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The Wingham Times, 1914-05-14, Page 7WINGH A VI T1ES, Al 14 ! 'Never to return!'" muttered D'Ar- not and threw himself face downward upon the cot. An hour later he started up, listen- ing. Something was at the door trying to 'enter. D'Arnot reached for the loaded cats bine and placed it to his shoulder, ready for any emergency that might -arise. Gently the door, opened until a thin ,erack showed something standing just 'without D'Arnot sighted along the blue barrel at the crack of the door and then pulled the trigger. When the expedition returned, fol. lowing their fruitless endeavor to sue- .eor D'Arnot, Captain Dufranne was anxious to steam away as quickly as possible, and.all save Jane Porter had •acquiesced. "No," she said determinedly, "I shall 'not go, nor .should you, for there are two friends in that jungle who will ,come out of it some day expecting to .find us awaiting them." "But poor D'Arnot's uniform and all rhis belongings were found in that vil- lage, Miss Porter," argued the captain. The natives showed great excitement when questioned as to the white man's tate." "But they did not admit that he was dead. As for his clothes and accouter- ments being in their possession, more civilized peoples than these poor sav•- •age negroes strip their prisoners of 'every orate of value whether they in- tend killing them or not." "Possibly your forest man was cap. lured or killed by the savages," sug- .gested Captain Dufranne. The ,girl laughed:, irs "You do not know him," she ieplied, :a little thrill of pride setting her nerves a-tiugle at the thought that she spoke -of her own. "I ndmit that he would be worth .walting for, this superman of yours," • laughed the eft ptain. -I most eertairily -should dilte to see hint. The cruiser sbnhl wait a few days longer." "We can utilize the morrow In re- • covering the chest, professor." suggest- , ed Mr. Philander. "Quite so, quite so, Mr. PhIlanaer. I had almost forgotten the ti•enstire!" -exclaimed Frofessor Porter. "Possibly we eau borrow some tnen to assist us and some of the prisoners to point out the location of the vilest" "Most assuredly, my dear professor. We are all yours to eomtnand," said .the captain. It was arranged that on the next day Lieutenant Charpentier was to take a -detail of ten men and one of the muti- neers of the Arrow as a guide and un- -earth the treasure; also that the cruiser would remain for a full week in the little harbor. At the end of that time It was to be assumed that D'Arnot was truly dead and that the forest man Would not return well° they remained. 'Then the two Vessels were to leave With all the party. Professor Porter did not accompany the treasure seekers on the following day, but when he saw them return- ing empty handed toward noon he has- tened forward in meet them; his usual preoccupied indifference entirely van- ished, and in its place a nervous and excited manner. "Where is the treasure?" he cried to Clayton while yet a hundred feet sep- arated them. Marton shoal; 'gas ?attest Had Salt Rkeim couv Scarcely F)r) tli • ,.; me: invarifibly dile to bad cit' 1 lid, and v;11:01,..2 not 1.:r1 r.-.!!!!.!> are ilovtri` ' • c‘...y Ow. aver. A1'.7 ,•t't !!..*t 11"0"..,0 •-• *.t\• IAA% tt'e. (!id, wife • t, ••• • t 61,11 • •,.) 1', 61 1- t h•el lt tale ,. 1.3Str,: tilted fe. 6 6111t1,••••'61 . e- 1 i teo., ' be said as be nearea tne profeseor. "Gone: It cannot be. Who could have token it?" cried Professor Porte. "Heaven only knows, professor," re- plied Clayton. "We might have thought the fellow who guided us was lying about the location, but his surprise and consternation on finding no chest be- neath the body of Snipes were too real to be feigned. "And then our spades showed us that something had been buried be- neath the corpse, for a hole had been there, and it bad been filled with loose earth." "But who could have taken it?" re- peated Professor Porter. "Suspicion might naturally fall on the men &Jim cruiser," said Lieuten- ant Charpentier, "but for the fact that Sublieutenant Janviers here assures me that no men have bad shore leave— that none has been on shore since we anchored here except under command of an officer." "It would never have occurred to me to suspect the men