THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1914.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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CHAPTER XV.
Heredity.
P A "T-IIEN Jane Torter ret
she "was betas? bon
y y captive by the str
HEX Jane Forter realized that
borne avray a
trance for
est creature who had re
cued her from ths clutches of the ape
she strup.srled desperately to escape.
Presently she jrave up the futile
effort and lay quietly, looking through
half closed lids at the face of the man
who strode easily through the tangled
undergrowth with her.
The face above her was one of ex
traordinary beauty.
It was a perfect tyre of the strongly I
masculine, unruarred by dissipation or
degrading passioi.s. One thing the girl
had noticed particularly when she had
seen Tarzan rushing upon Terkuz the
vivid scarlet band upon his forehead,
from above the left eye to the scalp,
but now as she scanned his features
she noticed that it was gone and only
a thin white line marked the spot
where It had been.
As she lay more quietly in Lis arms
Tarzan slightly relaxed his grip upon
her.
Once he looked down into her eyes
and smiled. The girl had to close her
own to shut out the vision of that
handsome, winning face.
Presently Tarzan tock to the trees,
and Jane Porter, wondering that she
felt no fear, began to realize that in
many respects she had never felt more
secure in her whole life than now as
she lay ia the arms of this wild crea
ture. "When with closed eyes she com
menced to speculate upon the future
and terrifying fears were conjured by
There Stood Tarzan, His Arms Filled
With f Luscious Fruit.
a vivid imagination she had but to
raise her lids and look upon that face
so close to hers to dissipate the last
remnant of apprehension.
On and on they went through what
seemed a solid mass of verdure, yet
ever there appeared to open before this
forest trod a passage as by magic
which closed behind them as they
passed.
As Tarzan moved steadily onward
his mind was occupied with many
Rtrumre and new thoughts. Here was
a problem the like of which he had
never encountered, and he felt rather
than reasoned that he must meet it as
a man and not as an ape. It was the
order of the jungle for the male to
take his mate by force. But could
Tarzan be guided by the laws of the
beasts? Was not Tarzan a man? Hut
how did men do? lie was puzzled.
He did not know.
He wished that he might ask the
girl, and then it came to him that she
had already answered mm m tue iuuie
;trursle she had made to escape and
to repulse him.
P.ut now they had come to their des
tination, and Tarzan oi the apes, with
Jane Porter in his strong arms, swung
lightly to the turf of the arena where
the great apes held their councils and
danced the wild orgy of the dumdum
Though they had come many miles.
It was still but midafternoon, and the
amphitheater was bathed in the half
light which filtered through the maze
of encircling foliage.
The CTeen turf looked cool and in
Tiling. The myriad noises of the jun
ri. Kompd distant and hushed to a
mere echo of blurred sounds, risln;
and falling like the surf upon a remot
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shore. "
A feeling of dreamy peaeefulness
stole over Jane Torter as she sank
down upon the grass where Tarzan
had placed her. She looked up at his
great- figure towering above her, and
there was added a strange sense of
perfect security.
"What a perfect creature! There
could be naught of cruelty or baseness
beneath the godlike exterior.
With a bound Tarzan sprang into
the trees and disappeared. Jane Por
ter wondered where he had gone. Had
he left her there to her fate in the
lonely jungle?
For a few minutes that seemed hours
to the frightened girl she sat with
tense nerves waiting.
She heard a sudden, slight sound
behind her. With a shriek she sprang
to her feet and turned to face her end.
There stood Tarzan. his arms filled
with ripe and luscious fruit.
Jane Forter reeled and would have
fallen, but Tarzan, dropping his bur
den, caught her in his arms. She did
not lose consciousness, but clung to
him, shuddering and trembling.
Tarzan of the apes stroked her soft
hair and tried to comfort and quiet her
as Kala had hira when as a little ape
he had been frightened by Sabor, the
tiger, or Ilistah, the snake.
Once he pressed his lips lightly upon
her forehead, and she did not move,
but closed her eyes and sighed.
