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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1914-08-27, Page 7FZEiTM-47Efffe,,INNL Uhe RETURN elereereeafrddld eeddedee's s deed kif Rice Burroughs ascii" ' "They are watching us, oh, king." devAltrepelade 'had -donde reason for wish- -- -- - - - • ing him not to enter this particulat ' chamber was sufficient to treble Tar- zrans desire to do so, and though the {shrieking was repeated continuously he kept his sesulder to the deer until it 'gave way before his giant strength to isyring open upon creaking wooden 'hinges. : Within all was .black as the tomb. l'ffhere was no window to let in the ifaintest ray of light. and ad the cord - dor upon which it opened was itself in ,sdarkness, even the open door shed no relieving rays vrithin. Feeling be - (lore him upon the floor with the butt of his spear, Tarzan entered the sty- c•-iart gloom. Suddenly the door behind 'him closed and at the same time hands ;Mt Wiled hine from every direction out -of ..1,1e darkness. The ape -man fought with all the sav- age fury of self preservation backed by ,the herculean strength that svds, his. But though he felt Ms blows land and :his teeth sink into soft flesh, there Seemed always to be new hands to take the place of those that he fought oft ''At last they dragged him down, and Slowly, very slowly, they overcame him i by the mere weight of their numbers. 'And then they bound him. Ere bad heard no sound except the dieavy breathing of his antagonists and :the noise of the battle. Efe knew not !what manner of creatures had captur- •ed him, but that they were human seemed evident from the fact that they 'bad bound him. Presently they lifted him fromthe , floor, and half dragging. half pushing laina, they brought him out of the black eehatober throb another doorway into Li inner courtyard of the temple, Here tbet saw his captors. There must have . I een 100 of them—short, stocky men, ievith great beards that covered their !faces and fell npon their hairy breasts. The thick, matted hair upon their laeads grew low over their receding )brows and hung aboet thefr shoulders and tbele backs. Their crooked legs were short mad henry, their arms long and muscular. About their loins they Wore the sitbas of leopards and of lies, great neeklaees of the claws of se same tinimals depended upon their breasfst. Massive eirclets of vie - man gold adorned their arms and legs. iFOr weapons they earried heavy, knOt- ted bludgeons, and in the belts that confined theedsingle garments each had V. long, wicked looking knife. Bet the feature of them that made ethe most startling impression Upon their prisoner Was their white skinee- dielther in color nor feature Was there irece.of the !leen:dd about them. Yet, their receding forebetels, Witkel little close Set eyes and yellow fangs, they were tar trona .prepossessing ia aPPearance. DUring the fight Within the dark than:Met and while they had been drag - :ging Tarzan to the inner- court no ward :had been spoken, but now' several of there exchanged greeting, iteniosyl- table conversation in a langtiage tInfa- :Millar to the ape -matt, and presently they lett hita iying epee the concrete /loot 'while they trooped off on their -short legs into another tiart of the tem - mkt beyond. the contd. He had lain Within the cotart for seeded hears before the Ord rays Of Sunlight penetrated the Vertical Shaft. •Ainaeet slintiltateMasly he herarlethe pattering Of bare feet in the coffdOte abed laiM Mad a element lathe atter the gEZ5- -ffine —fill 'nail deraffe faces as a score or more entered. the courtyard with him. For a moment every eye was bent upon the noonday sun, and then in eel, sou the people in the galleries and. those in the eourt below took up the refrain of a low, weird hant, Presently those about Tame began to dance to the cadence of their solemn Song. For ten minutes or more they kept up their monotonous chant and steps, :Ind then suddenly and in perfect uni- son they turned toward tlaeir victim with upraised bludgeons and emitting fearful bowls, the while they contorted. their features into the raost diabolical expressions, they rushed upon him. At the same instant a female figure dashed into the' midst of the blood- thirsty horde, and; with a bludgeon similar to their own, except that it was wrought from gold, beat back the ad- vancing men. After a moment or two the girl drew • a knife from her girdle and, leaning over Taman, cut the bonds from his legs. Tben as the men stopped their dance' and approached she motioned to him to rise. Placing the rope that had been about his legs around his neck, she led him across the courtyard, the men eollowing in twos. Through winding corridors she led, farther and farther into the remoter precificts of the temple until they came to a great chamber in the center of whin stood an altar. Then it was that Taman translated the strange ceremo- ny that had preceded his introduction into this holy