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MONDAY, MAY 25, 1914, PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. PAGE P. "1 WS:i::::::y:; ; ! i : : S; a :i: : ii:::!i::I jr.i-e-: i n I CHAPTER XV!. The Village of Torture. A S the little expedition of sailors tailed through the dense Jun pie searching for signs of Jane Torter the futility of their venture became more and more iipparent. but the jrrlef of the old man and the hopeless eyes of the young Englishman prevented the kind heart ed D'Arnot from turning back. He thought that there might be a bare possibility of finding her body or the remains of it, for lie was positive that she had been devoured by some beast of prey. It was slow work. Noon found them but a few miles inland. They halted for a brief rest then, and after pushing, on for a short distance farther one of the men discovered a well marked trail. ..It was an old elephant track, and IV.Vrnot. after consulting with Trofes sor Porter and Clayton, decided to fol low it. The path wound through the Jungle in a northeasterly direction, and along it the column moved In single tile. Lieutenant d'Arnot was in the lead and moving at a quick pace, for the trail was comparatively open. Imme diately lt-hind him came Professor Porter, but as he could not keep pace with the younger man D'Arnot was a hundred yards in advance when sud denly n half dozen black warriors rose alout him. D'Arnot pave a warning shout t his column as the blacks closed on him, but ln'fore he could draw his revolver Le had been pinioned and dragged into the jungle. His cry had alarmed the sailors, and a dozen of them sprang forward past Professor Porter, running up the trail t their officer's aid. They did not know the cause of his outcry, only that it was a warning of danger ahead. They had rushed past the spot where D'Arnt had been seized when a spear In n Instant They Were In a Hand ta Hand Fight. hurled from the jungle transfixed one of the men, and then a volley of ar rows fell among them. liaising tbeir carbines, they fired Into the underbrush in the direction from which the missies had come. By this time the balance of the party had come up, and volley after volley was fired toward the concealed foe. It was these shots that Tarzan and Jane Porter had heard. Lieutenant Charpentier. who had been bringing up the rear of the col umn, now came running to the scene end on hearing the details of the am buseade ordered the men to follow him and plunged Into the tangled vege tation. In an Instant they were in a hand to hand fight with some fifty black warriors of Mbonga's village. Arrows and bullets flew thick and fast. Oueer African knives and French pr.u butts mingled for a moment in savuge and bloody duels, but soon the natives fled into the jubgle, leaving the Frenchmen to count theilfc losses. Four of the twenty were dead, a doz- tn others were wounded, and Lieuten ant d'Arnot was missing. Night was Mling rapidly. There was but one thing to do make ramn where they were until daylisht This work was not completed until long after dark, the men building huge fire in the center of the clearing to give them light to work by. "When all was as safe as could be made from the attack of wild beasts and savage men Lieutenant Charpen tier placed sentries about the little camp, and the tired and hungry men threw themselves upon the ground to sleep. The groans of the wounded, min gled with the roaring and growling of the great beasts, kept sleep except In its most fitful form from the tired eyes. It was a sad and hungry party that lay through the long night pray ing for dawn. The blacks who had seized D'Arnot had not waited to participate in the fight. They hurried their prisoner along, the sounds of battle growing fainter and fainter as they drew away from the contestants until there sud denly broke upon D'Aruot's vision a good sized clearing, at one end of which stood a thatched and palisaded village. A cry went up within the palisade. A great throng of women and children rushed out to meet the party. And then began for the French offi cer the most terrifying experience which man can encounter upon earth the reception of a white prisoner into a village of African cannibals. They fell uion D'Arnot tooth and nail, beating him with sticks and stones