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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1915-09-30, Page 7September loth, 1915 ,a Edgy Rice Burroughs Copyright. 1114. by W. M. chap.. 'rhe Story by Chapters Chapter ir-A. Hundred Thou- { sand Years. Chapter 11.—Today. Chapter IIIc -Tae Young Hunter. ° Chapter IV.—The Dream Mate. Chapter V.—'rhe Zebra Killer. p Chapter VI.—The Ancient Trail. Chapter Vile -The Lonely Man. Chapter VIU . -A Prisoner. Chapter IX.—The Hunt. i Chapter X.—The Death Dans. Chapter X1.—Happinesst SYNOPSIS Nu, the son of Nu. is shut up in a cave bi an earthquake 100,000 years ago. He .bas a sweetheart, Nat-ul. Near his cave 100,000 years later Hiss Victoria Custer and her brother are on a tikuating,trlp. She is haunted by a dream wean and also by a real life lover. An -earthquake releases Nu. lee is a case of suspended animation. ..dile does not know he has been asleep. Wtoria Custer has strange dreams that . a *savage man fss seeking her. "stn sena Vletoriaand-thinks she is Nat- gal. Disturbed by visions of her dream roan, Victoria goes for a walk at night. She is saved from a lion by Nu, who is wounded by a bullet from the gun r • Curtiss, Victoria's suitor. Victoria goes :In search of No. filt- --.111747-`tie wonhd'ed"itina' dad learn - ,$td to airs known his simpler wants 1s. Ensh, and the ease with which he mastered whatever Barney attempt - hi to teach him assured the American it the early success of his venture in Ells direction. Curtiss continued to view the stran- ger with suspicion and i11 disguised hostility. He was positive that the man had murdered Victoria Custer, ,and, failing to persuade the others that they should take justice into their own .hands and execute the prisoner forth - With, e,now insisted that he be taken eto th �:nearest point at which civilize - lion aestablishedh ti h Yl the machinery of .taw and turned over to the authorities. Barney, on the other hand, was just ,as firm in his determination to wait until the man had gained a sufficient .command of English to enable them to give him a fair hearing and then be governed accordingly. He could not forget that there had .existed some strange and inexplicable bond between this handsome giant and bis sister nor that unquestionably the iman had saved her life when Old Raffles had sprung upon her. Barney had loved and, lost because be had Loved a girl beyond his reach, and so his sympathies went out to this man who, he was confident, loved his sister. , One of .the first things that Barney tried to impress upon the man was that he was a prisoner, and, lest lie should escape by night when Barney slept, Greystoke set Terkoz to watch . over him. But Nu did not seem inclined to wish to escape. IIis one desire uppar- . ently was to master the strange tongue . of his captors. For two weeks atter he was able to . quit his bed he devoted his tune to learning English. He had the frec- .•dom of the ranch. coming and going . as be pleased, but his weapons were kept from him, hidden in Lord Grey- : stoke's study, and Barney. sometimes with others of the household, always accompanied him. Nu was waic:ug for Nat-ul. He was sure that she would come back again to this cave that his new iaiaiiaintances called n bungalow. Bar- ry �,W"f1-. 1:'-rfr fn,• thn i'', co men - 'Was Weak and Run Down. COULD NOT STAND 4, THE LEAST EXCITEMENT. When one gets weak and run down the heart becomes affected, the nerves become unstrung and the least excite- ment causes a feeling of utter lastitude. What is needed is to build up the heart and strengthen the shaky nerves by the use of such a medicine as Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills. Mrs. J'. A. Williams, Tillsonburg, Ont., writes: "I cannot speal. too highly of Milburn's Heart and erve Pills. I suffered greatly with my nerves, and was 'U weak and run down I could not stare% the least excitement of any kind. I believe your Heart and Nerve Pills to be a valuable tctnedy for ali sufferers from nervous trouble," Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills are 5Oe per box, 3 boxes for $1.25, at all dealers or mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. One day Curtiss came upon Nu fit- ting upon the veranda. Terkoz lay at his feet. Nu was clothed in khaki— an old suit of Greystoke's being the largest that could be found upon the place, and that was none too large. As Curtiss approached the wolf- hound turned his wicked little eyes upon him, without moving his head from where it lay stretched upon his forepaws, and growled. Nu extended a booted foot across the beast's neck to hold him in check. The hound's show of hostility an- gered Curtiss. He bated the brute, and be hated Nu as cordially just why he did not know. He halted in front of the cave man. "I want to ask you a question," he said coldly. "I have been wanting to do so for a long time, but there has always been some one else around." Nu nodded. "What can Nu tell you?" he asked. "You can tellme where Miss Cus- ter is," replied Curtiss. "Miss