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The Wingham Times, 1914-09-03, Page 7WINGHAIW HIES, SEPTEN1 all 3, 1914 ' rramwsgoza uhe RETURN eAN: MMIERMA TARZAN km. By Edgar Rice Burroughs Negs_t_womismism *-^ -"Lane, Jane!" he almost shouted. "Thank God, land." bad taught him which of the many growing things were edible, and after 'nearly an hour of absence he returned to the beach with a little armful of •food. For a month they lived upon the beach in comparative safety. As their strength returned the two naen con, e-eucted a rude shelter in the branches .01 a tree, high enough from the ground insure safety from the larger beasts of prey. By day they gathered fruits and trapped small rodents; at eight • they lay cowering within their frail • shelter while savage denizens of the jungle made hideous the hours of dark- ness. They slept upon litters of jungle .grasses, and for covering at night Jane Porter had only an old ulster that be- longed to Clayton, the same garment that be had worn upon that memorable trip to the Wisconsin woods. Clayton had erected a frail partition of boughs to divide their arboreal shelter into two rooms, one for the girl and the other for M. Tburan and himself. From the first the Russian had ex- hibited every trait of his true charac- .ter—selflsbness, boorishness, arrogance. cowardice, Twice had he and Clayton • come to blows because of Thuran's at- titude toward the girl- The existence -of the Englishman and his fiancee was one continual nightmare of horror, and yet they lived on in hope of ultimate rescue. Jane Porter's thoughts often reverted to her other experience on this savage •shore. All, if the invincible forest god .of that dead past were but with them - now! She could not well refrain from 'comparing the scant protection afford - •ed her by Clayton with what she might have expected had Tarzan of the Apes been for a single instant confronted by the sinister and menacing attitude of M. Thuran. A scant five miles north of their rude •shelter, all unknown to them and prac- tically as remote as though separated .by thousands of miles of linpenetrable gle Mv the snug little cabin of Tar- fJ "Never," -said' tire Samuel T. Philander to Lord Tenning- ton, "never has Professor Porter been more, difficult—er—I might say impos- sible. Why, only this morning, after I had been forced to relinquish my sur- veillance -for a brief half hour, he was entirely missing upon my return. And, ly to Clayton as words, A quick glance behind him revealed the hope- lessness of their situation. The lion was scarce thirty paces from them, and they ‘vere equa/ly as far from the seelter. The man was armed with a stout stick—as efficacious against a hungry lion, be realized, as a toy pop- gun charged with a tethered cork. "Run, Jane:" cried Clayton. "Quick! Run for the shelter:" Iint her para. lyzed muscles refused to respond, arid she stood :mite and rigid, stnring with ghastly eountettnnet. at the living death ereeping townrd them. Clayton coulel ouclure the strain no longer. Turning hie back upon the beast. he buried his Head lit les arms 5 tal wafted. The girl looked at Pim 10 horror, Why die Ile not du something? If he must die, why not We like a man, bravely, beating, at that terrible face with his puny stick, no matter how fn. tile it might be? %VonId Taman of the Apes have done thus? Would be not, at least, have goite down to his denth fighting heroically to the last? Now the lion was crouching for the sprieg that would end their young lives beneath cruel, rending. yellow fangs. Jane Porter sank to her knees In pvayer, teasing her eyes to shut out the last hideous Instant. Seconds dragged into minutes, long tninutes into an eternity, and yet the bless me, sir, where do you Imag,Itte discovered him? A half mile out in the ocean, sir, in one of the lifeboats row, iug away for dear life. I do not know how be attained eveu that magnificent distance frora shore, for he had but a single oar, with which he was bliss- fully rowing about in circles. "When one of the sailors had taken me out to him in another boat the pro- fessor became quite indignant at my suggestion that we return at once to land. 