THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1914.
PLATTS MOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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CHAPTER IX.
At the Mercy of the Jungle.
CLAYTON turned and rushed back
toward the scene. The sailors
stood ia a frightened group,
with drawn weapons, peering
into the jungle. The wounded man
writhed and shrieked upon the ground.
Clayton, unseen by any. picked np
the fallen revolver and slipped it iu
slde his shirt; then he joined the sail
ors. "Who could it have been?" whisper
ed Jane Porter, and the young man
turned to see her standing, wide eyed,
beside him.
"I dare say Tarzan of the apes Is
watching us," he answered. "I won
der now who that tpear was intended
for? If for Snipes, then our ape friend
Is a friend indeed.
: "By Jove! "Where are your father
and Mr. Philander? There's some one
or something in that jungle, and it's
armed, whatever it is. Ho! Professor!
Mr. Philander!" young Clayton Shout
ed. There was no response.
"What's to be done. Miss Porter? I
can't leave you here alone with these
cutthroats. You certainly can't ven
ture into the jungle with me, yet some
one must go in search of yoar father.
He is more than apt at wandericg off
aimlessly, regardless of danger or di
rection, and Mr. Thilander is only a
trifle less impractical. I have li! You
can use a revolver, can't youT
; "Yes why?"
! "I have one. "With it you and Es
meralda vfill be comparatively safe in
this cabin while I am searching for
your father and Mr. rhilander. Come,
call the woman, and I will hurry on.
They can't have gone far."
Jane Porter did as he suggested, and
when he sirw the door close safely be
hind them Clayton turned toward the
jungle.
. Some of the sailors were drawing
the spear from their wounded com
rade, and as Clayton approached he
asked if he could borrow a revolver
from one of them while he searched
the jungle for the professor,
i The rat faced one, finding he was
not dead, had regained his composure
and with a volley of oaths refused.
This man. Snipes, had assumed the
role of chief since he had killed their
former leader, and so little time had
elapsed that none of Lis companions
had as yet questioned Lis authority.
Clayton's only response was a shrug
of the shoulders, but as he left them
he picked up the spear which had
transfixed Snipes, and thus primitively
armed the son of the then Lord Grey
stoke strode into the dense jungle.
Every few moments he called aloud
the names of the wanderers. The
watchers in the cabin by the beach
heard the sound of his voice growing
ever fainter and fainter, until at last
it was swallowed up by the myriad
noises of the primeval wood.
When Professor Archimedes Q. Por
ter and his assistant, Samuel T. Phi
lander, after much Insistence on the
part of the latter, had finally turned
their steps toward camp they were as
completely lost in the wild and tangled
labyrinth of the jungle as two human
beings could be, though they did not
know it.
: It was by the merest caprice of for
tune that they headed toward the west
coast of Africa instead of toward
Zanzibar, on the opposite side of the
dark continent.
When in a short time they reached
the beach, only to find no camp in
sight, Philander was positive that they
were north of their proper destination,
while, as a matter of fact, they were
alout 200 yards south of it. Mr. Sam
uel T. Philander grasped Trofessor
Archimedes Q. Porter firmly by the
arm and hurried the weakly protest
ing old gentleman off in the direction
of Cape Town. 1,500 miles to the south.
When Jane Porter and Esmeralda
found themselves safely behind the
cabin door the nc-gress' first thought
tvas to barricade the portal from the
Inside. With this Idea In view she
turned to search for some means of
putting It into execution, but her first
view of the Interior of the cabin
brought a shriek of terror to her lips,
and. like a frightened child, the huge
black ran to bury her face in her mis
tress' shoulders.
Jane Porter, turning at the cry, saw
the cause of It lying prone upon the
2oor before them the whitened skele
ton of a man. A further glance re
vealed a second skeleton upon the bed.
What horrible lacc are we in?"
murmured the awe stricken girl. But
there was no ianic in her fright.
At last disengaging herself from the
frantic clutch of the still shrieking Es
meralda. Jane Forter crossed the room
to look into the little cradle, knowing
Hhal fehe should seejherq before, ever
Her First View of the interior Brought
a Shriek of Terror.
the liny skeleton discbst'd itself
in all its pitiful and jiethrtic
fralify. What an awful tragedy
th''s; mule hones proclaimed!
The girl shuddered at the
thought of the possibilities that
might lie before herself and her friends
la this ill fated cabin.
Quickly, with an impatient stamp of
her foot, she endeavored to shake off
the gloomy forebodings, and turning
to Esmeralda bade her cease her wail
ing. "Stop, Esmeralda; stop it this min
ute!" she cried. "You are enly making
its worse. I never saw such a big
baby."
Soon the girl found that the door
was equipped with a heavy wooden
bar upon the Inside. After several
efforts the combined strength of the
two enabled them to slip it Into place
the first time in twenty years.