Custer?. I do not know what . you mean. 1 never heard of Miss Custer." "You !lel" cried Curtiss, losing con- trol of himself. "Her jacket was found beneath your head in that foul den of yours." Nu came slowly to his feet. "What does 'lie' mean?" he asked. "I do hot understand all that peopie say to me yet, 'but I know much from the way of saying, and I do not like your way, Curtiss." "Answer my question!" cried Cur- tiss. "Where Is Vittoria Custer? When you speak to me remember that e'er Mr. Curtiss!" "What does 'lie' mean?" persisted Nu. "And why should I call you 'mis- ter?' I do not like the sound of your voice, Curtiss." It was at this moment that Barney appeared. The black hatred ghat stood with • the bristling wolfhound at his side. The attitude of the man resembled nothing more closely than that of a big• black panther tensed for a spring. Cur- tiss' hand was reaching for the butt of the gun at bis hip. Barney stepped between them. "What is the meaning of this, Cur- tiss?" he asked sharply. Curtiss had been a warn friend for years—a friend of civilization and lux- ury and ease. He bad known Curtiss ander conditions Which gave every- thing that Curtiss wished, and he had seemed a fine fellow, but lately, since he had been crossed and disappointed, there had been sides to his character that had never before presented them- selves. . Curtiss made no reply to Barney's question. Instead he turnedon his heel and walked away. Nu laid a hand upon the American's shoulder. "What does 'lie' mean, Custer?" IM asked. • Barney tried to explain. "I see," said Nu. "And what is a 'mister?' " Again Barney did his best to explain. "Who Is Miss Custer?" Nu asked. Barney looked at the man in surprise. "Do you not know?" he asked. "Why should I?" "She is my sister," said Barney, look - hg closely at the man. "Tour sister?" questioned Nu. "1 did not know you hada sister, Custer." "You i not know mysister,Nat- ul?" cried Barney. "Nat-ul!" exclaimed the man. "Nat- al your sister?" "Yes: I supposed that you knew it." "But you are not Abt, son of This," said Nu, "and Nat-ul had no other brother." "I am brother of the girl you saved Ahem the lion in the garden yonder," said Barney. "Is it she you know as Nat-ul?' "She was Nat-ul." "Where is she?" cried Barney. "I do not know," replied Nu. "I thought that she was a prisoner among you, and I have been waiting here quietly for her to be brought back." "You saw her last," said Barney. The time had come to have it out with this' man. "You saw her last. She was in your cave in the mountain. We found her jacket there, and beside the spring this dog lay senseless. What became of her?" Nu stood with an eepresion of dull incomprehension upon his line features. It was as though he' had received a stunning b18tc, "She was there?" he said at last in a low voice. "She was there in my cave, and I thought It was but a dream. She has gone away, and for many days I have remained here doing nothing, while she roams amid the dangers of the forest alone and unprotected. "Unless" -•-his tone became more hope- ful—"she has found her way to our o--,. ermele,s nreenr.th ..gr . "" r W.g, THE WINGHAM TIMES rest1 s Tsea. 134-now crifia s e 'N`ot even I, a man and n great hunter, can even guess in what direction lies the country of my father, Nu. Perhaps you can tell me." Barney shook his head. IIis disap- pointment was great. IIe bad been sure that Nu could cast some light Won the whereabouts of Victoria. He wondered if the man were tell- ing him the truth. Doubts began to assail him. It seemed scarcely credi. beg that Victoria could have been in the fellow's lair without he knowing of her presence. That she bad been there there seemed little or no doubt. The only other explanatlon was that Nu had, as Curtiss had suggested, stolen her from the vicinity of the bun- galow, killed her, and taken his spear and her coat back to bis cave with him, but that did not account for the present:: of the hound or the beast's evident loyalty to the man. • Nu bad turned from the veranda and entered the bungalow. Barney follow- ed him, The man was hunting about the house for something. "What are you looking for?" asked the American. "My .spear," replied Nu. "What do you want of it?" "I'm going to find Nat-ul." Barney laid a hand upon the other's arm. "No," he said, "you' are not going away from here until we find my sir-, ter. You are a prisoner. Do you un- derstand?" The cave man drew himself to his full height. There was a sneer upon his lip. "Who can prevent me?" Barney drew bis revolver. "This," he said. For a moment the man seemed plunged in thought. He looked at the menacing gun, and then off through the opening windows toward the dis- tant hills. "I can't wait, for her sake," he said. "Don't make any attempt to escape," warned Barney. "You will be watch- ed carefully. Terkoz will give the' alarm, even if be should be unable to stop you, though as a matter of fact he can stop you easily enough. Were I youI should hate, to be stopped by Terkoa. He Is as savage as a lion