and tearing at him with claw like hands. Every vestige of clothing was torn from him, and the merciless blows fell upon his bare and quivering flesh. F.ut not once did the Frenchman cry out in pain. A silent prayer rose that he be quickly delivered from his tor ture. ' The death he prayed for was not to 1 so easily had. Soon the warriors beat the women away from their prisoner. He was to le saved for nobler sport than this. and. the first wave of their passion having subsided, they content ed themselves with crying out taunts and insults and spitting upon him. Presently they gained the center of the village. There D'Arnot was bound securely to the great post from which no live man had ever been released. A number of the women scattered to their several huts to fetch pots and water, while others built a row of fires on which portions of the feast were to be boiled. The festivities were delayed, await ing the return of the warriors who had remained to engage in the skirmish with the white men. so that it was quite late when nil were in the village and the dance of death commenced to circle around the doomed officer. Half fainting from pain and exhaus tion. D'Arnot watched what seemed but a vagary of delirium or some hor rid nightmare from which he must poon awake. He closed his eyes and held his tc-etli firm set. He would not cry out. He was a soldier of France, and he would teach these beasts how an offi cer and a fteutleman died. Tarzan of the apes needed no inter preter to translate the story of thosa distant shots. With Jane Porter's kisses still warm upon his lips he waa swinging with incredible rapidity through the forest trees straight to ward the village f Mbonga. He was not interested in the loca tion of the encounter, for he judged that that would soon be over. Those who were killed he could not aid; those who escaped would not need his as sistance. It was to those who had neither been killed nor escaped that he hastened. And he knew that he could find them by the great post in the center of Mlonga's village. Many times had Tarzan seen Mbon ga's black raiding parties return from the northward with prisoners, and al ways were the same scenes enacted about that grim stake, beneath the flaring light of many fires. Tarzaa had looked with complacency upon their former orgies, only occa sionally interfering for the pleasure of baiting the blacks. But heretofore their victims had been men of their own color. Tonight it was different. "White men, men of Tarzan's own race, might be even now suffering the agonies of torture. On he sped. In a few minutes he swung Into the trees above Mbonga's village. Ah, he was not quite too late! The figure at the stake was very still. Tarzan knew their customs. The deathblow had been struck. He could tell almost to a minute how far the dance had gone. In another Instant Mbonga's knife would sever one of the victim's ears. That would mark the beginning of the end, for ' very shortly after only a writhing mass of mutilated flesh would remain.. . 7 Rica Burroughs Copyright, 1912, by th Frank A. Munsey company. The stake stood forty feet from the nearest tree. Tarzan coiled his roie. Then there rose suddenly above the fiendish cries of the dancing demons the awful challenge of the ape man. The dancers halted as though turned to stone. The rope sped with a sing ing whir high above the heads of the blacks. It was quite invisible in thfl flaring lights of the campflres. D'Arnot opened his eyes. A huge black, standing directly lie fore him, lunged backward as though felled by an invisible hand. ' Struggling and shrieking, his body, rolling from side to side, moved quick ly toward the shadows beneath the trees. The blacks, their eyes protrud ing in horror, watched spellbound. Once beneath the trees the body rose straight into the nir. and ns it dis:ij peared Into the foliage above the tt-r-rlfied negroes, screaming with fright, broke into a mad race for the village gate. D'Arnot was left alone. He was a brave man, but he had felt the short hairs bristle upon the nape of his nk when that uncanny cry rose upon the air. As he watched the spot where the body had entered the tree lie heard the sounds of movement there. The branches swayed as thou eh under the weight of a man's body. There was a crash, and the