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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d7b82bc --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +*.txt text eol=lf +*.htm text eol=lf +*.html text eol=lf +*.md text eol=lf diff --git a/75817-0.txt b/75817-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4df2260 --- /dev/null +++ b/75817-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2391 @@ + +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 75817 *** + + + + + + _The Illustrated_ + TARZAN BOOK No.1 + _Picturized from the novel_ + + TARZAN OF THE APES + + By Edgar Rice Burroughs + + 300 PICTURES + + COPYRIGHT 1929 BY + EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS, INC. + + _Made in the United States of America_ + + + + +THE CREATOR OF TARZAN + + +Is there living in the world to-day any writer whose creations are more +widely read and followed than those of Edgar Rice Burroughs? + +This--TARZAN OF THE APES--is the first of Mr. Burroughs' famous novels +to be published in picturized or strip form. + +Other TARZAN novels include "The Return of Tarzan," "The Beasts of +Tarzan," "The Son of Tarzan," "Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar," "Jungle +Tales of Tarzan," "Tarzan the Untamed," "Tarzan the Terrible," "Tarzan +and the Golden Lion," "Tarzan and the Ant Men," "Tarzan, Lord of the +Jungle." + +More than seven million TARZAN novels have been sold in the United +States and Great Britain. They have been published in Braille for the +blind, and in 16 different foreign languages--Arabic, Czecho-Slovakian, +Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, +Icelandic, Roumanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Urdu (Hindustani). + +In motion pictures, on the stage, as magazine and newspaper serials +and as newspaper strips the TARZAN stories have demonstrated the eager +interest of persons of all ages in the adventures of the young English +lord who was brought up by the apes. + +The author of these fascinating tales has himself had an adventurous +career. Born in Chicago in 1875 and educated at Phillips Academy, +Andover, and Michigan Military Academy, Mr. Burroughs served for a +time with the Seventh United States Cavalry at Fort Grant, Arizona; +he became a cowboy and storekeeper in Idaho, a policeman in Salt Lake +City, and he went to Oregon as a gold miner. Returning to more humdrum +pursuits in the business world, he found an outlet for his adventurous +nature in writing "Tarzan of the Apes." + + * * * * * + +[Illustration] + +In 1888 young Lord Greystoke and his bride of three months sailed from +Dover on their way to Africa. He had been commissioned to investigate +alleged atrocities on black subjects in a British West Coast African +colony. Lord Greystoke never made the investigation; in fact, he never +reached his destination. + +[Illustration] + +Arrived at Freetown, they chartered the Fuwalda, which was to bear +them to their final destination. And here, Lord and Lady Greystoke +mysteriously vanished forever from the eyes and from the knowledge of +man. Two months later, six British war vessels were scouring the South +Atlantic for trace of them. + +[Illustration] + +Beyond sight of land, the Fuwalda's captain, with a terrific blow, +felled an old sailor who had accidentally tripped him. The swarthy +bully's brutality caused big Black Michael to crush the captain to his +knees. This was mutiny. The enraged captain suddenly whipped a revolver +from his pocket and fired. + +[Illustration] + +Lord Greystoke struck down the captain's arm, saving Black Michael's +life, and thus forged the first link of what was destined to form a +chain of amazing circumstances ending in a life _for one then unborn_ +such as has probably never been paralleled in the history of man. + +[Illustration] + +With suspicion of organized mutiny confirmed, they hurried to their +quarters. Even their beds had been torn to pieces. A thorough search +revealed the fact that only Lord Greystoke's revolvers and ammunition +were gone. An undefinable something presaged bloody disaster! + +[Illustration] + +Lord Greystoke, unfolding the scrap of paper that had been pushed +in under the cabin door, found it was a message printed in uncouth +letters, warning him to refrain from reporting the theft of his +revolvers, on pain of death. Lady Greystoke paled, wondering what her +fate might be. + +[Illustration] + +The sight that met Lord Greystoke's eyes, as he emerged on deck the +next morning, confirmed his worst fears. A shot rang out, and then +another and another. Facing the little knot of five officers was the +entire motley crew of the Fuwalda, and at their head stood Black +Michael. + +[Illustration] + +Enraged, the blood-thirsty ruffians charged the officers representing +the hated authority of the ship. Most of them were armed with +boathooks, axes, and crowbars. The officers retreated before the +infuriated rush of their men. An axe cleft the captain from forehead to +chin. + +[Illustration] + +Both sides were cursing and swearing in a frightful manner, which, +together with the reports of the firearms and the screams and groans +of the wounded, turned the deck of the Fuwalda to the likeness of a +madhouse. Short and grisly had been the work of the mutineers. + +[Illustration] + +Though outwardly calm, Lord Greystoke was inwardly apprehensive, for +he feared for the safety of his wife, and the little unborn Greystoke, +at the hands of the ignorant half-brutes. "Here's two more for the +fishes," snarled one of the crew, as he rushed toward them with +uplifted axe. + +[Illustration] + +Black Michael was even quicker than the brute who had attacked Lord and +Lady Greystoke with an axe, and the sailor went down with a bullet in +his back. "I'm captain of this ship now, an' what I says goes," said +the mutineers' leader, looking threateningly on his fellows. "These +here are my friends. Don't touch 'em." + +[Illustration] + +Following the murder of the officers, land was sighted, and they +learned they were to be put ashore with their belongings. Remonstrance +against the inhumanity of landing them upon an unknown shore, to be +left to the mercies of the savage beasts, and possibly still more +savage men, was absolutely useless. + +[Illustration] + +Before dark, the barkentine lay peacefully at anchor in a land-locked +harbor. The surrounding shores were beautiful with semi-tropical +verdure, while in the distance the country rolled from the ocean in +hill and table-land, almost uniformly clothed in primeval forest. No +signs of habitation were to be seen. + +[Illustration] + +No pleas, threats, or promises of reward could move Black Michael. "I'm +the only man on board who would not rather see you both dead; but you +saved my life once, and in return I'm going to spare yours. We put you +ashore to-morrow." The deep roar of a lion came from the dark shadows +of the distant jungle! + +[Illustration] + +As darkness settled upon the earth, the woman shrank closer to the man +in terror-stricken anticipation of the horrors lying in wait for them +in the awful blackness of the nights to come, when they too should be +alone upon that wild and lonely shore. What treachery awaited them in +that dark, mysterious tropical forest? + +[Illustration] + +Early next morning Lord and Lady Greystoke's chests and boxes were +hoisted on deck and lowered to waiting small boats for transportation +to shore. There was a great quantity and variety of stock, arms, and +ammunition, as they had expected a possible five years' residence in +their new West Coast African home. + +[Illustration] + +The man shuddered as he meditated upon the awful gravity, the fearful +helplessness of their situation. But it was a merciful providence that +prevented him from seeing the hideous reality that awaited them in the +grim depth of that dense jungle. They silently sat, each wrapped in +gloomy forebodings, wondering. + +[Illustration] + +They had escaped death at the hands of the mutineers; but were faced +with far graver dangers. Alone, he might hope to survive for years. But +what of his wife, and that _other little life_ so soon to be launched +amid the hardships and grave dangers of a primeval world? His heart +sunk in despair, considering their future. + +[Illustration] + +Having filled the ship's casks with fresh water, the small boats +moved slowly over the water to the ship. As the Fuwalda passed out +of sight behind a projecting point, Lord Greystoke and his wife--in +the breasts of both, a feeling of impending disaster and utter +helplessness--bravely stood, silently watching. + +[Illustration] + +And behind them, over the edge of a low ridge, _other eyes WATCHED +THEM--close-set wicked eyes, gleaming beneath shaggy brows!_ + +[Illustration] + +Now that the horror of absolute solitude was upon them, Lady +Greystoke's overwrought nerves gave way, and the reaction came. "Oh, +John, the horror of it. What are we to do? If it were only you and I," +she sobbed, "we could endure it, I know; but, the baby--" His great +heart yearned to comfort her. + +[Illustration] + +After calming her, he opened the box containing the rifles and +ammunition, that they might both be armed against possible attack. +His first thought was to arrange a sleeping shelter for the night; +something that might serve to protect them from prowling beasts. +Together they sought a favorable location. + +[Illustration] + +Four trees were selected that formed a rectangle, and, cutting long +branches from other trees, he constructed a framework around them, +fastening the ends of the branches securely to the trees by means of +rope, a quantity of which Black Michael fortunately had furnished him +from the hold of the Fuwalda. + +[Illustration] + +During the day the forest about them had been filled with excited birds +of brilliant plumage, and dancing, chattering monkeys, who watched +these new arrivals and their wonderful nest-building operations with +every mark of keenest interest and fascination. By dusk the snug +shelter was completed. + +[Illustration] + +A sharp lookout was kept while they worked, and once they saw their +little simian neighbors come screaming over the near-by ridge, and +casting affrighted glances over their shoulders, evincing as plainly as +though by speech that they were fleeing some _terrible thing_ that lay +concealed there. What was it? + +[Illustration] + +In the comparative safety of their aërial chamber, Lady Greystoke +suddenly grasped her husband's arm. "Look!" she whispered. "What is it? +A man?" Silhouetted dimly against the shadows, a great figure stood +upright, as though listening, then turned slowly and melted into the +shadows of the jungle. + +[Illustration] + +"What was it?" she whispered. "I do not know," he answered, gravely. +"It is too dark to see so far, perhaps only a shadow cast by the rising +moon." "No, John, if it was not a man, it was some huge and grotesque +mockery of man. Oh, I am afraid." He could feel her heart beat as she +clung to him, trembling and terrified. + +[Illustration] + +The night noises of a great jungle teeming with myriad animal life kept +their overwrought nerves on edge; many times they were startled by +the stealthy movement of great bodies beneath them. He lay facing the +opening at the front of their aerie, a rifle and revolvers at his hand. + +[Illustration] + +Scarcely had they closed their eyes than the terrifying cry of a +panther rang out from the jungle. Closer and closer it came until they +could hear the great beast directly beneath them. For an hour or more +it sniffed and clawed at the trees that supported their platform. + +[Illustration] + +At last it roamed away across the beach, where Lord Greystoke could +see it clearly in the brilliant moonlight--a great handsome beast; the +largest he had ever seen. From the dark shadows of the mighty forest +came the wild call of savage beasts--the deep roar of a lion. + +[Illustration] + +They soon realized they could hope for no safety or peace of mind until +four strong walls effectually barred the jungle life from them. Next +morning, after their meager breakfast, Lord Greystoke commenced work +upon their house. The task was an arduous one, though he built but one +small room. + +[Illustration] + +Two months after, they were well settled and, but for the constant +dread of attack by wild beasts and the ever-increasing loneliness, +they were not uncomfortable or unhappy. At night great beasts snarled +and roared around their tiny cabin, but they soon became accustomed to +these oft-repeated, weird noises. + +[Illustration] + +Thrice had they caught fleeting glimpses of great man-like figures, but +never at sufficiently close range to know whether these forms were men +or brutes. One afternoon while Greystoke was working upon an addition +to their cabin, a number of little frightened monkeys came shrieking +and scolding through the trees. + +[Illustration] + +Even as they fled, they cast fearful glances back of them and finally +they stopped near Greystoke, jabbering excitedly as if to warn him of +approaching danger. At last he saw it--the thing the little monkeys +so feared--the horrible man-brute of which the Greystokes had caught +occasional fleeting glimpses. + +[Illustration] + +It was approaching through the jungle--a great anthropoid ape--and +as it advanced it emitted deep guttural growls and an occasional low +barking sound. Greystoke, who was at some distance from the cabin, was +armed only with an axe, and the ferocious monster cut him off from +escape to his retreat. + +[Illustration] + +Lord Greystoke knew his chances with this ferocious monster were small. +He thought of his wife--what would become of her? There was yet a +slight chance of reaching the cabin. He ran, shouting to his wife to +close the great door should the enraged ape cut off his retreat. + +[Illustration] + +The brute succeeded in intercepting Greystoke. He stood at bay, +grasping his axe with both hands, ready to swing it upon the infuriated +animal when it made its final charge. "Close and bolt the door, Alice," +cried Greystoke. He knew he was facing a horrible death--and so did +she! + +[Illustration] + +Over the brute's shoulder Greystoke saw with horror and fear his young +wife come through the cabin door, armed with one of his rifles. Always +before she was afraid of firearms, never touching them. Now she rushed +toward the ape with the fearlessness of a lioness protecting its young. + +[Illustration] + +"Alice," shouted Greystoke, "for God's sake--go back!" The ape +charged--the man swung his axe with mighty strength, but the powerful +brute tore it from Greystoke's hands, hurled it far to one side and +with an angry snarl closed upon its defenseless victim. + +[Illustration] + +Came a sharp report and a bullet entered the ape's back! The beast +turned upon its new enemy. Lady Greystoke, terrified, tried to fire +another bullet. Greystoke, regaining his feet, rushed to drag the ape +from his wife's prostrate form. The bullet had done its work! The ape +was dead. + +[Illustration] + +A hasty examination of his wife revealed no marks upon her, and Lord +Greystoke decided the huge brute had died the instant he had sprung +toward her. Gently he lifted his wife's still unconscious form and +bore her to the little cabin. Fully two hours later she regained +consciousness. + +[Illustration] + +Her first words filled Greystoke with vague apprehension. For some time +after regaining her senses she gazed wonderingly about the interior of +the little cabin, and then, with an satisfied sigh, said: "Oh, John, it +is so good to be REALLY home. I have had an awful dream, dear." + +[Illustration] + +"There, there, Alice," he said, stroking her forehead. "Try to sleep +again and don't worry." That night, while a leopard screamed before the +door and the deep notes of a lion's roar sounded from beyond the ridge, +a little son was born in the tiny cabin beside the primeval jungle +forest. + +[Illustration] + +Lady Greystoke never recovered from the shock of the great ape's +attack. She was never again outside the cabin nor did she ever realize +that she was not in England. But she took joy and happiness in the +possession of her little son and the constant attentions of her +husband. + +[Illustration] + +So that year was a very happy one. Greystoke had long since given up +all hope of rescue. With unremitting zeal he had worked to beautify +the cabin. The tiny life that had come to cheer them little knew what +amazing experiences lay ahead of it in the depths of the African +jungle. + +[Illustration] + +During the first year, Greystoke was several times attacked by the +great apes. But he never again ventured outside without both rifle and +revolvers. He had strengthened the cabin and fitted locks to the door, +so he had little fear of the huge beasts now continually infesting the +vicinity. + +[Illustration] + +In his leisure, Greystoke read, often aloud, to his wife from the store +of books he had brought. Among these were many for little children. +Also he wrote in his diary recording the details of their strange life +and this book he kept locked in a little metal box. It was written in +French. + +[Illustration] + +A year from the day her little son was born, Lady Greystoke passed +quietly away in the night. Her end was peaceful and the horror of the +situation came to him very slowly--the fearful responsibility that had +devolved upon him with the care of his nursing infant son. + +[Illustration] + +The last entry in his diary was made the morning following her death +and there he recites the sad details in a matter-of-fact way that adds +to the pathos, sorrow, and hopelessness of this cruel blow: "My little +son is crying for nourishment--O Alice, Alice--what shall I do?" + +[Illustration] + +And as Lord Greystoke wrote the last words his hand was destined ever +to pen, he dropped his head wearily into his arms upon the table. For +a long time no sound broke the death-like stillness of the jungle save +the piteous wailings of the tiny, hungry man-child. _Then came the +apes!_ + +[Illustration] + +In the forest of the table-land a mile back from the ocean old Kerchak +the Ape King was on a rampage of rage among his people. The younger and +lighter members of his tribe all scattered to the higher tree branches, +risking their lives to escape his uncontrolled anger. + +[Illustration] + +The other males scattered in all directions, but not before Kerchak had +crushed one between his great foaming jaws. A luckless young female +slipped from an insecure hold. With a wild scream he was upon her, +striking her viciously with a broken tree limb until her skull was +crushed. + +[Illustration] + +Then he spied Kala, returning from a search for food, with her young +babe. Ignorant of the state of the King's temper, the shrill warning +of her fellows caused her to scamper madly for safety. But Kerchak was +close upon her--so close that he had almost grasped her ankle. + +[Illustration] + +She made a furious leap far into space--from one tree to another--made +it successfully. But as she grasped the limb of the further tree, the +sudden jar loosed the hold of the tiny babe. She saw the little thing +hurled--turning, twisting--to the ground thirty feet below. + +[Illustration] + +With a low cry of dismay, Kala rushed to her baby's side, thoughtless +now of danger. When she gathered the wee, mangled form to her bosom, +life had left it. Nor did Kerchak attempt to molest her. His fit of +demoniac rage passed as suddenly as it had seized him. + +[Illustration] + +When the tribe saw Kerchak's rage had ceased, they came slowly down +from their arboreal retreats. They had passed an hour or so pursuing +again their various occupations when Kerchak called them together and +with a word of command to them to follow him, set off toward the sea. + +[Illustration] + +And all the way Kala carried her little dead baby hugged closely to her +breast. Shortly after noon they reached a ridge overlooking the beach +where below them lay the tiny cottage which was Kerchak's goal. He had +made up his mind to explore the interior of that mysterious den. + +[Illustration] + +He wanted very, very much to own that little black stick that had often +roared out its terrible message of death to some member of the tribe. +To-day there was no sign of the man about. Slowly, cautiously and +noiselessly they crept through the jungle toward the little cabin. + +[Illustration] + +Kerchak himself slunk slowly to the very door and peered within. Behind +him were two males and then Kala clasping her dead babe. They saw the +strange white ape lying half across a table and a figure covered by a +sail cloth. A plaintive wailing came from a tiny cradle. + +[Illustration] + +Kerchak entered. Greystoke rose with a sudden start and faced them. The +sight that met his eyes must have frozen him with horror! His revolvers +and rifle hung on the far wall. Within the door stood three great bull +apes. Behind them crowded many more--HOW MANY HE NEVER KNEW! + +[Illustration] + +When the king-ape released the limp form that had been Lord Greystoke, +he turned his attention toward the little cradle. Kala was there before +him and, ere he could intercept her, snatched the child herself, +dropping her own dead babe in the cradle, and bolted through the door. + +[Illustration] + +High up among the branches of a mighty tree she took refuge, hugging +the shrieking infant to her bosom. Then hunger closed the gap between +them and soon he became quiet. The son of an English Lord and an +English Lady nursed at the breast of Kala, the great ape! + +[Illustration] + +Meanwhile the beasts within the cabin were warily examining its strange +contents. Once satisfied they were dead, Kerchak did not again molest +the body of either Lady or Lord Greystoke. Presently he halted before +the rifle hanging upon the wall. Finally he tore it down and examined +it closely. + +[Illustration] + +The other apes sat huddled together watching their chief. Suddenly +Kerchak's finger closed upon the trigger. There was a deafening roar! +The apes fell over one another in their wild anxiety to escape. +Kerchak, equally frightened, but still clutching the rifle, sprang +through the door, which shut tightly after him. + +[Illustration] + +The rifle sight had caught upon the door's edge and the latch had +sprung as Kerchak passed out. When the apes again brought themselves +to approach the cabin, they found it securely fastened. After roaming +about for a while, they began their homeward march. And Kala joined +them with the man-child. + +[Illustration] + +Kala would not allow the other apes to touch her adopted baby. She +held the small form of the little Lord Greystoke tightly to her +breast, repulsing with bared fangs and low, menacing growls the apes +who attempted to examine this strange baby. Tenderly, Kala nursed her +little waif. + +[Illustration] + +It was nearly a year from the time the little fellow came into her +possession before he would walk alone. He couldn't climb nor even find +food alone like the little apes of their tribe. Tublat, Kala's mate, +was sorely vexed, wanting to put the child out of the way. + +[Illustration] + +Tublat argued with Kala until she grew furious and would not listen to +him. Then Tublat went to Kerchak, urging him to use his authority with +Kala and force her to give up the little TARZAN, which was the name +they had given little Lord Greystoke, and which meant "White-Skin." + +[Illustration] + +But when Kerchak spoke to her about it, Kala threatened to run away +from the tribe. They did not wish to lose her, and so they bothered +her no more. By the time Tarzan was ten years old he was an excellent +climber and could do many wonderful things. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan was fully as strong as the average man of thirty, and far +more agile. Day by day his strength was increasing. His life among +these fierce apes had been happy. He was nearly ten before he began +to realize that a great difference existed between himself and his +fellows. + +[Illustration] + +In the higher land that the tribe frequented was a little lake. Here it +was that Tarzan first saw his face in the clear, still waters of its +bosom. He was appalled! He turned red with shame as he compared his +face and naked body with his more fortunate brother's. + +[Illustration] + +So intent was he upon this personal appraisement of his features that +he did not hear the parting of the tall grass behind him as a great +body pushed itself stealthily through the jungle. Not thirty paces +behind the two she crouched--Sabor, the huge lioness--lashing her tail. + +[Illustration] + +Cautiously she moved a great padded paw forward, noiselessly placing it +before she lifted the next. Thus she advanced--a great cat preparing +to spring upon its prey. An instant she paused. Then with an awful +scream--voiced to freeze her victim in a paralysis of terror--she +sprang! + +[Illustration] + +The little ape crouched tremblingly. Not so Tarzan, the man-child. +Before him lay the deep waters of the little lake--behind him certain +death! Tarzan had always hated water. He could not swim. But before the +great beast had covered half her leap, Tarzan felt the chill waters +close above him. + +[Illustration] + +Rapidly he moved his hands and feet. Soon his nose was above water. +Sabor was intently watching. Tarzan raised his voice in the tribal call +of distress. Presently fifty great apes swung rapidly toward the scene. +Then Sabor disappeared quickly into the brush and Tarzan was assisted +to dry land by some of his ape friends. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan had early learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long +grasses together. By constant experimenting, he learned to tie rude +knots and make sliding nooses. Then, with painstaking practice, he +learned the art of roping. He would catch some playfellow thus, to the +other apes' unlimited amusement. + +[Illustration] + +To Tarzan the closed and silent cabin was always a source of +never-ending mystery and pleasure. His own connection with the cabin +had never been told him. Kala had explained vaguely that his father +had been a strange white ape. He didn't know that Kala was not his own +mother. + +[Illustration] + +The apes avoided the deserted abode. Only too well they remembered its +deadly thunder-stick! One day Tarzan found the door, spending hours +examining it and fussing with the hinges, the knob, and latch. Finally +he stumbled upon the right combination--the door swung creakingly open +before his astonished eyes. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan slowly and cautiously entered. He saw three skeletons, giving +but passing heed. The other contents riveted his attention! He opened +chests, examining minutely strange tools, weapons, books, and clothing. +Finding a sharp hunting-knife, he immediately cut his finger. A child's +illustrated alphabet interested him greatly. Dusk was approaching. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan departed, taking the hunting-knife to show his fellows. Suddenly +a great form rose up--it was Bolgani, the huge gorilla! Tarzan knew +he must stand and fight for his life. He met the brute mid-way in its +charge. They rolled upon the ground in the fierce frenzy of combat. