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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1914-09-17, Page 7! September i7th, 1914 THE WINGH M TIMES Itaggagglika4MEMEM MS/".•3 Ori••• 'Ube RETURN T.. 'R.,ZAN By Edgar Rice Burroughs 01.0AREIMMV7iNn. 4077,444% mige,114,4 VEEZETERMA "71-liave heard nothing unusnal," he ^said. "But then I have been lumen- ' Iscious much of the time." ,1116 Had it not been for the man's very vident weakness Clayton should have 'suspected him of having sinister ,knowledge of the girl's whereabouts, but he could see that Thuran lacked r pu Ell cie n t vitality even to descend, un - •aided, from the shelter. He could not in his present physical ccndition have harmed the girl, nor could he have -climbed the rude ladder back to the ,shelter. Until dark the Englishman searched the nearby jungle for a trace of the missing one or a sign of the trail of ter abductor. But though the b -poor 'le.ft by the fifty frightful men, un - 'versed In woodcraft as they were, would have been as plain to the dens -- est denizen of the jungle as a city street to the Englishman, yet he cross- ed and recrossed it twenty times with- -out observing the slightest indication that many men had passed that way but a few short hours since. As he searched, Clayton continued to ,call the girl's name aloud, but the only, result of this was to attract Sabor, the tiger. Fortunately, the 'man saw the -shadowy form worming its way to- ward him in time to climb into the .branches of a tree before the beast was close enough to reach him. This: put an end to his search for the balance of t_the afternoon, as the tiger paced back &forth beneath him until dark. Even after the beast had left Clay.; ton dared not descend into the awful 'blackness beneath him, and so he spent a terrifying and hideous night in the tree. The next morning he returned to zthe beach, relinquishing the last hope ,of succoring Jane Porter. During the week that followed M. • Thuran rapidly regained his strength, lying in the shelter while Clayton hunt- • ed food for both. The men never sPalre .except as necessity demanded. Clayton Uow occupied the section of the shelter .egeh had been reserved for lane Por- ter and only saw the Russian when he •took food or water to him or perform - ..ed the other kindly offices which com- mon humanity required. When Thuran was again able to de- -seend in search of food Clayton was • •stricken with fever. For days he lay -tossing in delirium and suffering, but ^not once did the Russian come near zbin. Food the Englishman could not 'bare eaten, but his craving for water ,amounted practically to torture. Be- tween the recurrent attacks of dent. - weak though be was, he`nutnaged to reach the brook ouce a day and fill a - tiny can that had beeu among the few . appointments of the lifeboat Thuran watched him on these occa- -stens with an expression of malignant .pleasure. He seemed really to enjoy the suffering of the roan who, despite 'tbe just contempt in which be held him, had ministered to him to the best -of his ability while he lay suffering .the same agonies. At last Clayton became so weak that he was no longer able to descend from ,the shelter. For a day he suffered for water without appealing to the Rus- sian; but Gnally, unable to endure it longer, Ile asked 'Amnia to f.etch him a •drink.. The Russian came to the entrance to —Clayton's room, a dish of water in his hand, A nasty grin contorted his fea- tures. "Here is water," he said. "But first let me remind you that you maligned me before the girl; that you kept her to ,AoLt Yourself and would,not share her with , Clayton interrupted him. "Stop!' he -cried. "Stop! What manner of cur ,are you that you traduce the character of a good woman whom we believe ^dead! God, I Was a tool ever to let you live! You are not fit to live even in this vile land!" "Here is your water," said the Rus- sian, "all you will get." And he raised :the basin to his lips and drank. What ;was left he threw out upon the ground 'below. Then he turned and left the 'sick man. Clayton roiled over and, burying his face in his arms, gave up the battle. • The next day Tbutail determined to set out toward the north along the .coast, for he knew that eventually he, must come to the habitations of civi- Ilted men. At least he could be no Worse Off then he was here, and fur- thermore the ravings of the English- man were getting ort his nerves. So he stole Clayton's spear and set .01f upon his journey. He would have killed the sick man before be left had lit not occurred to him that it would