'Why, Mr. Philander,' he said, 'I am surprised that you, sir, a man of letters yourself, should have the temerity so to interrupt the progress of science. I had about deduced from certain. astronomic phenomena I have had einder minute observation during the past several tropic nights an en- tirely new nebular hypothesis which will unquestionably startle the, scien- tific world. I wish to consult a very excellent monograph on Laplace's hy- pothesis, which I understand is in a certain private collection in New York city. Your interference, Mr. Philan- der, will result in an irreparable de- lay, for I was just rowing over to ob- tain this .pamphlet.' And it was with the greatest difficulty that I persuad- ed him to return to shore without re- sorting to force," concluded Mr. Phil - a oder, Miss Strong and her mother were very brave under the strain of almost constant apprehension of the attacks of savage beasts, nor were they quite able to accept so readily as the others the theory that Jane, Clayton and M. Tillman had been picked up safely. Jane Porter's Esmeraldar. was in a constant state of tears at the cruel rate which bad separated her from her "pte li'le honey." Lord Tenniugton's great hearted good nature never deserted him for a moment. He was still the jovial host, seekiug always for the comfort and pleasure of his guests. With the men (:( his yacht he remained the just but firm commander. There was never any more question in the jungle than there had been on board the Lady Alice as to who was the final authori- ty in all questions of importance and in all emergencies requiring cool and intelligent leadership. Could this well organized and com- paratively secure party of castaways have seen the ragged, fear haunted trio a few miles south of them they would scarcely have recognized in them the formerly immaculate mem- bers of the little company that had laughed and played upon the Lady Alice. Clayton and M. Thu= were al- most naked, so torn had their clothes been by the thorn bushes and tangled vegetation of the ma tted jungle through which they had been eompelled to force their way in search of their ever more difficult food supply. Jane Porter had, of course, not been subjected to these strenuous expedi- Oohs, but her apparel was, neverthe- less, in a sad state of disrepair. Clayton, for lack of any better occu- pation, had carefully saved the skin of every animal they had killed. By stretching them upon the stems of trees and diligently scraping them, be zan of the Apee, while farther up the had managed to save them in a fair -coast, a few miles beyond the cabin, in cotdition, and now that his clothes crude but well built shelters, lived a were threatening to cover his naked - little party of eighteen souls—the occu- ness no longer, he commented to fash- ;pants of the three boats from the Lady Alice from which Clayton's boat had 'become separated. Over a smooth sea they had rowed to the mainland in less than three days. None of the horrors of shipwreck had 'been theirs, and, though depressed by 'sorrow and suffering, from the Shock the catastrophe and the unaccus- tomed hardships of their new exist- ence, there was none much the worse for the experience. All were buoyed by the hope that the fourth boat bad been.pieked up and that a thorough search of the coast NOW be quickly made. As all the beast did not spring. Clayton was al- most unconscious front the prolonged agony of fright. His knees trembled— a moment more and he would collapse. Jane Porter could endure it no long- er. She opened ber eyes. Could she he dreaming? "William," she whispered, "look!" Clayton mastered himself sufficient- ly to raise his head aud turn toward the lion. An ejaculation of surprise burst rrom his lips. At their N'ery feet the beast lay crumple:I in death. A vy war spot r protruded from the . taw-ny hide. It had eutered the great back above the right shoulder, 1111(I, passing entirely through the body, had piereed the savage heart. Jane Portet had risen to tier feet; as Clayton turned intek to her she slag- gered weakness. He put out his arms to $11Ve her from falling, and then drew her Nose to him—pressing her head against his shoulder, he stooped to kiss her in thanksgiving. • (lent13. the girl pushed him away. , "Please do not do that, William," she said. "I have lived a thousand years in the past brief moments. The last few seconds of my life have taught me that it would be hideous to attempt further to deceive utyself and you, or to entertain for au instant longer the possibility of ever becoming your wife, .should we regain civilization." "Why. Jane," he cried, "what do you mean? What has our providential rescue to do vvith altering your feelings toward me? You are but unstrung— tomorrow you will be yourself again." "I am more nearly myself this minute than I have been for over a year," she replied. "The thing that has just happened lies again forced to my mem- ory the fact that the bravest man that ever lived honored me with his love. Until it was too late I did not realize that I returned it, and so I sent him away. He is dead now, and I shall never marry. Do you under- stand me?" "Yes," he answered, with bowed head, his face mantling with the flush of shame. And it was the next day that the great calamity befell. ion a rude garment of them, usiug a sharp thorn for la needle and bits of tough grass nnd animal tendons in lien of thread. The result when