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan in one hand still clutched the knife he had found in his +father's cabin. Accidentally he turned its point toward the hairy +breast. As it sank into its body the gorilla shrieked in pain and rage. +Then Tarzan plunged the blade repeatedly and to the hilt into Bolgani's +breast. + +[Illustration] + +The gorilla tore the flesh at the boy's throat and chest with its +mighty tusks. More and more weakly the torn and bleeding arm struck +home with the long, sharp blade. Then the little figure stiffened with +a spasmodic jerk, and Tarzan, the young Lord Greystoke, rolled lifeless +upon the ground. + +[Illustration] + +Far off the tribe heard the fierce challenge of the gorilla. It was +soon discovered that Tarzan was missing. Kerchak, the king-ape, was +strongly opposed to sending assistance. He had no liking for the +strange little waif. But Kala was of a different mind. She fairly flew +through the matted branches! + +[Illustration] + +Presently she came upon them under the brilliant moonlight--little +Tarzan's torn and bloody form and beside it a great bull gorilla--stone +dead. Rushing to Tarzan's side, Kala listened for a sign of life. +Faintly she heard it. Tenderly she carried him through the inky jungle, +back to the tribe. + +[Illustration] + +Many days and nights Kala sat guard beside Tarzan, bringing food and +water in her mouth. She licked his wounds, thus keeping them clean. +After what seemed an eternity to the little sufferer, he was able to +walk once more. In another month he was as strong and active as ever. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan was anxious to return to the cabin and continue his +investigations of its wondrous contents. So early one morning he set +forth alone. He found the knife, beside the bones of the gorilla. +Entering, he closed and locked the door and then turned his attention +to the picture books. + +[Illustration] + +The pictures caught his fancy most. One, of a little ape similar to +himself, fascinated him mightily. It had a strange colored fur, for +such he thought the coat and trousers were. Beneath the picture were +these little bugs--B-O-Y. Under another picture the "bugs" appeared +again--A B-O-Y AND A D-O-G. + +[Illustration] + +Long he puzzled; but slowly, very slowly, he learned. By the time he +was fifteen he knew the various combinations of letters that stood for +every picture in the little primer and in one or two of the picture +books. He persevered for months--each time he came to the cabin. + +[Illustration] + +One day he found a number of lead pencils in a drawer. Scratching upon +the table top with one of them, he was delighted to find the black line +it left behind it. He attempted to reproduce some of the little "bugs" +of his books. It was a difficult task. + +[Illustration] + +Repeated experiments taught him how to hold a pencil. Thus he made a +beginning at writing. From then on his progress was rapid. His reason +now told him he was of a different race from his companions. He was a +M-A-N. He didn't know he could not speak man's language. + +[Illustration] + +On the day Tarzan established his right to respect, the tribe +was gathered in a small natural amphitheater. Here, safe from +interruptions, they celebrated victories. In the center was one of +those strange earthen drums the anthropoids build for their queer +rites, which men have sometimes heard but never witnessed. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan, Lord Greystoke, is doubtless the only human being who ever +joined in the fierce, mad, intoxicating revel of the Dum-Dum. This day +the grisly rites marked the killing of a giant ape--a member of another +tribe. Two mighty bulls laid the body before the earthen drum. + +[Illustration] + +They squatted there beside it as guards. The other apes curled +themselves up to sleep until the rising moon should give the signal for +the commencement of the savage orgy. For hours absolute quiet reigned. +At length, as darkness settled upon the jungle, the apes commenced to +bestir themselves. + +[Illustration] + +They formed a great circle around three old females, who, armed with +knotted branches, began softly tapping upon the resounding surfaces of +the drum, as the ascending moon silvered the treetops. Presently a wild +rhythmic din pervaded the jungle for miles around. It rose to almost +deafening volume. + +[Illustration] + +Kerchak sprang into the open space, threw his head far back and, +beating his breast, emitted thrice his fearful roaring shriek. Other +males repeated the horrid, blood-thirsty screams. Then began the +mad whirl of the death dance. And Tarzan, sweat-streaked, muscular, +glistening, was one of the wild leaping horde! + +[Illustration] + +The weird dance went on. Then at a signal from Kerchak the drums +ceased. The males rushed headlong upon the thing which their terrific +blows had reduced to a mass of hairy pulp. They now turned their +attention to devouring their late enemy. The mightiest apes obtained +the choicest morsels. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan with his sharp knife slashed off a more generous portion than he +had hoped for. Old Tublat spied Tarzan with the prize and wicked gleams +of hate shot from his little eyes. Tarzan saw the great beast's purpose +and leaped nimbly away--Tublat, however, close upon his heels. + +[Illustration] + +Swiftly he sprang. Gaining a lower limb, he climbed rapidly, followed +closely by Tublat. Up, up he went to the highest branches, where his +heavy pursuer dared not follow. There he perched, hurling taunts and +insults at the raging, foaming beast fifty feet below him. And then +Tublat went mad! + +[Illustration] + +With horrifying screams and roars, he rushed to the ground among the +females and young, sinking his great fangs into a dozen tiny necks. +Tarzan witnessed the whole mad carnival of rage. Now he saw Tublat dash +toward Kala, his foster-mother. Tarzan dropped swiftly and faced the +infuriated brute. + +[Illustration] + +With a roar of triumph, Tublat leaped. Tarzan plunged a keen +hunting-knife a dozen times into him. The ape rolled to the ground. +Tarzan, his foot upon the neck of his enemy, threw back his head and, +beating his mighty breast, screamed out the fierce ape cry of defiance. + +[Illustration] + +The morning after the Dum-Dum, the tribe started slowly back through +the forest toward the coast. The body of Tublat lay where it had +fallen, for the people of Kerchak do not eat their own dead. The march +was but a leisurely search for food. Once old Sabor crossed their path. + +[Illustration] + +This sent them scurrying to the safety of the higher branches. Tarzan +sat directly above the lioness--and hurled a pineapple at their ancient +enemy. Into his mind a great plan sprung. He had killed the fierce +Tublat; now would he track down the crafty Sabor and slay her likewise! + +[Illustration] + +At the bottom of his little English heart bent the great desire to +cover his nakedness with clothes. He had learned from his picture books +that all MEN were so covered, while APES and every other living thing +went naked. So he desired the skin of Sabor, the lioness. + +[Illustration] + +On this day he had other things to attract his attention. Suddenly it +became as midnight. Faintly came a low, sad moaning. The great trees +bent. Vivid and blinding lightning flashed from the whirling, inky +clouds above. Roaring thunder belched forth its fearsome challenge. The +deluge came--pandemonium broke loose! + +[Illustration] + +The tribe huddled in shivering fear from the cold rain at the bases +of great trees. For hours it raged--ending suddenly. To Tarzan came a +dawning light to explain the mystery of clothes. How snug he'd have +been beneath Sabor's heavy coat! So was added a further incentive. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan always kept his grass rope lasso in readiness when journeying +through the forest, catching many small animals. At last came she whom +he sought--Sabor, the lioness. Nearer and nearer--to where Tarzan of +the Apes crouched upon his limb, the coils of his long rope poised +ready. + +[Illustration] + +Like a thing of bronze sat Tarzan. Sabor passed beneath. Three strides +she took. Then the silent coil shot out and settled about her neck. +With a quick jerk, Tarzan snapped the noose tight about the glossy +neck. She made a bound and fell upon her neck! Sabor was trapped. + +[Illustration] + +But Sabor had now found that it was only a slender cord that held her, +and, grasping it in her huge jaws, she severed it! Tarzan was much +hurt. His well-laid plan had come to naught. Sabor paced back and forth +beneath the tree for hours, often springing at him. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan mocked and danced above her, hurling twigs and branches at her +unprotected face. At last he tired of the sport. With a parting roar of +challenge, and a well-aimed ripe fruit that spread over her face, he +swung rapidly through the trees a hundred feet above the ground. + +[Illustration] + +In a short time he was among the members of his tribe. And here he +recounted the details of his adventure, with swelling chest and so +considerable a swagger that he impressed even his bitterest enemies, +while Kala fairly danced for joy and pride at her foster-son's bravery +and prowess. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan of the Apes lived on in his wild jungle existence with little +change for several years, growing stronger and wiser. With Tantor the +Elephant he made friends. On many moonlit nights Tarzan and Tantor +walked together. All else of the jungle were his enemies, except his +own tribe. + +[Illustration] + +At eighteen, Tarzan had never seen a human being other than himself. +But as he sat one day in a tall tree, trying to solve the mystery of +the cabin, the ancient security of his jungle was broken forever. _A +strange cavalcade strung in single file over a low hill._ + +[Illustration] + +In advance were fifty black warriors armed with wooden spears, long +bows, and poisoned arrows. Then came several hundred women and children +followed by more warriors. They were fleeing from the white man's +soldiers, having massacred a white officer. They set to work to build a +new village. Tarzan wondered. + +[Illustration] + +A month later it was complete, and they had taken up their old life +in their new home. Several moons passed before they ventured far from +their safety, for many had fallen prey to the jungle animals. But one +day Kulonga, son of their old king, wandered far toward the west. + +[Illustration] + +Warily he stepped--his long shield grasped close to his sleek, ebony +body. Night found him far from his father's village. He climbed into +the fork of a great tree, fashioned a rude platform, and curled himself +for sleep. Three miles to the west of him slept the tribe of Kerchak. + +[Illustration] + +Early the next morning, the apes were astir, moving through the jungle +in search of food. Tarzan, as was his custom, prosecuted his search +in the direction of the cabin. Kala, busily engaged, had moved slowly +east, when the faintest shadow of a strange noise brought her to +startled attention. + +[Illustration] + +Down the leafy trail she saw the stealthily advancing figure of a +strange and fearsome creature. It was Kulonga. Kala moved rapidly back +along the trail, seeking rather to avoid than to escape. Close after +her came Kulonga. Here was meat! He could kill and feast well! His +spear poised for the throw. + +[Illustration] + +The spear sped toward Kala. It but grazed her side! With a cry of rage +and pain, the she-ape turned and charged. Instantly the trees crashed +beneath her hurrying fellows--swinging rapidly to Kala's scream. +Kulonga fitted a poisoned arrow, and drove it straight into the heart +of the great anthropoid. + +[Illustration] + +With a horrible scream, Kala plunged forward upon her face before the +astonished members of her tribe. Roaring and shrieking, the apes dashed +toward Kulonga, who fled down the trail. None had ever seen a man +before other than Tarzan, so they wondered what strange creature had +invaded their jungle. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan heard. He knew something was amiss. He found the entire tribe +gathered jabbering about the dead body of his foster-mother. His grief +and anger were unbounded. He roared out his hideous challenge, beat his +breast, and then fell upon the body of Kala, sobbing out his lonely +heart. + +[Illustration] + +After the first outburst of grief, Tarzan controlled himself and +questioned the tribe concerning the killing of Kala. They told him +of a strange hairless black ape with feathers on its head, who +launched death from a slender branch--then fled with the fleetness of +Bara-the-deer toward the setting sun. + +[Illustration] + +It was enough. Tarzan sped rapidly to intercept the black warrior. He +took his knife and rope. He struck the trail and in the mud he found +footprints such as his own--but larger. His heart beat fast! Could it +be that he was trailing a MAN? One of his own race? + +[Illustration] + +Soon he came upon the black warrior. Tarzan looked with wonder. Horta, +the boar, was charging and Kulonga shot a little poisoned arrow. Horta +staggered and lay still. Kulonga cut several long pieces from the +boar's body, built a fire, and ate as much as he wanted, leaving the +rest. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan was an interested spectator. He decided to follow further this +savage creature, killing him at his leisure. When Kulonga departed, +Tarzan of the Apes dropped and severed several pieces--but didn't cook +them. He knew not the use of fire. So he gobbled down a lot of the raw +flesh. + +[Illustration] + +And then Tarzan, Lord Greystoke, wiped his greasy fingers upon his +naked thighs and took up the trail of Kulonga. In far-off London +another Lord Greystoke--Tarzan's uncle--sent back his chops to the +Club's chef because they were underdone, and when _he_ finished, dried +_his_ hands on snowy damask! + +[Illustration] + +All day Tarzan followed Kulonga. Twice more he saw him hurl his arrows +of destruction. Tarzan thought much on this wondrous method of slaying. +He must look into the matter. That night Kulonga slept in the crotch of +a mighty tree, and far above him crouched Tarzan of the Apes. + +[Illustration] + +When Kulonga awoke he found that his bow and arrows had disappeared. +The black warrior was panic-stricken. He was defenseless except for a +single knife. Now his only hope lay in quickly reaching his village. He +took the trail at a rapid trot. Tarzan followed quietly in his wake. + +[Illustration] + +He was almost ready for the kill, but he was anxious to ascertain the +black warrior's destination. Presently he saw it. As Kulonga emerged +from the jungle a slender coiled rope sped above him. A quick noose +tightened about his neck. Then Tarzan drew the threshing victim up into +the sheltering tree. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan fastened the rope securely to a sharp branch. Then, descending, +he plunged his hunting-knife into Kulonga's heart. _Kala was avenged!_ +He examined the black minutely--never had he seen another human being. +He admired the tattooing, the sharp filed teeth. On himself he put the +feathered head-dress, copper anklet, belt, and knife. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan of the Apes was ravenously hungry. Here was meat, which jungle +ethics permitted him to eat. His knife was poised to dismember Kulonga. +Suddenly a strange doubt stayed his hand. He never before hesitated to +eat of his kill, but was not this a man? Did men _eat_ men? + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan's instinct overcame his cannibalistic impulse. He lowered +Kulonga's body and viewed the savage village, wondering over many +features of this new, strange life. A woman directly beneath him stood +over a small caldron, dipping arrows into a seething substance. He knew +that this was the deadly stuff that killed. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan wanted some of those little death-dealing slivers. He heard a +wild cry from across the clearing, and saw an excited black warrior +standing beneath the tree in which he had killed Kulonga, the murderer +of his ape-mother, Kala. The fellow was shouting, waving his spear and +pointing. + +[Illustration] + +The village was in on uproar instantly. Armed men raced madly toward +the excited sentry. Tarzan of the Apes knew they had found the body +of his victim. Quickly he dropped into the now deserted village and +gathered some arrows. Entering a near-by hut, he saw many weapons _and +skulls_! + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan made a pile of the hideous skulls. On the top skull he fastened +the head-dress of Kulonga, the chief's dead son. Then he heard a +mighty wailing and long, mournful howls. Quickly he disappeared into +the foliage above, kicking over the seething caldron, after securing a +supply of poisonous arrows. + +[Illustration] + +The natives filed up the street bearing Kulonga's body, taking it to +the very hut in which Tarzan wrought his depredations. They came out in +wild jabbering confusion. The awesome discoveries filled their hearts +with terror. They conjured in their poor brains only the most frightful +of superstitious explanations. + +[Illustration] + +It was a well-laden Tarzan who dropped into the midst of Kerchak's +tribe. With swelling chest he narrated the glories of his adventures +and exhibited the spoils of conquest. Kerchak was jealous of this +strange member of his tribe. He sought some excuse to wreak his hatred +upon Tarzan. + +[Illustration] + +A month Tarzan practiced with his bow and arrows. During this time he +further investigated the cabin, and found the metal box containing his +father's diary, some photographs, and a diamond locket. This took his +fancy. He placed it about his neck, in imitation of the black men he +had visited. + +[Illustration] + +When his arrows were gone, Tarzan renewed the supply, repeating his +former pranks while the natives were enjoying a cannibal feast. They +were filled with fear at this new manifestation of some unseen, +unearthly evil power. Returning homeward, Tarzan encountered Sabor, the +lioness, and sent an arrow into her. + +[Illustration] + +Removing the great pelt, he hastened to the tribe, who gathered to see +this new proof of his wondrous prowess. Only Kerchak hung back--nursing +his hatred and rage. Suddenly something snapped in Kerchak's brain. He +sprang biting and killing among the assembly. "Come down, Tarzan," he +cried, "come and fight!" + +[Illustration] + +Breathlessly the tribe watched as Kerchak, roaring, charged the +relatively puny figure. Tarzan tore loose his knife and drove it into +Kerchak--below the heart! They struggled along. Then the great body +shuddered, stiffened--sank limply. Kerchak was dead. Thus came the +young Lord Greystoke into the KINGSHIP OF THE APES. + +[Illustration] + +The apes were more than content with Tarzan as their new king. Food was +more plentiful. He settled all their disputes wisely. Next he moved the +tribe inland to a place undefiled by the foot of a human being. But he +spent more and more time away from the tribe. + +[Illustration] + +He tired of the kingship and longed for the little cabin and the +sun-kissed sea. As he had grown older, he found his interests were +different from those of the tribe. He now preferred the peace and +solitude of the cabin to his leadership duties among the band of wild +apes. + +[Illustration] + +He had still one enemy. Before he renounced his kingship of the apes, +Tarzan wished to subdue the ugly Terkoz without recourse to knife or +arrows. Terkoz one day offended the tribal laws by beating an old +female and defying Tarzan's command to stop. So came they to that +well-remembered fight! + +[Illustration] + +Never had the ape-man fought so terrible a battle since that day when +Bolgani, the king gorilla, had so horribly mangled him. But he won, +though he did not kill his enemy. This time he spared, after forcing +Terkoz to cry: "Ka-goda," meaning, "I surrender!" And all the tribe +heard--and marveled. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan let him up. Before darkness settled he called the old males +about him. "Tarzan," he said, "is going back to the lair of his own +people. You must choose another ruler. Tarzan will not return." Thus he +started toward his goal, the finding of other white men like himself. + +[Illustration] + +Many days it was before Tarzan recovered from his victorious battle +with Terkoz, the rebellious bull-ape. And then, one day, he had another +encounter with three of the natives, emerging victor, taking their +weapons, ornaments, and wondrous finery. The natives, now thoroughly +frightened, believed him some unseen, terrible god. + +[Illustration] + +"Munango-Keewati," they called him, the evil spirit of the jungle, +believing that those who looked upon him died. So the king ordered +arrows and food to be placed just without the village to appease him. +As long as they supplied him with these, they thought, he would not +harm them. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan was returning to the cabin. When he came in sight of the beach, +a strange and unusual spectacle met his vision. On the placid waters of +the land-locked harbor floated a great ship, and on the beach a small +boat was drawn up. And men--like himself--were moving about! + +[Illustration] + +He crept closer, saw ten men talking loudly, gesticulating, shaking +their fists. Presently a little man laid his hand upon the shoulder of +a giant next him, pointing inland. As the big man turned to look, the +mean-faced one shot him in the back, tumbling him forward--dead! + +[Illustration] + +The report of the weapon, the first Tarzan had ever heard, filled him +with wonderment. Were such white men his brothers? Presently the men +launched the boat, jumped into it and rowed away toward the great ship. +Then Tarzan slipped back to the cabin. Everything had been ransacked! + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan saw his books and weapons strewn on the floor; his little store +of treasures littered about. A great wave of anger surged through +him. Ah--but the men had not found his tin box with its precious +contents!... _What was that?..._ His quick ear had caught a faint but +unfamiliar sound. + +[Illustration] + +He ran to the window, looking toward the harbor. He saw a boat being +lowered from the great ship beside the one already in the water. Soon +he saw many people clambering over the ship's sides and dropping into +the boats. They were coming back in full force! + +[Illustration] + +He watched bundles and boxes being lowered. As they shoved off, the +ape-man snatched up a piece of paper and with a pencil printed several +lines of strong well-made characters. This notice he stuck upon the +door with a sharp wood splinter. Then gathering his precious box and +weapons he disappeared into the forest. + +[Illustration] + +Fifteen villainous-appearing seamen landed from the boats. +Blood-thirsty and filthy they looked. The five others comprised two +elderly men--evidently scholars--a handsome young man in white ducks, a +huge negress, and a very beautiful girl of about nineteen. In silence +the party advanced toward the cabin. + +[Illustration] + +The sailors carried the boxes and bales followed by the five of so +different a class. Coming to the cabin, they saw with puzzled surprise +the new-made sign. Few of the sailors could read. "Hi, perfesser," one +shouted, "read the bloomin' notis." The old gentleman addressed, read, +and murmured, "Most remarkable!" + +[Illustration] + +A sailor grasped him by the collar and bawled into his ear: "Read it +out loud, you blithering idiot!" The professor read: THIS IS THE HOUSE +OF TARZAN THE KILLER OF BEASTS AND MANY BLACK MEN. DO NOT HARM THE +THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES. + +[Illustration] + +The thought uppermost in their minds was: "Who is Tarzan of the Apes?" +The rat-faced sailor growled out an insulting oath! The young man's +face paled in anger. "You've murdered our officer and robbed us," he +said. "Now shut up or I'll break your neck with my bare hands." + +[Illustration] + +He deliberately turned his back upon the sailor and walked away. +The sailor's hand crept slyly to his revolver. His eyes glared +vengefully.... Two keen eyes had watched every move of the party from +a near-by tree. Tarzan saw the surprise caused by his notice and now +watched the quarrel. + +[Illustration] + +The act of the rat-faced sailor in killing his comrade, the day before, +had aroused a strong dislike in Tarzan. He liked the fine-looking young +man. But now he naturally expected to see the young man murdered. Spear +in hand, his mighty arm was ready to strike. + +[Illustration] + +Then three things happened almost simultaneously. The sailor leveled +his weapon at the young man's back, the girl screamed a warning, and +a long spear shot like a bolt from above. It passed through the man's +right shoulder, and the seaman crumpled up with a scream of pain and +terror. + +[Illustration] + +The sailors stood in a frightened group, with drawn revolvers. The +wounded man writhed and shrieked upon the ground. The young man, whose +name was Clayton, picked up the fallen revolver. Jane, the girl, ran to +him. "Who could it have been?" she whispered. Meanwhile her father and +his scholarly companion had wandered into the primeval jungle. + +[Illustration] + +"I daresay Tarzan of the Apes is watching us all right!" Clayton +answered. "Go into the cabin while I go in search of your father." He +gave Jane his revolver and when he saw the door close safely behind +Jane and her servant, Esmeralda, he strode into the dense jungle. + +[Illustration] + +When Jane and Esmeralda found themselves safely behind the cabin door, +the negress's first thought was to barricade the portal from within. +She turned to search for some means to do it. With her first look, she +gave a shriek of terror, running to her mistress like a frightened +child. + +[Illustration] + +Jane saw the cause of her cry! Lying prone upon the floor beside +them was the whitened skeleton of a man. A further glance revealed +the second skeleton upon the bed. And then the tiny skeleton in the +cradle! "What horrible place are we in?" murmured the awe-struck girl. +Esmeralda trembled. + +[Illustration] + +What might lie before them in this ill-fated cabin? She endeavored +to shake off the gloomy forebodings. She bade Esmeralda cease her +wailings, and the two of them barred the heavy door. Then they sat down +upon a bench, their arms about one another, two thoroughly frightened +women, and waited. + +[Illustration] + +Meanwhile, the cowardly crew of the "Arrow" pulled rapidly for the +ship. Tarzan watched. The most wonderful sight of all to him was the +face of the beautiful white girl. Here at last was one of his own kind. +He decided to follow young Clayton and learn his errand. + +[Illustration] + +Presently Tarzan came up with him. Clayton was lost. At intervals he +called aloud. Tarzan decided he was searching for the old man. Suddenly +Tarzan caught the yellow glint of a sleek hide moving cautiously toward +the unsuspecting young man. It was Sheeta, the leopard, crouching for +the spring! + +[Illustration] + +And then, shrill and horrible, there rose upon the jungle stillness +the awful cry of the challenging ape. Sheeta hesitated, then turned, +crashing into the underbrush. Clayton's blood ran cold--he felt the icy +fingers of fear upon his heart. Never had so fearful a sound smote upon +his ears. + +[Illustration] + +Clayton could not know that to that very voice he owed his life nor +that the creature who hurled it forth _was his own cousin_--the _real_ +Lord Greystoke. He started stumbling back to where he thought the cabin +lay. Darkness was quickly setting in. Heavens!