really have beet' a kindness to do so. That Same day he onto to A little ,tabin bY the beach, and his heart filled 'With renewed hope es he saw this evi- •-dence Of the proXimity of civilization, for he thought it but the outpost of a nearby settlement. liad he known to Whom it belonged and that its owner 'Vrais at that Vet,y Moment but it few • 0 miles inland, Nikolas..Rokolt would have fled the place as he would a pesti- lence. But he did not know, and so he remained for a few days to enjoy the security and comparative comforts of tbe cabin. Then he took up his north- ward journey once more. In Lord Tennington's camp prepara- tions were going forward to build per- manent quarters and then to send out an expedition of a few men to the north In search of relief. As the days had passed without bringing the longed for succor, hope that Jane Porter, Clayton and M. Tin - ran bad been rescued began to die. No one spoke of the matter longer to Pro- fessor Porter, and he was so immersed In bis scientific dreaming that he was not aware of the elapse of time. Occasionally_ he would remark that 'Within a few dayS they should certain- ly see a steamer drop anchor off their shore and that then they should all be , reunited happily. Sometimes he spoke of it as a train and wondered it it were being delayed by snowstorms. "If I didn't know the dear old fel- low so well by now," Tennington re- marked to Miss Strong, "I should be quite certain that he was—er7-not quite right, don't yen know." "If it were not so pathetic it would be ridiculous," said the girl sadly. "1, who have known him all my life, know how be worships Jane, but to others it must seem that be is perfectly callous to her fate. It is only that he is so absolutely impractical that he cannot conceive of so real a thing as death unless nearly certain proof of It is thrust upon him." "You'd never guess what he was about yesterday," continued Tenning- ton. "I was coming in alone from a little hunt when 1 met him walking rapidly along the game trail that I was following back to camp. His hands were 'clasped beneath the tails of his long,, black coat, and his top hat was set firmly down upon his bead as, with oyes bent uponthe ground, he hasten-. ed on, probably to some sudden death Lind I not intercepted him. "'Why, where in the world are you bound. professor?' I asked him. 'I am going into town, Lord Tennington,' he said as seriously as possible, 'to cora- iplain to the postmaster about the rural free delivery service we are suffering from here. Why, sir, I haven't bad a piece of mail in weeks. There should be several letters for me from Jane. The matter must be reported to Wash- rington at once.' "And would yon believe It, Miss Strong," continued Tennington, "I had the very deuce of a job to convince the old fellow that there was not only no rural free delivery, but no town and that he was not even on the same con- tinent as Washington nor in the same hemisphere. "When he did realize he commenced to %%wry abont his daughter. I think it is the first time that he really has appreciated nut' -position here or the Met that Miss Porter may not have liven rusenett." "1 hate to think about it," said the -and yet 1 (-an think of nothing cke than the absent members ef our int rt -Y•" "Let its hope for the best." replied Tennington. "Yon yourself have set Its each a splendid example of bravery, for in a way your loss has been the greatest." "Yes." she replied. "1 eonld have loved Jaue Porter no more had site been my own sister." Tennington did not Show the sur- prise he felt That witi; not at all what he meant. Ile had been muds with this fair daughter of Maryland Since the wreck or the Lady Alice, and it had recently come to Itini that he' had grown much more fond of her than would prove good for the peace of his mind. for he recalled utmost con- stantly now the confidence which M. Thuran had imparted to him that he and Miss Strong were engaged. He wondered if, after all, Thuran had been quite accurate in his statenneet He had never seen the slightest indica- tion on the girl's part of more than ordinary fridadship. "And then in M. Thuran's loss, if they are last you Would Suffer a se- vere bereavement," he ventured. She looked tip at him quickly. "M. Tburan bad become a very dear friend," she said. , "I liked him very much, though I have known him but% short time." - "Then you were not engaged to mar- ry him?" he blurted out. "Heavens, no!" she cried. "1 did not care for him at all in that way." There was something that Lord Ten- nington Wanted to say to Basel Strong. He