She could not analyze her feelings,
nor did she wish to attempt it. She
was satisfied to feel the safety of those
strcng arms and to leave her future to
fate.
As she thought of the strangeness of
it there commenced to dawn upon her
the realization that she had possibly
learned something she had never
known before love. She wondered and
then smiled.
Still smiling, she pushed Tarzan
gently away, and, looking at him with
a half quizzical expression, that made
her face wholly entrancing, she point
ed to the fruit upon the ground and
seated herself upon the edge of the
earthen drum of the anthropoids.
Tarzan quickly gathered up the fruit
and, bringing it, laid it at her feet,
and then he, too, sat upon the drum
beside her and with his knife proceed
ed to open and prepare the various vi
ands for her meal.
Together and in silence they ate, oc
casionally stealing sly glances at one
mother, until finally Jane Porter broke
into a merry laugh in which Tarzan
joined.
"I wish you spoke English," said the
girl.
Tarzan shook his head, and an ex
pression of wistful and pathetic long
ing sobered his laucrhinsr eves.
Tarzan had long since reached a de
cision as to what his future procedure
should be. He had had time to recol
lect all that he had read of the ways
of men and women in the books at the
cabin. He would act as he imagined
the men in the books would have acted
were they in his place.
Again he rose and went into the
trees, but first he tried to explain by
means of signs that he would return
shortly, and he did so well that Jane
Porter undersd and was not afraid
when he had gone. Soon he returned
with a great armful of branches.
Then he went back again into the
jungle and in a few minutes reappear
ed with a quantity of soft grasses and
ferns. Two more trips he made until he
had quite a pile of material at hand.
Then he spread the ferns and grasses
upon the ground in a soft, flat bed, and
above it he leaned many branches to
gether so that they met a few feet over
its center. Upon these he spread lay
ers of huge leaves of the great ele
phant's ear, and with more branches
and more leaves he closed one end of
the little shelter he had built.
Then they sat down together again
upon the edge of the drum and tried to
talk by signs.
The magnificent diamond locket
which hung about Tarzan's neck had
been a source of much wonderment to
Jane Porter. She iointed to it now,
and Tarzan removed it and Landed it
to her. ,
She saw that it was the work of a
skilled artisan and that the diamonds
were of great brilliancy and superbly
set. but the cutting of them denoted
that they were of a former day.
She noticed that the locket opened,
and, pressing the hidden clasp, she saw
the two halves spring apart to reveal
ia either section an ivory miniature.
One was of a beautiful woman, and
the other might have been the likeness
of the man who sat beside her. except
for a difference of expression that was
scarcely definable.
She looked up at Tarzan to find him
j leaning, toward herL gazinon the min
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Copyright, 1912, by the Frank A.
Munsey company.
iatures with an expressioirof aston
ishment. He reached out Lis hand for
the locket and took it away from her.
examining the likenesses within with
unmistakable signs of surprise and new
interest.
His manner clearly denoted that he
had never before seen them nor imag
ined that the locket opened.
This fact caused Jane Porter to in
dulge in still more speculation, and it
taxed her imagination to picture how
this beautiful ornament came into the
possession of a wild and savage crea
ture of the unexplored Jungles of Af
rica. Still more wonderful, how did it con
tain the likeness of one who might be
a brother or, more likely, the father
of this woodland demigod, who was
even ignorant of the fact that the
locket opened ?
Tarzan was still gazing with fixity
at the two faces. Presently he remov
ed the quiver from his shoulder, and,
emptying the arrows upon the ground,
reached Into the bottom of the bag
like receptacle and drew forth a flat
object wrapped in many soft loaves
and tied with bits of long grass.
Carefully he unwrapped It, removing
layer after layer of leaves until at
length he held a photograph in his
hand.
Pointing to the miniature of the man
within the locket, he handed the photo
graph to Jane Porter, holding the open
locket beside it.
The. photograph, only served to puz
zle" the glrf still more", for it was
evidently another likeness of the same
man whose picture rested in the locket
beside that of the beautiful young
woman.
. Tarzan was looking at her with an
expression of puzzled bewilderment in
his eyes as fche glanced up at him. . He
seemed to be framing a question with
his lips.