to whom we owe so much," replied Professor Porter. "I would as soon suspect my dear Clayton here or Mr. Philander." "There must have been several in the party," said Jane Porter, who had joined thetn. "You remember that it took four men to carry it." - "By Jove!" cried Clayton. "That'g right. It must have been done by a party of blacks. Probably one of them saw the men bury the chest and then returned immediately after with a pat- ty of his friends and carried it off." "Speculation is futile," said Profes- sor Porter sadly. "The chest is gone. We shall never see it more nor the treasure that was in it." Only Zane Porter knew what the loss meant to her father, and none there knew wbat it meant to her. Six days later Captain Dufranne an- nounced that they would sail early on the morrow. Jane Porter would have begged for a further reprieve had it not been that she, too, had begun to believe that her forest lover would return no more. It was she who suggested that arms, ammunition. supplies and comforts be left behind in the cabin, ostensibly for that intangible personality who had signed himself Tarzan of the apes and for D'Arnot should he still be living, but really. she hoped, for her forest god. And at the last minute she left a message for him, to be transmitted by l'arzan of the apes. CHAPTER XIX. The Outpost of the World. WITH the report of his gun D'Arnot saw the door fly open and the figure of a man pitch headlong within on to the cabin floor. It was Tarzan. With a cry of anguish D'Arnot sprang to the ape man's side and, kneeling, lifted the black head in his arms, call- ing Tarzan's name aloud. There was no response, and then D'Arnot placed his ear above the man's heart. To his joy he head its steady beating beneath. The bullet had struck a glancing blow upon the skull. There was an ugly flesh wound, but no signs of a fracture of the skull beneath, D'Arnot breathed a sigh of relief and went about bathing the blood from rarzan's face. Soon the cool water revived him, and presently he opened his eyes to look In questioniug surprise at D'Arnot. The latter had bound the wound with pieces of cloth, and as he saw that Tarzan had regained conscious- ness he rose and, going to the table, wrote a message, which be handed to the ape man, explaining the terrible mistake he had made and how thank- ful he was that the wound was not more serious. Then he handed Tarzan the two measages that bad been left for him. Tarzan read the first one through with a look of sorrow on his face. The second one lie turned over :Ind oVer, ttrdrobilll.t for an openina. Ile lied tiev- tT 80011 11 Sealed eltvelope. wore, As len. 1(1 he heeded it to D'Arnot. The hitt r opened It awl handed the letter Ika. ',. lo 'rarzan Isi!'Ing on 0 (-00140 0.itir 10, tilts lino man ti tile tt'l'itleli Slt before him peel :cad: , )• 0M101 ed flto A), '0 I . i,',0•0; 1 h tf t`t• lt.t lth• tzt7.1 ii,' thrtlilill to r, , ,• t,f Mrc1,*10... t. 1 l'a‘ 1 '11t1/11.1,4 .'(111 r'., ' • 11:61W11 ii, pi utaitilsr, 11t, 111t' 1,51.3 of ral•in. :t y••11 1,0 ‘0.r ::.10,t10 t.. yott!o• ft WWII 001.1 us 1) 1“,•10 a roott 1,10,...t. le 1111. yv,. ;•1,000,, 1:01.4. 16,f:A , 0 101100) t., 000. and )00;1111: 1/111 1' •1... 11:116.) h t.116 •111(1. 1 l'11,••111 1110:0 141 01.11111: 602). 1,?4,,t 1„, ,E.1 IA, tIA1,01.fl4U, 1104.000:11 f cords*, 1i1br 41**soposipsas: canna bell'eve t1a h fs 'dela • 1 do not know his name. He is the great white giant who wore the diamond locket i upon his breast. I sr you know him and can speak his lan- guage carry my thanks to him and tell hru itbat I wafted seven days for him to return, Tell him also that In my home In Amer- • ica, In the city of Baltimore, there will always be a welcome for him If he cares to come. 1 found a note you wrote me lying among the leaves beneath a tree near the cabin. I do not know how you learned to love me who have never spoken to me, and I am very sorry if It Is true, for 1 have already giyen my heart to another. But I know that I am always your friend. JANE PORT4R. Tarzan at with gaze upon the floor fin. nearly 1.n hour. It was evident to Sim from the notes that they did not • know that he and Tarzan of the apell were one and the same. "I have given my heart to another,” he repeated over and over again to