wanted very badly to Say It end to say it nt once, but somehow the word a etuct in his throat. He started lamely a couple of times.. cleared his throats betel:no red itt the face and enally ended by remarking that he hoped Ole cabins would be finished be- fore the rainy sefteon cornmeneed. But, though be did not know it, be had conveyed to the girl the very Mes- eage he Wended, and it left her happy —happier than she had ever before been in all her life. Just then further convereation was interrupted by the sight of a strange and terrible looking figure which emerged from the jungle just south oC the camp. Tennington and the girl saw it nt She same time. The Englishe man reitehed for hie revolver, but when the half linked, bennied creature milled hls ruitne niond n enme to- ward thein he dropped his hand and advaneed to meet it, None would have reeognized in the filthy, emaciated erentere, covered by o stogie garment of small skins, the inimactutite. al. Thuran the party bad Inst seen upon the deek of the Lady AMT. Before the other members ot the ilt- tie community were apprised of his presence. 'Pennington and Miss Strong questioned him regarding the other oc- ettpants of the missing boat. -They are all dead," replied Thuran. e'rlie three sailors died before we made land. Miss Porter was reneged off into the jungle by some wild animal while I was lying deliriceis with fever. Clay- ton died of tbe slime fever but a few days since. And to think that all this time we have been separated by but a few tulles—scarcely a day's march! it is terrible!" CHAPTER XXVII. How Tarzan Came Again to Opar. OW long Jane Porter lay in the darkneSs of the vault be- neath the temple in the an- cient city of (Spar she did nut know, For a time she was deliri- aue with fever, but after this passed • she connnenced slowly to regain her strength. F,very day the wotnau who brought her food beckoned to her to edge, but for many days the girl could only snake her head to indicate that she was too weak. But eventually she was able to gain het feet_ and then to stager a few steps by supporting herself with one ¢43 az)? Hope Left Her Entirely, and She Trem- bled In an Agony of Fright. hand upon the wail. Her captors now watched her with Increasing interest. The day was approaching, and the vic- tim was gaining in strength. Presently the day came when she could walk, and a young women whom Jane Porter bad not seen lferore "awe with several others to her (Mitzvoth Flere some fe. o. F 11, rettiony wile • per. formed. That it wns or it r.•11gi,ais 11;1 ture the girl was sitre,-;itol so she 1,0q, new heart and rejoieed that she it e fallen among people open whew ih refining and sortening intlio•H 1•••• ligion evidently feta fe nee ee. would trent her Intuit Indy. 4.1 11,::1 Wag now' quite sum And go, when they lect dungeOn through long. thirk sind Up 0 tlight it emile fee -1 bril lin tit (•01111.111r11, 1t I! • —even gladly—for Wag she not among the servaets of God? It might be.'of coursc, that their interpretation of the supreme being differed from bet owe, ant that they owned a god was suit- cieht evidence to her that they were kind and good. But when she saw a stone altar in :he center or the courtyard and dark brown stains upon it and the nearby zonerete of the floor she began to won- der and to doubt. And as they stoop- od atid bound her ankles and Secured her wrists behind her her doubts were turned to fear. A moment later as she was lifted and placed across the althea top hope left her entirely, and she trembled in an agony of fright. During the grotesque dance of the rotaries which followed she lay frozei in horror, nor did she require the sight of the thin blade in the hand of the high priestess as it rose slowly above her to enlighten her furtheras to ber doom. As the hand began itis descent Jane Porter closed her eyes and sent up a silent prayer to the Maker she was so soon to face, 'Then She tattecumbed to the strain upon her tired nerves and swooned. * * * * • • • Day and night Totten of the Apes raced through the pritneval erest to. ,ward the ruined city in which he wati positive the woman he loved lay either a prisoner Or dead. • In a day and a night he covered the same distance that the fifty frightful men had taken the better part of a :week to traverse. or l'arzass et the et THREE WORDS Lawyer Received $10,000 For "Stop! Look! Listen!" By HOLLAND. WORDS are wonderful TV things. A Chicago pub - Usher dieplaye 1111 his win- dows the legend, "Words are the only things that live for- ever." A lawyer was once asked by the president