of holies, ile bad fallen into the hands of de- seendants of the ancient sun worship- ers. His seeming rescue by a votaress of the high priestess of the sun had - been -but a part of the mimicry of their heathen ceremony—the sun looking clown upon him through the opening at. the top of the court had elaipaed him as his own, and the priestess had come from the inner temple to save him from the polluting hands of worldlings —to save him as a unman offering to their flaming deity. And had he needed further assurance as to the correctness of his theory he had only to cast his eyes upon the brownish red stains that caked the stone altar and covered the floor in its immediate vicinity or to the human skulls which grinned from countless niches in the towering 'walls. The priestess led the victim to the altar steps. Again the galleries above filled with watchers, while from an arched doorway at the east end of the chamber a procession of females filed slowly into the room. They wore, like the men, only sktns of wild animals caughe about their waists with raw - bide belts or challis of gold, but the black masses of their hair were in- crusted with golden headgear composed of many circular and. oval pieces of gold ingeniously held together to form a metal cap from which depended at each side of the head long strings of oval pieces falling to the waist Each priestess bore two golden cups, and as they formed in line on either side of the altar the men formed oppo- site them, advancing and Melee; each a cup from the female opposite. Then tbe chant began once more, and pres- ently from dark passageway beyond the altar another female emerged from the cavernous depth beneath the cham- ber. The high priestess, thought Tarzan. She was a young woman with a rather intelligent and Shapely face. /ter or- nament; were sitallar to these worn by her votaries, but mech more elaborate, many being set with diamonds. In the girdle she carried a long, jeweled knife, and in her hand a slender weed In lieu of a bludgeon. As She advencecl to the opposite side of the altar she hatted and the chant- ing eeased. The priests and priestesses knelt before her, while with wand ex- tended above them she recited a long and tiresome prayer. When she finished her prayer she let her eyes rest for the first time upon Terzen. With every indication of ode sidetable curiosity she examined him from head to foot, Then elle addressed Mtn and stood waiting, 08 though she eXpeeted a reply. ht do not Understand yoUr language," saki Terzan, "POdelbly We May speak Mgether in another tongue?" Bat she could not understand hire, though ho tried Freech, English, Arnelc, Wazirl, tred, as a last resort, the mongrel tengue of the West Coed. CHAPTER XXII* Lap the Prietteed T her signal the priests rushed upon the rtpe-Mart 'nett, liffidg htvl bedilY4 Jaki him tipora hie beck aero ss the altar', Hs head haegitig Over One edge, he legs Over the Opposite. There they and 00 pelted, WING Quos formed in two lines, with their little golden cups In readieese to cap. ture a share of the vietina's life blood after the eacrificial knife had accona- plislied its work, In the line of priests an altercation aroSe as to who amid have first plaee. A burly bi•Ute with st4 the refined Intel, tiger -Ice of a gorilla elanneed upou lii bestial face its attetuptiug to push e smaller man to seeoua plane, but the Mailer one enemies' to the high priest- ess, who la a old, peremptory voice sent the larger to the extreme end of the flee. Tame multi hear him growl- itig and grumbling as be went slowly to tee blinder station. Theo. tee priestess), standing above beg a n reeitiug went Tureen took to be no invecation, the while she slowly raised her thin. sharp knife aloft. It seetned ages to the ape -matt before her arta ceased its upward progress tied the enife Maul high above his unprotected breast. Then it started downward, slowly at tirst. but as the incantation increased in rapidity, with greater speed. At tbe end of the line Tamen could still bear the grumbling of the disgruntled priest, Tbe neues voice rose louder and louder. A. priestess near him spoke in sharp tones of rebuke. The kuife was quite near to Tarzan's breast now, but it halted for au instant as the high priest- ess rnised eer eyes to shoot her swift displeasure at tee Instigator of this sacrilegious interruption. There wasa sudden come:101cm in the direction of the disputants, and Tarzan rolled his bead in their di -reed don in tinae to see the burly brute oe a priest leap upon the woman opposite him, dashing out her brains with a sin- gle blow of his Imavy cudgel, His screams of rage were frightful as he dashed hither and thither, deal- ing terried Vows e' his giant weap- on or sinking his yellow fangs into the flesh of some luckless victim. And during it the priestess stood with pois- ed knife above Tarzan, her eyes fixed in 'terror upon the maniacal thing that was dealing out death and destruction to her votaries. Slowly