when aroused and almost as formida- ble." Barney did not see the smile that touched the cave man's lips. Later Barney told the others that Nu seemed to realize the futility 'of at- tempting to get away, but that night he locked their doors securely, placed the key under his pillow and drew his cot beneath the double windows of their room. It would take a mighty stealthy eat, thought he, to leave the apartment without rousing him, even were Terkoz not stretched beside the prisoner's cot. - About,, midnight the cave man open- ed his eyes. The regular breathing of the American attested the soundness of his slumber. Nu extended a hand toward the sleeping Terkoz, at the same time making a low, purring sound with his lips. The beast raised bis head. "SII -h!" whispered Nu. Then he rose to a sitting posture and very carefully put bis feet to the Boor. Stooping, he liftetd the heavy wolf hound in his arms. The only sign the animal made wad to raise his muscle to the man's face and lick his cheek. Nu smiled. He recalled Custer's words, "Terkos will give the alarm even if he should be unable to stop you." The troglodyte approached the cot on which Barney lay in peaceful slumber. He rested one hand upon the sill of the open window, leaning across the sleeper. The hound, was tucked under his oth- er arm. Without a apound he vaulted over the cot, through the window and . alighted noiselessly upon the veranda without. In the garden he deposited Terkoz, telling him to wait there. Then be re- turned to the living room of the bun- galow to fetch his spear, his hatchet and his knife. A moment later the figures of a nak- ed man and a gaunt wolfhound swung away' benealil the tropic moon, across the rolling;plant toward the mountains to the south, CHAPTER IX. The Hunt. IT was daylight when Barney Cus- ter awoke. Iris first thought was for his prisoner, and Witch his eyes fell upon the empty cot across the room the American came to the center of the floor with a single bound. Clad in his pajamas he ran out Into the living room and gave the alarm. In another moment the search was on, but no sign of the cave man was to be found, nor of the guardian Terkoz. "He must have killed the dog," in- sisted Greystoke, but they failed to find the beast's body, for the excellent reason that at that very moment Ter- koz, bristling with anger, was nosing about the spot where, nearly a month before, he had been struck clown by the Arab as he had sought to protect • the girl to whom he had attached him- self. Aa he searched the spot his equally savage companion hastened to the cave farther up the mountainside, and with his knife unearthed the head of Oo Which he had buried there in the soft earth of a crevice within the lair. The trophy was now in a rather sad state, and Nu felt that he ynust forego the pleasure of laying it intact at the feet of hie future mate, but the great saber teeth were there and the skull. 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Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. A. deep Fist'' from Terkoz presently announced the finding of the trail, and at the signal Nu leaped down the mountain side, where the impatient beast awaited him. A moment later the two savage trail- ers were speeding away upon the spoor of the Arab slave and ivory raiders. Though the trail was old, it still was sufficiently plain for these two. The hound's scent was but a trifle more acute titan his human compan- ion's, but the man depended almost solely upon the telltale evidences which his eyes could apprehend, leaving the scent spoor for the beast, for thus it had been his custom to hunt with the savage wolfish progenitors of Terkoz a hundred thousand years before. They moved silently and swiftly through the jungle, across valleys, over winding hill trails, wherever the broad path of the caravan led. in a day they covered as much ground as the cara- van had covered in a week. By night they slept at the foot of some great tree, the man and beast curled up together, or crawled within dark caves when the way led through the mountain, or when Zor, the lion, was abroad the man would build a rude platform high among the branch- es of a tree that he and the hound might sleep in peace throughout the night. Nu saw strange sights that filled him with wonder and sealed his belief that he had beets miraculously transferred to another world. There were villages of black men, Some of which gave evidence of recent conflict. Burned huts, and mutilated corpses were all that remained in many, and in others only a few old men and Women were to be seen. He also passed herds of giraffe—a beast that had been unknown in his own world—and many , an elephant. which reminded him of Gluh, the mammoth. But all these beasts were smaller than those he had known in his other life nor nearly so ferocious. Why, he could scarce recall a beast of any description that did not rush into a death struggle with the first member of another species which it came upon, provided, of course, that it stood the slightest show of