of a railroad to suggest a sign that eoUld be posted at railroad crossings — something that Would pre- vent accidents and would also be effective in defending damage suits when accidents occurred. He suggested the three words, "Stop! Look! Listen!" He received a fee of $10,000, Itad his suggestion was worth it because those words, post- ed at grade crossings, pre- vented many accidents. • Do you believe in signs? And do you obey them when you see them? Do you stop, look and listen? You aught to, because by watching these warnings as they appear in our mavertising columns you can " AVOID BEING SWINDLED BY SUBSTITUTES. Very advertisement is a warning sign. It suggests that you stop, look and listen before proceeding. In other words, investigate and there- by avoid the shoddy, the ins - pure, the worthless. 111•1*;101•M•011.0.111MMINIR Apes traveled along the middle tee. race high above the. tangled obstacleS. tharimpecle progress upon the ground. Tbe story the young, bull aye had told made it clear to him that the girl captive had been Jane Porter, for there was not another small, white "she" in all the jungle. The "bulls" he bad rec- ognized from the ape's crude descrip- tion as the grotesque parodies upon hu- manity who luhabit the ruins of Opar. And the girl's fate he could picture as plainly as though he were an eyewit- ness to it When they would lay ber across thnt grim altar he could not guess. but that her dear, frail body would eventually find its way there he was conklent But finally, after what seensed long ages to the impatient ape -man, he top- ped the barrier cliffs that hemmed the desolate valley, and below him lay the grim and awful ruins of the now hide- ous city of Opar. At a rapid trot he started across the dry and dusty, bowlder strewn ground toward the goal of his desires. Would be be in time to rescue? He "hoped against hope. At least he could be revenged, and in his wrath it seem- ed to him that be was equal to the task of wiping out the entire population of that terrible city. It was nearly noon when be reached the great bowlder at the top of which terminated the secret passage to the pits beneath the city. Like a cat he scaled the precipitous sides of the frowning granite kopje. A moment later he was running through the darkness of the long, straight tun- nel that led to tbe treasure vault. Through this he passed, then on and on until at last he eatne to the well - like shaft upon the opposite side of which lay the dungeon with the false wall. As be paused a moment upon the brink of the well a faint sound came to biro through the opening above. His quick ears caught and translated it. 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There are many preparatione on the market to -day, claiming to make the same cures as "Dr. Fowler's" hut these no-narae, no -reputation, so calkd straw- eerry compoutala am nothing more or est than rank imitations, atid are liable o be a detriment to your health. When you ask for "lar. Vavvlees" 3,t sure you ';.;,?.t it. DO not accept any e.herisa theta substitutes may be den - See that our mancle, on the wrapper. Price, 35 eente. the T. Milburn Co., Limited, . Termite, Ont. P' Pt 7 the high priestess, He could even ree. ognite the girl's voice. ; Could it he that the ceremony mark- ed the very thing he had so hastened to preventi A wave of horror swept over /dm Was he, after all, to be just it morneut too late? Like a frightened deer he leaped across the narrow chasm to the continuation or the pas- sage beyond. At the false Wall he tore like ono possessed to demolish the bar- ! vier that confrouted him. With giant milseles he fumed the opening, thrust- ing his head and shoulders through the first small hole he made and carrying, the balance of the wall with hlm to clatter resoundingly upon the cement floor of the dungeoe. With a single leap he cleared the length of the ehamber aud threw him- self against the ancient door. But here he stopped. The mighty bars upou the other side were proof even against such muscles as his, It needed but a moment's effort to convince him of the futility of endeavoring to force that impreguable harrier. There was but one other way, and that led back through the long tunnels to the bowl - der a mile beyond the city's walls and then back across the open as he bad cOtn0 to, the city first with his Wazirl. He realized that to retrace Ills steps and enter the city from above ground would mean that he would be too late to save the girl if it were indeed she who lay upon the sacrificial altar above him. But there seemed no other