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
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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.
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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.)
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From Friday's Daily.
August Jochim of Louisville
was attending- to busines matters
in this city Wednesday and was a
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Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Pittman of
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nesday and spent the day attend
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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. Amick cf Mynard
was a Plattsmouth: visitor yes
terday and a pleasant caller at
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P. E. Tritsch of Cedar Creek
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W. J. Burtress and daughter of
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Mr. Burgess and family lived
here some thirly years ago, and
the visit here was much enjoyed
in looking over the changes made
bv time here.
From Saturday's Daily.
I. M. ard ol Avoca returned
home yesterday afternoon, after
having been here attending the
session of the district court, he
having been a member of the jury
panel.
Miss Angie McCarroll came up
from Union last evening' to take
the county teacher's examination
and for a visit with Miss Matlie
Larson.
B. V. lloback, one of the rock
ribbed democrats and whole
souled gentlemen of Xehawka,
was in the city today for a few
hours looking after some matters
in the county court, and while in
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Miss Lula Welsh, who is at
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home last evening' and will visit
here over Sunday with her par
ents, Mr and Mrs. C. A. Welsh.
Mrs. Henry Ofe and son, Carl,
accompanied Mrs. Krietman, a
sister of Mrs. Ofe, who has been
here visiting, as far as Omaha
this morning" on her return to her
home at Madison.
Miss Henrietta Bowers of Te
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attending the Methodist confer
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Mrs. -C. H. Cobb and family, de
parted yesterday afternoon for
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Glen Ithoden came in this
morning' from his home " near
Murray and was a passenger on
No. G for Mt. Pleasant, Iowa,
where he will spend a few days
in that locality looking after
some matters of business.
County attorney C. II. Taylor
and Attorney Matthew Gering de
parted this morning- via automo
bile for Weeping" Water, where
they will try a lawsuit there to
day. The party, in charge of II.
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her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
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some matters in the county
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Mrs. Louis Thomas was a pas
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