black came sprawling to earth again, to lie Tery quietly where he had fallen. Immediately after him came a white body, but this one alighted erect. D'Arnot saw a clean limbed young giant emerge from the shadows into the firelight and come quickly toward him. What cosld it mean? Wfco could it be? Some new crenture of torture and destruction doubtless. D'Arnot waited. His eyes never left the face of the advancing man. The frank, clear eyes did not waver beneath his fixed gazo D'Arnot was reassured, but still without much hope, though he felt that that face could hot mask a cruel heart. Without a word Tarzan of the apes cut the bonds which held the French man. 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 ns of flying, and then he lost consciousness. When dawn broke upon the little camp of Frenchman in the heart of the Jungle it found a sad and disheart ened group. As soon as it was light enough to see their surroundings Lieutenant Char pentier sent men in groups of three in several directions to locate the trail, and In ten minutes it was found, and the expedition was hurrying back to ward the beach. It was slow work, for they bore the lodies of six dead men, two more hav ing succumbed during the night, and several of those who were wounded required support to move even very slowly. Charpentier had decided to return to camp for re-enforcements and then make an attempt to track down the natives and rescue D'Arnot It was late in the afternoon when the exhausted men reached the clear ing by the beach, but for two of them the return brought so great a happi ness that all their suffering and heart breaking grief were forgotten on the Instant. As the little party emerged from the jungle the first person that Professor Porter and Cecil Clayton saw was Jane Porter standing by the cabin door. With a little cry of joy and relief she ran forward to greet them, throw ing her arms about her father's neck and bursting into tears for the first time since they had been cast upon this hideous and adventurous shore. Professor Porter, burying his old face in the girl's shoulder, sobbed like a tired child. Jane Porter led him toward the cab In, and the Frenchmen turned toward the beach from which several of their fellows were advancing to meet them. Clayton, wishing to leave father and daughter alone, joined the sailors and remained talking with the officers un til their boat pulled away toward the cruiser, whither Lieutenant Charpen tier was bound to report the unhappy outcome of his adventure. Then Clayton turned back slowly toward the cabin. His heart was filled with happiness. The woman he loved was safe. As he approached the cabin he saw her coming out. When she saw him she hurried forward to meet him'. "Jane!" he cried. "Heaven has been good to us indeed. Tell me how you escaped what , form Providence took to save you for us." He had never before called her by her given name. Forty-eight hours be fore it would have suffused Jane Por ter with a soft glow of pleasure to hear that name from Clayton's lips. Now it frightened her. "Mr. Clayton," slit? said quietly, ex tending her hand, "first lot me thank you for your loyalty to my father. He has told me how noble and self sacri ficing you have been. How can we ever repay you?" Clayton noticed that she did not re turn his familiar salutation, but he felt no misgivings on that score. She had lK'en through so much. This was no time to force his love upon her, he quickly realized. "I am already repaid." he laughed, "Just to see you and Professor Porter both safe, well and together again." The girl bowed her head. There was a question she wanted to ask. "Where is the forest man who went to rescue you? Why did he not re turn?" "I do not understand," said Clayton. "Whom do you mean?" "He who has saved each of us who saved me from the gorilla." "Oh!" cried Clayton, In surprise. "It was he who rescued you? You have not told me anything of your adven ture, don't you know. Tell me; do." "But the woodman," she urged. "Have you not seen him? When we heard the shots in the jungle, very faint and far away, he left me. We had just reached the clearing, and he hurried off in the direction of the light ing. I know he went to aid you." Her tone was almost pleading, her manner tense with suppressed emotion. Clayton