ways._ and so be turned and ran swiftly back into the passageway beyond the broken wall. At the well he beard again the monotonous voice of the high priestess, and as be glanced aloft the opening, twenty feet above, seemed so near that he was tempted to leap for it in a mad endeavor to reach the inner courtyard that lay so near. If be could but get one end of hie grass rope caugbt upon some projec- tion at the top of that tantalizing aper- ture! In the instant's pause and thought an idea occurred to him. He would attempt it Turning back to the tumbled wall, he seized one of the large, flat slabs that had composed it. Hastily making one end of his rope fast to the piece of granite, he return- ed to the shaft, and, coiling the bal- ance of the rope on the floor beside him, the ape -man took the heavy slab In both hands, and, swinging it several times to get the distance and the di- rection fixed, he let the weight fly up at a slight angle, so that iustead ot falling straight back int() the shaft • again it grazed the far edge, tumbling over into the court beyond. Tarzan dragged for a moment upon the slack end of the rope until be felt that the stelae was lodged with fair security at the shaft's top, then he swung out over the black depths be- neath. The moment his, full weight came upon the rope he felt it slip from above. Be waited there in awful suspense as it dropped in little jerks, inch by inch. The stone was being dragged up the outside of tbe mason- ry surrounding the top of the shaft— would it catch at the very edge or wouid bis weight drag it over to fall upon him as he hurtled into the un- known depths below? For a brief, sickening moment Tai- zan felt the slipping of the rope to which he chum and beard the scraping of the block of stone against the ma- sonry above. Then, or a sudden, the rope was still —the stone bad caught at the very edge. Gingerly the ape -roan clambered up the frail rope. In a moment his head was above the edge of the sbaft. The court was empty. The inhabi- tants of Opar were viewing the sacri- fice. Tarzan could hear the voice of La from the nearby sacriticial court Tbe dance had ceased. It must be almost time for the knife to fall, but even as he thought these things he was running rapidly toward the solind of the high priestess' voice. Fate guided blm to the very door- way of the great roofless chamber. Between him and the altar was the loeg row of priests and priestesses awaiting with their golden cups the spilling of the warm blood of their victim. La's hand was descending slowly to- ward the bosom of the frail, quiet dg' are that lay stretched upon the hard stone. Tarzan gave a gasp that was almost a sob as he recognized the fea- tures of the girl he loved. And then the sear upon bis forehead turned to a flaming band of scarlet, a red mist floated before his eyes, and with the awful roar of the bull ape gone mad be sprang like n huge lion into the midst of the votaries. Seizing a cudgel from the nearest priest, he laid abolit him like a verita- ble demon as be forged his rapid way toward. the altar. The band of La had nausea at the first tioise of inter- ruption. When she saw who tbe au- thor of it was she went white. She ; bad never been able to fathom the se- cret of' the strenge white man's es- cape from the dungeon in which she bad locked hien. She had not intend- ed Binh he should ever leave Opar, for she Ind looked upon bis giant frame and handseme face With the eyes of a woMan and not those of a priestess. In her clever Mind she bed coneoct- ed is story of wonderful revelation from the lips of the flaming ged self, its whieli she had been ordered to receive this white stranger as a usessetiger front him to his people on earth. That would satisfy the people of Opar, she knew, The Man would be satisfied, she felt quite sure, to re- main and be her husband rather than to return to tbe sacrificial altar. But when she had gone to ezpinin her plan to him he had disappeared, though the door had been tight locked as sho bad left it, and now he had re. turned—nulterialized from thin air— and was killing her priest e as though they had been sheep, For the moment she forgot her vietitn, and before be 111011111111E11111MiliamimaillakileniSAMS,LAI" Children Cry for Flotck-mao 1. 