--to die here alone! + +[Illustration] + +Presently he heard a faint sound. Then he saw it! The lithe body of a +huge lion. Agonized he watched--powerless to fly. Came a noise above +him, an arrow hit the beast, who sprang in pain and terror. Then a +naked giant dropped from the tree above--squarely on the brute's back! + +[Illustration] + +The scene Clayton witnessed there in the twilight depths of the African +jungle was burned forever into the Englishman's brain. The giant man +before him encircled the lion with his powerful right arm while with +his left hand he plunged a knife time and again into the beast's +unprotected side. + +[Illustration] + +It was all accomplished quickly. The lion sank lifeless. Then the +strange figure that had vanquished it stood erect upon the carcass, and +throwing back the wild and handsome head, gave out the fearsome cry +that a few minutes earlier had so startled Clayton. Then he gathered up +his weapons. + +[Illustration] + +Clayton spoke to the stranger in English, thanking him. The only answer +was a steady stare and a shrug of the mighty shoulders. Tarzan drew +his knife, deftly carving a dozen strips from the lion's carcass. Then +squatting upon his haunches, he proceeded to eat, motioning Clayton to +join him. + +[Illustration] + +Clayton could not bring himself to share the uncooked meat his strange +host was so apparently relishing. Again he essayed speech with the +ape-man, who replied in a strange tongue, like monkeys chattering. Then +he arose, motioning Clayton to follow him. Bewildered and confused, +Clayton hesitated to do so. + +[Illustration] + +The ape-man, seeing Clayton disinclined to follow, grasped him by the +coat, dragging him along for a while. The Englishman concluded he was +a prisoner. Thus they traveled into the impenetrable forest amid wild +calls of savage life and falling night. Suddenly there came a faint +report--a single shot--then silence. + +[Illustration] + +In the cabin by the beach two thoroughly terrified women crouched. The +negress sobbed hysterically. The white girl, dry-eyed, was torn by +fears and forebodings. They heard the almost incessant roars from the +savage jungle. And now there came the sound of a heavy body brushing +against the cabin's side! + +[Illustration] + +Silence--then she distinctly heard an animal outside, sniffing at the +door. They shuddered instinctively. A gentle scratching--the beast was +trying to force an entrance. Now, silhouetted against the moonlit sky +beyond, Jane saw the head of a huge lioness, its gleaming eyes fastened +upon her in intent ferocity. + +[Illustration] + +For twenty minutes the huge brute alternately sniffed and tore at the +door. Then she launched her great weight against the timeworn window +lattice. They saw a portion of it give way. Esmeralda fainted. The +horrified prisoner within beheld one great paw ... then its head thrust +within the room. + +[Illustration] + +Slowly the powerful neck and shoulders spread the bars apart.... The +girl rose as in a trance, seeking with ever-increasing terror some +loophole of escape.... Suddenly her hand, tight pressed against her +bosom, felt the outline of Clayton's revolver. Quickly she leveled +it ... and pulled the trigger. + +[Illustration] + +There was a flash of flame, a roar of pain. This was the shot heard by +Tarzan and Clayton. Then Jane, too, fainted. But Sabor was not killed. +She saw her prey resistless. Slowly she forced her great bulk through +the opening. On this sight Jane again opened her eyes! + +[Illustration] + +When Clayton heard the shot, he became agonized with fear and +apprehension. He knew Jane was threatened with some danger. Tarzan +heard also and quickened his pace. Soon Clayton was left hopelessly +behind. He called aloud to the ape-man. Tarzan dropped lightly to his +side from the branches above. + +[Illustration] + +Stooping down before Clayton, Tarzan motioned him to grasp him about +the neck, and with the white man upon his back, took to the trees. +The next few minutes were such as the Englishman never forgot. High +into swaying branches he was borne with what seemed to him incredible +swiftness. + +[Illustration] + +From one lofty branch the agile creature swung with Clayton through +a dizzy arc to a neighboring tree; then for a hundred yards maybe, +the sure feet threaded a maze of interwoven limbs, balancing like a +tight-rope-walker high above the black depths. How Clayton admired +those giant muscles! + +[Illustration] + +Clayton fairly caught his breath at the sight of the horrid depths +below them. Yet, with all his seeming speed, Tarzan was actually +feeling his way with comparative slowness, searching constantly for +limbs of adequate strength to hold this double weight. Presently they +came to the clearing before the beach. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan's quick ears had heard the strange sounds of the lioness's +efforts to force the cabin. They dropped a hundred feet--landing with +scarcely a jar. The ape-man darted ahead, just in time to see the huge +lioness's tawny body slowly disappearing through the window of the +cabin! + +[Illustration] + +Within the cabin Jane saw the lioness almost through the window. She +reached for the fallen revolver. Raised it. Then she saw Esmeralda, +inert but alive. She could not leave her. She must use one cartridge on +the senseless woman before she turned the cold muzzle toward herself +again. + +[Illustration] + +Quickly Jane ran to the side of Esmeralda. She pressed the muzzle +of the revolver tight against that devoted heart, closed her eyes, +and--Sabor, the lioness, emitted a frightful shriek. The girl, +startled, recoiled and turned to face the brute, again raising the +weapon against her own temple. + +[Illustration] + +She didn't fire again. Surprised, she saw the huge animal being drawn +slowly back through the window and in the moonlight the heads of two +men. Tarzan had seized the long tail in both his hands, braced himself, +and thrown all his mighty strength into the effort to draw the beast +back. + +[Illustration] + +Slowly the lioness was emerging from the window. Tarzan, suddenly +releasing his hold upon her, sprang full upon her back. Tighter +his strong young arms forced her head lower and lower. The immense +muscles of Tarzan's shoulders and biceps leaped into corded knots--a +super-human effort--and Sabor's vertebrae snapped! + +[Illustration] + +Instantly Tarzan was on his feet. For the second time Clayton heard +Tarzan give the bull-ape's savage roar of victory. He ran toward Jane's +agonized cry. Calming her fears, they came out to the dead body of the +lioness, to thank their rescuer. But Tarzan of the Apes was gone. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan went in search of Jane's father. Finally he found the old man, +and the professor, brought them safely to the cabin, and again vanished +into the jungle. Esmeralda "came to" at the lioness's last shriek. The +reunited party of castaways related their experiences and talked long +of the mysterious ape-man. + +[Illustration] + +When it grew light, they ate of their scanty store of food. They +decided to bury the skeletons. The professor discovered they were those +of white people. On the man's finger he found a massive ring. Clayton +gave a cry of astonishment!... It bore the crest of the house of +Greystoke. + +[Illustration] + +And then Jane in a book saw the single name: Greystoke. Thus they +identified the skeletons and with deep reverence buried them. The +professor had noted that the infant's bones were not a human's. He +murmured "Most remarkable," but said nothing. From the trees Tarzan of +the Apes watched the solemn ceremony. + +[Illustration] + +Most of all he watched the sweet face and graceful figure of Jane. He +knew that she was created to be protected and that he was created to +protect her. Esmeralda chanced to glance toward the harbor. She cried +out, pointing to the "Arrow" slowly sailing seaward! + +[Illustration] + +Now they knew they were deserted--marooned by merciless sailors on this +jungle shore. Tarzan saw their consternation; also the departure of the +ship. He swung through the trees to see closely this strange floating +house. Presently his keen eyes saw the faintest suspicion of smoke on +the horizon. + +[Illustration] + +The sailors also saw that smoke. The ship came about and headed for +land. There was a great scurrying about on deck. A boat was lowered; in +it a great chest was placed. Men bent to the oars; pulled rapidly to +the very point where Tarzan crouched, hidden in a tree. + +[Illustration] + +Beaching the boat, the men lifted out the great chest. They argued +angrily--they quarreled, and a sailor buried his pick in the brain of +the rat-faced man. Digging a deep trench, they buried the treasure with +the corpse, obliterating all signs. Then they pulled rapidly back to +the "Arrow." + +[Illustration] + +The smoke on the horizon increased, and the sailors lost no time +in getting under full sail. Tarzan, an interested spectator, sat +speculating on the strange actions. He wondered what the chest +contained. Dropping to the ground he found a spade and began digging +until he uncovered the body. + +[Illustration] + +He dragged it from the grave, then unearthed the chest, replacing the +body and the earth. Four sailors had sweated beneath the burden of that +chest. Tarzan of the Apes picked it up easily and carried it into the +densest part of the jungle. He traveled for several hours. + +[Illustration] + +His brain told him the chest contained valuables. He desired to open +it, but the iron lock and bands baffled even his strength. So he buried +it. Darkness settled before he was back in the cabin's vicinity. +Astonished, he saw the interior of the cabin appear as bright as day. + +[Illustration] + +Within the cabin, lights were burning. Clayton had found an unopened +tin of oil and lamps, still usable. Tarzan peered within. He saw his +cabin divided into two rooms, partitioned by boughs and sailcloth. The +men were reading and talking. He sought the other window. There was the +girl. + +[Illustration] + +How beautiful her features--how delicate her snowy skin! She was +writing at Tarzan's own table. Upon a pile of grasses lay the negress +asleep. For an hour Tarzan feasted his eyes upon her as she wrote. How +he longed to speak to her. At length she arose, leaving her manuscript. + +[Illustration] + +She went to the bed, loosened her soft mass of golden hair. Below her +waist it tumbled. Tarzan was spellbound! Then she extinguished the lamp +and all within was darkness. Still Tarzan watched. Creeping close he +waited, listening. At last she was asleep. Cautiously he intruded his +arm within the cabin. + +[Illustration] + +Carefully he felt upon the desk. At last he grasped the manuscript Jane +had been writing. Cautiously he withdrew it. Tarzan folded the precious +sheets into a small parcel, tucking them into his arrow quiver. Then he +melted away into the jungle as softly and as noiselessly as a shadow. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan awoke early. His first thought was of that writing, hidden +in his quiver. How he hoped he could read what the beautiful girl +had written. Tarzan suffered a bitter disappointment, baffled by the +strange writing. Long he pored over it. Finally he recognized the +letters. His heart leaped for joy. + +[Illustration] + +Slowly Tarzan deciphered Jane's letter. It was to a friend in America. +In it she narrated their strange experiences. How her father had +come into possession of an old Spanish manuscript telling of buried +treasure; how they had finally found it; how it had brought misfortune +to them, and of Tarzan. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan sat long in a brown study after reading the letter. He couldn't +understand much of the new and wonderful things it told of. He wrote +beneath Jane's signature "I am Tarzan of the Apes." Next morning +she found her missing letter in the exact spot from which it had +disappeared. + +[Illustration] + +A cold, clammy chill ran up her spine as she saw the printed words. But +as days passed without mishap, her fears calmed. Unseen by them, Tarzan +left offerings of food at the cabin. He told himself that one day he +would venture into the camp and talk with them. + +[Illustration] + +A month passed before Tarzan visited the camp by daylight. He found all +gone. His golden-haired divinity had vanished! So he printed a message +for her.... "I WANT YOU.... I AM YOURS.... KNOW THAT TARZAN OF THE APES +LOVES YOU." Suddenly his keen ears heard a familiar sound. + +[Illustration] + +It was the passing of a great ape through the forest. For an instant he +listened intently. Then from the jungle came the agonized scream of a +woman, and Tarzan of the Apes, dropping his first love letter upon the +ground, shot like a panther into the forest. + +[Illustration] + +After Tarzan left the tribe of apes, it was torn by continual strife +and confusion. Terkoz, now their king, proved a cruel and capricious +leader. In desperation the apes decided to turn him out. So one day as +he returned to the tribe, five huge, hairy beasts sprang upon him. + +[Illustration] + +At heart Terkoz was a coward. So he did not remain to fight and die. +Tearing himself away, he fled, foaming with rage and hatred, into the +jungle. Several days he wandered aimlessly. Swinging from tree to tree, +this horrible, man-like beast came suddenly upon the two women. + +[Illustration] + +He was right above when Jane saw him, his awful face thrust within a +foot of her. One piercing scream escaped her ere the brute had clutched +her arm. Then another mood seized him. He leaped into the trees, +bearing Jane to a fate a thousand times worse than death. + +[Illustration] + +Jane did not once lose consciousness as she was borne farther into the +impenetrable jungle. The scream that brought Clayton stumbling through +the underbrush had led Tarzan of the Apes straight to where lay the +fainting Esmeralda. His ape training told him plainly the whole story. +He instantly gave chase. + +[Illustration] + +On he sped in the track of Terkoz and his prey. Terkoz heard and was +spurred to greater effort. Three miles were covered before Tarzan +overtook them. Seeing flight was futile, Terkoz dropped groundward. +Tarzan bounded like a leopard into the open glade. Terkoz turned to +fight for his prize. + +[Illustration] + +Like two charging bulls they came together, and like two wolves they +sought each other's throat. Jane, her lithe young figure flattened +against a tree trunk, hands pressed tight against her bosom, and eyes +wide with mingled horror, fascination, fear, and admiration, watched +ape and ape-man battle for possession of her. + +[Illustration] + +The great muscles of Tarzan's back and shoulders knotted beneath the +tension of his efforts. His huge biceps and forearm held at bay those +mighty tusks. The long knife drank deep a dozen times of Terkoz's life +blood. Then the great carcass rolled lifeless upon the ground. + +[Illustration] + +The veil of centuries of civilization and culture was swept from Jane! +It was a primeval woman who sprang forward with outstretched arms +toward the primeval man who had fought for her and won her.... And +Tarzan took his woman in his arms and smothered her upturned, panting +lips with kisses. + +[Illustration] + +Suddenly her face suffused with scarlet blushes. She thrust Tarzan of +the Apes from her and buried her face in her hands. He came close again +and took hold of her. She turned like a tigress, striking his great +breast with her tiny hands. Tarzan could not understand it. + +[Illustration] + +A moment before Tarzan had intended to hasten Jane back to her people. +That moment was lost. He had felt a warm, lithe form pressed close to +his. Again he sought her ... again she repulsed him. _Then Tarzan took +his woman in his arms and carried her into the jungle._ + +[Illustration] + +Early the following morning, the men in the cabin were awakened by +the booming of a cannon. Clayton rushed out and saw two vessels lying +in the harbor. One was the "Arrow"--the other a small French cruiser. +Quickly he ran to light the pile of wood he kept in readiness. + +[Illustration] + +Before the flames arose. Clayton saw in consternation the cruiser +steaming away. Stripping off his shirt, he waved it back and forth +above him. Now the great column of smoke rose high, attracting the +attention of the ship's lookout. The cruiser steamed slowly back toward +shore. A boat was lowered. + +[Illustration] + +As it beached, a young officer stepped out. Quickly Clayton told their +story, ending with Jane's abduction. Lieutenant d'Arnot then narrated +the capture of the "Arrow"; how it had drifted in heavy seas many days, +without water or food until all but two of the mutineers were dead. + +[Illustration] + +The sight that met the Frenchman's eyes as they clambered over the +ship's side was appalling! Dead and dying rolled upon the pitching +deck. Two of the corpses appeared partially devoured. Hunger had +changed the mutineers to wild beasts. The sole survivor told the whole +ghastly tale to the French commander. + +[Illustration] + +The cruiser then sought the little camp. By the time the two parties +had narrated their several adventures, the cruiser's boat returned with +supplies and arms. With twenty sailors, they set off upon that hopeless +and ill-fated quest into the untracked jungle to find the stolen girl. + +[Illustration] + +Jane realized she was being borne away a captive. She struggled +desperately. But Tarzan's strong arms held her more tightly. Once +he looked down into her eyes and smiled. The face above her was of +extraordinary beauty. Presently he took to the trees. On and on they +went for many miles. + +[Illustration] + +Now they had come to their destination. In his strong arms Tarzan +placed her softly upon the green turf. She noted his magnificent figure +towering above her, its perfect symmetry, the poise of his fine head +upon his broad shoulders. Surely his purpose could not be base or +cruel. + +[Illustration] + +With a bound Tarzan sprang into the trees and disappeared. Had he left +her there to her fate in the lonely jungle?... She heard a sudden, +slight sound!... There stood Tarzan, his arms filled with luscious, +ripe fruit. He stroked her hair and tried to comfort and quiet her. + +[Illustration] + +The last few hours had taught her to trust this strange, wild creature. +It commenced to dawn upon her that she had, possibly, learned something +she had never really known before--LOVE. She wondered--and then she +smiled.... And still smiling, she pushed Tarzan gently away, pointing +to the food. + +[Illustration] + +Together, in silence they ate. He made a little bower of boughs and +grasses. Then he did the only thing he knew to assure Jane of her +safety. He handed her his knife--motioning her to sleep. She entered, +while Tarzan stretched himself upon the ground across the entrance. + +[Illustration] + +The rising sun found them still separated. A great wonderment rose in +Jane's heart. Though she had been in such terrible danger, yet she was +unharmed. She moved to the entrance and Tarzan's lithe form dropped +lightly from a near-by tree, his face lighted with a smile. + +[Illustration] + +Jane's heart beat faster. She could not understand it. They finished +breakfast. The magnificent diamond locket hanging about Tarzan's neck +was a source of much wonderment to Jane. She pointed to it and Tarzan +removed and handed it to her. Opening it, she beheld the likeness of +Lord and Lady Greystoke. + +[Illustration] + +She concluded this wild creature had simply found the locket in the +cabin. But she could not account for the strange likeness between Lord +Greystoke and this forest-god. Tarzan placed the locket about her neck. +Protesting, she would have removed it, but he held her hands tightly. + +[Illustration] + +Motioning her to follow him, Tarzan walked toward the trees. Taking her +in one strong arm, he swung to the branches above. The ardor of his +first fierce passion had cooled. He knew _why_ the ape had not killed +Jane. But _he_ must not be guided by the laws of beasts. + +[Illustration] + +It was nearly sunset when they came to the clearing. Tarzan parted the +tall jungle grass. There stood the cabin. He turned to leave her. Then +she threw her arms about his neck and kissed him, unashamed. "I love +you," she murmured. "I shall wait for you--always." He was gone. + +[Illustration] + +The little expedition searching for Jane pushed their way slowly +through the tangled jungle. Lieutenant d'Arnot was in the lead, a +hundred yards in advance. Suddenly six black warriors arose about him. +He gave a warning shout, but before he could draw his revolver he was +dragged into the jungle. + +[Illustration] + +Alarmed, the sailors came running to the scene. A volley of arrows fell +among them. They answered with their rifles, shooting toward their +concealed enemies. After a terrific hand-to-hand fight, leaving many +dead on both sides, the natives fled, taking Lieutenant d'Arnot with +them to their village. + +[Illustration] + +Arriving there at dusk, a great throng rushed out to meet them. Then +began for the French officer the most terrifying experience that man +can encounter--the reception of a white prisoner into a village of +African cannibals. They fell upon him, beating him with merciless +blows, tearing his clothes away. + +[Illustration] + +D'Arnot was bound securely to a great post. The women fetched pots and +water; others built a row of fires. He watched them, half-fainting with +pain, but not once did he cry out. The dance of death commenced to +circle around the doomed officer, moving nearer and nearer. + +[Illustration] + +He saw the bestial faces, daubed with color, the shining, naked bodies, +the cruel spears. Another spear, then another, touched him. He felt the +hot trickling blood.... He set his teeth ... he would show these beasts +how an officer and a gentleman died.... Suddenly they halted ... as +though turned to stone. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan of the Apes needed no interpreter to translate the story of +those distant shots. With incredible rapidity he was swinging through +the trees straight toward the savages' village. White men, men of his +own race, might even now be suffering the agonies of torture. On he +sped. + +[Illustration] + +Presently he caught the reflection of a distant blaze. Ah--he was +not quite too late! The death blow had not been struck. From the +nearest tree Tarzan coiled his rope. Then there arose suddenly above +the fiendish cries of the dancing demons, the awful challenge of the +ape-man. + +[Illustration] + +The rope sped with singing whir above the blacks' heads. A huge fellow +lunged backward; struggling and shrieking, his body moved toward the +trees. Then straight into the air, disappearing into the foliage. +The blacks, screaming with fright, raced madly for the village gate. +D'Arnot was left alone! + +[Illustration] + +Now from the trees came a crash and the black came sprawling to earth +again, to lie quietly where he had fallen. Immediately after came a +white body, alighting erect. D'Arnot saw a clean-limbed young giant +emerge and come quickly to him.... Some new creature of torture, +doubtless. + +[Illustration] + +Without a word Tarzan of the Apes cut the bonds that held the +Frenchman. Weak from suffering and loss of blood, he would have fallen +but for the strong arm that caught him. He felt himself lifted from the +ground. There was a sensation as of flying. Then he lost consciousness. + +[Illustration] + +When d'Arnot regained consciousness, he found himself lying in a little +shelter of boughs. Soon he recalled the whole hideous scene at the +stake; the strange white figure carrying him away. What fate lay in +store for him now?... Outside the hut he saw the squatting figure of a +man. + +[Illustration] + +He called faintly. The man crawled in. D'Arnot spoke to him in French, +then English, but he shook his handsome head. After examining d'Arnot's +wounds he disappeared, coming back with fruit, water, pieces of smooth +bark, and a pencil. Squatting beside d'Arnot, he wrote, handing the +message to the Frenchman. + +[Illustration] + +D'Arnot read with astonishment: I am Tarzan of the Apes. Who are you? +So d'Arnot wrote in English, about himself. Thus conversing, he learned +the story of the fight and found Jane was safe. Then for three days he +was in a delirium. Tarzan feared to leave him long. + +[Illustration] + +Days after, d'Arnot very weak, but recovering, sat conversing with +Tarzan by means of the smooth bark. He wrote: What can I do to repay +you? Tarzan replied: Teach me to speak the language of men. Slowly he +taught him to speak in French. Tarzan was a very eager student. + +[Illustration] + +Soon Tarzan asked d'Arnot if he felt strong enough to be carried back +to the cabin. Both were anxious to go, longing to see Jane again. +D'Arnot wrote: You cannot carry me all that distance. "That's easy," +Tarzan laughed. So they set out. Mid-afternoon, they arrived. _The +cabin was deserted._ + +[Illustration] + +The men turned and looked at one another. D'Arnot knew that his people +thought him dead, but Tarzan thought only of the woman who had kissed +him in love, then fled. A great bitterness rose in his heart. He would +go far into the jungle and rejoin his tribe. + +[Illustration] + +As Tarzan stood on the threshold brooding, d'Arnot entered the cabin. +He found many comforts left behind. There were two notes addressed to +Tarzan of the Apes. One, in a woman's hand, was sealed. Turning toward +the door, he found Tarzan gone. He called aloud, but there was no +response. + +[Illustration] + +To be left alone in the jungle, a prey to solitude and hopelessness! +Brave man that he was, d'Arnot was frightened. He closed the cabin +door.... Far to the east Tarzan was speeding back to his tribe.... But +he couldn't escape his thought. He should not have deserted one of his +own people. + +[Illustration] + +D'Arnot read the unsealed letter to Tarzan. It told how the rescuing +party had been forced to give up in despair. Also of the gifts they +were leaving for him, of their eternal gratitude for his protection and +service and ended: "We sail in an hour--never to return." + +[Illustration] + +D'Arnot threw himself face downward on the cot.... An hour later he +started up, listening. Someone at the door... trying to enter.... Dusk +was falling. His hair rose on his scalp.... He reached for the loaded +rifle.... Gently the door opened.... Something stood just without.... +And then d'Arnot pulled the trigger. + +[Illustration] + +With the gun's report, d'Arnot saw a man pitch headlong into the cabin. +In an instant he realized he had shot his friend and protector, Tarzan +of the Apes. With a cry of anguish, d'Arnot sprang to the ape-man's +side, lifted his head, calling Tarzan's name aloud. There was no +response. + +[Illustration] + +Placing his ear above the man's heart, he heard to his joy its steady +beating. D'Arnot, relieved, set about bathing Tarzan's face. He saw +there was an ugly flesh wound. Soon the cool water revived him, and +d'Arnot explained the terrible mistake. Laughing, Tarzan said: "It is +nothing. Forget it." + +[Illustration] + +For a week they did little but rest. Now they could converse quite +easily in French. Tarzan, heart-broken, read Jane's farewell letter. +Where was this America to which she had sailed? It took a long time +for him to understand, even imperfectly, d'Arnot's explanations. He +resolved to follow and find her. + +[Illustration] + +So on the following morning they started north along the shore, +carrying rifles, ammunition, and food. For a month they traveled, +with no signs of natives, nor were they molested by wild beasts. One +morning they came to a clearing. In the distance were several buildings +surrounded by a strong stockade. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan, followed by d'Arnot, struck across the field, his head held +high, the tropical sun beating on his smooth brown skin. It proved to +be a French mission. They were welcomed, remaining until black women +made them clothes to continue their journey. Thus came Tarzan of the +Apes to the first outpost of civilization. + +[Illustration] + +During the long trek up the coast, Tarzan had spoken freely of himself +to d'Arnot, and asked many questions of the world toward which they +were heading. D'Arnot taught him many of civilization's refinements. +Tarzan told about the great chest he had seen the sailors bury; how he +had hidden it. + +[Illustration] + +Once d'Arnot questioned him about his parents, and Tarzan told him of +Kala, his mother, the great fine ape. D'Arnot looked long and earnestly +at him. "Tarzan, it is impossible that Kala the ape was your mother. +You are pure man. Have you no clue to your past?" + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan replied: "I have read everything that was in the cabin with the +exception of one book. Possibly you can read it." He fished the little +black book from the bottom of his quiver. And d'Arnot read aloud the +diary of the unfortunate Lord Greystoke, written in French. + +[Illustration] + +It ended just as Lord Greystoke was struck down by Kerchak, the king +ape.... "_To-day our little son is six months old. He is sitting beside +me. Now he has grabbed my pen, and with his ink-begrimed fingers placed +the seal of his tiny finger-prints upon this page...._" + +[Illustration] + +And there in the margin were the partially blurred imprints of four +wee fingers.... Finishing the diary, d'Arnot sat in silence. In his +mind had sprung the determination to prove a theory. He believed he had +discovered the key that alone could unlock the mystery of Tarzan of the +Apes. + +[Illustration] + +Another month and they reached a little river port. Here d'Arnot cabled +his government for a three months' leave and his banker for funds. +During their wait the handsome "Monsieur Tarzan" became the wonder of +both blacks and whites.... A huge native had run amuck and terrorized +the town. + +[Illustration] + +On the hotel veranda the black spied Tarzan. With a roar he charged the +ape-man. Tarzan met the rush; his steel muscles gripped the black wrist +of the uplifted knife hand, a single wrench left the hand dangling +below a broken bone. Crying with agony, the fellow ran away. Tarzan +resumed reading. + +[Illustration] + +Again, Tarzan accepted a challenge. He was to kill a lion +single-handed. Naked he went into the jungle armed only with knife and +rope. With his wild-days methods, at last he got the beast. Shouting +the awesome victory cry, he shouldered the carcass, returned to the +amazed group, and claimed the reward. + +[Illustration] + +Often Tarzan longed for the freedom of the jungle. But loyalty to +d'Arnot, the vision of a beautiful face, and the memory of warm kisses +lured him onward. At length d'Arnot succeeded in chartering a small +boat, and they set sail down the coast, to dig for the buried treasure. + +[Illustration] + +Arriving, Tarzan, garbed once more in his jungle regalia, set out alone +for the ape's haunts where lay the treasure. Next day he returned +bearing the great chest. Three weeks later they boarded a French +steamer. D'Arnot was taking Tarzan to Paris, nor would he divulge the +reason for their journey. + +[Illustration] + +One of the first things d'Arnot did upon their arrival in Paris was +to arrange to visit a high official of the police department, an +old friend. He took Tarzan with him. Here was explained to them the +fascinating science of identifying criminals by finger-prints. Tarzan +was intensely interested. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan requested that his own finger-prints be taken. This done, +d'Arnot drew forth a little book, turning to a page where were several +tiny smudges. Surprised, Tarzan watched, recalling how he had given the +diary to his friend. Now he realized the meaning of their visit to the +police bureau! + +[Illustration] + +The answer to his life's riddle lay in those tiny marks! With tense +nerves Tarzan leaned forward. Was he a pure-blooded white man, the son +of Lord Greystoke? Or only a half-savage ape-man?... Much depended upon +the absolute correctness of the comparisons. Several days' delay was +necessary. + +[Illustration] + +And now Tarzan was able at last to see the treasure. When the great +oak, iron-bound chest was forced open, it was found to contain gold +coin--"doubloons" and "pieces of eight" from pirates' raids along the +Spanish Main. Tarzan desired to take it intact to America with him. + +[Illustration] + +What crime, suffering, and sorrow the thing had caused in its bloody +history! So d'Arnot advised disposing of it forever. When the gold +was appraised, it brought more than two hundred thousand dollars. And +now Tarzan was doubly anxious to start upon his way to find Jane in +America. + +[Illustration] + +D'Arnot, the only son of an aristocratic French family of wealth, was +unable to express his gratitude to Tarzan sufficiently. Never could he +forget those terrible times among the cannibals when Tarzan had saved +him from being eaten alive. Now he was heart-broken at the thought of +parting. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan wished to work his way across the Atlantic. D'Arnot would not +consent. He had deposited money to Tarzan's credit and had given him a +fine French motor car. Making him promise to return to Paris, d'Arnot +reluctantly bid him adieu and wished him "Bon voyage" as Tarzan boarded +the great liner. + +[Illustration] + +The handsome "Monsieur Tarzan" was a great favorite during the voyage. +One morning as he watched the dancing spray, he heard a cry "Man +overboard," and saw a youth slip to the dark waters below. Quick as a +flash, Tarzan dived after, clasping him almost before the waters closed +over them. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan became the idol of the ship. It happened that the rescued boy's +grateful parents knew Jane's father. And so Tarzan easily found his +way. The day after docking, a big black car stopped at the modest home +and an black-haired giant leaped happily up the porch. + +[Illustration] + +Our old friend Esmeralda opened the door. "If 'tain't the ape-man," she +cried, and as usual was about to faint, but excitement prevented her. +He learned that "Miss Jane had gone up north to be married." It needed +no further incentive to speed Tarzan over the miles toward Clayton's +camp. + +[Illustration] + +The lovely Jane had never forgotten her strange experience in the +African jungle. Nor her handsome forest-god. But many troubles beset +her. Their depleted fortunes, her father's health, the ardent wooing +of young Clayton, now an avowed suitor, all worried her. Still loving +Tarzan, Jane never expected to see him again. + +[Illustration] + +For her father's sake she had accepted Clayton's invitation to visit +his hunting-camp. She admired this rich, titled Englishman--but Love +was another matter. She must decide.... To-day she had wandered far +into the woods, absorbed in her thoughts. Suddenly to the east she was +aware of approaching smoke. + +[Illustration] + +For a week a forest fire had raged near them, but no danger threatened. +Now she perceived the rushing flames were swiftly forcing their way +between herself and the cottage. She gave herself up for lost.... +Suddenly she heard a shout ... her name called in a strong, clear +voice ... a strange one. + +[Illustration] + +She answered ... saw a figure swing through the smoke. Suddenly she +felt a great arm about her ... felt herself lifted and borne aloft. +Jane thought she was living over in a dream the experiences of the far +African jungle. Would it _were_ he of that other day again saving her! +But that was impossible. + +[Illustration] + +Yet who else in all the world was there with the strength and agility +to do what this man was now doing? She stole a sudden glance at the +face close to hers and then she gave a little frightened gasp. It was +he ... her man.... TARZAN OF THE APES. + +[Illustration] + +"My Man." Jane must have spoken aloud. The eyes above her lightened +with a smile. "Yes, 'tis I, Tarzan, come out of the jungle to claim +you--the woman who run away from me," he added fiercely. They had come +to a point beyond the fire. The wind had changed. + +[Illustration] + +The fire was burning back upon itself.... He led her to his car.... +Swiftly, silently, they drove campward. Suddenly she exclaimed: +"Tarzan--oh _why_ did you come back?" "Because I love you," he replied +happily. "You are mine."... Jane buried her face in her hands and +sobbed, bitterly. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan was eagerly welcomed when they all assembled at the camp. +Overwhelming him with gratitude, they voiced their surprise and +pleasure at seeing their jungle friend again. Long into the night they +talked, asking questions of Tarzan and reliving those days beside the +African wild, and what there befell them. + +[Illustration] + +Then the conversation turned to the ill-fated pirates' chest. Tarzan, +turning to Jane's father, said: "Your treasure has been found, sir!" +Then he related its history since they had seen it last. Great was +their amazement, and greater when Tarzan produced the letter of credit +and gave it to Jane. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan, saying good night, asked the Professor to recall the burial +from the African cabin. "Were all _three_ human skeletons?" Jane's +father eyed him narrowly. "No," he replied. "The smallest one--that +found in the crib--was the skeleton of an anthropoid ape!" "Thank you," +said Tarzan quietly. _Dawn was breaking._ + +[Illustration] + +All the following day Jane thought fast and furiously. She had felt the +purpose for which Tarzan had asked a few words with her. She knew she +must be prepared to give him her answer. What was it to be? _Did_ she +love him?... She did not know _now_. + +[Illustration] + +She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of the +far-off jungle. Here there was no spell of enchantment. Nor did this +immaculate young Frenchman appeal to the primal woman in her as had the +stalwart forest-god. Why, he had not even a name! + +[Illustration] + +She thought of Clayton. Here was a man of social position, culture, +and wealth. She knew his was the sort of love a civilized woman should +crave. Clayton sought her in the garden. "Won't you say Yes, Jane?" he +pleaded. "I will devote my life to making you happy." What could she +say? + +[Illustration] + +That evening Tarzan caught Jane alone. For the first time she realized +the depths of his love. "You do not love me then?" Tarzan asked +quietly. She was miserably silent.... "You will be happier without me," +came her faint reply. "Civilization will bore you. Soon you will long +for freedom." + +[Illustration] + +"I'd rather see you happy than be happy myself. I know now you couldn't +be happy with--an Ape." Bitterness tinged his voice. "Don't say that!" +she cried. "You don't understand.... Forgive me, for I may never +see you again."... Tarzan heard his name called. Unmindful, he felt +something pressed into his hand. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan held in his hand a cablegram from Paris. He tore it open, +almost dreading to know its contents. The message was from his +friend, d'Arnot. It read: "Finger-prints prove you Lord Greystoke. +Congratulations." At last he knew the truth. The mystery was solved. +His great chest heaved with emotion. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan turned toward the window. But he saw nothing without. Instead in +his mind's eye he beheld a patch of greensward in the African jungle +matted with tropical plants and flowers. Above, the waving foliage of +mighty trees and over all the blue of an equatorial sky! It was HOME. + +[Illustration] + +A lovely girl sat upon a mound of earth. Beside her was a young giant. +They ate pleasant fruit and looked into each other's eyes and smiled. +They were very happy--and they were all alone. He heard her voice.... +"I hope your message bears no bad news?" Jane asked gently. + +[Illustration] + +Tarzan came to with a start. He looked toward Clayton, the man who had +Tarzan's title and estates. He was going to marry the woman Tarzan +loved. One word from Tarzan would take them all from him ... AND JANE! +Tarzan made his decision, made his noble act of self-renunciation. + +[Illustration] + +Then he answered Jane. "It means I must return to Africa." He heard her +half-choked sob.... "We owe you our lives," said Clayton humbly.... +"How'd you get into that bally jungle, anyway?"... "I was born there," +said Tarzan quietly.... "My mother was an ape.... 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They have been published in Braille for the +blind, and in 16 different foreign languages—Arabic, Czecho-Slovakian, +Danish, Dutch, Hungarian, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, +Icelandic, Roumanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Urdu (Hindustani).</p> + +<p>In motion pictures, on the stage, as magazine and newspaper serials +and as newspaper strips the TARZAN stories have demonstrated the eager +interest of persons of all ages in the adventures of the young English +lord who was brought up by the apes.</p> + +<p>The author of these fascinating tales has himself had an adventurous +career. Born in Chicago in 1875 and educated at Phillips Academy, +Andover, and Michigan Military Academy, Mr. Burroughs served for a +time with the Seventh United States Cavalry at Fort Grant, Arizona; +he became a cowboy and storekeeper in Idaho, a policeman in Salt Lake +City, and he went to Oregon as a gold miner. Returning to more humdrum +pursuits in the business world, he found an outlet for his adventurous +nature in writing "Tarzan of the Apes."</p> + +<hr class="chap"> + +<div class="chapter"> +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p5a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> +<p>In 1888 young Lord Greystoke and his bride of three months sailed from +Dover on their way to Africa. He had been commissioned to investigate +alleged atrocities on black subjects in a British West Coast African +colony. Lord Greystoke never made the investigation; in fact, he never +reached his destination.</p> +</div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap"> + + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p5b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Arrived at Freetown, they chartered the Fuwalda, which was to bear +them to their final destination. And here, Lord and Lady Greystoke +mysteriously vanished forever from the eyes and from the knowledge of +man. Two months later, six British war vessels were scouring the South +Atlantic for trace of them.</p> +</div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap"> + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p5c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> +<p>Beyond sight of land, the Fuwalda's captain, with a terrific blow, +felled an old sailor who had accidentally tripped him. The swarthy +bully's brutality caused big Black Michael to crush the captain to his +knees. This was mutiny. The enraged captain suddenly whipped a revolver +from his pocket and fired.</p> + +</div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p5d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Lord Greystoke struck down the captain's arm, saving Black Michael's +life, and thus forged the first link of what was destined to form a +chain of amazing circumstances ending in a life <i>for one then unborn</i> +such as has probably never been paralleled in the history of man.</p> +</div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p6a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>With suspicion of organized mutiny confirmed, they hurried to their +quarters. Even their beds had been torn to pieces. A thorough search +revealed the fact that only Lord Greystoke's revolvers and ammunition +were gone. An undefinable something presaged bloody disaster!</p> +</div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p6b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Lord Greystoke, unfolding the scrap of paper that had been pushed +in under the cabin door, found it was a message printed in uncouth +letters, warning him to refrain from reporting the theft of his +revolvers, on pain of death. Lady Greystoke paled, wondering what her +fate might be.</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p6c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The sight that met Lord Greystoke's eyes, as he emerged on deck the +next morning, confirmed his worst fears. A shot rang out, and then +another and another. Facing the little knot of five officers was the +entire motley crew of the Fuwalda, and at their head stood Black +Michael.</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p6d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Enraged, the blood-thirsty ruffians charged the officers representing +the hated authority of the ship. Most of them were armed with +boathooks, axes, and crowbars. The officers retreated before the +infuriated rush of their men. An axe cleft the captain from forehead to +chin.</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p7a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Both sides were cursing and swearing in a frightful manner, which, +together with the reports of the firearms and the screams and groans +of the wounded, turned the deck of the Fuwalda to the likeness of a +madhouse. Short and grisly had been the work of the mutineers.</p> +</div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p7b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Though outwardly calm, Lord Greystoke was inwardly apprehensive, for +he feared for the safety of his wife, and the little unborn Greystoke, +at the hands of the ignorant half-brutes. "Here's two more for the +fishes," snarled one of the crew, as he rushed toward them with +uplifted axe.</p> +</div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p7c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Black Michael was even quicker than the brute who had attacked Lord and +Lady Greystoke with an axe, and the sailor went down with a bullet in +his back. "I'm captain of this ship now, an' what I says goes," said +the mutineers' leader, looking threateningly on his fellows. "These +here are my friends. Don't touch 'em."</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p7d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Following the murder of the officers, land was sighted, and they +learned they were to be put ashore with their belongings. Remonstrance +against the inhumanity of landing them upon an unknown shore, to be +left to the mercies of the savage beasts, and possibly still more +savage men, was absolutely useless.</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p8a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Before dark, the barkentine lay peacefully at anchor in a land-locked +harbor. The surrounding shores were beautiful with semi-tropical +verdure, while in the distance the country rolled from the ocean in +hill and table-land, almost uniformly clothed in primeval forest. No +signs of habitation were to be seen.</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p8b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>No pleas, threats, or promises of reward could move Black Michael. "I'm +the only man on board who would not rather see you both dead; but you +saved my life once, and in return I'm going to spare yours. We put you +ashore to-morrow." The deep roar of a lion came from the dark shadows +of the distant jungle!</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p8c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>As darkness settled upon the earth, the woman shrank closer to the man +in terror-stricken anticipation of the horrors lying in wait for them +in the awful blackness of the nights to come, when they too should be +alone upon that wild and lonely shore. What treachery awaited them in +that dark, mysterious tropical forest?</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p8d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Early next morning Lord and Lady Greystoke's chests and boxes were +hoisted on deck and lowered to waiting small boats for transportation +to shore. There was a great quantity and variety of stock, arms, and +ammunition, as they had expected a possible five years' residence in +their new West Coast African home.</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p9a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The man shuddered as he meditated upon the awful gravity, the fearful +helplessness of their situation. But it was a merciful providence that +prevented him from seeing the hideous reality that awaited them in the +grim depth of that dense jungle. They silently sat, each wrapped in +gloomy forebodings, wondering.</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p9b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>They had escaped death at the hands of the mutineers; but were faced +with far graver dangers. Alone, he might hope to survive for years. But +what of his wife, and that <i>other little life</i> so soon to be launched +amid the hardships and grave dangers of a primeval world? His heart +sunk in despair, considering their future.</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p9c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Having filled the ship's casks with fresh water, the small boats +moved slowly over the water to the ship. As the Fuwalda passed out +of sight behind a projecting point, Lord Greystoke and his wife—in +the breasts of both, a feeling of impending disaster and utter +helplessness—bravely stood, silently watching.</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p9d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>And behind them, over the edge of a low ridge, <i>other eyes WATCHED +THEM—close-set wicked eyes, gleaming beneath shaggy brows!</i></p> + +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p10a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Now that the horror of absolute solitude was upon them, Lady +Greystoke's overwrought nerves gave way, and the reaction came. "Oh, +John, the horror of it. What are we to do? If it were only you and I," +she sobbed, "we could endure it, I know; but, the baby—" His great +heart yearned to comfort her.</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p10b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>After calming her, he opened the box containing the rifles and +ammunition, that they might both be armed against possible attack. +His first thought was to arrange a sleeping shelter for the night; +something that might serve to protect them from prowling beasts. +Together they sought a favorable location.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p10c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Four trees were selected that formed a rectangle, and, cutting long +branches from other trees, he constructed a framework around them, +fastening the ends of the branches securely to the trees by means of +rope, a quantity of which Black Michael fortunately had furnished him +from the hold of the Fuwalda.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p10d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>During the day the forest about them had been filled with excited birds +of brilliant plumage, and dancing, chattering monkeys, who watched +these new arrivals and their wonderful nest-building operations with +every mark of keenest interest and fascination. By dusk the snug +shelter was completed.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p11a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>A sharp lookout was kept while they worked, and once they saw their +little simian neighbors come screaming over the near-by ridge, and +casting affrighted glances over their shoulders, evincing as plainly as +though by speech that they were fleeing some <i>terrible thing</i> that lay +concealed there. What was it?</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p11b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>In the comparative safety of their aërial chamber, Lady Greystoke +suddenly grasped her husband's arm. "Look!" she whispered. "What is it? +A man?" Silhouetted dimly against the shadows, a great figure stood +upright, as though listening, then turned slowly and melted into the +shadows of the jungle.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p11c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>"What was it?" she whispered. "I do not know," he answered, gravely. +"It is too dark to see so far, perhaps only a shadow cast by the rising +moon." "No, John, if it was not a man, it was some huge and grotesque +mockery of man. Oh, I am afraid." He could feel her heart beat as she +clung to him, trembling and terrified.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p11d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The night noises of a great jungle teeming with myriad animal life kept +their overwrought nerves on edge; many times they were startled by +the stealthy movement of great bodies beneath them. He lay facing the +opening at the front of their aerie, a rifle and revolvers at his hand.