himself, For a week they did little but rest. Meanwhile D'Aruot coacbed Taman in French, At the end of that time the two men could converse quite easily. One night as they were sitting with- in the cabin before retiring Tarzan i turned to D'Arnot. "Where is America?" he said. D'Arnot pointed toward the north- we"Many thousnnds of miles across the ocean," he replied. "Why?" "I an, going there." D'Arnot shook his head. "It is impossible, my friend," he said. Tarzan thought for a long dine. "Do any white nlen live in Africa?" he asked. • "Yes." "We shall go there tomorrow," an- nounced Tarzan. Again D'Arnot smiled and shook his head. "It is too far. We should die long before we reached them." "Do you wish to stay here. then, for- ever?" asked Tarzan. "No," said D'Arnot. "Then we shall start tomorrow. I de not like it here longer. I should rather die than remain here." "Well," answered D'Arnot with a shrug, "I do not know. my friend, bui For Days They Traveled. that I also would rather die than re main here. If you go I shall go with you., "It is settled then," said Tarzan, shall start for America tomorrow." "How will yoff get to America with- out money?" asked D'Arnot "What Is money?" inquired Tarzan. It took a long time to make him un- derstand. "How do Men get money?" he asked at loot. "They work for it." "Very well, I will work fot it." "No, nly friend," returned D'Arnot, "yort need not Avon's* about money, ner m•tel 3•00 work for it1 have enough for two, enottoli for twenty, much more lien, Is gooa for one nein, • end you alaill have all you need if esti). 110 reach civilization." So on the following day they start. ed north aloof: the show. Eat+ man carried a carl.ine and ainamnition, bo- Pitieti befitting mad aome deal ;lad cook.- ing uteneile, The latter seemed to Term a most uaaieso ehetimbranO0, SO he threw hie awes. ut yon must learn to eat (Totted Soial, toy frietiti," remonatrated D'At. sot, "NO civilized 01011 eat raw fleah." EARN- SAVE Reading Advertisements Will Help You Do Both By HOLLAND. WWHAT you save is more important than what you earn. Spend all that you get, and you will never have a surplus Save even a little, and you are making head- way. There are various ways of saving' but one of the most. effective .is to spend your money wisely. You can do this by reading the advertise- ments in this paper closely and by taking advantage of the offers made. You can thus save withoat denying yourself what you need. Merchants regularly adver- tise everything that you eat, wear, need for the home or require in your business. The' advertisements tell you wlaere you can buy cheaply and at the same time get goods of quality. PRACTICE TRUE ECONOMY—BUY .A.DVERTISED GOODS. Even if you do not want to buy, it pays to read the ad- vertisements and keep post- ed, so you will know where to buy when the time comes. • "";11hel7e. will We time enough when I reach civilization," said Tarzam, "I do not like the things, and they only spoil the taste of good meat." For days they traveled north, some- times finding food in plenty and again going hungry for days. They saw no signs of natives, not • were they molested by wild beasts. Their journey was a miracle of ease. Tarzan asked questions and learned rapidly. D'Arnot taught hitn many of , the refinements of civilization, even to tbe use . • fork, but sotne- thres would drop them in dia. gust and grasp his food In his strong brown hands, tearing It with his mo- I lars like a wild beast. Then D'Arnot would expostulate with him, saying: "You must not eat like a brute, Tar. zan, while I am trying to make a gen. tleman of you." On the journey he told D'Arnot catgut the great chest he had seen the sailors bury and how he had dug it up and carried it to the gathering place of the apes and buried it there. "It must be the treasure chest of Professor Porter," said D'Arnot "It is too bad, but, of ,course, you did not know." Then Tarzan recalled the letter writ- ten by Jane Porter to her friend, the one he had stolen when they first came to his cabin, and now he knew what was in the chest and what it meant to Jane Porter. "Tomorrow we shall go back after It," he announced to D'Arnot. "You may go on toward civilization. and 1 - will return for the treasure. I can go very much faster alone." "I have a better plan, Tarzan," ex.I claimed D'Arnot. "We shall go on to- gether to the nearest settlement, and there we will charter a boat and sail back down the coast for the treasure, That will be safer and quicker and Developed into WOHINEITIS. Iloivever slight a cold you have, you 111at1ld never iirglcct it. In all pas- tiliility, if yoa di not treat it in time it will d-te,•1s) ,szto Immehitis, pneumonia, •7•,1* 1310 ,,..Jtcr serious throat or lung troubh,t, Dr. N.)rway Pine Syrup is ad.41,0d for all colds, coughs, .tr t:11 -0 .10100., asthma, w17,x1,- ..1 • 0 te-t/1.