppressed emotion. Clayton could not hut notice it, and he Wonderec'l vaguely why she was so deeply moved, so anxious' to know the whereabouts of this strange creature. He didnot suspect the truth, for bow could he? In his breast, unknown to himself, was implanted the first germ of jeal- ousy and suspicion of the ape man to whom he owed his life. "We did not see him," he replied quietly. "He did not join us. Posse by he joined his own tribe, the men who attacked us." Efe dld not know why he had said it, for he did not believe it. But love is a see...grange master. e'gr- The girl looked at him wide eyed or a moment. "No" she exclaimed vehemently, much too vehemently, he thought, "It eould not be. They were negroes.' He le 2:white man -and a gentleman!" Clayton was a generous and chival. rous man, but something in the erre "11e is only a beast of tho jungle, Miss Porter." defense of the forest man stirred him to unreasoning jealousy, so that for the instant he forgot all that he owed to this wild demigod, and he answered her with a half sneer upon his lip. "Poesibly you are right, Miss ?on ter," he said, "but I do not think thni any of us need worry about our carries eating acquaintance. The chances UN that he is some half demented cast away who will forget as more quick Couldn't Do INgseiverk REMIT Ifi'M SO Oa 'Mrs. Thornas Melville, Saltcoats, Sask., • writes:—"I thouebt it my duty to write . and tell you how much your Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills did for me. My heart was so bad I could not sleep, eat, nor walk about the home. I could not do my housework at an, what my hus- band could not do had to go undone, I had two small thildren depending on eme besides three me&t to cook for, and it ``-vvorried rue to not be able to do anything. My husband had taltee some of your pills, some years ago, and insisted on me trying them, so I started, and be- fore I had taken them two weeks I was considerably better, and before I had taken two tutees I was doing my own work again. Auyon.: suffering from heart Or nerve voutfle el any kind should just give your pills a Vint. If mime cares to write to am I will gladly give them all the information 1 know On- eerning your wonderful medicine." Milburn's Heart 'and Nerve Pills are 80c, per box, or 8 boxes for $L25, at all dealers, or mailed direct ort receipt of price by The Milburn Co., I4itnited, 'Detente, 'OM. ,e1 le, were surely, than we shall for e.g. him. De is only n beast of the jungh‘, Mies Porter." The girl did not answer, but she fell her heart shrivel .within her. A.ngei and eate.against one we love steel out hearts, but contempt or pity leaves135 silent and ashamed. CHAPTER XVII. Left In the Jungle. LOWLY ,Jane turned and walle ed back to the cabin. She tried to imugine her wood god by hen side in the saloon of an oceax Meer. She saw him eating with his hands, tearing his food like a beast oi prey and wiping his greasy fingers upon his thighs. She shuddered. She saw him as she introduced him to lier friends -uncouth, illiterate, a boor-eud she winced. She had reached her room now, and as she sat upon the edge of her bed cd ferns and grasses, with ono hand rest. Ing upon her rising and falling bosom, she felt the hard outlines of the man'a locket beneath her waist. She drew it out, holding it in the palm of her hand for a moment with tear blurred eyes bent upon it. Then she raised it to her lips and, crushing It there, buried her face in the soft ferns, sobbing. "Beast?" she murmured. "Then heaven make me a beast, for, man ox beast, I am yours:" She did not see Clayton again that day. Esmeralda brought her supper to her, and she sent word to her father that she was suffering from the reac- tion following her adventure. The next morning Clayton left early with the relief expedition in search of Lieutenant d'Arnot. There were 200 armed men this time, with ten officers and two surgeons and provisions for O week. They carried bedding and hammocks, the latter for transporting their sick and wounded.. It was a determined and angry com- pany -a punitive expedition as well as one of relief. They reached the scene