dispatching its antagonist. Of course there had been the smaller and more timid animals whose entire existence had consisted, in snatchiftg such food as they could as they fled through the savage days and awful nights of that fierce age in the perpet- ual effort to escape or elude the count- less myriads of huge carnivore and bellicose ruminants whose trails form- ed a mighty network from pole to pole. To Nu the jungles of Africa seemed silent and deserted places. The beasts, even the more savage of, them, seldom attacked except in, hunger or the pro- tection of their young. His had phased Within a dozen paces of a great herd of diminntrve•,. haltIese mammoths, and they had but raised their little pig eyes an,d glanced at him as they flapped theirxrti t.eaim--becl5.,ancLforthagaInst imiiiiidiftenagasitamatimiaa The Army of Constipation 1s Growing Smaller Every Day. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS are responsible—they not only give relief — they permanently cure Constipa- lion. Mil- lions use them for Bilious - sen, indigestion, Sick Headache, Sallow Skin. Small Pill, Small Dose, Small Price, Genuine must bear Signature CA TTERV TLE iVER art ant yt?niTiTeiria" sc` �cTilp�n the branches of young trees. The ape people seemed frightened out of their wits at Ilia approach, and he Iliad even seen the tawny bodies of lions pass within a stone's throw of flim without charging. It was amazing. Life in such a world .Would scarce be worth the living. It His Eyes Fell Upen the Empty Cot Across the Room. made him lonelier than ever to feel that he could•travel for miles without encountering a single danger. Far behind him along the trail of the .Arabs came a do':gn white men and halt a hundred savage Wazirt warriors. Not all hour after Barney Custer dis- covered Nu's absence a native runner had come hurrying in from the north to beg Lord Greystoke's help in pursu- ing and punishing a band of Arab slave and ivory raiders who were laying waste the villages, Murdering the old men and the children and carrying the young men and women into slavery. While Greystoke was questioning the fellow he let drop the fact that among the other prisoners of the Arabs was a young white woman. Instantly commotion reigned upon the Greystoke ranch. White men were jumping into field khaki, looking to the firearms and ammunition, lest their black body servants should have neg- lected some essential. Stable boys were saddling the horses. The sleek ebon warriors of Uziri were greasing their black hides, ad- justing barbaric war bonnets. streak- ing faces, breasts and limbs with ocher, vermilion or ghastly bluish white and looking to slim shield, poisoned arrow and formidable spear. For a time the fugitive was forgot- ten, but as the march proceeded they came upon certain reminders that re- called him to their minds anu indicated that he was far in advance of them upon the trail of the Arabs. The flrst sign of him was the car- c'ass of a bull buffalo. Straight through the heart was the great hole that they flow knew was made by the passage of the ancient stone tipped spear. Strips had been knife cut from the sides. and the belly was torn as though by a wild beast. Brown stooped to examine the ground about the bull. \Vhen he straightened up he looked at Greystoke and laughed. "Didn't I understand you to say that be trust have killed the dog?" he ask- ed. "Look here. They ate side by side from the body of their kill." • i * • * • For three weeks now Victoria Custer had been a prisoner of Sheik Ibn As - wad, but other than the ordinary hard- ships of African travel she had experi- enced noticing of which she might com- plain. She had even been permitted to ride upon one of the few donkeys that still survived, and her food was as good as that of Ibn Aswad himself, for the canny old sheik knew that the better the condition of his prisoner the better the price she would bring at the court of the sultan of Fulad. Abut Mukarram. Ibn Aswnd's right hand man, a swaggering young Arab from the rim of the Sahara, had east covetous eyes upon the beautiful pris- oner. but the old shiek delivered him- self. of a peremptory "no" when hiA lieutenant broached a proposal to him. Then Abut Mukarram, balked in his passing desire. found the thing grow- ing upon him until the ideal of possess - inn the girl became a veritable obses- slrm with him. Victoria. from neeessity, had picked up enough of the language of the sons of the desert to be able to converse with thein, and Abul Mukarram oftc:' rode at her side, feasting his eyes upon her face and figure the while he al. - tempted to ingratiate himself into her esteem by neeonuts of his prowess, but when at last he spoke of love the girl turned her flushed and angry face away from him and, reining in her donkey, refused to ride farther beside him. Ibn Aswad from afar witnessed the altercation, and when he rode to Vic- toria's side and learned the truth of the matter he berated Abul Muknrram roundly, ordering him to the rear of the column and placed another Arab over the prisoner. Thereafter the venomous looks which the discredited Abul cast upon. 