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The Children's Fanaoea—The Mother's Friend, GENUINE CASTOR IA ALWAYS' Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought C ENTAUR COM PANY, NEW YORK CITY, could gathei her MIS together igain the White 01:111 was standing be- fore her. the woman who had lain upon the altar In his arms. "One side, La!" he cried. "Von sav- ed me once, and so '1 Ccould not harm you, but do not -interfere or attempt to follow, or I shall linve to kill you also," As be spoke he stepped past her to- ward the entrance to the subterranean "Who is she?" asked the high priest- ess, pointing at the 'unconscious wo- Mun. "She is mine," said Taman of the Apes. For a moment the girt of Opar stood wide eyed and staring. Then a look of hopeless misery suffused her eyes. Tears welled into them, and, with a little cry, she sank to the cold floor just as a swarm of frightful men dash-, ed past tier to leap upon the ape -man. But Tarzan of the Apes was not there evhen they reached out to seize him. With a light bound he had dis- appeared into the passage leading to the pits below, and when his pursuers came more cautiously after they found the chamber empty, but they laughed and jabbered to one another, for they, knew that there was no exit from the pits other than the one through which he had entered. If he came out at all he must come this way, and they, would wait and watch for him above. And so Taman of the Apes, carrying the unconscious Jane Porter, came' through the pits of Opar beneath the temple of the flaming god without pursuits But when the men of Opar had talked further about the matter they recalled to mind that this very man had escaped once before into the pits, ana. though they had watched the entrance, he had not come fortb, and yet todey he bed come upon them front the outside. They would again send fifty men out into the valley to find and capture this desecrater of their temple. After Tarzan reached the shaft be- yond the 'Aiken wall he felt so posi- tive of the successful issue of his flight that he stopped to replace the tumbled stones, for he was not anxious that any of the inmates should discover this forgotten passage and through it come upon the ,Measure chamber. It was in his mind to return again to Opar and bear away a still greater fortune than he had already buried in the atnphitbeater of the apes. SUFFERED FOR FOUR YEARS From Heart Trouble and Nervous Prostration Mrs. John Hewsen, Caledonia, Ont., writes—"X feel it my duty to let you know of the great benefit your Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills did for me. I suffered for four years with heart tremble and nervous prostration. 1 WOS so bad that 1 could not go upstairs without sitting demi at the top before I could gO to my room. I couldn't sleep nor lie on rriy left side, for it would eeens as though nty heart would stop. I thought my time had cosse. I was doetorieg watt the doctor, but didn't get any benefit. I vats edvised to take Milburn's limit sad Nerve Pills, so I got two hoses, and after I had takett one box I began mo fed better, and nfti 1 had takes' two 1 could go no dewa stairs with- out ren,ieg, so I took c' ;ht boxes, and I am eajoying good 1....alt1t again. I Lensiticr it it Oeiseed to have your pills itt the lipase." Milburn's Heart and Xerve Pills are 50 cents per Lox or 3 boxes for $1.25 at (lealer?) or mailed direct on receipt of price by 'Pile T. Milburn Co., Liteited, Torotto, Ont. CHAPTER XX.V111, Love In the Wilderness. N through the pasengewilys•isa 14 tts(tted, past the first door and through the treasure vault; past the second doer ;Ind into the long, straight tunnel that led to the lofty hidden exit beyond the city- .latle Porter was still uncottsclous. At the crest of the great howlder he halted to cast a backward glance to- ward the city. Conditg aeross the pinItt he saw • a baud of the hideous men of Opar, For a motnent he hesi- tated. 8hould he descend i tot make It ram for the distant' cliffs, or should he hide here unlit Meta? And then a glanee at the girl's white face deter-. mined him, Lte could not keep her here end permit her teiernies to get het 5V1'( (1 them and liberty, Por aught he knew they might have been follow- ed through the tunnels, and to have foes before and behind would result in almost certain capture siuce he could not light his way through the enemy burdened as he was with the uneonscious girl. To descend the steep face of the bowlder with Jane Porter was no easy task, but by binding her across his shoulders with the grass rope he suc- ceeded in reaching the ,ground in safe- ty before. the °parkins arrived at the great rock. As the descent bad beeu made upon the side away from the city, the searching party saw nothing of it, nor did they dream that their prey was so close before them. 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