of the skirraish of the previous expedi- tion shortly after noon. for they were now traveling a known trail, and no time was lost in exploring. teem there on the elephant trail led straight to Mbonga's village. It was but 2 o'clock when the head of the col- umn halted upon the edge of the clear- ing. In a few minutes the villag,e street was filled with armed men fighting in no inextricable tangle. The revolvers, carhines and cutlasses of the French- men crumpled the native spearmen and struck down the black archers with their bolts half drawn. Soon the battle turned to a wild rout :Intl then to grim massacre, for the, Preneh sailors hnd seen bits of D'Ar, reefs uniform upon severe:I of the black warriors \vim opposed them. They spared the children and those ut the women whom they were not forced to kill in self defense, but when et length they stopped, panting, blood covered and sweating, it was because there lived to eppose them no single werrior of all the savage village of M bonga. enrefully they ransacked every but uiitl vorner of the village, but no sign ot Darnot could they find. They questioned the prisoners by signs. Only excited gestures and expressions ot feat' mild they obtain in response to their inquiries vont-ming their fel- low. A t length all hope left them, and they ;weltered to camp for the night within the village. The prisoners were herded into three huts. where they were he:telly guard- ed. Sentries were posted at the barred gates, and linnlly the village was wrap- ped In the silence of 'slumber except for the wailing of the native women for their dead. The next morning they set mit upon the return march, Their original inten- tion had been to burn the village. but this idea was abandoned. and the prigs oilers were left behind. weeping and moaning. but With roofs to eover them and a palisade for refuge front the beasts of the jungle. Slowly the expedition retraced its steps of the preceding day. Ten load- ed hammocks rettirded its pave. le eight of them ley the more serlOusly wounded, While two swung beneath the weight of the deed. Clayton and Lieutenent Charpentier brought up the rear of the Column, the Englishman silent in respect for the Other's grief. for D'Arnot and Charpen- tier had been inseparable since boy - hoed. 14. was ()elle late when they reached the cabin by. the beach. The dead and wounded men were tenderly placedip C°Prrightt 1412, bY tbe Freed( A. muosou owpostay. boats and rowed silently toward the cruiser. Clayton, exhausted from his five days of laborious marching through the jungle and from the effects of his two battles with blacks, turned to- ward the eabin to seek a mouthful of food and then tho eompnrative ease of his bed of grasses after two uights in the jungle. By the cabin door stood Jane Porter. "The poor lieutenant?" she asked. "Did you find no trace of hirer "We were too late. Miss Porter," he replied sadly. 'led! nue-ev hat had Ileppened?" she asked. "I cannot, Miss Porter, It is too hor- rible." She thought of what Clayton had said of the forest man's probable relit- tionship to this tribe. To him, too, suddenly came the thought of the forest man. The strange jealousy he hod telt two days before swept over him olive wore. sudden brutality that was unlike tili» blurted out: "When your forest god left you he Wati doeteless hurrying to the feast." Ile was sorry ere the words were• !Token. though In. (11(1 not know how cruelly (hos had „tit tin, gin [1 Is !'e- gret was for his baseless disloyalty to 311e who lied saved the !Ives of every member of his party nor over offered harm ti' The girl's head went high. •"I'llere Nada be hot 0110 suitable re - p11' (11 yonr assert bin." she said icily. "arid I regret that I am not 44 man that I might make it." She turned mtickly and entered the co Id 11. Clayton was 00 Eit:411s1111111 11. so the girl Iluti paesect quite out of sight be- fore be deduced what reply a man would have made. "Upon my word." he said ruefully. "she ealled me liar. And I faney I deserved it. I'd better go to bed." But before he did so he ennell gently to Jane Porter upon the opposite side tif the sailcloth