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MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1914. PLATTSE10UTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. PAGE 5. CHAPTER VI. King of the Apes. T ARZAN dropped to the ground beside the caldron of poison and stood motionless, his quick eyes scanning the interior of the palisade. No one -was in sight. His eyes rested upon the open doorway of a nearby hut. lie would take a look within, thought Tarzan, aud so cautiously he approached the low thatched building. For a moment he hesitated without, listening intently. There was no sound, and he glided Into the semi darkness of the interior. Weapons hung against the walls long spears, strangely shaped knives, a couple of narrow shields. In the cen ter of the room Avas a cooking pot and at the far end a litter of dry grasses covered by w oven mats, which evident ly served the owners as beds and bed ding. Several human skulls lay upon the floor. Tarzan of the apes felt of each arti cle, hefted the spears, sinelled of them, for he "saw largely through his sensi tive and highly trained nostrils. He determined to own one of these long pointed sticks, but he could not take one on this trip because of the arrows he meant to carry. One by one as he took each article from the walls he placed them in a pile in the center of the room, and on top of all he placed the cooking iot, inverted, and on top of this he laid one of the grinning skulls, upon which he fastened the headdress of the dead Kulonga. Then he stood back and surveyed his work and grinned. Tarzan of the apes was a joker. But now he heard without the sounds of many voices and long, mournful howls and mighty wailing. He was startled. Ilad he remained too long? Quickly ho reached the doorway and peered down the village street toward the village gate. The natives were not yet in sight, though he could plainly hear them ap proaching across the plantation. They must be very near. Lake a flash he sprang across the opening to the pile of arrows. Gath ering up all he could carry under one arm, with a kick he overturned the seething caldron and disappeared into the foliage, just as the first of the re turning natives entered the gate at the far cud of the tillage. He turned to watch the proceedings below, poised like some wild bird ready to take swift wing at the first sign of danger. The natives tiled up the street, four of them bearing the body of Kulonga. Behind trailed the women, uttering strange cries and weird lamentation. On they came to the iortaIs of the very hut in which Tarzan had wrought his depredations. Scarcely had half a dozen entered the building ere they came rushing out in wild, jabbering confusion. The fthers hastened to gather about. There was much excited gesticulating, point ing and chattering. Several of the warriors approached and peered within. Finally an old fellow with many or naments of metal about his arms and legs and a necklace of dried human hands depending upon his chest, en tered the hut. It was Mbonga, the king, father of Kulonga. For a few moments all were silent. Then Mbonga emerged, a look of min gled wrath and fear writ upon his hideous countenance. He spoke a few words to the assembled warriors, and In an Instant the men were flying through the little village searching minutely every hut and ccmer within the palisade. Scarcely had the search commenced than the overturned caldron was dis covered and with it the theft of the poisoned arrows. Nothing more they found, and It was a thoroughly aw. and frightened group of savages Mhich huddled around their king a few mo ments later. They stood in little groups, talking in low tones and casting affrighted glances behind them from their great rolling eyes. Tarzan of tl apes watched them for awhile from fcis lofty perch In the great tree. The sun was high in the heavens. Tarzan had not broken fast this day, and it was many miles to where lay the toothsome remains of Horta, the boar. So he turned his back upon the village of Mbonga. It was not yet dark when he reached his tribe, though he stopped to exhume and devour the remains of the wild boar he had cached the preceding day and again to get Kulonga's bow and arrows from the tree top in which he had hidden them. It was a well laden Tarzan who dropped from the branches into the WW It Was a Thoroughly Awed and Fright ened Group cf Savages. mi Ji of the tribebf Kerchak. Willi swelling chest he narrated the glories of his adventure and exhibited the s:oils of conquest. Kerchak grunted and turned away, for he was jealous of this strange member of his band. In his little evil brain he sought for some excuse to wreak his hatred upon Tarzan. The? next day Tarzan was practicing with his bow and arrows at the first gleam of dawn. At first be lost nearly every bolt he shot, but finally he learn ed to guide the little shafts with fair accuacy, and ere a mouth had passed he was no mean shot, but his profi ciency had cost learly his entire supply of arrows. It was during this period that the young Erf'Jsh lord found hidden in the back of one of the cupboards in the cabin a little metal box. The key was in the lock, and a few moments inves tigation and experimentation were re warded with the successful opening of the receptacle. In it he found a faded photograph of a smooth faced young man, a golden locket studded with diamonds linked to a small gold