• of the throet ell . • • . "" e • ',Mel 10 favour of ••- • -• •••e,, Pine Syrud are: It • i-. 1111:1;;tfrateti ••1:-'1013 tile throat. "- 1 I". :.• 1,.•• • 1 • , I 1:. 4•.-l• 'A( le)11.e to; To he f.eparilted• vi.11 1101 think 'it that plan?" • ,0i11 Tared:IL "The treaseee teem weenevet• we go for it. atul while 1 eould Seteh it now and retell up with YOU in a moon or two 1 'quill feet safer for you to know that you Ore not alone on the trail." in (meat his tallos with D'Al'hot Ter. man mentioned Kula' his ape "mother." "Then you knew your mother, Tar- zarce asked D'Arnot hu surprise. ..1 es, She was a great, fine (Ms, !urger than 1 and weighlug twice aa tunes," "Aticl pm also knew your father?" ask ed D'Aruot. "I did not know Ititn. Rata told me he was a white ape and hairless like myself. I know 000 that he IMISt have been a white Mali. D'Arnot looked loug and. earnestly at lila eompanion. -Taman," he said at length. "It is inamasIble that the ape, Hahn was your mother. You are pure man and, I should say, the offspring of highly bred and intelligent parents. Have yout not the slightest clew to your past?" "Not the slightest," replied Tarzan. "No writing in the cabin that tuight have told something of the lives of its original in ma tes ?" "I have read everything that was In the cabin with the exceptiou of one book, which I know now to be Written in a language other than English. Pos- sibly yon can read it." Tarzan fished the little black diary from the bottom of his quiver and banded it to his companion. D'Arnot glanced at the title page. "It is the diary of John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, an English nobleman, and it Is written in French," he said. D'Arnot read it aloud. Occasionally his voice broke, and he was forced to stop reading for the hopelessness that spoke between the lines. Often he glanced at Tarzan, but the ape man sat upon his haunches like a carven image, his eyes fixed upon the ground. Only when the little babe was men- tioned did the tone of the diary alter from the habitual note of despair which had crept into it by degrees after the first twO months upon the shore. Then the passages were tinged with a subdued happiness that's -Was even sadder than the rest. One entry showed an almost hopeful spirit' Today our tittle boy is six months old. Ile has grabbed nty pen in his chubby fist and with his ink begrimed little fin- gers has placed the seal of his tiny an- ger prints unon th Upon the margin of the page were tbe partially blurred imprints of four wee fingers and the outer half_ of the thumb. When D'Arnot had finished the diary the two men sat in silence for some minutes. "Well, Tarzan of the apes, what think you?" asked D'Arnot "Does not this little book clear up the mystery of your parentage? You 'are Lord Grey- stoke." Tarzan shook his head. "The book speaks of but one child," he replied. "Its skeleton lay in the crib, where it died crying for nourish-. metat, from the first time I entered the cabin until Professor Porter's party buried it, with its father and mother, beside the cabin." A week later the two men came sud- denly upon a clearing in the forest. - In the distance were several build- ings surrounded by a strong palisade. Between them and the inclosure stretched a cultivated field in which a number of negroes were working. Taman started straight across the field, his head high held and the trots - teal sun beating upon his smooth, brown skin. Behind him came D'Arnot, clothed in some garments which had been dis- carded at the cabin by Clayton when the officers of the Drench cruiser had ffintstehdionhim out in more presentable I Presently one of the blneks lOoked up and, beholding