partition, for he wish- ed to apoiogize, but he might as well bare addressed the sphinx. Then lie. wrote upon 0 pit -To of paper and shored It beneath the partition. Jane Porto' SIM' the little note and tenured it, for she was very angry rind nine and mortified, hut she was a wo- man, and so eventually she picked it op and read it. it sold: My Dear Miss Porter—1 had no reason to insinuate what I did. My only excuse is that my nerves must be unstrung, which is no excuse at all Pleafte try to think that I did not.say It. ram very sorry. I would not have hurt you above all others in the world. Say that you forgive nie. WM. CNCII, CLAYTON. "Ile did think it or he never wonid have said It," reasoned the girl. "But it cannot be true. I know ft is not true!" One sentenee in the letter frightened her -"I would uot bave hurt you above all others In the world." A week ago that sentence would have filled her with delight. Now it aepressed her. She wished she had never met Clay- ton. She was sorry that she had ever seen the forest god --no, she was glad And there was that other note she had found in the grass before the cabin the day after her return from the jungle, the kwe note signed by Tarzan of the apes. Who could be this new suitor? If he were another of the wild denizene of this terrible forest, what might he not do to clahn her? * * * * * When D'Arnot regained conscious- ness be found himself lyieg upon a bed of soft ferns and grasses beneath a little A. Shaped shelter Of houghs. At his reet an Opening looked out anon a greensward, and at ir little dia. tanee beyond was the dense wall of Jungle and forest. Ile was very lame find sore and weak, and as full consciousness re- turned he felt the sharp torture 01 many cruel wounds and the dell Itch Ing of every bone and Muscle in his body as a result of the hideous heating he had received. The incessant hum of the StIngle the rustling of millions of leaves, OE ,buzz of insects, the voices of the birdt and monkeys seemed blended Into a strangely soothing per, as thottgli bs lay apart, far from the myriad lift that surrounded hini and whose Sounds eatne to him only faintly. At length he fell into slumber, not did he awake /main until afternoon Looking through the opening at his feet, he saw the Ogure of ta man Squat tIng on his haunches. The breed, intiscular back was tarn. ed toward hitt; but tanned thettgli ti Was, D'Arnot SIM that it was the WO of a White man, and he thanked TRUTH TELLS And the TRUTH Is Told - In Our Advertisements By HOLLAND. M4liCH.ANTS have learn- ed that the Truth Tells when the Truth is Told. • Hence they are scrupulous that their advertisements are accurate. Bock of every ad- vertisement, back of every statement made to attract custom, is the reputation of the merchant, hie hope of continued success. Deception may be profitable for a time, but deception can- not be permauent, and the profit based on deception is necessarily brief. Truth is the more .effective as it is of longer duiation. Falsehood loses its offeetiveness sts soo0. as it is diseovered. The merchants who adver- tise In ibis paper are boner - 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 13E TRUTH FU L. . Read the ndvertisements and profit by them. You ean rely absolutely on the state- ments made in the advertis- ing columns, lien ven, The Prenellilifin vamp() mint's. Thf 1101 11 turned and. rising, came towart 1 the shelter. Elie ewe 1(118 very hand some. the handsomest. thought D'A.r not. that he had ever seen. Stooping. be erawied into the slieltei beside the wounded officer and pitret a cool hand upon Itis forehead. D'Arnot spoke to him In Freneh. bob tile man only shook his head -sadly, 11 seemed to the Frenehinau. Then D'Arnot tried Engle*, but still the man shook hie head. 1 b Ilan, Snell ish and German brought eiluilar dis couragement. After examining D'Arnot's wonnth the inati left the shelter anti (limp. peered. In half an hour be was ban with fruit and a hollow. gourdlike veg. .etable tilled with water. D'Arnot drank and ate a little. Sud denly the man hastened front the shel. ter, only to retnrn a few minutes later with several