The girl pointed to the photograph
and. then to the miniature and then to
him, as though to indicate that she
thought the likenesses were of him.
but he only shook his head, and then,
shrugging his great shoulders, he took
the photograph from her and, having
carefully rewrapped it, placed it again
In the bottom of his quiver.
For a few moments he sat in silence,
hi3 eyes bent upon the ground, while
Jane Torter held the little locket in
her hand, turning it over and over in
an endeavor to find some further clew
that might lead to the Identity of Its
original owner.
At length a simple explanation oc
curred to her.
The locket had belonged to Lord
Greystoke. The" likenesses were those
of him and Lady . Alice. This wild
creature had simply found It in the
cabin by the beach. But to account
foi the strange likeness between Lord
Greystoke and this forest god that
was quite beyond her, and it is nt
strange that she did not imagine that
this savage was indeed an English no
bleman. At length Tarzan looked up to watch
the girl as she examined the locket.
She noticed that he was watching
her, and, thinking that he wished his
ornament again, she held it out to him.
He took It from her, and. taking the
chain In his two hands, he placed it
about her neck, smiling at her expres
sion of surprise.
Jane Forter shook her head vehe
mently and would have removed the
golden links from about her throat, but
Tarzan would not let her. Taking her
hands in his, he held them tightly to
prevent her.
At last she desisted and with a little
laugh raised the locket to her lips and.
rising, dropped him a little courtesy.
Tarzan did not know precisely what
she , meant, but he guessed correctly
that It was her way of acknowledging
the gift, and so he rose, too. and, tak
ing the locket In his hand, stooped
gravely like some courtier of old and
pressed his lips upon it where hers had
rested.
It was a stately and gallant little
compliment, performed with the grace
and dignity of utter unconsciousness
of self. It was the hall mark of his
aristocratic birth.
It was growing dark now, and so
they ate again of the fruit which was
both food and drink for them, and then
Tarzan rose and, leading Jane Porter
to the little bower he had erected, mo
tioned her to go within.
For the first time in hours a feeling
of fear swept over her, and Tarzan
felt her draw away as though shrink
ing from him.
To reassure her Tarzan did the only
thing he knew. He removed his hunt
ing knife from its sheath and handed
it to her hilt first, again motioning her
Into the bower.
The girl understood, and, taking the
long knife, she entered and lay down
upon the soft grasses, while Tarzan of
the apes stretched himself upon the
ground across the entrance.
And thus the rising sun found them
in the morning.
When Jane Porter awoke, slowly the
circumstances of her position crept
one by one Into her mind. Then a
great wonderment rose In her heart, a
mighty wave of thankfulness and
gratitude that, though she had been in
such terrible danger, yet she was un
harmed. She moved to the entrance of the
shelter to look for Tarzan. lie was
gone. But this time no fear assailed
her, for she knew that he would re
turn. In the grass at the entrance to her
bower she saw the Imprint of his body
where he had lain all night to guard
her. She knew that the fact that he
had been there was all that had per
mitted her to sleep in such peaceful
security.
She looked up to see his lithe form
drop softly from a nearby tree. As he
caught her eyes upon him his face
lighted with that frank and radiant
smile that had won her confidence the
day before.
As he approached her Jane Toiler's
heart beat faster and her eyes bright
ened as they had never done before at
the approach of any man.
lie had again been gathering fruit,
which he laid at the entrance of her
bower. Once more they sat down to
gether to eat.
Jane Porter commenced to wonder
what his plans were. Would he take
her back to the beach, or would he
keep her here? Suddenly she realized
that the matter did not seem to give
her much concern. Could it be that
she did not care!
She could not understand it. Her
reason told her that she should be torn
by wild anxieties. Instead, her heart
was singing.
When they had finished their break
fast Tarzan went to her Iwjwer and
recovered his knife. Motioning her to
follow, Tarzan walked toward the trees
at the edge of the arena and, taking
her in one strong arm, swung to the
branches above.