completed wes a sleeveless garment which fell nearly to his knees. Later Therm) also found it necessary to construct a similar primi- tive garment, so that, with their bare legs and heavily bearded faces, they looked not unlike reincarnatiotas of two prehistoric progenitors of the htunan race. Thuran acted like one. Nearly two months of this existence had passed when the Met great calm - firearms and ammunition on the yacht ity befell them. Thuran, down with 'bad been placed in Lord Tennington's an attack Of jungle fever, lay It the boat, the party was well equipped for shelter among the branches of their defense and for bunting the larger tree of refuge. Clayton had been into game for food. the jengle a feW hundred yards In Professer Archimedes Q. Porter was search of food. As be returned Jane theironly immediate anxiety. Fully Porter walked to meet him. Behind assured In his own mind that his the man, cunning and crafty, crept an •daughter had been picked up by fipaes- log steamer, he gave over the licit vos- tige of apprehension Concerning her welfare and devoted his giant intellect •aolely to the consideration ot those xaOmentous and abstruse sdentilic ;problems which he eonsidered the only proper food for thought in one of his ..erudltion. His mind appeared blank to ,titt influence. of Oli extraneous tnattere. TAKE YOUR 11•••••••••comemmamoommaga.0.0......• CHOICE By HOLLAND. M ANUFA.OTURERS are of two kinds—the honest and dishonest. The one makes the best goods, the other makes the worst. Each has his own particular scheme of life. The honest manufacturer aims to make the best goods he can and to advertise thein so that all the world will know of their merits. He courts investigation. • He wants customers to hold him to a rigid accountability. The dishonest manufactur- er hopes to profit by decep- tion. He produces an article that will be offered as "just as good" though he knows it Is inferior. He seeks to make a larger profit than the hon- est manufacturer, and this larger profit is necessary be- cause he has to find new cus- tomers day after day. MANDFACTURIDRS WHO ADVERTISE ARE THE HONEST ONES. CHAPTER XXIV. The Treasure Vaults of Opar. IT was quite dark before La, the high priestess, returned to the Chamber of the Dead with food and drink for Taman. She bore no light, feeling with her hands along the crumbling walls until be gained the chamber. Through the stone grat- ing above a tropic moon served dimly to illuminate the interior. "They are furious," were her first words. "Never before has a human sacrifice escaped the filter. Already fifty have gone forth to track you down. They have searched the temple, all save this single room." "Why, do they fear to come here?" he asked. "it is the Chamber of the Dead. Here the dead return to worship. See this ancient altar? It is here that the dead sacrifice the living if they lind a victim here. That is the reason our people shun this chamber. Were one to enter be knows that the waiting dead would seize him for their sacri- fice." "But yeti?" be asked. "/ am bigh priestess. 1 alone am safe from the dead. It is 1 who at rare intervals briug them a human snertfice from the world above. I alone day enter here in safety. I had dillicelty In eluding their vigilance but now in bringing you this morsel of food. To attempt to repeat the thing daily would be the height of folly, Come. Let us see how far we may go toward liberty before I must return." She led him back to the chamber be- neath the altar, room, Here she turn- ed into one of the several corridors leading from It. In the derkness Tar- = could not see which ono. For ten minutes they t.r.., Winding pasetm,• , came to it :en-. .1.-1 her frunbline II • • • • • . ly came )11c. s....1... • ing 'against tee ,c on semidry.: eat:, ... c., • Ohl and inangy lion. Por three days tfy,,ii ,111 „ his andent thews and Sinews had row night.- se, - Then 5)10 11 .1 (100r, 1111.1:1.11 It Moro Tat e .11 - • • Etebile. Ni•I celfici pete•ti..te • proved insufficient for the task of pro- viding his caVernotis belly with meat. At last he had found nature's Weakest and Most detenseleaS Creature. Jane saw the lion, but so frozen with horror was she that she Could otter no sOund. The tixed And terrified gaze of her leer, widened eyea leek° at Wein- • ; ".;•,•",,,, • • , itt 7 1.Vbe,triot time -around the walla Tgr. zan tbeeeebt be detected a strange phe- nomenon for a room with no windows and but a single door. Again be Crept carefully around close to the vvall. No, he conld not be Mistaken; tIe paused before the center ot the Wall opposite the door. For a moment be stood quite motionless, then he moved a few feet to one side, Again be returned, only to move a few feet to the other side. There was no doubt Of It! A distinct draft of fresh air was blowing