pieces of bark and -won. der of wonders -a lead pencil. Squatting beside D'Arnot, be wrote for a minute •on the smooth Irmo surface of the bark; then he handed 11 to the Frenchman. D'Arnot read: I ani Tarzan of the apes. Who are youi Can you read this ianguage D'Arnot eagerly seized the pencil; then he stopped. This strange mac wrote English. Evidently he was ar Englishman. "Yes," said D'Arnot, "I read Eng lish. I speak it also, Now we may talk. First let me thank you for all that you have done for me." The man only shook his head and pointed to the pencil and the bark. "Mon Dieu?" cried D'Arnot. "If you are English, why is it then that you cannot speak English?' And then in a flash it came to bhp - the man was a mute, possibly a deal mute. So D'Arnot wrote a message on the bark in English: lier Cough Rcketi Ier Terribiy. BIL WOOFS NCI AY PINE SYRUP ffecfl:eei A Cure. Obstinate coughs and colds yield to „he greatful, soothing and healing power It Ter. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, and or the racking, persistent cough, often ereeent in consumptive cases, it will be ;mind exceedingly beneJicial and 'pleasant to take. The use of it is generally iii- ,licated wherever symptoms of throat, or lung trouties appear, but especially ,4o with all persons of a consumptive or ca'errhal teedency, as its prompt .eiretave pru,•oriles speedily remove the deneer, aa.1 restore the throat and lunge to 14 seiel 11..)•,11hy state if used in time, e s 14.'t7 1 Patterson, Young's Cove eSeeci, 1,rites:—"I. have had oc- sasion t) tie' Dr. 'Weed's Norway Pine 87:rtip, tied 'an say that it is certainly a. yead oteiteine. About a year ago I wntraeted it severe cold which settled Ms tny Itingq, end left them in a very weak ;tate. 'The tough racked me terribly, aid I was hi despair until a friend ad - steel me to give Dr. 'Wood's Nonvay Pine Serup a trial. I got a. bottle, and >elute I had it holf gone I found relief. u4ed two bottlee, an(1. hese neven r 'bee iotlicred eince. I would not be without it in the house," Price, 21k.; family Mice, title. Menu- faetured only by The T. Milburn Co" Lituitca, Toronto, Out. Still rv..ater winali•r:10:1 A IY i not witi 1 *tun 400 the !f 01,10 or my trthe the 1.1! ent %vim v 1‘.e1chas's. 1401 1 a Flue of 1 1) LIO rituttin 581 Pic,1,,fat4, DIA! NIO114 the nen, owl of tis .r toThe it the )U0)J1 1 unaerstana Vt. ith.a lom.111 Leiria 1 nave ta %el spft.ti p,t "Nr.r. w)) h Jane. l'ortor by sigos This lo 1111,1 time I have spoken unit 80111110 $4 ill% hind throuph written weills 1 rnot wee mystified. It seemed itieredilde that there lived mem the earth 11 intl erolial nuin N'110 had never spoken with a fellow Man awl still 111),11. pr(lls.sterotis that suet) 11 01)0 eueld read and write. lie looked again at Tarentes 0108, 1311'W— "8X(.1 -pt orit•e ‘Vith ,Inne Por ter." That was the Auterleati girl who had been carried into the juteae by a gorilla. A sudden light commenced to dawn on D'Arnot This, then, was the "go- rilla," Ile seized the pencil and wrote: Where is Jane Porter? And Terme replied below: Back with her people in the cabin cd Tarzan of the apes. D'Arnot wrote: She Is not dead, then? Where was she? What happened to her? Tarzan answered: She Is not dead. She was taken by Ter - hos to be his wife. Taman of the apes took her away from Terkoz and killed him before he could harm her. None in all the Jungle may face Tarzan of the apes in battle and live. I am Tar- zan of the apes, mighty tighter. D'Arnot wrote: 1 am glad she is safe. It pains me to write. I will rest v.while. And then Tarzan: y,,s, rem, when you aro well 1 shall take you back to your people. For many days D'Arnot lay upon his bed of soft ferns. The second day a fever bad mine. and D'Arnot thought that it menu infection and he knew tbEnItet ll(8111;)1113T1aiaiLP;in and indicated by signs tnat he mend write, and when Tarzan had fetched the bark and pen- cil D'Aniot wrote: Can you go to my people and lead them here? I will write a message that you may take to them, and they will follow you. Taman shook his bead and, taking the bark, wrote: thought of that the first day, I dared