The girl knew that he was taking her
back to her people, and she could not
understand the sudden feeling of sor
row which crept over her.
For hours they swung slowly along.
Tarzan of the apes did not hurry,
lie tried to draw out the sweet pleas
ure of that journey with those dear
arms about his neck as long as possi
ble, and so he went far south of the
direct route to thg beach.
Several times they halted for brief
rests, which Tarzan did not need, and
at noon they stopped for an hour at a
little brook, where they quenched their
thirst and ate.
It wasnevrly sunset when theycanie
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to "the clearing, "and "Tarzan. dropping
to the ground beside n, great tree, part
ed the tall jungle grass and pointed
out the little cabin to her.
She took him by the hand to lead
him to it. that she might tell her father
that this man had saved her from
worse than death; that he had watched
over her as carefully as a mother.
But again the tim:diry of the wild
thing in the face of human habitation
swept over Tarzan of the apes. He
drew back, shaking his head.
The girl came clos to him, looking
up with pleading eyes. Somehow 6he
could not bear the thought of his going
back into the jungle alone.
Still he shook his head, and finally
he drew her to hira very gently and
stooped to kiss her, but first he looked
Into her eyes and waited to learn If
she were pleased or If she would re
oulse him.
Just an. instant the girl hesitated,
and then she realized the truth, and,
throwing her arms about his neck, she
drew Lis face to hers and kissed him
unashamed.
"I love you I love you," she mur
mured. From far in the distance came the
faint sound of many guns.
Tarzan anrl Jane Porter raised their
heads. From the cabin came Mr. Phi
lander and Esmeralda. From where
Tarzan and the girl stood they could
not see the two vessels lying in the
harbor.
Tarzan pointed toward the sounds,
touched his breast r.nd pointed again.
She understood. He was going, and
something told her that it was because
he thought her people were in danger.
Again he kissed her.
"Come back to me," she whispered.
"I shall wait for yo-j always."
lie was gone, and Jane Porter turn
ed to walk across the clearing to the
cabin.
Mr. rhilander was the first to see
her.
"Jane!" he cried. "Jane Porter!
Bless me!"
He scrambled to his feet and rushed
toward her. He could not believe that
It was she and- alive.
"Bless me! Where did you come
from? Where in the world have you
been? How"
"Mercy, Mr. Fhi'ander," interrupt
ed the girl, "I never can remember so
man' questions."
"Well, well," sa:d Mr. Philander.
"Bless me! I am so filled with sur
prise and exuberant delight at seeing
you safe and well again that I scarcely
know what I am saying, really. But,
come, tell me all that has happened to
you."
(To Be Continued.)'
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SENATOR H. H. BART
LING DROPS DOWN km
OUT OF THE RACE
Following aro his reasons for
withdrawing: from the race:
'.'Since iilingr my petition for re
noinination to the ofiice of irlato
senator from this district I have
made plans that will cause my
absence from the district for
some lime during the summer,
and my business allairs require
attention that will prevent my
giving consideration to the cam
paign. For thesi! reasons, I have
decided to withdraw my candi
dacy for the ollice.
"In this connection I desire t
express my gratitude to the
voters of this senatorial district
for the hearty support they have
given me in my past campaigns
and also for the kind expressions
extended to me from various
parts of the district since my an
nouncement this year."
REGISTER OF DEEDS
A. J. SNYDER A CANDIDATE
FOR RENOHON
From Tuesday's Daily.
Yesterday County Hcpri'ster of
Deeds A. J. Snyder decided to
enter the list for r-elecl ion and
accordingly tiled his intent ion
with the county clerk to seek tin'
ollice of register for another
l'rm on the democratic ticket.
Mr. Snyder has tilled the ollice
for the past four years in a most
acceptable manner and all who
have had business with him have
found him a most genial and
pleasant gentleman and ollicial.
His friends throughout the coun
ty will be pleased to learn that he
is again to come before the peo
ple for election to the ollice he
has tilled so well. The only
candidate for this office outside
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this city, who is a candidate for
the republican nomination, hut
there may b others decide to try
their luck "before the primary
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