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p12a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Scarcely had they closed their eyes than the terrifying cry of a +panther rang out from the jungle. Closer and closer it came until they +could hear the great beast directly beneath them. For an hour or more +it sniffed and clawed at the trees that supported their platform.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p12b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>At last it roamed away across the beach, where Lord Greystoke could +see it clearly in the brilliant moonlight—a great handsome beast; the +largest he had ever seen. From the dark shadows of the mighty forest +came the wild call of savage beasts—the deep roar of a lion.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p12c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>They soon realized they could hope for no safety or peace of mind until +four strong walls effectually barred the jungle life from them. Next +morning, after their meager breakfast, Lord Greystoke commenced work +upon their house. The task was an arduous one, though he built but one +small room.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p12d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Two months after, they were well settled and, but for the constant +dread of attack by wild beasts and the ever-increasing loneliness, +they were not uncomfortable or unhappy. At night great beasts snarled +and roared around their tiny cabin, but they soon became accustomed to +these oft-repeated, weird noises.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p13a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Thrice had they caught fleeting glimpses of great man-like figures, but +never at sufficiently close range to know whether these forms were men +or brutes. One afternoon while Greystoke was working upon an addition +to their cabin, a number of little frightened monkeys came shrieking +and scolding through the trees.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p13b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Even as they fled, they cast fearful glances back of them and finally +they stopped near Greystoke, jabbering excitedly as if to warn him of +approaching danger. At last he saw it—the thing the little monkeys +so feared—the horrible man-brute of which the Greystokes had caught +occasional fleeting glimpses.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p13c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>It was approaching through the jungle—a great anthropoid ape—and +as it advanced it emitted deep guttural growls and an occasional low +barking sound. Greystoke, who was at some distance from the cabin, was +armed only with an axe, and the ferocious monster cut him off from +escape to his retreat.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p13d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Lord Greystoke knew his chances with this ferocious monster were small. +He thought of his wife—what would become of her? There was yet a +slight chance of reaching the cabin. He ran, shouting to his wife to +close the great door should the enraged ape cut off his retreat.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p14a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The brute succeeded in intercepting Greystoke. He stood at bay, +grasping his axe with both hands, ready to swing it upon the infuriated +animal when it made its final charge. "Close and bolt the door, Alice," +cried Greystoke. He knew he was facing a horrible death—and so did +she!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p14b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Over the brute's shoulder Greystoke saw with horror and fear his young +wife come through the cabin door, armed with one of his rifles. Always +before she was afraid of firearms, never touching them. Now she rushed +toward the ape with the fearlessness of a lioness protecting its young.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p14c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>"Alice," shouted Greystoke, "for God's sake—go back!" The ape +charged—the man swung his axe with mighty strength, but the powerful +brute tore it from Greystoke's hands, hurled it far to one side and +with an angry snarl closed upon its defenseless victim.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p14d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption">> + +<p>Came a sharp report and a bullet entered the ape's back! The beast +turned upon its new enemy. Lady Greystoke, terrified, tried to fire +another bullet. Greystoke, regaining his feet, rushed to drag the ape +from his wife's prostrate form. The bullet had done its work! The ape +was dead.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p15a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>A hasty examination of his wife revealed no marks upon her, and Lord +Greystoke decided the huge brute had died the instant he had sprung +toward her. Gently he lifted his wife's still unconscious form and +bore her to the little cabin. Fully two hours later she regained +consciousness.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p15b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Her first words filled Greystoke with vague apprehension. For some time +after regaining her senses she gazed wonderingly about the interior of +the little cabin, and then, with an satisfied sigh, said: "Oh, John, it +is so good to be REALLY home. I have had an awful dream, dear."</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p15c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>"There, there, Alice," he said, stroking her forehead. "Try to sleep +again and don't worry." That night, while a leopard screamed before the +door and the deep notes of a lion's roar sounded from beyond the ridge, +a little son was born in the tiny cabin beside the primeval jungle +forest.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p15d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Lady Greystoke never recovered from the shock of the great ape's +attack. She was never again outside the cabin nor did she ever realize +that she was not in England. But she took joy and happiness in the +possession of her little son and the constant attentions of her +husband.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p16a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>So that year was a very happy one. Greystoke had long since given up +all hope of rescue. With unremitting zeal he had worked to beautify +the cabin. The tiny life that had come to cheer them little knew what +amazing experiences lay ahead of it in the depths of the African +jungle.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p16b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>During the first year, Greystoke was several times attacked by the +great apes. But he never again ventured outside without both rifle and +revolvers. He had strengthened the cabin and fitted locks to the door, +so he had little fear of the huge beasts now continually infesting the +vicinity.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p16c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>In his leisure, Greystoke read, often aloud, to his wife from the store +of books he had brought. Among these were many for little children. +Also he wrote in his diary recording the details of their strange life +and this book he kept locked in a little metal box. It was written in +French.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p16d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>A year from the day her little son was born, Lady Greystoke passed +quietly away in the night. Her end was peaceful and the horror of the +situation came to him very slowly—the fearful responsibility that had +devolved upon him with the care of his nursing infant son.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p17a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The last entry in his diary was made the morning following her death +and there he recites the sad details in a matter-of-fact way that adds +to the pathos, sorrow, and hopelessness of this cruel blow: "My little +son is crying for nourishment—O Alice, Alice—what shall I do?"</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p17b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>And as Lord Greystoke wrote the last words his hand was destined ever +to pen, he dropped his head wearily into his arms upon the table. For +a long time no sound broke the death-like stillness of the jungle save +the piteous wailings of the tiny, hungry man-child. <i>Then came the +apes!</i></p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p17c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>In the forest of the table-land a mile back from the ocean old Kerchak +the Ape King was on a rampage of rage among his people. The younger and +lighter members of his tribe all scattered to the higher tree branches, +risking their lives to escape his uncontrolled anger.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p17d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The other males scattered in all directions, but not before Kerchak had +crushed one between his great foaming jaws. A luckless young female +slipped from an insecure hold. With a wild scream he was upon her, +striking her viciously with a broken tree limb until her skull was +crushed.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p18a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Then he spied Kala, returning from a search for food, with her young +babe. Ignorant of the state of the King's temper, the shrill warning +of her fellows caused her to scamper madly for safety. But Kerchak was +close upon her—so close that he had almost grasped her ankle.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p18b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>She made a furious leap far into space—from one tree to another—made +it successfully. But as she grasped the limb of the further tree, the +sudden jar loosed the hold of the tiny babe. She saw the little thing +hurled—turning, twisting—to the ground thirty feet below.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p18c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>With a low cry of dismay, Kala rushed to her baby's side, thoughtless +now of danger. When she gathered the wee, mangled form to her bosom, +life had left it. Nor did Kerchak attempt to molest her. His fit of +demoniac rage passed as suddenly as it had seized him.</p> + +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p18d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>When the tribe saw Kerchak's rage had ceased, they came slowly down +from their arboreal retreats. They had passed an hour or so pursuing +again their various occupations when Kerchak called them together and +with a word of command to them to follow him, set off toward the sea.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p19a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>And all the way Kala carried her little dead baby hugged closely to her +breast. Shortly after noon they reached a ridge overlooking the beach +where below them lay the tiny cottage which was Kerchak's goal. He had +made up his mind to explore the interior of that mysterious den.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p19b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>He wanted very, very much to own that little black stick that had often +roared out its terrible message of death to some member of the tribe. +To-day there was no sign of the man about. Slowly, cautiously and +noiselessly they crept through the jungle toward the little cabin.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p19c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Kerchak himself slunk slowly to the very door and peered within. Behind +him were two males and then Kala clasping her dead babe. They saw the +strange white ape lying half across a table and a figure covered by a +sail cloth. A plaintive wailing came from a tiny cradle.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p19d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Kerchak entered. Greystoke rose with a sudden start and faced them. The +sight that met his eyes must have frozen him with horror! His revolvers +and rifle hung on the far wall. Within the door stood three great bull +apes. Behind them crowded many more—HOW MANY HE NEVER KNEW!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p20a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>When the king-ape released the limp form that had been Lord Greystoke, +he turned his attention toward the little cradle. Kala was there before +him and, ere he could intercept her, snatched the child herself, +dropping her own dead babe in the cradle, and bolted through the door.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p20b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>High up among the branches of a mighty tree she took refuge, hugging +the shrieking infant to her bosom. Then hunger closed the gap between +them and soon he became quiet. The son of an English Lord and an +English Lady nursed at the breast of Kala, the great ape!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p20c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Meanwhile the beasts within the cabin were warily examining its strange +contents. Once satisfied they were dead, Kerchak did not again molest +the body of either Lady or Lord Greystoke. Presently he halted before +the rifle hanging upon the wall. Finally he tore it down and examined +it closely.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p20d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The other apes sat huddled together watching their chief. Suddenly +Kerchak's finger closed upon the trigger. There was a deafening roar! +The apes fell over one another in their wild anxiety to escape. +Kerchak, equally frightened, but still clutching the rifle, sprang +through the door, which shut tightly after him.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p21a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The rifle sight had caught upon the door's edge and the latch had +sprung as Kerchak passed out. When the apes again brought themselves +to approach the cabin, they found it securely fastened. After roaming +about for a while, they began their homeward march. And Kala joined +them with the man-child.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p21b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Kala would not allow the other apes to touch her adopted baby. She +held the small form of the little Lord Greystoke tightly to her +breast, repulsing with bared fangs and low, menacing growls the apes +who attempted to examine this strange baby. Tenderly, Kala nursed her +little waif.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p21c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>It was nearly a year from the time the little fellow came into her +possession before he would walk alone. He couldn't climb nor even find +food alone like the little apes of their tribe. Tublat, Kala's mate, +was sorely vexed, wanting to put the child out of the way.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p21d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tublat argued with Kala until she grew furious and would not listen to +him. Then Tublat went to Kerchak, urging him to use his authority with +Kala and force her to give up the little TARZAN, which was the name +they had given little Lord Greystoke, and which meant "White-Skin."</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p22a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>But when Kerchak spoke to her about it, Kala threatened to run away +from the tribe. They did not wish to lose her, and so they bothered +her no more. By the time Tarzan was ten years old he was an excellent +climber and could do many wonderful things.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p22b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan was fully as strong as the average man of thirty, and far +more agile. Day by day his strength was increasing. His life among +these fierce apes had been happy. He was nearly ten before he began +to realize that a great difference existed between himself and his +fellows.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p22c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>In the higher land that the tribe frequented was a little lake. Here it +was that Tarzan first saw his face in the clear, still waters of its +bosom. He was appalled! He turned red with shame as he compared his +face and naked body with his more fortunate brother's.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p22d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>So intent was he upon this personal appraisement of his features that +he did not hear the parting of the tall grass behind him as a great +body pushed itself stealthily through the jungle. Not thirty paces +behind the two she crouched—Sabor, the huge lioness—lashing her tail.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p23a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Cautiously she moved a great padded paw forward, noiselessly placing it +before she lifted the next. Thus she advanced—a great cat preparing +to spring upon its prey. An instant she paused. Then with an awful +scream—voiced to freeze her victim in a paralysis of terror—she +sprang!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p23b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The little ape crouched tremblingly. Not so Tarzan, the man-child. +Before him lay the deep waters of the little lake—behind him certain +death! Tarzan had always hated water. He could not swim. But before the +great beast had covered half her leap, Tarzan felt the chill waters +close above him.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p23c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Rapidly he moved his hands and feet. Soon his nose was above water. +Sabor was intently watching. Tarzan raised his voice in the tribal call +of distress. Presently fifty great apes swung rapidly toward the scene. +Then Sabor disappeared quickly into the brush and Tarzan was assisted +to dry land by some of his ape friends.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p23d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan had early learned to form ropes by twisting and tying long +grasses together. By constant experimenting, he learned to tie rude +knots and make sliding nooses. Then, with painstaking practice, he +learned the art of roping. He would catch some playfellow thus, to the +other apes' unlimited amusement.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p24a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>To Tarzan the closed and silent cabin was always a source of +never-ending mystery and pleasure. His own connection with the cabin +had never been told him. Kala had explained vaguely that his father +had been a strange white ape. He didn't know that Kala was not his own +mother.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p24b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The apes avoided the deserted abode. Only too well they remembered its +deadly thunder-stick! One day Tarzan found the door, spending hours +examining it and fussing with the hinges, the knob, and latch. Finally +he stumbled upon the right combination—the door swung creakingly open +before his astonished eyes.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p24c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan slowly and cautiously entered. He saw three skeletons, giving +but passing heed. The other contents riveted his attention! He opened +chests, examining minutely strange tools, weapons, books, and clothing. +Finding a sharp hunting-knife, he immediately cut his finger. A child's +illustrated alphabet interested him greatly. Dusk was approaching.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p24d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan departed, taking the hunting-knife to show his fellows. Suddenly +a great form rose up—it was Bolgani, the huge gorilla! Tarzan knew +he must stand and fight for his life. He met the brute mid-way in its +charge. They rolled upon the ground in the fierce frenzy of combat.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p25a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan in one hand still clutched the knife he had found in his +father's cabin. Accidentally he turned its point toward the hairy +breast. As it sank into its body the gorilla shrieked in pain and rage. +Then Tarzan plunged the blade repeatedly and to the hilt into Bolgani's +breast.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p25b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The gorilla tore the flesh at the boy's throat and chest with its +mighty tusks. More and more weakly the torn and bleeding arm struck +home with the long, sharp blade. Then the little figure stiffened with +a spasmodic jerk, and Tarzan, the young Lord Greystoke, rolled lifeless +upon the ground.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p25c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Far off the tribe heard the fierce challenge of the gorilla. It was +soon discovered that Tarzan was missing. Kerchak, the king-ape, was +strongly opposed to sending assistance. He had no liking for the +strange little waif. But Kala was of a different mind. She fairly flew +through the matted branches!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p25d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Presently she came upon them under the brilliant moonlight—little +Tarzan's torn and bloody form and beside it a great bull gorilla—stone +dead. Rushing to Tarzan's side, Kala listened for a sign of life. +Faintly she heard it. Tenderly she carried him through the inky jungle, +back to the tribe.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p26a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Many days and nights Kala sat guard beside Tarzan, bringing food and +water in her mouth. She licked his wounds, thus keeping them clean. +After what seemed an eternity to the little sufferer, he was able to +walk once more. In another month he was as strong and active as ever.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p26b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan was anxious to return to the cabin and continue his +investigations of its wondrous contents. So early one morning he set +forth alone. He found the knife, beside the bones of the gorilla. +Entering, he closed and locked the door and then turned his attention +to the picture books.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p26c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The pictures caught his fancy most. One, of a little ape similar to +himself, fascinated him mightily. It had a strange colored fur, for +such he thought the coat and trousers were. Beneath the picture were +these little bugs—B-O-Y. Under another picture the "bugs" appeared +again—A B-O-Y AND A D-O-G.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p26d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Long he puzzled; but slowly, very slowly, he learned. By the time he +was fifteen he knew the various combinations of letters that stood for +every picture in the little primer and in one or two of the picture +books. He persevered for months—each time he came to the cabin.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p27a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>One day he found a number of lead pencils in a drawer. Scratching upon +the table top with one of them, he was delighted to find the black line +it left behind it. He attempted to reproduce some of the little "bugs" +of his books. It was a difficult task.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p27b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Repeated experiments taught him how to hold a pencil. Thus he made a +beginning at writing. From then on his progress was rapid. His reason +now told him he was of a different race from his companions. He was a +M-A-N. He didn't know he could not speak man's language.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p27c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>On the day Tarzan established his right to respect, the tribe +was gathered in a small natural amphitheater. Here, safe from +interruptions, they celebrated victories. In the center was one of +those strange earthen drums the anthropoids build for their queer +rites, which men have sometimes heard but never witnessed.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p27d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan, Lord Greystoke, is doubtless the only human being who ever +joined in the fierce, mad, intoxicating revel of the Dum-Dum. This day +the grisly rites marked the killing of a giant ape—a member of another +tribe. Two mighty bulls laid the body before the earthen drum.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p28a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>They squatted there beside it as guards. The other apes curled +themselves up to sleep until the rising moon should give the signal for +the commencement of the savage orgy. For hours absolute quiet reigned. +At length, as darkness settled upon the jungle, the apes commenced to +bestir themselves.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p28b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>They formed a great circle around three old females, who, armed with +knotted branches, began softly tapping upon the resounding surfaces of +the drum, as the ascending moon silvered the treetops. Presently a wild +rhythmic din pervaded the jungle for miles around. It rose to almost +deafening volume.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p28c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Kerchak sprang into the open space, threw his head far back and, +beating his breast, emitted thrice his fearful roaring shriek. Other +males repeated the horrid, blood-thirsty screams. Then began the +mad whirl of the death dance. And Tarzan, sweat-streaked, muscular, +glistening, was one of the wild leaping horde!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p28d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The weird dance went on. Then at a signal from Kerchak the drums +ceased. The males rushed headlong upon the thing which their terrific +blows had reduced to a mass of hairy pulp. They now turned their +attention to devouring their late enemy. The mightiest apes obtained +the choicest morsels.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p29a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan with his sharp knife slashed off a more generous portion than he +had hoped for. Old Tublat spied Tarzan with the prize and wicked gleams +of hate shot from his little eyes. Tarzan saw the great beast's purpose +and leaped nimbly away—Tublat, however, close upon his heels.