he crept to- ward her and now he spoke, but this tirae there fell upon Tarzan's surprised ears e language. he could. understand; the last one that be would ever have thought of employing in attempting to converse with human beings—the love guttural barking of the tribe of great anthropoids—Ws own raother tongue, And the woman answered the man in the same language. He was threatening. she attempting to reason with him, for it was quite evident that ehe saw that he was past her authority. The brute was quite close now—creeping with clawlike hands extended toward her around the end of the altar. As the brute leaped past Tarzan to clutch his victim the ape -man gave one superhuman wrench at the thongs that held him. The effort sent him rolling from the altar to the stone floor on the opposite side from that on which the priestess stood, but as he sprang to his feet tlae thongs dropped from his freed arms, and at the same time ke realized that he was alone in the inner temple—the high priestess and the mad priest had disappeared. And then a muffled scream came from the cavernous mouth of the dart hole beyond the sacrificial altar through which the priestess had ere tered the temple. • Without even a thought for bis own safety or the pos. sibility for escape which this rapid see ries of fortuitous circumstances had thrust upon him, Taman og the Apes answered the call of the Woman in danger. With a lithe bound te was at The Mad Sun Worshiper Battled With the Tenfold Power of the Maniac. tee gaping entrance to the subterra- nean chamber and a moment later Was renehig down a flight of age old concrete steps that led he knew not where. The faint light that filtered In from above shoWed him a large. IOW eelled vault from which several doorways led of into inky darkness, but there was no heed to thread an unknown way, for there before him lay the objects ue 111R tearell—the Mad brute hed the airi 'upon the fioot fthd Mende were clutching fraedmilly et her th rrst,' as she struggled to matte the fur of the awful thing *upon her. As Tarzan's heavy liend fell upon Me shoulder the priest dropped hie \deem and turned 'upon her wottid be ;wetter With foam flecked lips and bared tones the Mad din Worshiper battled with the tenfold. power of the maniae. In the bleed last of his fury the vreatere had endeegobe a ridden reversion le Vehleh left eilet rt wild head, for- AM TINES, AUGUST Kt 1914 ‘RIORIORIORIRINRRO.O4 ACQUAINTANCE You Naturally Trtfdt Per- son or Thing Known By HOI,LAND, WHEN about to engage in TT a business venture you prefer to deal with gore° ono you know. You have more Confidence in the advice of ate acquaintance than in that of- fered by a, stranger. Confi- dence ie based ott acquaint- ance. In buying goods you prefer to buy those that lam proved their naerit. you want those oe a known standard—those that have stood the test a use, These are the goods that are advertised. Look at our advertising column) and see If this is not true, Did you ever know an article of inferior merit to be widely advertised? It is a fact that the MOST WIDELY 'ADVERTISED GOODS ARE THE BEST. Just as you find it safest to do business with a mate you know, you will find it safest to buy goods that you know— goods with which you have become acquainted through advertising. getful cif the dagger that projected from his belt, thineetig only of nature's seawalls with which his brute proto- type had battled. But if he could use bis teeth and hands to advantage he found one even better versed In the school of savage warfare to which he had reverted, for Tarzan of the Apes closed with him, and they fell to the floor tearing and rending at one another 111ce two bull apes, while the primitive priestess stood flattened against the wall, watch- ing with wide, fear fascinated eyes the growling, snapping beasts at her feet. At last she saw the stranger close one mighty band upon the throat of his antagonist and as he forced the brute -man's head far back rain blow after blow upon the upturned face. A moment later he tbrew the still thing from him, and, arising, retook- himself like a great lion. He placed a foot upon the carcass before him and raised his head to give the victory cry of his kind, but as his oyes fell upon the opening above him leading lute the temple of human sacrifice he thought better of his intended act The girl, who had been half para- lyzed by fear as the two men fought, had just commenced to give thought to her probable fate now that, though re- leased from the clutches of a madman, she had fallen into the hands of one whom but a moment before she had been *upon the point of killing. She looked about for some means of escape. The black mouth of the diverging cor- ridorr. was near at hand, but as she turned to dart into it the ape -man's eyes tell upon ber and with a quick leap he was at her side ancl a restrain- ing hand. was laid Upou her arra. "Wait!" said Tarzan of the Apes, in the language of the tribe