could not but notice it, and he wondered vaguely why she was so deeply moved, so anxious to blow the whereabouts of this stranuro creature. He did not suspect the truth, for how could he? In his breast, unknown to himself, was implanted the first germ of jeal ousy and suspicion of the ape man to whom lie owed his life. "We did not see him." he replied quietly. "He did not join us. Possi bly he joined Lis own tribe, the men who attacked us." He did not know why he had said it, for he did not believe it. But love is a strange master. The girl looked at him wide eyed for a moment. "No!" she exclaimed vehemently, much too vehemently, he thought. "It could not be. They were negroes. He Is a white man and a gentleman!" Clayton was a generous and chival rous man. but something in the girl's "He is only a beast of the jungle, Miss Porter." defense of the forest man stirred him to unreasoning jealousy, so that for the instant he forgot all that he owed to this wild demigod, and he answered her with a half sneer upon his lip. "Possibly you arc ri.ht. Miss Por ter." he said, "but I do not think that any of us need worry about our carrion eating acquaintance. The chances are that he is some half demented cast OAvay who will forget us more quickly, but no more surely, than we shall for get him. He is only a beast of the Jungle, Miss Porter." The girl did not answer, but she felt her heart shrivel within her. Anger and hate against one we love steel our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed. (To Be Continued.) The Best Flour on the Market FOREST EOSS: WAH00MILLCO. WAHOO, NEB- FOREST ROSE FLOUR- oriiss ores PROCEEDINGS Platlsmoulh, May 1, l'.H i. Board met pursuant t ad journment. Present, C. E. Ileeb iht, Julius A. Pifz and C. R. Jor dan, County Commissioners; Frank J. Lihcrshal, Counly Clerk. Minues f previous sessions read ami approved, when the following business was transacted in reg ular form: Clerk of the District Court filed a statement ,,f time and mileage of the regular jury and talesman for the April ten l, I'll I, of the District Court, amounting to 3S7.K0. County Hoard of I'quali.al ion will set for the purpose of equalizing" I lie assessment of Cass County fop the year- ItH'i, in the Commissioners' chamber at the Court House in 1 ' a 1 1 smouth. Ne braska, beginning Tuesday, .June li. l'.H , at S o'clock a. m.. ami continue from day to day tiil noon on Saturday, June ill. It'll. All claims for equalization must he lih-d on or before noon of Friday. June 12, l'.H i. .Notice to he published once in each newspaper j)i fm County. County Clerk reported Andres Thomson had paid his license fee of 1 ,nn(i.un and license had been issued accordingly. County Clerk instructed to notify the City Council, through the City Clerk, to commence lill inir in the concrete box culei l or bridge at the foot of Winf erst eon Hill as soon alter Monday, May J5. lull, as possible. as the County will start moving" the old steel bridge about June K, ilI i. Bond of Alex Jones, Deputy Road Oversee!, District No. i, South iteiid, approve,!. A duplicate wararnt was (his day issued to Chas. V. Sioohr for si I. ('." to reimburse him for the original" warrant No. j'.i, which was lost some time ago. The following claims were al-b-wf d on the Cenciai fund: The JMat I sinoui i Jour nal, printing and sup plies s jo.il Julius A. Pilz, salary and mileage ;7 . 1 i C. A. Welch, screens fur nished. fo County farm toi.ofi I. . (I. Larson, third pay ment on jail cult racl ...-jnoo . 00 S. H. Shumaker, repairs to pump at County farm J. oil Fred Weaver, assessing South liend precinct.. Si'i.io C. 11. Jordan, salary and mileage lij.l Tjd D. C. Morgan. po(a sup plies loo.r James Robert s n, fees Cass :.i. vs. Ouinfoii. el, al S.OO K. I. F.ans. mdse. to Mrs. Hardnoc,; C.oo James Robertson, fees. Cass Co. vs. On in I on. e) al S.no C. 1). Ouiiilon. boarding County prisoners and salary li'j.io Hans Johnson, jndse. to Mrs. Fowler .S.OO I). Saxlon, mdse, to Mrs. Jambs i 1 . JO II. R. Smith, assessing Flmwook precinct .... F. Manspoaker, salary deputy sheriff, April.. io.nn Major A. Hall, auto hire to Commissioners .... IX. 53 "J. J . Wunderl ich, assess ing Nehawka precinct.. 101.03 J. If. Thrasher, bailiffs certificate 2.00 Fd Fgeuborger, Admstr., coal to paupers 1 i .50 Remiiiglon Typewriter Co., repairs to County Attorney's machine .. 