not. The great apes come often to this spot. If they found you her wounded and alone they would kill .you. D'Arnot turned on his side and closed his eyes. fle did not wish to die, but he telt that he was going, for the fever wee, mounting higher and higher. net uight he lost conscious- nero.r three days he was In delirium, and Tarznn set beside him and bathed his head and bands and washed his wo cls. On the fourth day the fever broke as suddenly as it had come, hut it left D'Arnot a shadow or his former sell mid very weak. Tarzau had to lift him that he might drink from the gourd. The fever bad not been the result of Infection, tts D'Aruot had thought, but one of those dant commonly attack whites in the Strugles or Africa and ei. they kill or leave ttem as suddenly as D'Arnot's had left him Two days after they sat beneath the shade of a great tree, and Tarzan found some smooth bark that they might converse. D'Arnot wrote: What can I do to repay you for all that you have done for me? Tarzan wrote in reply: Teach me to speak the language of men. And so D'Arnot commenced at once, pointing out familiar objects and re- peating their names iu French, for be thought that it would be easier to teach this man his own language, since he understood it himself best of all. It meant nothiug to Tarzan, Of course, for he could not tell one lan- guage from another, so when he point- ed to the word "man" which he had printed upon a piece of bark he learn- ed from D'Arnot that It was pronounc- ed "homme." and in the saline way he was taught to pronounce ape "singe" and tree "arbre." He was a most eager student and in two more days had mastered so much French that he could speak little sen- tences sueli as "That ie a tree," "This is grass," "I am hungry," and the like. but D'Arnot found that it was difficult to teach him the. French con- struction upon a foundation of Eng- lish. rio viie• CHAPTER XVIII. Lost Treasure. ON the third day after the fever broke Tarzan wrote a message asking D'Arnot if he felt strong enough to be carried back to the cabin. Tarzan was as anxioilS to go as D'Arnot, for he longed to see Jane Porter again. It had been hard Ser him to remain with the Frenchman all these days. That he had done so spoke more glow- ingly fer his tiobility of character than even dicl his rescuireg of the French officer frem Mbonga's clutches. D'Arnot wrts only too wining to at- tempt the journey. "Bet you cannot carry me all the distatace through this tangled forest," he wrote. Tamen tattered. "Mais out," he said, and D'Arnot laughed aloud to hear the phrase that he used so often glide from Tarzau's tongue. So they set out, D'Arnot marveling, as had Clayton and &tee Porter, at the wondrous strength and agility 01 the ape man. Midafternoon brought there to the clearing, and as Taman dropped to earth from the brtuiches of the last tree his heart leaped and "bounded signing Iiis ribs. in anticipaAn, 11111.11111111111111MMILISMINIMISIMMINIMIIIIIMili Pit ee Ilteleces-:••!'syerkeelVelkissA;S. eireetZits; ikeillse.ttxilleealel• ,:,:ignat:utl:Ci PmnatesDi,pLrotitei56 nessmalitesteontgosairr: OpiumNorphihe itorMiRkaLi NOT DTARcOTIC. For Wards and Childr lothcrs Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature of itirketrilar.V.477:7;Pit743 02011 Scert" ..41.6:47rra lexIdlears. Xeselkil Plemstpfat - Isil'arztafAtio larded- Cinf4t142rwr • liaagreent%tran Ay arke t Remedy forConslisa- lion, SeurSlemach,Diartboeei worms,convaisiens,Fevedsk ness and LOSS orS14,211, .ferSimile 'i•enalitre of, Ilia CENTAUR COMP,P,MeN 4O1IIIIE2iLANEWY0R1t• In Use For Over Thirty Years &tact Con of Wrapper. .77;Ad • THG CtINTALOR COMPANY.NEW YORK ISIVV: 1firisieg .e...4"'"Ps'setrelttAt 11111191r/rorKWIS____,,,,170„itrr,SZIL.21. .4s-RoaRTIenomeanwr&marawanR,RMINMIMAIMMORwarRimuzseonuouna.atewounol,o,...