chain, a few letters and a small book. Tarzan examined these all minutely. The photograph he liked best of all, for the eyes were smiling, and the face was open and frank. It was his fa ther. The locket, too, took his fancy, and he placed the chain about his neck In imitation of the ornamentation he had seen to be so common among the black men he had visited. The brilliant stones gleamed strangely against his smooth, brown hide. The letters he could scarcely deci pher, for he bad learned little or noth ing of script so he put them back in the box, with the photograph and turn ed his attention to the little book. This was almost entirely filled with fine script; but, while the little bugs were all familiar to him. their arrange ment and the combinations in which they occurred were strange and entire ly incomprehensible. Tarzan had long since learned the nseofthpjetionarv; but,, much to. his sorrow and perplexity, it proved of no avail to him in this emergency. Not a word of all that was written In the lit tle I'ook could he find, and so he put it back in the little metal box, but with a determination to work out the mys teries of it later on. It was the diary of John Clayton, Lord Greystoke, kept in French, as had always been his custom. Tarzan replaced the box in the cup board, but always thereafter he car ried the features of the strong, smiling face of his father in his heart and in Ids head a fixed determination to solye the mystery of the strange words in the little black book. At present he had more, important business in hand, for his supply of "ar rows was exhausted, ar.d he must needs journey to the black men's vil lage and renew it Early the following morning he set out, and, traveling rapidly, he came before midday to the little clearing. Once more he took cp his position in the great tree. and. as before, he saw the women in the fields and the village street and the little caldron of bub bling poison directly beneath him. PC 17 vir eager A duimughs Copyright, 1912, by th Frank A. Munsey company. For hours he lay awaiting Ills oppor- tunity to drop down unseen and gather up the arrows for which he had come. But It was not until night fell that Tarzan saw his chance. This time he took all of the arrows, for he had brought a number of long fibers to bind them into a bundle. When the savages discovered that once more their arrows had been pil fered it seemed to them that they had offended some great god who ruled this part of the jungle. From then on an offering of food was daily placed beneath the great tree from whence the arrows had disappeared, in an effort to conciliate the mighty one. But the seed of fear was deep sown, and had he but known it Tarzan of the apes had laid the foundation for much future misery for himself and his tribe. That night he slept In the forest not far from the village, and early the next morning set out slowly on his homeward march, hunting as he trav eled. Only a few berries and an oc casional grubworm rewarded his search, and he was half famished when, looking up from a log he bad been rooting beneath, he saw Sabor. the tiger, standing in the center of the trail not twenty paces from him. The great yellow eyes were fixed upon him with a wicked and baleful gleam, and the red tongue licked the longing Hps as Sabor crouched, worm ing his stealthy way with belly flat tened against the earth. Tarzan did not attempt to escape, lie welcomed the opportunity for which, in fact, he had been searching. Quickly he unslung his bow and fit ted a well daubed arrow, and as Sabor sprang the tiny missile leaped to meet him In midair. At the same Instant Tarzan of the apes jumped to one side, and as. the tiger struck the ground be yond another death tipped arrow sank deep into his loin. With a mighty roar the beast turned and charged once more, only to be met with a third arrow full In one eye, but this time he was too close upon tho ape man for the latter to sidestep. Tarzan of the apes went down be neath the body of his enemy, but with gleaming knife drawn and striking home. For a moment they lay there, and then Tarzan realized that the inert mass lying upon him was beyond pow er to injure. With difficulty he wriggled from be neath the great weight, and as he stood erect and gazed down upon the trophy of his skill a mighty wave of exulta tion swept over him. With swelling breast, he placed a foot upon the body of his powerful enemy and, throwing back his fine young head, roared out the awful chal lenge of the victorious bull ape. The forest echoed with the savage and triumphant paean. Birds fell still, and the larger animals and beasts of prey slunk stealthily away, for few there were of all the jungle who sought for trouble with the great anthropoids. And in London another Lord Grey stoke was speaking to his kind in the house of lords, but none trembled at the sound of his soft voice. Sabor proved most unsavory eating even to Tarzan of the apes, but hunger served as a sauce, and ere long the well fed ape man was ready to sleep again. First, however, he must re move the hide, for it was as much for this as for any other purpose that he bad desired to encompass the destruc tion of Sabor. the tiger. Deftly he removed the great pelt, for he had practiced often on smaller ani mals, and when the task was finished he carried his trophy to the fork of a high tree. There, curling himself se curely in a