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p29b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Swiftly he sprang. Gaining a lower limb, he climbed rapidly, followed +closely by Tublat. Up, up he went to the highest branches, where his +heavy pursuer dared not follow. There he perched, hurling taunts and +insults at the raging, foaming beast fifty feet below him. And then +Tublat went mad!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p29c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>With horrifying screams and roars, he rushed to the ground among the +females and young, sinking his great fangs into a dozen tiny necks. +Tarzan witnessed the whole mad carnival of rage. Now he saw Tublat dash +toward Kala, his foster-mother. Tarzan dropped swiftly and faced the +infuriated brute.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p29d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>With a roar of triumph, Tublat leaped. Tarzan plunged a keen +hunting-knife a dozen times into him. The ape rolled to the ground. +Tarzan, his foot upon the neck of his enemy, threw back his head and, +beating his mighty breast, screamed out the fierce ape cry of defiance.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p30a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The morning after the Dum-Dum, the tribe started slowly back through +the forest toward the coast. The body of Tublat lay where it had +fallen, for the people of Kerchak do not eat their own dead. The march +was but a leisurely search for food. Once old Sabor crossed their path.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p30b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>This sent them scurrying to the safety of the higher branches. Tarzan +sat directly above the lioness—and hurled a pineapple at their ancient +enemy. Into his mind a great plan sprung. He had killed the fierce +Tublat; now would he track down the crafty Sabor and slay her likewise!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p30c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>At the bottom of his little English heart bent the great desire to +cover his nakedness with clothes. He had learned from his picture books +that all MEN were so covered, while APES and every other living thing +went naked. So he desired the skin of Sabor, the lioness.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p30d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>On this day he had other things to attract his attention. Suddenly it +became as midnight. Faintly came a low, sad moaning. The great trees +bent. Vivid and blinding lightning flashed from the whirling, inky +clouds above. Roaring thunder belched forth its fearsome challenge. The +deluge came—pandemonium broke loose!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p31a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The tribe huddled in shivering fear from the cold rain at the bases +of great trees. For hours it raged—ending suddenly. To Tarzan came a +dawning light to explain the mystery of clothes. How snug he'd have +been beneath Sabor's heavy coat! So was added a further incentive.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p31b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan always kept his grass rope lasso in readiness when journeying +through the forest, catching many small animals. At last came she whom +he sought—Sabor, the lioness. Nearer and nearer—to where Tarzan of +the Apes crouched upon his limb, the coils of his long rope poised +ready.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p31c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Like a thing of bronze sat Tarzan. Sabor passed beneath. Three strides +she took. Then the silent coil shot out and settled about her neck. +With a quick jerk, Tarzan snapped the noose tight about the glossy +neck. She made a bound and fell upon her neck! Sabor was trapped.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p31d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>But Sabor had now found that it was only a slender cord that held her, +and, grasping it in her huge jaws, she severed it! Tarzan was much +hurt. His well-laid plan had come to naught. Sabor paced back and forth +beneath the tree for hours, often springing at him.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p32a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan mocked and danced above her, hurling twigs and branches at her +unprotected face. At last he tired of the sport. With a parting roar of +challenge, and a well-aimed ripe fruit that spread over her face, he +swung rapidly through the trees a hundred feet above the ground.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p32b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>In a short time he was among the members of his tribe. And here he +recounted the details of his adventure, with swelling chest and so +considerable a swagger that he impressed even his bitterest enemies, +while Kala fairly danced for joy and pride at her foster-son's bravery +and prowess.</p> +</div> +</div> + + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p32c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan of the Apes lived on in his wild jungle existence with little +change for several years, growing stronger and wiser. With Tantor the +Elephant he made friends. On many moonlit nights Tarzan and Tantor +walked together. All else of the jungle were his enemies, except his +own tribe.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p32d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>At eighteen, Tarzan had never seen a human being other than himself. +But as he sat one day in a tall tree, trying to solve the mystery of +the cabin, the ancient security of his jungle was broken forever. <i>A +strange cavalcade strung in single file over a low hill.</i></p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p33a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>In advance were fifty black warriors armed with wooden spears, long +bows, and poisoned arrows. Then came several hundred women and children +followed by more warriors. They were fleeing from the white man's +soldiers, having massacred a white officer. They set to work to build a +new village. Tarzan wondered.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p33b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>A month later it was complete, and they had taken up their old life +in their new home. Several moons passed before they ventured far from +their safety, for many had fallen prey to the jungle animals. But one +day Kulonga, son of their old king, wandered far toward the west.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p33c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Warily he stepped—his long shield grasped close to his sleek, ebony +body. Night found him far from his father's village. He climbed into +the fork of a great tree, fashioned a rude platform, and curled himself +for sleep. Three miles to the west of him slept the tribe of Kerchak.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p33d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Early the next morning, the apes were astir, moving through the jungle +in search of food. Tarzan, as was his custom, prosecuted his search +in the direction of the cabin. Kala, busily engaged, had moved slowly +east, when the faintest shadow of a strange noise brought her to +startled attention.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p34a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Down the leafy trail she saw the stealthily advancing figure of a +strange and fearsome creature. It was Kulonga. Kala moved rapidly back +along the trail, seeking rather to avoid than to escape. Close after +her came Kulonga. Here was meat! He could kill and feast well! His +spear poised for the throw.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p34b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The spear sped toward Kala. It but grazed her side! With a cry of rage +and pain, the she-ape turned and charged. Instantly the trees crashed +beneath her hurrying fellows—swinging rapidly to Kala's scream. +Kulonga fitted a poisoned arrow, and drove it straight into the heart +of the great anthropoid.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p34c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>With a horrible scream, Kala plunged forward upon her face before the +astonished members of her tribe. Roaring and shrieking, the apes dashed +toward Kulonga, who fled down the trail. None had ever seen a man +before other than Tarzan, so they wondered what strange creature had +invaded their jungle.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p34d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan heard. He knew something was amiss. He found the entire tribe +gathered jabbering about the dead body of his foster-mother. His grief +and anger were unbounded. He roared out his hideous challenge, beat his +breast, and then fell upon the body of Kala, sobbing out his lonely +heart.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p35a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>After the first outburst of grief, Tarzan controlled himself and +questioned the tribe concerning the killing of Kala. They told him +of a strange hairless black ape with feathers on its head, who +launched death from a slender branch—then fled with the fleetness of +Bara-the-deer toward the setting sun.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p35b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>It was enough. Tarzan sped rapidly to intercept the black warrior. He +took his knife and rope. He struck the trail and in the mud he found +footprints such as his own—but larger. His heart beat fast! Could it +be that he was trailing a MAN? One of his own race?</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p35c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Soon he came upon the black warrior. Tarzan looked with wonder. Horta, +the boar, was charging and Kulonga shot a little poisoned arrow. Horta +staggered and lay still. Kulonga cut several long pieces from the +boar's body, built a fire, and ate as much as he wanted, leaving the +rest.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p35d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan was an interested spectator. He decided to follow further this +savage creature, killing him at his leisure. When Kulonga departed, +Tarzan of the Apes dropped and severed several pieces—but didn't cook +them. He knew not the use of fire. So he gobbled down a lot of the raw +flesh.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p36a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>And then Tarzan, Lord Greystoke, wiped his greasy fingers upon his +naked thighs and took up the trail of Kulonga. In far-off London +another Lord Greystoke—Tarzan's uncle—sent back his chops to the +Club's chef because they were underdone, and when <i>he</i> finished, dried +<i>his</i> hands on snowy damask!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p36b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>All day Tarzan followed Kulonga. Twice more he saw him hurl his arrows +of destruction. Tarzan thought much on this wondrous method of slaying. +He must look into the matter. That night Kulonga slept in the crotch of +a mighty tree, and far above him crouched Tarzan of the Apes.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p36c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>When Kulonga awoke he found that his bow and arrows had disappeared. +The black warrior was panic-stricken. He was defenseless except for a +single knife. Now his only hope lay in quickly reaching his village. He +took the trail at a rapid trot. Tarzan followed quietly in his wake.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p36d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>He was almost ready for the kill, but he was anxious to ascertain the +black warrior's destination. Presently he saw it. As Kulonga emerged +from the jungle a slender coiled rope sped above him. A quick noose +tightened about his neck. Then Tarzan drew the threshing victim up into +the sheltering tree.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p37a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan fastened the rope securely to a sharp branch. Then, descending, +he plunged his hunting-knife into Kulonga's heart. <i>Kala was avenged!</i> +He examined the black minutely—never had he seen another human being. +He admired the tattooing, the sharp filed teeth. On himself he put the +feathered head-dress, copper anklet, belt, and knife.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p37b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan of the Apes was ravenously hungry. Here was meat, which jungle +ethics permitted him to eat. His knife was poised to dismember Kulonga. +Suddenly a strange doubt stayed his hand. He never before hesitated to +eat of his kill, but was not this a man? Did men <i>eat</i> men?</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p37c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan's instinct overcame his cannibalistic impulse. He lowered +Kulonga's body and viewed the savage village, wondering over many +features of this new, strange life. A woman directly beneath him stood +over a small caldron, dipping arrows into a seething substance. He knew +that this was the deadly stuff that killed.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p37d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan wanted some of those little death-dealing slivers. He heard a +wild cry from across the clearing, and saw an excited black warrior +standing beneath the tree in which he had killed Kulonga, the murderer +of his ape-mother, Kala. The fellow was shouting, waving his spear and +pointing.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p38a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The village was in on uproar instantly. Armed men raced madly toward +the excited sentry. Tarzan of the Apes knew they had found the body +of his victim. Quickly he dropped into the now deserted village and +gathered some arrows. Entering a near-by hut, he saw many weapons <i>and +skulls</i>!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p38b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan made a pile of the hideous skulls. On the top skull he fastened +the head-dress of Kulonga, the chief's dead son. Then he heard a +mighty wailing and long, mournful howls. Quickly he disappeared into +the foliage above, kicking over the seething caldron, after securing a +supply of poisonous arrows.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p38c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The natives filed up the street bearing Kulonga's body, taking it to +the very hut in which Tarzan wrought his depredations. They came out in +wild jabbering confusion. The awesome discoveries filled their hearts +with terror. They conjured in their poor brains only the most frightful +of superstitious explanations.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p38d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>It was a well-laden Tarzan who dropped into the midst of Kerchak's +tribe. With swelling chest he narrated the glories of his adventures +and exhibited the spoils of conquest. Kerchak was jealous of this +strange member of his tribe. He sought some excuse to wreak his hatred +upon Tarzan.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p39a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>A month Tarzan practiced with his bow and arrows. During this time he +further investigated the cabin, and found the metal box containing his +father's diary, some photographs, and a diamond locket. This took his +fancy. He placed it about his neck, in imitation of the black men he +had visited.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p39b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>When his arrows were gone, Tarzan renewed the supply, repeating his +former pranks while the natives were enjoying a cannibal feast. They +were filled with fear at this new manifestation of some unseen, +unearthly evil power. Returning homeward, Tarzan encountered Sabor, the +lioness, and sent an arrow into her.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p39c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Removing the great pelt, he hastened to the tribe, who gathered to see +this new proof of his wondrous prowess. Only Kerchak hung back—nursing +his hatred and rage. Suddenly something snapped in Kerchak's brain. He +sprang biting and killing among the assembly. "Come down, Tarzan," he +cried, "come and fight!"</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p39d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Breathlessly the tribe watched as Kerchak, roaring, charged the +relatively puny figure. Tarzan tore loose his knife and drove it into +Kerchak—below the heart! They struggled along. Then the great body +shuddered, stiffened—sank limply. Kerchak was dead. Thus came the +young Lord Greystoke into the KINGSHIP OF THE APES.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p40a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The apes were more than content with Tarzan as their new king. Food was +more plentiful. He settled all their disputes wisely. Next he moved the +tribe inland to a place undefiled by the foot of a human being. But he +spent more and more time away from the tribe.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p40b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>He tired of the kingship and longed for the little cabin and the +sun-kissed sea. As he had grown older, he found his interests were +different from those of the tribe. He now preferred the peace and +solitude of the cabin to his leadership duties among the band of wild +apes.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p40c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>He had still one enemy. Before he renounced his kingship of the apes, +Tarzan wished to subdue the ugly Terkoz without recourse to knife or +arrows. Terkoz one day offended the tribal laws by beating an old +female and defying Tarzan's command to stop. So came they to that +well-remembered fight!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p40d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Never had the ape-man fought so terrible a battle since that day when +Bolgani, the king gorilla, had so horribly mangled him. But he won, +though he did not kill his enemy. This time he spared, after forcing +Terkoz to cry: "Ka-goda," meaning, "I surrender!" And all the tribe +heard—and marveled.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p41a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan let him up. Before darkness settled he called the old males +about him. "Tarzan," he said, "is going back to the lair of his own +people. You must choose another ruler. Tarzan will not return." Thus he +started toward his goal, the finding of other white men like himself.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p41b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Many days it was before Tarzan recovered from his victorious battle +with Terkoz, the rebellious bull-ape. And then, one day, he had another +encounter with three of the natives, emerging victor, taking their +weapons, ornaments, and wondrous finery. The natives, now thoroughly +frightened, believed him some unseen, terrible god.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p41c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>"Munango-Keewati," they called him, the evil spirit of the jungle, +believing that those who looked upon him died. So the king ordered +arrows and food to be placed just without the village to appease him. +As long as they supplied him with these, they thought, he would not +harm them.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p41d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan was returning to the cabin. When he came in sight of the beach, +a strange and unusual spectacle met his vision. On the placid waters of +the land-locked harbor floated a great ship, and on the beach a small +boat was drawn up. And men—like himself—were moving about!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p42a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>He crept closer, saw ten men talking loudly, gesticulating, shaking +their fists. Presently a little man laid his hand upon the shoulder of +a giant next him, pointing inland. As the big man turned to look, the +mean-faced one shot him in the back, tumbling him forward—dead!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p42b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The report of the weapon, the first Tarzan had ever heard, filled him +with wonderment. Were such white men his brothers? Presently the men +launched the boat, jumped into it and rowed away toward the great ship. +Then Tarzan slipped back to the cabin. Everything had been ransacked!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p42c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan saw his books and weapons strewn on the floor; his little store +of treasures littered about. A great wave of anger surged through +him. Ah—but the men had not found his tin box with its precious +contents!... <i>What was that?...</i> His quick ear had caught a faint but +unfamiliar sound.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p42d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>He ran to the window, looking toward the harbor. He saw a boat being +lowered from the great ship beside the one already in the water. Soon +he saw many people clambering over the ship's sides and dropping into +the boats. They were coming back in full force!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p43a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>He watched bundles and boxes being lowered. As they shoved off, the +ape-man snatched up a piece of paper and with a pencil printed several +lines of strong well-made characters. This notice he stuck upon the +door with a sharp wood splinter. Then gathering his precious box and +weapons he disappeared into the forest.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p43b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Fifteen villainous-appearing seamen landed from the boats. +Blood-thirsty and filthy they looked. The five others comprised two +elderly men—evidently scholars—a handsome young man in white ducks, a +huge negress, and a very beautiful girl of about nineteen. In silence +the party advanced toward the cabin.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p43c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The sailors carried the boxes and bales followed by the five of so +different a class. Coming to the cabin, they saw with puzzled surprise +the new-made sign. Few of the sailors could read. "Hi, perfesser," one +shouted, "read the bloomin' notis." The old gentleman addressed, read, +and murmured, "Most remarkable!"</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p43d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>A sailor grasped him by the collar and bawled into his ear: "Read it +out loud, you blithering idiot!" The professor read: THIS IS THE HOUSE +OF TARZAN THE KILLER OF BEASTS AND MANY BLACK MEN. DO NOT HARM THE +THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p44a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The thought uppermost in their minds was: "Who is Tarzan of the Apes?" +The rat-faced sailor growled out an insulting oath! The young man's +face paled in anger. "You've murdered our officer and robbed us," he +said. "Now shut up or I'll break your neck with my bare hands."</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p44b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>He deliberately turned his back upon the sailor and walked away. +The sailor's hand crept slyly to his revolver. His eyes glared +vengefully.... Two keen eyes had watched every move of the party from +a near-by tree. Tarzan saw the surprise caused by his notice and now +watched the quarrel.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p44c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The act of the rat-faced sailor in killing his comrade, the day before, +had aroused a strong dislike in Tarzan. He liked the fine-looking young +man. But now he naturally expected to see the young man murdered. Spear +in hand, his mighty arm was ready to strike.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p44d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Then three things happened almost simultaneously. The sailor leveled +his weapon at the young man's back, the girl screamed a warning, and +a long spear shot like a bolt from above. It passed through the man's +right shoulder, and the seaman crumpled up with a scream of pain and +terror.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p45a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The sailors stood in a frightened group, with drawn revolvers. The +wounded man writhed and shrieked upon the ground. The young man, whose +name was Clayton, picked up the fallen revolver. Jane, the girl, ran to +him. "Who could it have been?" she whispered. Meanwhile her father and +his scholarly companion had wandered into the primeval jungle.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p45b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>"I daresay Tarzan of the Apes is watching us all right!" Clayton +answered. "Go into the cabin while I go in search of your father." He +gave Jane his revolver and when he saw the door close safely behind +Jane and her servant, Esmeralda, he strode into the dense jungle.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p45c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>When Jane and Esmeralda found themselves safely behind the cabin door, +the negress's first thought was to barricade the portal from within. +She turned to search for some means to do it. With her first look, she +gave a shriek of terror, running to her mistress like a frightened +child.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p45d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Jane saw the cause of her cry! Lying prone upon the floor beside +them was the whitened skeleton of a man. A further glance revealed +the second skeleton upon the bed. And then the tiny skeleton in the +cradle! "What horrible place are we in?" murmured the awe-struck girl. +Esmeralda trembled.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p46a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>What might lie before them in this ill-fated cabin? She endeavored +to shake off the gloomy forebodings. She bade Esmeralda cease her +wailings, and the two of them barred the heavy door. Then they sat down +upon a bench, their arms about one another, two thoroughly frightened +women, and waited.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p46b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Meanwhile, the cowardly crew of the "Arrow" pulled rapidly for the +ship. Tarzan watched. The most wonderful sight of all to him was the +face of the beautiful white girl. Here at last was one of his own kind. +He decided to follow young Clayton and learn his errand.