into the chamber through the interstives et the masonry at that particular pointe--und nowhere else. Tarzan tested several pieces of the granite which made rip the wall at this spot and finally was rewarded by End- ing one which lifted out readily. It was about ten inehes wide, with a Pace some 3 by 0 inches showing within the climber. One by one the ape -man lifted out similarly shaped stories. The wall at this point was constructed en- tirely, it seemed, of these almost per - feet slabs, In a short time he had re- • moved some dozen, when he reached in to test the next layer of masonry. To his snrprise he felt nothing behind • the Masonry be had removed, as far as his long arm couid reach. It was a matter of but a few min- utes to remove enough of the wall to permit his body to pass through the aperture. Directly ahead of him be thought tbE4 he discerned a faint glow, scarcely more than a less Impenetrable darkness. Cautiously be moved for- ward on hands and knees until at abdut fifteen feet, or the average thickness of the foundation walls, the floor ended abruptly in a sudden drop. As far out as be could reach be felt nothing, nor could he find the bottom of the black abyss that y'awned before him, though, clinging to the edge of the floor, be lowered his body into the darkness to its full length. Finally it occurred to him tq look up, and there above him he saw through a round opening a tiny circular patch of starry sky. Feeling up along the sides of the shaft as far as he could reach, the ape -man discovered that so much of the wall as be could feel converged , toward the center of the shaft as it it" he 'bilt litri;w the diret•tien It rose. This fact precluded possibility keeling him: It' toward the \\ OA, tliii of escape in that direction. 1 he must also be beyoud tit (1(;''S outer As he sat speculating on the nature wails. and uses of this strange passage and ' With increasing hopes he .forged its terminal shaft the moon topped the attend as rapidly ns he dared until at opening above, letting a flood of soft, the end of half an hour be came to an - silvery light into the shadowy place. other dight of steps leading upward. Instantly the nature of the shaft be- At the bottom this flight was or came apparent apparent to Tarzan, for far be- crete, but as he ascended his naked low him he saw the shimmering sur- feet felt it sudden change in tho sub - face of water. He bad. come upon an stance they were treading. The steps ancient well. But what was the pur- of concrete had given place to steps of pose of the connection between the granite. Feeling with his hands, the well and the dungeon in wilich he had ape-mau discovered that these latter been hidden? • As the moon crossed the opening ot were evidently hewed front rook, for the shaft its light flooded the whole there W05 110 crack to ineleate ti joint. y, For 100 feet the steps wound st,firally Interior, and theu Tarzan saw directl across trom him another opening m the up, until at a sudden turning Tarzan came Into a narrow cleft between two opposite wall, He wondered If thls rocky wallsAbove bim shone the might not be the mouth of a passage . leading to possible escape. It would starry sky and before him n steep in - be worth investigating at least, and cline replaced the steps that had ter- be determined to do. minated at its foot. Up,this pathway Tarzan bastened Quickly returning to the wall he had a 13(.1 at its upper end came out upon the rough top of a huge demolished to explore what lay beyond granite bowlder. A mile away lay the ruined city of it, he carried the stones into the pas- 'sageway and replaced them from that ' Opar, its domes and turrets bathed in side. The deep deposits of dust which the softlight of the equatorial moon. he had noticed upon the blocks as he had first removed them from the wall Tarzan dropped his eyes to the ingot hbe had brought away with him. For a had convinced him that even if the present occupants of the ancient pile moment he examined it by the moon's had knowledge of this hidden passage bright rays, then he raised his head to they had made no use of it for perhaps look out upon the ancient piles of cruire bling grandeur in the distance. generations. "Opar," he mused, "Opar, the en - The wall replaced. Tarzan returned to the shaft, which was some fifteen chanted city of a dead nnd forgotten feet wide at this point. To leap across past. The city of the beauties and the the intervening space was a small mat- beasts. City of horrors and deaths, ter to the ape -man, end a moment later but—city of fabulous riches." The in - he was proceeding along a narrow tun- got was of virgin gold. nel, moving cautiously for fear of be- The bowlder on which Tarzan found be - Ing precipitated into another shaft himself lay well out in the plain be - such