of Serchalt. The girl looked at him in astonish- ment "Who are your she whispered, "who speaks the language of the first man" . "I am Taman of the Apes." he an- _ — Thought She Would Lose Her Little Girl From Severe Attacks of Summer Complaint Mrs. Wrn. Hirst, 191 Palmerston Avenue, Toronto, Ont., writes us under date of January 23rd, 1914. The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. Dear Sirs :—" Last summer I had grave cnixiety for my little girl, who was just one year old in July last. She had con- stant and severe attacks of sunamer complaint, and it seemed to drag on her so long despite the many remedies tried, My neighbors told me she had grown so weak- they thought I would loose her. One night While nursing her an old frienci of mine happened to come to see me, and after telling her about my baby's lingering illness she asked nie to try Dr. Powder's Extract of Wild Straw- berry. I sent a little girl to our drug store and bought it bottle, and after having given the baby one dose I noticed a remarkable change, and after giving het three or four doses she was well again, and began to walk, which she had not been blc: to de prior to her attack. She is now a fam hcelthsr and I owe her life to that kindly adviee of an old frind 1e•oul I advise (.01 mothers to give "Dr. :Yowler's" it prom- inent place iit their medicine chest.' Yours truly, (Sgt1.) Alas. Wtt, Mawr. When you ask fcr Dr. rowler's tract of Wild Strawberry see that you get et. IT Hes BM`,T4 CRU TIIU MARTMT 5011 1,1vAn. Lr 817c11;14T1t VP,ARS, Dorter A.cemer A SUBSTiTtMt. The price of the originai edi cent, end is manufactured only by The T. Milburn Co.. Limited, Toronto, Ont, eWered in the vernaeuler of the arithro- pales. "What d0 you want of me?' sh eon- thaued. "For what purpose did you save me from Tha?" dI could not see a wOntan Murneredr' It Was a half question that answered her. "But went do sem intend to do with inc now?" inc =tinned.. "Nettling," be replied, "but yon ean de something with me --you can lead Inc out of this place to freedom." He Made tbe suggestion without tbe slight- est thought teat she would accetlei He felt quite sure that the siterifice would go on from the point where it nau beep interrupted ir the high priestess had her way, thumb he was equally posi- tive that they would ena Taman of the Apes, tuabound and with a long dagger itt bis hand, a Well less tractable yle- tint than Tarzan disarmed and bound. The girl stood looking at ben for a Jong moment before she spoke. "You are a eery wonderful man," phe said. "You are sucb a man as I have seen in my day dreams ever since 'I was a little girl. You are sach Man as I imagine the forbears of naY people must have been—the great race of people weo built this mighty city in ; the heart of a savage world that they ; might wrest from tee bowels of tee earth the fabulous wealth for which they had sacrificed their far distant ' civilization. "I cannot understand why you came to my rescue in the first place, mad now I cannot understand why, baring me within your power, you do not wish to be revenged upon me for having gentenced you to death—for having al- most put you to death with my own hand." • "I presume," replied the ape -man, "that you but followed the teachings of your religion. I canit blame you for 'that, no matter what41 may think of your creed. But who are you—wbat ;people have I fallen among?' • "I am La, high priestess of the Tem- Ple of the Sun, In the city of Opar. We are descendants of a people who came to this savage world more than 10,- 000 years ago in search of gold. Their teltles stretched fro/11a great sea under the rising sun to a great sea into which ehe sun descends at night to cool his 'flaming brow. They were very rich and. very powerful, but they lived only a few months of the year in their mag- nificent palaces here, the rest of the time they spent in their native land, ffar, far to the north, "Many ships went back and. forth be- tween this new world and the old. During the rainy season there were but 'few of the inhabitants who remained :here, only those who superintended the working of the mines by the black Slaves and the merchants who had to 'stay to supply their wants and the sol- diers who guarded the cities and the mines. ' "It was at one of these times that the great calamity occurred. When the time came for the teeming thousands, to return none came. For weeks the people waited. Then they sent out a great galley to learn why ho aide eftirie from the mother country, but though they sailed about for many months they were unable to find any trace of the mighty land that had for countless ages borne their ancient civilization— It had sunk into the sea. "From that day dated the downfall of ray people, Disheartened and me happy, they soon became a prey to the black hordes of the north and tee black hordes of the south. One by one the cities were deserted or overcome, The last remnant was finally forced to take shelter