After Clayton had plunged into the
jungle, the sailors mutineers of the
Arrow fell into a discussion of their
next step, but on one point all were
6 greed that they should hasten to put
off to the anchored Arrow, where they
could at least be safe from the spears
of their unseen foe.
So much had Tarzan seen that day
that his head was in a whirl of wonder.
But the most wonderful sight of all to
him was the face of the beautiful white
girl.
Ilere at last was one of his own
kind; of that he was positive. And
the young man and the two old men.
they, too, we're much as he had pic
tured his own people to be.
He did not understand anything of
the motives behind all that he had
seen, but somehow intuitively he
liked the young man and the two old
men, and for the girl he had a strange
longing which he scarcely understood.
As for the big black woman, she was
evidently connected in some way with
the girl, and so he liked her also.
For the sailors, however, and espe
cially Snipes, he had developed a great
hatred. He knew by their threaten
ing gestures and by the expressions
upon their evil faces that they were
enemies of the others, and so he de
cided to watch them very closely.
Tarzan -wondered why the men had
gone Into the jungle. Never did it
occur to him that one could become
lost in that maze of undergrowth
which to him was as simple as the
main street of your own home town.
When he saw the sailors row away
toward the ship and knew that the
girl and her companion were safe ia
his cabin he decided to follow the
young man into the jungle and learn
what Jii3 errand might be. He swung
off rapidly In the direction takdn by
Clayton and in a short time heard
faintly in the distance the now only
occasional calls of the Englishman to
his friends.
Presently Tarzan came up with, the
white man, who, almost fagged, was
leaning against a tree wiping the per
spiration from his forehead. The ape
man, hiding safe behind a screen of
foliage, sat watching this new speci
men of his own race intently.
At intervals Clayton called aloud,
and finallyj.Itcame Jo. Tarzan that be
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was searching for the old men.
Tarzan was on the point of going off
to look for them himself when he
caught the yellow glint of a sleek hide
moving cautiously through the jungle
toward Clayton.
It was Sheeta, the leopard. He
heard the soft bonding of grasses and
wondered why the young white man
was not warned. Could it be he had
failed to note the loud warning? Nev
er before had Tarzan known Sheeta to
be so clumsy.
No, the white man did not honr.
Sheeta was crouching for the spring,
and then, shrill and horrible, there
rose upon the stillness of the jungle
the awful cry of the challenging ape,
and Sheeta turned, crashing into tlie
underbrush.
Clayton came to his feet with a
start. His blood ran cold. Never h id
so fearful a sound smote upon his ears.
He was no coward, but if ever min
felt the icy fingers of fear upon Lis
heart Cecil Clayton, eldest son of Ecrd
Greystoke of England, did that day in
the fastness of the African jungle.
The noise of some great lody crash
ing through the underbrush so close
beside him and the sound of that blood
curdling shriek from above tested
Clayton's courage to the limit, but he
could not know that it was to that
very voice he owed his life nor that
the creature who hurled it forth was
his own cousin the real Lord Grey
stoke. The afternoon was drawing to a
close, and Clayton, disheartened and
discouraged, was in, a terrible quan
dary as to the proper course to pursue,
whether to keep on in search of Pro
fessor Porter, at the almost certain
risk of his own death in the jungle by
night, or to return to the cabin, where
he might at least serve to protect
Jane Porter from the perils which con
fronted her on all sides.
He disliked to return to camp with
out her father; still more he shrank
from the thought of leaving her alone
and unprotected in the hands of the
mutineers of the Arrow or the hun
dred unknown dangers of the jungle.
Tossibly, too, he thought, before this
the professor and Philander had re
turned to camp. He started, stum
bling back through the thick and mat
ted underbrush in the direction that
he thought the cabin lay.
To Tarzan's surprise, the young man
was heading farther Into the jungle
in the general direction of Mbonga's
village, and the shrewd young ape
man was convinced that he was lost.
The fierce jungle would make easy
rrey of this unprotected stranger in a
very short time If he were not guided
quickly to the beach, thought Tarzan.
Yes. there was Numa, the lion, even
now stalking the white man a dozen
paces to the right
Clayton heard the great body paral
leling his course, and now there rose
upon the evening air the great beast's
thunderous roar. The man stopped
with upraised spear and faced the
brush from which issued the awful
ound. The shadows were deepening;
darkness was coming on.
For a moment all was still. Clayton
stood rigid with raised spear. Pres
ently a faint rustling of the bush be
hind him apprised Mm of the stealthy
creeplng of the thiag. It was gather
ing for a spring when at last he saw
It, not twenty feet away the long,
lithe, muscular body and tawny head
of a huge black maned lion.
In agony the man watched, fearful
to launch hi3 spear, powerless to fly.
lie heard a noise in the tree above
him. " Some new danger, he thought
but he dared not take his eyes from
the yellow green orbs before him.
There was a sharp twang, like the
sound of a broken, banjo string, and
at the same instant an arrow appeared
in the yellow hide of the crouching
lion.