*R..........v, Ing Jane Porter so soon ngain. No one was in sight withoot the cab- in. D'Arnot was perplexed to note that neither the eruieer nor the Arrow was at anchor in the bay. An atmosphere of loneliness peeved - ed the spot sehich caught suddenly at both men as they strode toward the cabin. Tarzan lifted tiae latch and pushed the great door in upon its wooden hinges. It was as they had feared. The cabin was deserted. The men turned and looked at one another, D'Arnot knew that his peo- ple thoeeht him dead, but Taman thought fully of the woman who had kissed Wm in love and now had tled from him while he was serving, one of her people. A great bitterness rose in his heart, Ile would go away, far into the jungle, and join his tribe. Never wonld he see one of his own kind again, nor could he bear the thought of returuing to the cabin. ' And the Frenchman, D'Arnot, what of him? He could get along as Taman iineli t. ad rift ani• gon-e here alone." Far to the east Tarzan of the apes was speeding through the middle ter- race bach to his tribe. Never had he traveled with such reckless speed. He passed o.bove the sinnous, striped body of Sabor, the tiger, going in the opposite direction -toward the cabin.. thought Tarzan. What could D'Arnot do against se - bon or if Bolguni. the gorilla, shouter' cruel Suhpeoenh?tul' or Numa, the lion, or eltae Taman !mused in his flight. "What are you, Tarzan?" he aslte& aloud, "an ape or a man? "12 you are an ape you will do mat tilkineduptoesdWie0Uinkltdbo-e ojnngle iateitorsnyloteu4aL. your whim to .go eleewbere. "if you are a man you will return tar protect your kind. Yon will not run,ii away from one of your own people be- etIlise one of them has run away frOn3( you." D'Arnot closed the cabin door. Hetf; was very nervous. Even brave men-- D'A nun tens 44 brave mati-are Sometime,: frightened by solitude. , fie tondo(' 11110 Of the rarbines and played it within easy reavh. Then be weld to the desk and took up the un- sealed Iptter ttddressed to Taman. Possibly it contained word that his people had but left the beach tempo- rarily. De felt that it would be no breach of ethics to read this letter, so he took the inclomure from the envel- ope and read: To Taman of the Apes: 'e thank you for the use of your cabin and are sorry that you dirl not permit us the pl.asure of seeing and thanking you In per-3on. Wo have harmed nothing, but have ben many things for you which may add to iyonoutriyhome.et,mfot and safety here in your lf you Imew the strange white man who saved our lives so many times and brought us food and if you ran converse with hiul thank him also for his kindness. We sail within the hour, never to re- turnbut we wish you and that other jungle friend to know that we shall al- ways thank you for what you did tot strangers on your shore and that we should have done Infinitely More to re- ward you both had you given us tho op- portunity. very respectfully. WM.. CECIL CLAYTON ;To be Continued) oNo, 1 shall not go, nor should you." had. Tamen did not want to see him more. lie wanted to get away from everything that tnight remind bim of .Tane Porter. As Tarzan stood upon the threshold brooding D'Arnot had entered the cab- in, Many comforts he saw that had been left behind. He recognized numerous articles from the crniser-a camp oven, Some kitchen utensil% a carbine and many rounds of ammunition, canned foods, blankets, two (emirs and a cot and several books and periodicals, mostly American. 'They must intend return- ing," thought D'Arnot. Be milked Over to the table that John Clayton had built so mum years before to serve as a desk, and on it he saw two notes addressed to Tarzan of the apee. One was in a strong Maseuline hand and was unsealed. The other, in a woman's band, wits sealed. "Here are (WO messages 2�r ye% Tarzan of the apes," cried D'Arnot, turning toward the door, but his cono. panion was net there. D'Arnot walked to the door and look. NI out. Tamil was nowhere in sight. Ile 01111ed aloud, blit there was no re- sponse. "Mob DienV exclaimed IYArnot. 91e has lett plc XI t. re has J,414,11. e'• Itameammss2 Gontz:Lto arte rPs Liver Pills. Plitist DOW Ciartature ot t Pt-V:Inete,tstreeT-r Below. i "'rev), stabil mid qo me..930 tbIbIle Os if;,9411ila riltE 1VER PILL% WiAllAtIlfe, tiViziNESSE FOR DiLlIOUSNESS. FOR 10111'IO % COKSTIPATION roa SALLOW tr,ifi. ,„, 0011 THE COMPLtX10111 olnrourmie IMOrstmVkltpukri) n" eorm Jxtweiaraa* CURE 31011 tiCADAGNits