within this mighty mountain fortress. Slowly we have dwindled in power, in civilization, in intellect, in numbers, until now we are no more than a small tribe of savage apes. "In fact, the apes live with us, and have for many ages. We call them the first 111Un —we speak their language quite as much as we do our owe; only in the rituals of the temple do we make any attempt to retain our mother tongue. In time itesvill be forgotten, and we will speak odly the language of the apes; In time * will no longer banish those of our beanie who mate with apes, nnci in in (line we shall de- scend to the very beasts from which ages ago our progenitors may have sprung." "But why are you more human than the others?" asked the man. • "For some reaeon the women have not reverted to savagery so rapidly as the men. It may be because only the lower types of men remained here at the time of the great catastrophe, while the temples -were lled with the eo- blest daughters of the race. My strain has remained clearer than the rest be. cause for countless ages my forenaoth- ers were high priestesses. The sacred office descends from mother to &ugh,. ter. Our husbands are chosen for us from the noblest in the land. The most perfect man mentally and phys- lecilly is selected to be the husband of the high priestess." ' "'Prom what 1 RAW of the gentlemen above," glad Terme, with a grin, "there should be little teouble In cholas- Mg from among them." The girl looked at him quizzically for moment. "Do not be sacrilegious," she said. "They Are very holy men. They bre priesta." "Then there are others Who are bet- tor to look upon?" he nsked, "The others are all more ugly that the priests," ehe replied. Tartan shuddered at her fate, for even In the dire light Of the Vault lie Was ithpressed by her beauty, "letat bow about Myself?" he asked auddenly. "Are you gong to lead Me to liberty?" "You have been chosen be the flera. ing god as hie own," she tamWered aol- etuhily. "Not even I have the pewee to terve yen—should they find you Again. ,Xint X do nOt itkteud that tlleatehiall that 111.11=1.01111.11111.1111111.11111111111MONIMM--. 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It will be no easy matter. it may require : days, but iu the end I think' that I can lead you beyond the walls, Come. they will look here for me presently, and if they find. us together we shall both be Ilost. They would kill me clid they think that I bad prayed false to my Igod." I i "Yon m-ast not take tee risk. then." 1 he said quickly. "I will return to the temple, and if I ern fight my way to : freedom tbere will be sio suspicion , thrOwn upon you." i But she would not have It so and r enally persuaded him to follow her. ; saying that they had already remained 1 in the vault too long to prerent sufspi. don from fatting upon her even if they returned to the temple, "I will hide you, and then return i alone," she said, "telling them that 1 was lone unconscious after yoe killed 'fella, and that I do not Icnow whether you escaped." And so she led him through wiuding corridors of gloom, entil finally they came to a small chamber into which a little light reltered through a stone grat- ing in the ceiling. . • "This, is the Chember of the Dead," she said. "None will think of search- ing here for you—they would not dare. I will return after it is dark. By that time Iesmcaapye.have found a plan to effect y She was gone, and Tarzan of the Apes was left alone in the Chamber of the Dead. beneath the long dead eity of Opar, CHAPTER XXIII. The Castaways. CL4ISTO.N dreamed thaf he was drineing his fill of water, pure, delightful drafts of fresh water. With a start lie regained con- sciousness to tied himself wet through by torrents of rain that were falling into the open boat -upon his body and his upturned face. A. heavy tropical shower was beating clown upon them. Ile opened his mouth and drank. Pres- ently he was so revived and strength- ened that he was enabled to raise him- self upon his hands. Across his legs Jay M. Thuran. A few feet aft nano Potter was huddled in a pitiful little heap in the bottom of the boat—she was quite still. Clayton thought that she was dead. After infinite labor be released him- self from Thuran's pinioning body and with tenewed strength mewled toward WAS ALWAYS TROUBLED WITH BOILS AND PIMPLES Could Not Get Rid of Them Until Fie hod BURDOCK BLOOD BIT'TERS All Blood•or Skin Diseases are caused by bad blood, and to get it pure, anti keep it pare you must remove every trace of the unpure and morbid matter from the system by a blood cleansing medicine such as Burdock Blood Bitters. Mr. A. P. Hopp, Iditaitg, Sask., writes; —"I was always bothered witla Boils, and could not get rid of them, mid also had all kinds of Piteples on my face, Irma early in the Spring till late in the Pale One of my friends told me about your medicine, and that I lied to get some. thing to purify my blood. 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