Tar= striding to - Ward him, turned, shrieking, and made for the palisade. i In an instant the air was ailed with cries of terror from the fleeing garden- ers, but before any had reached the palisade a white man emerged from the inclosure, rifle in baud, to discorer the cause of the commotion. D'Agnot cried loudly to him: "Do not fire! We are friends!" I "Halt, then!" was the reply, ' "Stop, Tarzan!" cried D'Arnot, halt. Ing the ape man in his tracks. "He thinks we are enemies." • Tarzan dropped Otto a walk, and together he and D'Arnot advanced to - ulna] the white man by ti.e gate. The latter eyed them in puzzled be- 4 wilderment. • "What manner of wen nre you?" he asked in Freneli. • "White men." rolled D'Artait. 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It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Collo, all Teething Troubles and Diarrhoea, It regulates the Stomach and Bowels, assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural Sleep. The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend, GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of 1 The ICind You Ilave Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years THE CENTAUR COMPANY. 77 MURRAY STREET. NEW YORK CITY. An -Other Month brought them to a little group of buildings at the, mouth of a wide river, and there Taman saw many boats and was tilled with the old timidity by the sight of tunny men. Gradually he became accustomed to the strange noises ad the odd ways of civilisation, so that presently none might know that two short mouths before this handsome Frenchman In itnmaculate white ducks, who laughed and chatted with the gayest of m, had been swinging naked tIrrouga primeval forests to pounce upon seine unwary victim, which, raw, was to appease les savage appetite. The knife—and fork. so coutemptu- ously flung aside a month before, Tar- zan now manipulated as exunisitely as did the polished D'Arnot. So apt a pupil had be been that the yawls Freedman had labored assidu- ously to make of 'Tanen 'a polished gentleman in so far as nicety of mats ners aucl speech was concerned. "Heaven made you a gentleman at heart, my friend," D'Arnot had seid, "but we want its work to show upon the exterior also." As soon as they had-reaehed the lit- tle port D'Arnot had cabled his gov- ernment of his safety and requested a three months' leave, which had been granted. Ile also cabled his bankers for funds, aud the enforced wait of a month, under which both chafed, was due to their inability to charter a ves- sel for the return to Taman's jungle after the treasure At last. however, D'Arnot succeeded in chartering an an- cient tub for the coastwise trip to Tar- zan's landlocked harbor, It was a happy morning for them both when the little vessel weighed an- chor and made for the open sea. The trip to the beach was unevent- ful, and the morning after they drop- ped anchor before the ciMin Tarzan, garbed once more in his Pi.igle regalia Ind carrying 0 spade, set out alone 1': the amphitheater of the apes where !ay the treasure, Late the next day be returned, bear- ing the great chest upon his shoulders, and at sunrise the little vessel was worked through the harbor's mouth and took up her northward journey. Three weeks later Tarzan and D'Ar- not were passengers on board a French steamer bound for Lyons, and after a few days In that city D'Arnot took Tarzan to Paris. The ape num was anzions to proceed to Aineriva, D'Arnot insisted that be must accompany him to Paris first nor would lo. divulge the nature of the urgent neeessity upon which he based hie detnand. CHAPTER XX. Tee. Liei•A c,f Civilization, (.7 I1 of thoOrot thineN which :iter 'Asa: e: e -as, to 001..1,100 • ;, !,, tho, t!,% . 1 „e i.! .• • • .7, 12, .< "Do finger prints show racial char- acteristics?" angers of both hands one must needs lose all entirely to escape identifica- tion." "It is marvelous," exclaimed D'Ar- not. "I wonder what the lines upon my fingers resemble." "We can soon see," replied the police officer, and, ringing a bell, he sum- moned an assistant, to whom he issued a few directions. The man left the room to return presently with a little hardwood bog, which he placed on his superior's desk. 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