With a roac of pain and anger the
beast sprang, but Clayton stumbled to
one side, and as he turned again to
face the infuriated king of beasts he
was appalled at the sight which con
fronted him. Almost simultaneously
with the lion's turning to renew the at
tack a naked giant had dropped from
the tree above squarely on the brute's
back.
With lightning speed an arm that
was corded with layers of iron muscle
encircled the huge neck, and the great
beast was raised from behind, roaring
and pawing the air raised as easily
as Clayton would have lifted a pet dog.
That scene he witnessed in the twi
lignt depths of an African jungle was
burned forever into the Englishman's
brain.
The man before him was the em
bodiment of physical perfection and
giant strength, yet it was not on this
he had depended in his battle with the
great cat, for, mighty as were his mus
cles, they, were as nothing by comparir
son with those possessed by " Numa.
To his agility, to his brain and to
his long, keen knife he owed his su
premacy.
nis right arm eneircleif the lion's
neck, while the left hand plunged the
knife time and time again into the
unprotected side behind the left shoul
der, while the Infuriated beast, drawn
upward and backward until he stood
on his hind legs, struggled impotently
in this unnatural position.
nad the battle continued a few sec
onds longer the outcome might have
been different, but all was accom
plished so quickly that the lion had
scarce time to recover from its sur
prise before it sank lifeless to the
ground.
Then the strange figure which had
vanquished it stood erect upon the car
cass and, throwing back the wild,
handsome bead, gave the fearsome cry
which a few moments earlier had so
startled Clayton.
Before him he saw the figure of a
young man naked except for a loin
cloth and a few barbaric ornaments on
arms and legs and on the breast a
priceless diamond locket gleaming
against a smooth brown skin.
The hunting knife had been returned
to its homely sheath, and the man was
gathering up his bow and quiver from
where he hacL tossed them when he
leaped to attack the lion.
Clayton spoke to the man in English,
thanking him for his brave rescue and
complimenting him on his wondrous
strength and dexterity.
The only answer was a steady stare
and a faint shrug of the mighty shoul
ders, which may have betokened either
disparagement of the service rendered
or ignorance of the language.
The bow and quiver slung on his
back, the wild man once more . drew
his knife and deftly carved a dozen
large strips of meat from the lion's
carcass. Then, squatting upon his
haunches, to proceeded to eat, motion
ing Ciayton to join him.
The strong white teeth sank into the
raw and dripping flesh in apparent rel
ish, but Clayton could not bring him
self to share the uncooked meat with
his strange host Instead lie watched
him, and presently there dawned upon
him the conviction that this was Tar
zan of the apes, whose notice he had
seen posted upon the cabin door that
morning.
If so he must speak English.
Again Clayton essayed speech with
the ape man, but the replies were in a
strange tongue, which resembled the
chattering of monkeys mingled with
the crowliusr of some wild beast
(To Be Continued.)
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From Tuesday's Dally.
James W. Holmes and James
Loughridge of Murray were in
the city today looking after some
matters in the county court.
J. D. Shrader of Murray was in
the city today for a few hours en
route from his home to Omaha.
Mrs. Guy Gould and little
daughter returned this afternoon
to their home at llavelock, after a
visit here with friends for a few
days. Frank Vallery was among the
business visitors in the metropol
is today for a few hours, going to
that city on the early Burlington
train.
Miss Margaret Donelan return
ed this morning to Omaha, after
a short visit here with her moth
er, Mrs. J. A. Donelan, and other
relatives.
Miss May West returned to
Glenwood yesterday afternoon af
ter a short visit here with rela
tives and friends.
T.ee Allison of Murray was in
Hie city today for a few hours in
attendance at the hearing of the
Wiley estate in county court.
George Thiingan and wife of
South Bend were here todav for a
few hours looking after some
matters of business at the court
house.
C. F. Vallery, supervisor of
road district No. 1, was in the city
vesterdav for a few hours look
ing after some matters at the
court house.
Mrs. It. E. Lloyd and little child
returned borne last evening on
So. 2 from Aurora, Neb., where
they have been visiting witli rela
tives for a short time.
Mrs. Joseph Kelly and Mrs. Gus
Olson were passengers this morn
ing for Omaha and Council Bluffs,
where they will visit for the day
a sister of Mrs. Kelly's being quite
sick in the Bluffs.
Miss Dorris Patterson, who has
been here for a few weeks visiting
at the home of her grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. William McCauley,
departed last evening for Chi
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G. A. Crnok of Waterloo, Neb.,
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From Wednesday's Dally.
James DelesDcrnier of Murray
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John Gauer of Cedar Creek was
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terday and was a pleasant caller
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Chris Barkening, from west of
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hours looking after some trading
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E. M. Smith of near the vicinity
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matters of business.
D. W. Foster of Union was in
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Henry Sass of Louisville ' was
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Miss Zclrna Tuey returned. to
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