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p46c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Presently Tarzan came up with him. Clayton was lost. At intervals he +called aloud. Tarzan decided he was searching for the old man. Suddenly +Tarzan caught the yellow glint of a sleek hide moving cautiously toward +the unsuspecting young man. It was Sheeta, the leopard, crouching for +the spring!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p46d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>And then, shrill and horrible, there rose upon the jungle stillness +the awful cry of the challenging ape. Sheeta hesitated, then turned, +crashing into the underbrush. Clayton's blood ran cold—he felt the icy +fingers of fear upon his heart. Never had so fearful a sound smote upon +his ears.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p47a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Clayton could not know that to that very voice he owed his life nor +that the creature who hurled it forth <i>was his own cousin</i>—the <i>real</i> +Lord Greystoke. He started stumbling back to where he thought the cabin +lay. Darkness was quickly setting in. Heavens!—to die here alone!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p47b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Presently he heard a faint sound. Then he saw it! The lithe body of a +huge lion. Agonized he watched—powerless to fly. Came a noise above +him, an arrow hit the beast, who sprang in pain and terror. Then a +naked giant dropped from the tree above—squarely on the brute's back!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p47c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The scene Clayton witnessed there in the twilight depths of the African +jungle was burned forever into the Englishman's brain. The giant man +before him encircled the lion with his powerful right arm while with +his left hand he plunged a knife time and again into the beast's +unprotected side.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p47d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>It was all accomplished quickly. The lion sank lifeless. Then the +strange figure that had vanquished it stood erect upon the carcass, and +throwing back the wild and handsome head, gave out the fearsome cry +that a few minutes earlier had so startled Clayton. Then he gathered up +his weapons.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p48a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Clayton spoke to the stranger in English, thanking him. The only answer +was a steady stare and a shrug of the mighty shoulders. Tarzan drew +his knife, deftly carving a dozen strips from the lion's carcass. Then +squatting upon his haunches, he proceeded to eat, motioning Clayton to +join him.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p48b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Clayton could not bring himself to share the uncooked meat his strange +host was so apparently relishing. Again he essayed speech with the +ape-man, who replied in a strange tongue, like monkeys chattering. Then +he arose, motioning Clayton to follow him. Bewildered and confused, +Clayton hesitated to do so.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p48c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The ape-man, seeing Clayton disinclined to follow, grasped him by the +coat, dragging him along for a while. The Englishman concluded he was +a prisoner. Thus they traveled into the impenetrable forest amid wild +calls of savage life and falling night. Suddenly there came a faint +report—a single shot—then silence.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p48d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>In the cabin by the beach two thoroughly terrified women crouched. The +negress sobbed hysterically. The white girl, dry-eyed, was torn by +fears and forebodings. They heard the almost incessant roars from the +savage jungle. And now there came the sound of a heavy body brushing +against the cabin's side!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p49a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Silence—then she distinctly heard an animal outside, sniffing at the +door. They shuddered instinctively. A gentle scratching—the beast was +trying to force an entrance. Now, silhouetted against the moonlit sky +beyond, Jane saw the head of a huge lioness, its gleaming eyes fastened +upon her in intent ferocity.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p49b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>For twenty minutes the huge brute alternately sniffed and tore at the +door. Then she launched her great weight against the timeworn window +lattice. They saw a portion of it give way. Esmeralda fainted. The +horrified prisoner within beheld one great paw ... then its head thrust +within the room.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p49c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Slowly the powerful neck and shoulders spread the bars apart.... The +girl rose as in a trance, seeking with ever-increasing terror some +loophole of escape.... Suddenly her hand, tight pressed against her +bosom, felt the outline of Clayton's revolver. Quickly she leveled +it ... and pulled the trigger.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p49d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>There was a flash of flame, a roar of pain. This was the shot heard by +Tarzan and Clayton. Then Jane, too, fainted. But Sabor was not killed. +She saw her prey resistless. Slowly she forced her great bulk through +the opening. On this sight Jane again opened her eyes!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p50a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>When Clayton heard the shot, he became agonized with fear and +apprehension. He knew Jane was threatened with some danger. Tarzan +heard also and quickened his pace. Soon Clayton was left hopelessly +behind. He called aloud to the ape-man. Tarzan dropped lightly to his +side from the branches above.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p50b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Stooping down before Clayton, Tarzan motioned him to grasp him about +the neck, and with the white man upon his back, took to the trees. +The next few minutes were such as the Englishman never forgot. High +into swaying branches he was borne with what seemed to him incredible +swiftness.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p50c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>From one lofty branch the agile creature swung with Clayton through +a dizzy arc to a neighboring tree; then for a hundred yards maybe, +the sure feet threaded a maze of interwoven limbs, balancing like a +tight-rope-walker high above the black depths. How Clayton admired +those giant muscles!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p50d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Clayton fairly caught his breath at the sight of the horrid depths +below them. Yet, with all his seeming speed, Tarzan was actually +feeling his way with comparative slowness, searching constantly for +limbs of adequate strength to hold this double weight. Presently they +came to the clearing before the beach.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p51a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan's quick ears had heard the strange sounds of the lioness's +efforts to force the cabin. They dropped a hundred feet—landing with +scarcely a jar. The ape-man darted ahead, just in time to see the huge +lioness's tawny body slowly disappearing through the window of the +cabin!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p51b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Within the cabin Jane saw the lioness almost through the window. She +reached for the fallen revolver. Raised it. Then she saw Esmeralda, +inert but alive. She could not leave her. She must use one cartridge on +the senseless woman before she turned the cold muzzle toward herself +again.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p51c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Quickly Jane ran to the side of Esmeralda. She pressed the muzzle +of the revolver tight against that devoted heart, closed her eyes, +and—Sabor, the lioness, emitted a frightful shriek. The girl, +startled, recoiled and turned to face the brute, again raising the +weapon against her own temple.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p51d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>She didn't fire again. Surprised, she saw the huge animal being drawn +slowly back through the window and in the moonlight the heads of two +men. Tarzan had seized the long tail in both his hands, braced himself, +and thrown all his mighty strength into the effort to draw the beast +back.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p52a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Slowly the lioness was emerging from the window. Tarzan, suddenly +releasing his hold upon her, sprang full upon her back. Tighter +his strong young arms forced her head lower and lower. The immense +muscles of Tarzan's shoulders and biceps leaped into corded knots—a +super-human effort—and Sabor's vertebrae snapped!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p52b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Instantly Tarzan was on his feet. For the second time Clayton heard +Tarzan give the bull-ape's savage roar of victory. He ran toward Jane's +agonized cry. Calming her fears, they came out to the dead body of the +lioness, to thank their rescuer. But Tarzan of the Apes was gone.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p52c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan went in search of Jane's father. Finally he found the old man, +and the professor, brought them safely to the cabin, and again vanished +into the jungle. Esmeralda "came to" at the lioness's last shriek. The +reunited party of castaways related their experiences and talked long +of the mysterious ape-man.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p52d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>When it grew light, they ate of their scanty store of food. They +decided to bury the skeletons. The professor discovered they were those +of white people. On the man's finger he found a massive ring. Clayton +gave a cry of astonishment!... It bore the crest of the house of +Greystoke.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p53a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>And then Jane in a book saw the single name: Greystoke. Thus they +identified the skeletons and with deep reverence buried them. The +professor had noted that the infant's bones were not a human's. He +murmured "Most remarkable," but said nothing. From the trees Tarzan of +the Apes watched the solemn ceremony.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p53b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Most of all he watched the sweet face and graceful figure of Jane. He +knew that she was created to be protected and that he was created to +protect her. Esmeralda chanced to glance toward the harbor. She cried +out, pointing to the "Arrow" slowly sailing seaward!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p53c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Now they knew they were deserted—marooned by merciless sailors on this +jungle shore. Tarzan saw their consternation; also the departure of the +ship. He swung through the trees to see closely this strange floating +house. Presently his keen eyes saw the faintest suspicion of smoke on +the horizon.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p53d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The sailors also saw that smoke. The ship came about and headed for +land. There was a great scurrying about on deck. A boat was lowered; in +it a great chest was placed. Men bent to the oars; pulled rapidly to +the very point where Tarzan crouched, hidden in a tree.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p54a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Beaching the boat, the men lifted out the great chest. They argued +angrily—they quarreled, and a sailor buried his pick in the brain of +the rat-faced man. Digging a deep trench, they buried the treasure with +the corpse, obliterating all signs. Then they pulled rapidly back to +the "Arrow."</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p54b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The smoke on the horizon increased, and the sailors lost no time +in getting under full sail. Tarzan, an interested spectator, sat +speculating on the strange actions. He wondered what the chest +contained. Dropping to the ground he found a spade and began digging +until he uncovered the body.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p54c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>He dragged it from the grave, then unearthed the chest, replacing the +body and the earth. Four sailors had sweated beneath the burden of that +chest. Tarzan of the Apes picked it up easily and carried it into the +densest part of the jungle. He traveled for several hours.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p54d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>His brain told him the chest contained valuables. He desired to open +it, but the iron lock and bands baffled even his strength. So he buried +it. Darkness settled before he was back in the cabin's vicinity. +Astonished, he saw the interior of the cabin appear as bright as day.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p55a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Within the cabin, lights were burning. Clayton had found an unopened +tin of oil and lamps, still usable. Tarzan peered within. He saw his +cabin divided into two rooms, partitioned by boughs and sailcloth. The +men were reading and talking. He sought the other window. There was the +girl.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p55b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>How beautiful her features—how delicate her snowy skin! She was +writing at Tarzan's own table. Upon a pile of grasses lay the negress +asleep. For an hour Tarzan feasted his eyes upon her as she wrote. How +he longed to speak to her. At length she arose, leaving her manuscript.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p55c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>She went to the bed, loosened her soft mass of golden hair. Below her +waist it tumbled. Tarzan was spellbound! Then she extinguished the lamp +and all within was darkness. Still Tarzan watched. Creeping close he +waited, listening. At last she was asleep. Cautiously he intruded his +arm within the cabin.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p55d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Carefully he felt upon the desk. At last he grasped the manuscript Jane +had been writing. Cautiously he withdrew it. Tarzan folded the precious +sheets into a small parcel, tucking them into his arrow quiver. Then he +melted away into the jungle as softly and as noiselessly as a shadow.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p56a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan awoke early. His first thought was of that writing, hidden +in his quiver. How he hoped he could read what the beautiful girl +had written. Tarzan suffered a bitter disappointment, baffled by the +strange writing. Long he pored over it. Finally he recognized the +letters. His heart leaped for joy.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p56b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Slowly Tarzan deciphered Jane's letter. It was to a friend in America. +In it she narrated their strange experiences. How her father had +come into possession of an old Spanish manuscript telling of buried +treasure; how they had finally found it; how it had brought misfortune +to them, and of Tarzan.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p56c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan sat long in a brown study after reading the letter. He couldn't +understand much of the new and wonderful things it told of. He wrote +beneath Jane's signature "I am Tarzan of the Apes." Next morning +she found her missing letter in the exact spot from which it had +disappeared.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p56d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>A cold, clammy chill ran up her spine as she saw the printed words. But +as days passed without mishap, her fears calmed. Unseen by them, Tarzan +left offerings of food at the cabin. He told himself that one day he +would venture into the camp and talk with them.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p57a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>A month passed before Tarzan visited the camp by daylight. He found all +gone. His golden-haired divinity had vanished! So he printed a message +for her.... "I WANT YOU.... I AM YOURS.... KNOW THAT TARZAN OF THE APES +LOVES YOU." Suddenly his keen ears heard a familiar sound.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p57b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>It was the passing of a great ape through the forest. For an instant he +listened intently. Then from the jungle came the agonized scream of a +woman, and Tarzan of the Apes, dropping his first love letter upon the +ground, shot like a panther into the forest.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p57c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>After Tarzan left the tribe of apes, it was torn by continual strife +and confusion. Terkoz, now their king, proved a cruel and capricious +leader. In desperation the apes decided to turn him out. So one day as +he returned to the tribe, five huge, hairy beasts sprang upon him.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p57d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>At heart Terkoz was a coward. So he did not remain to fight and die. +Tearing himself away, he fled, foaming with rage and hatred, into the +jungle. Several days he wandered aimlessly. Swinging from tree to tree, +this horrible, man-like beast came suddenly upon the two women.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p58a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>He was right above when Jane saw him, his awful face thrust within a +foot of her. One piercing scream escaped her ere the brute had clutched +her arm. Then another mood seized him. He leaped into the trees, +bearing Jane to a fate a thousand times worse than death.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p58b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Jane did not once lose consciousness as she was borne farther into the +impenetrable jungle. The scream that brought Clayton stumbling through +the underbrush had led Tarzan of the Apes straight to where lay the +fainting Esmeralda. His ape training told him plainly the whole story. +He instantly gave chase.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p58c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>On he sped in the track of Terkoz and his prey. Terkoz heard and was +spurred to greater effort. Three miles were covered before Tarzan +overtook them. Seeing flight was futile, Terkoz dropped groundward. +Tarzan bounded like a leopard into the open glade. Terkoz turned to +fight for his prize.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p58d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Like two charging bulls they came together, and like two wolves they +sought each other's throat. Jane, her lithe young figure flattened +against a tree trunk, hands pressed tight against her bosom, and eyes +wide with mingled horror, fascination, fear, and admiration, watched +ape and ape-man battle for possession of her.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p59a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The great muscles of Tarzan's back and shoulders knotted beneath the +tension of his efforts. His huge biceps and forearm held at bay those +mighty tusks. The long knife drank deep a dozen times of Terkoz's life +blood. Then the great carcass rolled lifeless upon the ground.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p59b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The veil of centuries of civilization and culture was swept from Jane! +It was a primeval woman who sprang forward with outstretched arms +toward the primeval man who had fought for her and won her.... And +Tarzan took his woman in his arms and smothered her upturned, panting +lips with kisses.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p59c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Suddenly her face suffused with scarlet blushes. She thrust Tarzan of +the Apes from her and buried her face in her hands. He came close again +and took hold of her. She turned like a tigress, striking his great +breast with her tiny hands. Tarzan could not understand it.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p59d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>A moment before Tarzan had intended to hasten Jane back to her people. +That moment was lost. He had felt a warm, lithe form pressed close to +his. Again he sought her ... again she repulsed him. <i>Then Tarzan took +his woman in his arms and carried her into the jungle.</i></p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p60a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Early the following morning, the men in the cabin were awakened by +the booming of a cannon. Clayton rushed out and saw two vessels lying +in the harbor. One was the "Arrow"—the other a small French cruiser. +Quickly he ran to light the pile of wood he kept in readiness.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p60b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Before the flames arose. Clayton saw in consternation the cruiser +steaming away. Stripping off his shirt, he waved it back and forth +above him. Now the great column of smoke rose high, attracting the +attention of the ship's lookout. The cruiser steamed slowly back toward +shore. A boat was lowered.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p60c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>As it beached, a young officer stepped out. Quickly Clayton told their +story, ending with Jane's abduction. Lieutenant d'Arnot then narrated +the capture of the "Arrow"; how it had drifted in heavy seas many days, +without water or food until all but two of the mutineers were dead.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p60d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The sight that met the Frenchman's eyes as they clambered over the +ship's side was appalling! Dead and dying rolled upon the pitching +deck. Two of the corpses appeared partially devoured. Hunger had +changed the mutineers to wild beasts. The sole survivor told the whole +ghastly tale to the French commander.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p61a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The cruiser then sought the little camp. By the time the two parties +had narrated their several adventures, the cruiser's boat returned with +supplies and arms. With twenty sailors, they set off upon that hopeless +and ill-fated quest into the untracked jungle to find the stolen girl.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p61b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Jane realized she was being borne away a captive. She struggled +desperately. But Tarzan's strong arms held her more tightly. Once +he looked down into her eyes and smiled. The face above her was of +extraordinary beauty. Presently he took to the trees. On and on they +went for many miles.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p61c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Now they had come to their destination. In his strong arms Tarzan +placed her softly upon the green turf. She noted his magnificent figure +towering above her, its perfect symmetry, the poise of his fine head +upon his broad shoulders. Surely his purpose could not be base or +cruel.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p61d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>With a bound Tarzan sprang into the trees and disappeared. Had he left +her there to her fate in the lonely jungle?... She heard a sudden, +slight sound!... There stood Tarzan, his arms filled with luscious, +ripe fruit. He stroked her hair and tried to comfort and quiet her.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p62a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The last few hours had taught her to trust this strange, wild creature. +It commenced to dawn upon her that she had, possibly, learned something +she had never really known before—LOVE. She wondered—and then she +smiled.... And still smiling, she pushed Tarzan gently away, pointing +to the food.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p62b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Together, in silence they ate. He made a little bower of boughs and +grasses. Then he did the only thing he knew to assure Jane of her +safety. He handed her his knife—motioning her to sleep. She entered, +while Tarzan stretched himself upon the ground across the entrance.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p62c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The rising sun found them still separated. A great wonderment rose in +Jane's heart. Though she had been in such terrible danger, yet she was +unharmed. She moved to the entrance and Tarzan's lithe form dropped +lightly from a near-by tree, his face lighted with a smile.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p62d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Jane's heart beat faster. She could not understand it. They finished +breakfast. The magnificent diamond locket hanging about Tarzan's neck +was a source of much wonderment to Jane. She pointed to it and Tarzan +removed and handed it to her. Opening it, she beheld the likeness of +Lord and Lady Greystoke.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p63a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>She concluded this wild creature had simply found the locket in the +cabin. But she could not account for the strange likeness between Lord +Greystoke and this forest-god. Tarzan placed the locket about her neck. +Protesting, she would have removed it, but he held her hands tightly.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p63b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Motioning her to follow him, Tarzan walked toward the trees. Taking her +in one strong arm, he swung to the branches above. The ardor of his +first fierce passion had cooled. He knew <i>why</i> the ape had not killed +Jane. But <i>he</i> must not be guided by the laws of beasts.