crotch, he fell into deep slumber. r What with loss of sleep, arduous ex ercise and a hearty meal Tarzan of the apes slept the sun round, awaken ing about noon of the following day. He straightway repaired to the car cass of Sabor, but was angered to find the bones picked clean by other hun gry denizens of the jungle. lie hastened on toward the . point where he had left the tribe and. when he had found them, proudly exhibited the skin of Sabor. the tiger. "Look' he cried, "apes of Kerchak! See what Tarzan, the killer, has done. Who else among you has ever killed one of Saber's people? Tarzan is mightiest among you, for Tarzan is no ape. Tarzan-is" But here he stop ped, for in the language of the anthro Ioids there was no wpr4 for man, and Tarzan could only write the word in English. He could not pronounce it. The tribe had gathered about to look upon the proof of his wondrous prow ess and to listen to bis words. Only Kerchak hung back, nursing his hatred and his rage. .yddlxPinetliins snapped intbe brain of the anthropoid. With a fright ful roar the great beast sprang among the assemblage. Frothing and shriek ing in the Insanity of his fury, Ker chak looked about for the object of his greatest hatred, and there, upon a nearby limb, he saw him sitting. "Come down. Tarzan. great killer!" cried Kerchak. ready for battle. "Come down and feel the fangs of a greater! Do mighty fighters fly to the trees at danger?' And he emitted the volleying chal lenge of his kind. Quietly Tarzan dropped to the ground. Breathlessly the tribe watch ed Kerchak. still roaring, charge the relatively puny figure. Nearly seven feet stood Kerchak on his short legs, nis enormous shoul ders were bunched and rounded 7with huge muscles. The back of his short neck was as a single lump of iron sinew which bulged beyond the base of his skull, so that his head seemed like a small ball protruding from a huge mountain of flesh. His back drawn, suarling lips expos ed his great fighting fangs, and his bloodshot eyes gleamed in horrid re flection of his madness.' Awaiting him stood Tarzan. himself a mighty muscled animal. b;it his sis feet of height and his great rollin-; sinews seemed pitifully inadequate tf the ordeal which awaited them in theii struggle with Kerchak. His bow and arrows lay some dis tance away, where he had dropped them when showing Sabor's hide U his fellow apes, and he confronted Ker chak with only his knife and his supe rior intellect to offset the ferocioui strength of his enemy. As his antagonist came roaring to ward him Lord Greystoke tore his long knife from the sheath and. with an an swering challenge as horrid and blood curdling as that of the beast he faced, rushed swiftly to meet the attack. He was too shrewd to allow those long, hairy arms to encircle him, and just as their bodies were about to crash to gether Tarzan of the apes grasped one of the huge wrists of his assailant and. springing lightly to one side, drove his knife to the liTTt into KercLak's boJ below the heart. Before he could wrench the blade free again Kerchak's quick lunge to grasp him in those awful arms bad torn the hilt from Tarzan s hand. Kerchak aimed a terrilic blow at the ape man's head with the fiat of his Loud Through the Forest Rang the Fierce Wild Cry. hand, a blow which had it landed might easily have crushed in the side of Tarzan's skull. The man was too quick and, ducking the blow, himself delivered a mighty one with clinched fist in the pit of Kerchak's stomach. The ape was staggered by the blow and, what with the mortal wound in his side, had almost collapsed, when with one mighty effort he rallied for an instant, just long enough to enable him to wrest his arm free from Tar zan's grasp and close in a terrific clinch with his wiry opponent. Straining the ape man close to him, his great jaws sought Tarzan's throat, but the young lord's sinewy fingers were at Kerchak's own before the cruel fangs could close on the sleek brown skin. The greater strength of the ape was slowly prevailing and the teeth of the straining beast were scarce an inch from Tarzan's throat when, with a shuddering tremor, the great body stiffened for an instant and then sank limply to the ground. Kerchak was dead and Tarzan of the apes the victor. Withdrawing the knife that had so often rendered him master of far mightier muscles than his own. Tar zan of the apes placed his foot upon the neck of his vanquished enemy, and once again loud through' the forest rang the fierce, wild cry of the con queror. And thus came the young Lord Grey atoke into the kingship of the apes. (To Be Continued.) Farm for Sale. 00 i acres, one-half miles north of M. P. depot. For par ticulars see J. W. Elliott. 4-16-tfwkly Local Kews From Friday's Daily. August Jochim of Louisville was attending- to busines matters in this city Wednesday and was a pleasant caller at this office. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Pittman of L'nion motored to this city Wed nesday and spent the day attend ing' to business matters and visit ing friends. Mr. Pittman wa-s a pleasant caller at this office. Frank Laughlin of Greenwood, who has been here attending the district court as a member of the jury panel, returned this after noon to his home. J'hn llnbscheidt of Murray was a visitor in this city yesterday and was a pleasant caller at this office. Mrs. II. M. 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