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The horrors of the march that pass- ed daily in hideous review before her left her sick and disgusted. The cruel- ly beaten slaves who carried the great burdens of ivory, tents and provisions brought tears to her eyes. The brutal massacres that followed the forcible entrance into each suc- ceeding village wrung her heart and roused her shame for these beasts in human form who urged on their sav- age and cowardly Manyuema canni- bals to commit nameless excesses against the cowering prisoners that fell into their hands. But at last they came to a village where victory failed to rush forward and fall into their arms. Instead, they were met with sullen resistance. Ferocious, painted devils fought them stubbornly every inch of the way, until Ibn Aswad decided to make a detour and pass round the village rather than sacrifice more of his followers. In the confusion of the fight and the near retreat which followed Abul Mu- karram found the oppoc&tuuity he had been awaiting. The prisoners, includ- ing the white girl. were being pushed ahead of the retreating raiders, while the Arabs and Manyucma brought up the rear, fighting oft the pursuing sav- ages. Now Abul Mukarram knew a way to the northland that two might traverse with ease and over which one could fnirly fly, but which was impossible for a slave caravan because it passed through the territory of the English. If the girl would accompany him willingly, well and good—if not, then he would go alone. but not before he should be revenged upon her. Ile left the firing line. therefore, and pushed his way through the terror stricken slaves to the side of the Arab who guarded Victoria Custer. "Go back to Ibn Aswad." be said to the Arab. "Tie desires your pres- ence." The other looked at him closely for a moment. "Yon Ile, Abul Mukarram!" he said at last. "Ibn Aswad commanded me particularly against permitting yon to be alone with the glrL Go to!" "Fool!" muttered Abid Mukarramb and with the word he pulled the trig- ger of the long gun that rested arrests the pommel of his saddle with its wide muzzle scarce a foot from the stomach of the other Arab. With a shriek the man lunged frons his donkey, "Come.!" cried Abul Mukarram, seis- ing the bridle of Victoria's beast and turnina into the jungle to the west The . Irl tried to slip from the saddle, Arm Wer'nl»i lre.rzettll� Children, Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA and held her firm as the two donkeyti forged, shoulder to shoulder. through! the tangled mass of creepers which all but blocked their way. Once Victoria screamed for help, but the war cries of the natives drowned her voice. Fifteen minutes later the two came out upon the trail again that they had followed when they approached the village, and soon the sounds of conflict behind them grew fainter and fainter until they were lost entirely in the dis- tance. Victoria Custer's mind was working rapidly, casting about for some means] of escape from the silent figuee at her! side. A revolver, or even a knife,' would have solved her difficulty. buts she had neither. 'Had she, the life oC Abul Mukarram would have been: worth but little, for the girl was beside herself with hopeless horror. For the better part of two hours Abut Mukarram kept on away from the mas- ter he had robbed. He spoke but little, and when he did it was in the tone of the master to his slave. Near noon they left the jungle and came out into a higher country, where the space be- tween the trees was greater and there was little or no underbrush. Traveling was much easier here, and they made better time. They were stili retracing the trail along which the car- avan bad traveled. It would be some time during the next morning that they Would turn north again upon a new trail. Beside a stream Abul Mukarram halted. He tethered the donkeys and then turned toward the girl. "Come," he said, and took her hand. (To be Continued) The Word Gazette. The word "gazette" is from the name of an old Venetian coin worth about one-half cent of our money. The name is applied to newspapers because it was the sum charged for reading the first written journals that made their appearance in 1550. After the paper was read it was banded back to the owner, who charged the next comer a gazette for taking a peep at it. Why He Is Disappointed. "I am disappointed," said the doc- tor, "if I don't make a hundred dol- lars a day." "Oh, come off:" they cried. "What are you giving us? You know you never make a hundred dollars a day." I know it," he assented plain - tit eiy, "and so I'm always disap- pointed." Mosquitoes Common to All Lands. Every climate is the mosquito's choice. In the remote tropics the ex- plorer who disturbs for the first time with the prow of his adventuring ea- nee the surface et n winding river n' finds a cloud of microscopic spears - men waiting his arrival. 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