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p63c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>It was nearly sunset when they came to the clearing. Tarzan parted the +tall jungle grass. There stood the cabin. He turned to leave her. Then +she threw her arms about his neck and kissed him, unashamed. "I love +you," she murmured. "I shall wait for you—always." He was gone.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p63d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The little expedition searching for Jane pushed their way slowly +through the tangled jungle. Lieutenant d'Arnot was in the lead, a +hundred yards in advance. Suddenly six black warriors arose about him. +He gave a warning shout, but before he could draw his revolver he was +dragged into the jungle.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p64a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Alarmed, the sailors came running to the scene. A volley of arrows fell +among them. They answered with their rifles, shooting toward their +concealed enemies. After a terrific hand-to-hand fight, leaving many +dead on both sides, the natives fled, taking Lieutenant d'Arnot with +them to their village.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p64b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Arriving there at dusk, a great throng rushed out to meet them. Then +began for the French officer the most terrifying experience that man +can encounter—the reception of a white prisoner into a village of +African cannibals. They fell upon him, beating him with merciless +blows, tearing his clothes away.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p64c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>D'Arnot was bound securely to a great post. The women fetched pots and +water; others built a row of fires. He watched them, half-fainting with +pain, but not once did he cry out. The dance of death commenced to +circle around the doomed officer, moving nearer and nearer.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p64d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>He saw the bestial faces, daubed with color, the shining, naked bodies, +the cruel spears. Another spear, then another, touched him. He felt the +hot trickling blood.... He set his teeth ... he would show these beasts +how an officer and a gentleman died.... Suddenly they halted ... as +though turned to stone.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p65a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan of the Apes needed no interpreter to translate the story of +those distant shots. With incredible rapidity he was swinging through +the trees straight toward the savages' village. White men, men of his +own race, might even now be suffering the agonies of torture. On he +sped.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p65b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Presently he caught the reflection of a distant blaze. Ah—he was +not quite too late! The death blow had not been struck. From the +nearest tree Tarzan coiled his rope. Then there arose suddenly above +the fiendish cries of the dancing demons, the awful challenge of the +ape-man.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p65c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The rope sped with singing whir above the blacks' heads. A huge fellow +lunged backward; struggling and shrieking, his body moved toward the +trees. Then straight into the air, disappearing into the foliage. +The blacks, screaming with fright, raced madly for the village gate. +D'Arnot was left alone!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p65d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Now from the trees came a crash and the black came sprawling to earth +again, to lie quietly where he had fallen. Immediately after came a +white body, alighting erect. D'Arnot saw a clean-limbed young giant +emerge and come quickly to him.... Some new creature of torture, +doubtless.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p66a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Without a word Tarzan of the Apes cut the bonds that held the +Frenchman. Weak from suffering and loss of blood, he would have fallen +but for the strong arm that caught him. He felt himself lifted from the +ground. There was a sensation as of flying. Then he lost consciousness.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p66b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>When d'Arnot regained consciousness, he found himself lying in a little +shelter of boughs. Soon he recalled the whole hideous scene at the +stake; the strange white figure carrying him away. What fate lay in +store for him now?... Outside the hut he saw the squatting figure of a +man.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p66c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>He called faintly. The man crawled in. D'Arnot spoke to him in French, +then English, but he shook his handsome head. After examining d'Arnot's +wounds he disappeared, coming back with fruit, water, pieces of smooth +bark, and a pencil. Squatting beside d'Arnot, he wrote, handing the +message to the Frenchman.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p66d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>D'Arnot read with astonishment: I am Tarzan of the Apes. Who are you? +So d'Arnot wrote in English, about himself. Thus conversing, he learned +the story of the fight and found Jane was safe. Then for three days he +was in a delirium. Tarzan feared to leave him long.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p67a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Days after, d'Arnot very weak, but recovering, sat conversing with +Tarzan by means of the smooth bark. He wrote: What can I do to repay +you? Tarzan replied: Teach me to speak the language of men. Slowly he +taught him to speak in French. Tarzan was a very eager student.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p67b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Soon Tarzan asked d'Arnot if he felt strong enough to be carried back +to the cabin. Both were anxious to go, longing to see Jane again. +D'Arnot wrote: You cannot carry me all that distance. "That's easy," +Tarzan laughed. So they set out. Mid-afternoon, they arrived. <i>The +cabin was deserted.</i></p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p67c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The men turned and looked at one another. D'Arnot knew that his people +thought him dead, but Tarzan thought only of the woman who had kissed +him in love, then fled. A great bitterness rose in his heart. He would +go far into the jungle and rejoin his tribe.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p67d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>As Tarzan stood on the threshold brooding, d'Arnot entered the cabin. +He found many comforts left behind. There were two notes addressed to +Tarzan of the Apes. One, in a woman's hand, was sealed. Turning toward +the door, he found Tarzan gone. He called aloud, but there was no +response.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p68a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>To be left alone in the jungle, a prey to solitude and hopelessness! +Brave man that he was, d'Arnot was frightened. He closed the cabin +door.... Far to the east Tarzan was speeding back to his tribe.... But +he couldn't escape his thought. He should not have deserted one of his +own people.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p68b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>D'Arnot read the unsealed letter to Tarzan. It told how the rescuing +party had been forced to give up in despair. Also of the gifts they +were leaving for him, of their eternal gratitude for his protection and +service and ended: "We sail in an hour—never to return."</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p68c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>D'Arnot threw himself face downward on the cot.... An hour later he +started up, listening. Someone at the door... trying to enter.... Dusk +was falling. His hair rose on his scalp.... He reached for the loaded +rifle.... Gently the door opened.... Something stood just without.... +And then d'Arnot pulled the trigger.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p68d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>With the gun's report, d'Arnot saw a man pitch headlong into the cabin. +In an instant he realized he had shot his friend and protector, Tarzan +of the Apes. With a cry of anguish, d'Arnot sprang to the ape-man's +side, lifted his head, calling Tarzan's name aloud. There was no +response.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p69a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Placing his ear above the man's heart, he heard to his joy its steady +beating. D'Arnot, relieved, set about bathing Tarzan's face. He saw +there was an ugly flesh wound. Soon the cool water revived him, and +d'Arnot explained the terrible mistake. Laughing, Tarzan said: "It is +nothing. Forget it."</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p69b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>For a week they did little but rest. Now they could converse quite +easily in French. Tarzan, heart-broken, read Jane's farewell letter. +Where was this America to which she had sailed? It took a long time +for him to understand, even imperfectly, d'Arnot's explanations. He +resolved to follow and find her.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p69c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>So on the following morning they started north along the shore, +carrying rifles, ammunition, and food. For a month they traveled, +with no signs of natives, nor were they molested by wild beasts. One +morning they came to a clearing. In the distance were several buildings +surrounded by a strong stockade.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p69d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan, followed by d'Arnot, struck across the field, his head held +high, the tropical sun beating on his smooth brown skin. It proved to +be a French mission. They were welcomed, remaining until black women +made them clothes to continue their journey. Thus came Tarzan of the +Apes to the first outpost of civilization.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p70a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>During the long trek up the coast, Tarzan had spoken freely of himself +to d'Arnot, and asked many questions of the world toward which they +were heading. D'Arnot taught him many of civilization's refinements. +Tarzan told about the great chest he had seen the sailors bury; how he +had hidden it.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p70b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Once d'Arnot questioned him about his parents, and Tarzan told him of +Kala, his mother, the great fine ape. D'Arnot looked long and earnestly +at him. "Tarzan, it is impossible that Kala the ape was your mother. +You are pure man. Have you no clue to your past?"</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p70c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan replied: "I have read everything that was in the cabin with the +exception of one book. Possibly you can read it." He fished the little +black book from the bottom of his quiver. And d'Arnot read aloud the +diary of the unfortunate Lord Greystoke, written in French.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p70d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>It ended just as Lord Greystoke was struck down by Kerchak, the king +ape.... "<i>To-day our little son is six months old. He is sitting beside +me. Now he has grabbed my pen, and with his ink-begrimed fingers placed +the seal of his tiny finger-prints upon this page....</i>"</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p71a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>And there in the margin were the partially blurred imprints of four +wee fingers.... Finishing the diary, d'Arnot sat in silence. In his +mind had sprung the determination to prove a theory. He believed he had +discovered the key that alone could unlock the mystery of Tarzan of the +Apes.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p71b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Another month and they reached a little river port. Here d'Arnot cabled +his government for a three months' leave and his banker for funds. +During their wait the handsome "Monsieur Tarzan" became the wonder of +both blacks and whites.... A huge native had run amuck and terrorized +the town.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p71c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>On the hotel veranda the black spied Tarzan. With a roar he charged the +ape-man. Tarzan met the rush; his steel muscles gripped the black wrist +of the uplifted knife hand, a single wrench left the hand dangling +below a broken bone. Crying with agony, the fellow ran away. Tarzan +resumed reading.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p71d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Again, Tarzan accepted a challenge. He was to kill a lion +single-handed. Naked he went into the jungle armed only with knife and +rope. With his wild-days methods, at last he got the beast. Shouting +the awesome victory cry, he shouldered the carcass, returned to the +amazed group, and claimed the reward.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p72a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Often Tarzan longed for the freedom of the jungle. But loyalty to +d'Arnot, the vision of a beautiful face, and the memory of warm kisses +lured him onward. At length d'Arnot succeeded in chartering a small +boat, and they set sail down the coast, to dig for the buried treasure.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p72b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Arriving, Tarzan, garbed once more in his jungle regalia, set out alone +for the ape's haunts where lay the treasure. Next day he returned +bearing the great chest. Three weeks later they boarded a French +steamer. D'Arnot was taking Tarzan to Paris, nor would he divulge the +reason for their journey.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p72c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>One of the first things d'Arnot did upon their arrival in Paris was +to arrange to visit a high official of the police department, an +old friend. He took Tarzan with him. Here was explained to them the +fascinating science of identifying criminals by finger-prints. Tarzan +was intensely interested.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p72d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan requested that his own finger-prints be taken. This done, +d'Arnot drew forth a little book, turning to a page where were several +tiny smudges. Surprised, Tarzan watched, recalling how he had given the +diary to his friend. Now he realized the meaning of their visit to the +police bureau!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p73a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The answer to his life's riddle lay in those tiny marks! With tense +nerves Tarzan leaned forward. Was he a pure-blooded white man, the son +of Lord Greystoke? Or only a half-savage ape-man?... Much depended upon +the absolute correctness of the comparisons. Several days' delay was +necessary.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p73b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>And now Tarzan was able at last to see the treasure. When the great +oak, iron-bound chest was forced open, it was found to contain gold +coin—"doubloons" and "pieces of eight" from pirates' raids along the +Spanish Main. Tarzan desired to take it intact to America with him.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p73c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>What crime, suffering, and sorrow the thing had caused in its bloody +history! So d'Arnot advised disposing of it forever. When the gold +was appraised, it brought more than two hundred thousand dollars. And +now Tarzan was doubly anxious to start upon his way to find Jane in +America.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p73d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>D'Arnot, the only son of an aristocratic French family of wealth, was +unable to express his gratitude to Tarzan sufficiently. Never could he +forget those terrible times among the cannibals when Tarzan had saved +him from being eaten alive. Now he was heart-broken at the thought of +parting.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p74a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan wished to work his way across the Atlantic. D'Arnot would not +consent. He had deposited money to Tarzan's credit and had given him a +fine French motor car. Making him promise to return to Paris, d'Arnot +reluctantly bid him adieu and wished him "Bon voyage" as Tarzan boarded +the great liner.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p74b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The handsome "Monsieur Tarzan" was a great favorite during the voyage. +One morning as he watched the dancing spray, he heard a cry "Man +overboard," and saw a youth slip to the dark waters below. Quick as a +flash, Tarzan dived after, clasping him almost before the waters closed +over them.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p74c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan became the idol of the ship. It happened that the rescued boy's +grateful parents knew Jane's father. And so Tarzan easily found his +way. The day after docking, a big black car stopped at the modest home +and an black-haired giant leaped happily up the porch.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p74d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Our old friend Esmeralda opened the door. "If 'tain't the ape-man," she +cried, and as usual was about to faint, but excitement prevented her. +He learned that "Miss Jane had gone up north to be married." It needed +no further incentive to speed Tarzan over the miles toward Clayton's +camp.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p75a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The lovely Jane had never forgotten her strange experience in the +African jungle. Nor her handsome forest-god. But many troubles beset +her. Their depleted fortunes, her father's health, the ardent wooing +of young Clayton, now an avowed suitor, all worried her. Still loving +Tarzan, Jane never expected to see him again.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p75b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>For her father's sake she had accepted Clayton's invitation to visit +his hunting-camp. She admired this rich, titled Englishman—but Love +was another matter. She must decide.... To-day she had wandered far +into the woods, absorbed in her thoughts. Suddenly to the east she was +aware of approaching smoke.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p75c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>For a week a forest fire had raged near them, but no danger threatened. +Now she perceived the rushing flames were swiftly forcing their way +between herself and the cottage. She gave herself up for lost.... +Suddenly she heard a shout ... her name called in a strong, clear +voice ... a strange one.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p75d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>She answered ... saw a figure swing through the smoke. Suddenly she +felt a great arm about her ... felt herself lifted and borne aloft. +Jane thought she was living over in a dream the experiences of the far +African jungle. Would it <i>were</i> he of that other day again saving her! +But that was impossible.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p76a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Yet who else in all the world was there with the strength and agility +to do what this man was now doing? She stole a sudden glance at the +face close to hers and then she gave a little frightened gasp. It was +he ... her man.... TARZAN OF THE APES.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p76b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>"My Man." Jane must have spoken aloud. The eyes above her lightened +with a smile. "Yes, 'tis I, Tarzan, come out of the jungle to claim +you—the woman who run away from me," he added fiercely. They had come +to a point beyond the fire. The wind had changed.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p76c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>The fire was burning back upon itself.... He led her to his car.... +Swiftly, silently, they drove campward. Suddenly she exclaimed: +"Tarzan—oh <i>why</i> did you come back?" "Because I love you," he replied +happily. "You are mine."... Jane buried her face in her hands and +sobbed, bitterly.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p76d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan was eagerly welcomed when they all assembled at the camp. +Overwhelming him with gratitude, they voiced their surprise and +pleasure at seeing their jungle friend again. Long into the night they +talked, asking questions of Tarzan and reliving those days beside the +African wild, and what there befell them.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p77a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Then the conversation turned to the ill-fated pirates' chest. Tarzan, +turning to Jane's father, said: "Your treasure has been found, sir!" +Then he related its history since they had seen it last. Great was +their amazement, and greater when Tarzan produced the letter of credit +and gave it to Jane.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p77b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan, saying good night, asked the Professor to recall the burial +from the African cabin. "Were all <i>three</i> human skeletons?" Jane's +father eyed him narrowly. "No," he replied. "The smallest one—that +found in the crib—was the skeleton of an anthropoid ape!" "Thank you," +said Tarzan quietly. <i>Dawn was breaking.</i></p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p77c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>All the following day Jane thought fast and furiously. She had felt the +purpose for which Tarzan had asked a few words with her. She knew she +must be prepared to give him her answer. What was it to be? <i>Did</i> she +love him?... She did not know <i>now</i>.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p77d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of the +far-off jungle. Here there was no spell of enchantment. Nor did this +immaculate young Frenchman appeal to the primal woman in her as had the +stalwart forest-god. Why, he had not even a name!</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p78a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>She thought of Clayton. Here was a man of social position, culture, +and wealth. She knew his was the sort of love a civilized woman should +crave. Clayton sought her in the garden. "Won't you say Yes, Jane?" he +pleaded. "I will devote my life to making you happy." What could she +say?</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p78b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>That evening Tarzan caught Jane alone. For the first time she realized +the depths of his love. "You do not love me then?" Tarzan asked +quietly. She was miserably silent.... "You will be happier without me," +came her faint reply. "Civilization will bore you. Soon you will long +for freedom."</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p78c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>"I'd rather see you happy than be happy myself. I know now you couldn't +be happy with—an Ape." Bitterness tinged his voice. "Don't say that!" +she cried. "You don't understand.... Forgive me, for I may never +see you again."... Tarzan heard his name called. Unmindful, he felt +something pressed into his hand.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p78d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan held in his hand a cablegram from Paris. He tore it open, +almost dreading to know its contents. The message was from his +friend, d'Arnot. It read: "Finger-prints prove you Lord Greystoke. +Congratulations." At last he knew the truth. The mystery was solved. +His great chest heaved with emotion.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p79a.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan turned toward the window. But he saw nothing without. Instead in +his mind's eye he beheld a patch of greensward in the African jungle +matted with tropical plants and flowers. Above, the waving foliage of +mighty trees and over all the blue of an equatorial sky! It was HOME.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p79b.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>A lovely girl sat upon a mound of earth. Beside her was a young giant. +They ate pleasant fruit and looked into each other's eyes and smiled. +They were very happy—and they were all alone. He heard her voice.... +"I hope your message bears no bad news?" Jane asked gently.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p79c.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Tarzan came to with a start. He looked toward Clayton, the man who had +Tarzan's title and estates. He was going to marry the woman Tarzan +loved. One word from Tarzan would take them all from him ... AND JANE! +Tarzan made his decision, made his noble act of self-renunciation.</p> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<div class="figcenter"> + <img src="images/p79d.jpg" alt=""> + <div class="caption"> + +<p>Then he answered Jane. "It means I must return to Africa." He heard her +half-choked sob.... "We owe you our lives," said Clayton humbly.... +"How'd you get into that bally jungle, anyway?"... "I was born there," +said Tarzan quietly.... "My mother was an ape.... I never <i>knew who my +father was</i>!"</p> +</div> +</div> +</div> + +<hr class="chap"> + + +<p class="ph2">EDGAR RICE BURROUGH'S NOVELS</p> + +<p class="ph2">May be had wherever books are sold.<br> +Ask for Grosset and Dunlap's list</p> + +<p class="ph2">THE OUTLAW OF TORN<br> +TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION<br> +THE MAD KING<br> +THE MOON MAID<br> +THE ETERNAL LOVER<br> +THE BANDIT OF HELL'S BEND<br> +THE CAVE GIRL<br> +THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT<br> +TARZAN OF THE APES<br> +TARZAN AND THE JEWELS OF OPAR<br> +TARZAN AND THE ANT MEN<br> +TARZAN THE TERRIBLE<br> +TARZAN THE UNTAMED<br> +THE BEASTS OF TARZAN<br> +THE RETURN OF TARZAN<br> +THE SON OF TARZAN<br> +JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN<br> +AT THE EARTH'S CORE<br> +PELLUCIDAR<br> +THE MUCKER<br> +A PRINCESS OF MARS<br> +THE GODS OF MARS<br> +THE WARLORD OF MARS<br> +THUVIA, MAID OF MARS<br> +THE CHESSMEN OF MARS</p> + + +<p class="ph2">GROSSET & DUNLAP, <i>Publishers</i>, NEW YORK</p> + +<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT 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