8.00 Halt & Son. mdse. to the County farm 3t.20 J. F. Douglass. Agt., in surance policy on fur niture, etc., at farm. . 8.00 Klopp printing Co.. sup plies to County Treas urer 17.73 Nelson Jean & Co., coal to llobson sisters 7.00 Waterman Lumber & i Coal Co., coal to court house 11.13 J. I. llolcomh Mfg. Co., brushes ami baskets to court house 1 i . i'o J)r. J. I. Martin, salary lirst quarter County Physician. I list. No. i 02 .30 Charles Mason, cleaning sewer at old jail 10. oo C. F. lle' bii'-r, salary ami mileage oO.'JO (I. I. Meisinger, assessing Fig lit Mile (J rove pre cinct 130.00 Barclay's R"-taurant, meals o jury 3.23 11. M. s ennich-en, mds. to Gross, Collins, Mc- " J 5 j if i .-n;Ll -LCOIIOL 3 vlh cr.Nr. stailaiiiigaarFosdmilifrijiii linUic Sumachs caiBowelsof Promotes Dfeestionflserf U- r.cssarl l&st.CcnliLnsr.ci&T OpirauMoriihuic ncrfkufiraL rOTlNAIJCOTlC. fiuifearoUD&vtJiniam. pjzJ.;it Seed" jt-'x.Sramt MxriUS-'.U- I firm Sera' -ClmOrd Si-rpr fruAty.taj tlcrr. m 1 &TriTect Rcrnedv for Ccmsflr i c - t ion , Sour Stomach lUarrixn Woms.Com-uIsicns.revmssi" nessardLoss or Sixer i c 1 facsimile Signarure of The Centaur CompatcT, NEW YUK1V Exact Copy of Wrapper. lee and sbt rne .... Charley Mason, cleaning" sewer at old jail Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Co., lent and lolls lor April -i.5u 10.110 1 V . 0 T. Allen Mi-nuary Co., re building and repairing; county records 711.50 The ioil.vinr claims were al lowed on the R iad fund : Hen lecknian, road work Road Iiislriel No. 10.. s 51. 1H R. C. Bailey, same, Road Hi.-lricl No. J. C. Niday, same, Road Iiislriel No. 11 L. I. Switzer, same, Road Jiistricl No. l; Nebraska V Iowa Sleel Tank Co., culverts for Road District No. -.... Nebraska & Iowa -steel Tank Co., culverts for Road Iiislriel No. '.'7 . . Nebraska & Iowa Steel Tank Co., cuherts for Road 1 is rid No. 1 . . . iu.-'O iS. 00 ;;o.oo 7 . (7 'i.l.Do o.:i A. F. Seybert, road work. Road lfislrict No. -J . . 10.h John Husche, road work. Road lish i.- No. . . 10.00 Waller lyers, road work, Road Iiislriel No. J7.. I'll. 05 Village Clerk of Munlock. jnopi li-) ji m of road fund, Jiislrict No. 1 . . 1 15.00 Yil'ag-e Clerk of Creen oid, proportion of road fund. District No. 'J0 150.00 Village Clerk of Weeping Water, proportion of road fund, District No. Ji :i50.oo Village Clerk of South Bend, proportion of road fund, Dislrict No. 10 50.00 Village Clerk of Flmwood. propnH jon of l oad fund. District No. J5.. 250.00 Village Clerk of Eagle, proportion of road fund, District No. -JO., lio.00 Ed Stone, road work, Road Districl No. 1 C, Fd Slone, same, Road Dist rid N. t W. L. Copplc, same, Road . District No. 1 r A. L. .Skinner, same. Road District No. 15 Roy Bennett, same, Road District No. 10 Ib-n Swanson, same. Road Dist rift. No. 10 W. E. Halmeler, repairs to road grader, Road Dist rift No. 15 A. A. Wallinger, road work, Road District No. 15 ('.. '. Kahler. same, Road 1 lislrid No. (5 F. W. Wilkcn, same. Road District No. 0 Lee Arnelt Co., culverts for Road District No. 10 11 .SO 1 J . 00 5 .00 JS.So 37.70 i .00 i . 1 0 O.JO 5.7 0 J i .00 OS. 00 The following- claims were al lowed on the Bridge fund: (I. Fisher, bridge work.. S.JO Chas. Sutton, same .... -i.oo Inland Sled Co., bridge material 5 .75 W. B. Banning-, bridge In miter oJ.55 Monarch Engineering Co., -ntS ip ran plfTfipiI For Infant3 and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought B Bears the , if Signature of in Use For Over Thirty Years Tmc cintauii eowpAwr. nc tor art pari pa im-nt on hi -idge material loon.no Ben Heckmau, brid-e Wo k 11 .00 Waterman Lumber ami Coal Co., bridge lum ber JO. 70 Mike Lulz. bridge work . . J .00 The following- claims were al lowed on the Road Dragging- fund: A. F. Seybert. ra-.giug roads, Road District No. J .John Husche, same, Road 1 list rid No. j W. L. Copple, same, Road I U'sf rid No. 10 A. L. Skinner, same. Road District No. 7 O. I'i-her, same, Road Dislrict No. l."i R. M. .Coalman, same. Road District No. 1 i . . 0 .00 1 ..sr. J .00 1 .50 J . 50 .'i.oo Board adjourned to med Tues day, June J, it'll i. FRANK J. LIHERSIIAL, Counlv Clerk. Special for the Next Few days. 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