as he had just crossed. tween the city and the distant cliffs he He bad advanced some hundred feet and bis black warriors had scaled the when he came to a flight of steps lead- morning previous'. To descend its Ing downward into the Stygian gloom. rough and precipitous face was a task Some twenty feet below the level floor of infinite labor and considerable peril of the tunnel recommenced, and short- even to the apeman, but at last he felt ly afterward his progress was stopped the soft soil of' the valley beneath his by a heavy. wooden door. which was feet, and without a backward glance secured by massive wooden bare upon at Opar he turned his face toward the the side of Tarzan's approach. Thi4 guardian cliffs and at a rapid trot set . fact suggested to the ape -man that be off across the valley. dThe sun was just rising as he gained oubtless was in a passageway lead- I the summit of the fiat mountain at the ng to the outer world, for the bolts, valley's western boundary. Far be - barring progress from the opposite neath him he saw smoke rising above side, tended to substnntiate this hy- pothesis unless It were merely a prisoti tlie treetops of the forest at the base of to which It led, the foothills. "Man," he murmured. "And there Along the tops of the bars were deep layers of dust, a further indication were fifty who went forth to track me down. Can it be they?" that the passage had lulu long unused. Swiftly te,descend_citbe face of the As be pushed the maseive obstacle - - aside its great hinges shrieked out in --- weird proteet against this unaccustom- HAD SALT RHEUM ON HER ed disturbance. For a moment Tarzan ' paused to listen for any responsive note which !night indicate that tbe un- usual night noise had alartned the mates of the temple. But as be heard nothing he advanced beyond the door- way. Carefully feeling Omit, he found hitnself within it large chamber, along the walls of whieh and down the length of the floor were piled many tiers of ,netal ingots of an odd though uniform shape. To Ills groping hands they felt not unlike double headed. bootjack% The ingots were quite heavy, and 'Dut for the enormous num- ber of then) he would have been posi- tive that they Were gold. But the thought of the fabulous wealth these thousnucls of pounds of metal would . _ _ . . nave represented were they in reality gold almost convinced him that they must be of some baser metal, At the far end of the dumber he discovered another barred door and the hope was renewed that he was travers- ing ne =dent and forgotten passage- way to liberty. I3eyond the door the passage ran Straight as a war spear, and it a0ou becatne evidetit to the ape. Mall that it had already led him be - the Outer walls .0t the temple. "You will be safe here until tomorrow night," she said. Cautiously be moved forward unttl his outstretched hand touched a wall, then, very slowly, be traveled around the four walls of the chamber. Apparently it was about twenty feet square. The floor was of concrete, the walls of the dry masonry that mark- ed the method of construction above ground. Small pieces of granite of -various sizes were ingeniously laid to- gether without mortar to construct these audeut foundations. Had a Bad Attack of Diarrhoea and Vomiting 1-le.c1 the Doctor Eleven Times ZVI' DR. roweeivs EXTRACT OF WILD sTNAWBEREY FINALLY ennen Mrs. Wesley Pringle, Roblin, Ont., writs:—"It is with great pleasure that I can recommend Dr. Fowler's Rxtract of Wild Strawberry. When our little fioy was three years old, he had the .eorst attack of diarrhoea and vomiting i ever saw. We called in our doctor, and ite came elevea times from Tuesday tnorning until Saturday night, but still no change. 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Then Taman dropped lightly from all overhanging branch into their midst. When they realized that it was Indeed their chief in the flesh and no materialized spirit, they went mad with joy. "We were cowards, oh; Wazirl," cried Bustin. We ran away and left you to your fate; but when our panic was over we swore to return and save you, "or at least take reveuge upon your murderers. We vvere but 120V prepar- ing to scale the heights once more and cross the desolate valley to the terrible city." "Have you seen fifty. frightful men pass down from the cliffs Into this for - 'est, my children?" asked Tarzan„ , "Yes, Waziri," replied Ilusull. "They ,passed us late yesterday as we were ,about to turn back after you. They ibad no woodcraft. We beard them coming for a mile before we save 'them, and as we had other business in ;hand we withdrew into the forest and 'let them pass. They were waddling rapidly along upon short legs, and neer ;and then one wouldgo on all fourS like Bolgani, the gorilla. 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