Show rr A r rv A TT by EDGAR RI RICE CE TARZAN BURROUGHS AND aan THE ah th tarzan of the apes JEWELS OF OPAR sol of tarzan arm Is X I 1 NUMA THE LION STROVE STRODE majestically INTO VIEW a in a th tha A jungle g after kalem killing R this hit car captain 1 in ft a at ot f brooding brood ra ar ie am liver alb albert it we w e am officer is t captured or by achmet zek ZA arab slave raider most who ili pares or hla his lire if and ad proposes orp to him a blieme em to a kidnap T joel jane wife if of tartan lord greytok mad sea beell her two into all slavery wl r am c cebu apts lene le ne as an jamss bollt robirt traveler wpc 1 la 1 calved by the me cir iss HA H learn his he boat bat 1 la 1 in n financial list and ad 11 PIs lne K an expedition 1 to ill the I trea amr aura vaults of opar clear to procuro prem bold 11 per informs achmet zeh of 11 we OIB cit lecam to abets lady G Grei od prepare to fell follow terille to till the secret rat of opar clem CHAPTER II 11 C Continued 2 T the he belgian did not have long to bait it for far the following day his excle sarv a returned with word that tarzan taman and a part party of fifty warriors had ad set tat out boward toward the southeast early lu in the morning called his hia head bead man to him ft after ate writing t ng a long left letter to ac achmet h met Z zek ck tilla this letter emer he handed handed to the filed bead man send a runner ranner at once to achmet zek with this he be instructed the head mail remain here hem to in camp awaiting further farther instructions from him or from me if any come froni from the bungalow ot of tile the englishmen englishman tell them trat flat I 1 am tery III within my teat and can see DO one now give me six biz porters and six 1 the strongest tron gett and bravest of the arl safari and d I 1 will march after the englishman and discover where here his gold Is in hidden and so a it was that as taman stripped to the aw loin cloth and armed after the dirrim primitive 1 ft fashion he beat loved led his hilal am al toward the dead oty city of oper the renegade hm haunted tid his trail through the long hot days wed and camped at close be hind him by night and as they marched achmet zek ro rode tie with his entire tire foil following ing with ward ard toward loused the greystoke farm to tar tarzan an of the apes the e edh ahm nw was 1 ID the fare of a holiday outing hla his civill Tatton was at best but an outward veneer which he be gad ly IE peel peeled ad off with his uncomfortable enter european clothes whenever any res rea a a 1 pretext p presented pell ell itself I 1 it was a woman a love which kept kep tor tar zan n eve even to the semblance of chillas lion a condit condition 1 on for which familiarity had bd bred co contempt empl he listed hated th the shams and the of it am and it with t the he cl clear car vision of an unspoiled mind he had bad penetrated to the rotten core of the heart of the abin thing the cown cowardly adly greed for peace and ease nd ad the safeguarding of property rights and so am tarzan taman always way Is came back to lure 1 in the spirit pa rit of a lover level keeping a long ong tie deferred ered treat a after a P period elloid be ae hind prison walls it hla his wirl at mote m ote a here more a than he be the cooked their before they tit ate it and the shunned many articles of food d as unclean I 1 that in at tarzan taman had bad cf C l sg eaten with 1 gusto a all his bis life and ad so a 1 in aldious ous Is the virus of that eve een the stalwart averam ape man beat hesitated t led to give e rein to his hia natural longings before t them hem he ate burnt flesh dish whom when he would have base preferred it raw and unspoiled ns polled sun and he brought down gain game with arrow or spear when he be would old far rather have hae leaped upon it from ambush bsh and sunk his strong teeth in its jugular go 1 but ut at lost last the call of the ge milk of 1 tb the savage mother that had bad that suckled ill him I 1 in infancy rose A I 1 to ao it in itt demand he erased the hot blood of a fresh kill and his muscles earned to pit themselves cs against the savage eg e g jg jungle in ft the b baetje taj lor for exist jet ence all that had bad bus been his sole sale birthright for the first twenty years of his hia life moved by these the vague et t all power f ful I 1 urgings the ape man lay am alake she one night in the little thorn them bown boma that protected in a way may his party from the depre depredations lations of the 9 great at ioa of th the jungle angle A stogie single 1 1 1 stood CAtald sleepy guard beside the ire if that yet yel low eye eyes out of the darkness beyond ww the be camp made imperative the moans and the coughing of the big cuts cats mingled alleged with the myriad rid noises of the in leiser denizens of f the jungle to fan the savage ava flame dome in the breast of this age anglish lord he tossed upon his bell bed of U grasses es sleepless for an hour and then he rose wA noiseless seless as a wraith rose and ad while the I 1 WIH b back is win aia turned vaulted the be boma wall la the me fan face of the naming flowing len eyes swung silent ly it I 1 into to a great grant tree and was gone foi a time la sheer exuberance at 1 imet imal spirit he raced swiftly the a middle am bilging perilously across wide w ido spans from one jungk giant to be next and then h dawm be bared up imp ard rd to tile swaying lesser b boughs miles ot of tie fie upper t terrace trees where tile the mean shone full upon him and ad the fr was use stirred by little bree breezes and death lurked ready in ID each f tall mil III branch it kee be he paused and raised his w uc to go tl m WOOD moon with uplifted arm am he stood the he cry of the bull boll ape qu guiv I 1 sting ering up upon his lip lips yet it ba remained silent icele IC tle lest t he be arouse romis hla his wa wa carl r who he were all too toe familiar with t the a hideous clial challenge lenge of their muster master aud and then hen he went stir on more slowly and with g renter greater stealth and ad caution for rom now T taryan aon of the apes was seek lag ing a kill down domn to the U around at ad he came in the u utter tree ill blackness of the ilou close set nit huts bolas and ad the overhanging verdure rows of the jungle he stooped leaped f from rm ti throe rih to unis time and put his nose close to earth he s sought ought and found a fam cm A aide lite game troll trail and at last his nostrils ere rewarded with fill the scent of the fresh spoor poo of B bara are the deer tar rans an mouth e watered and a low grow growl escaped his petri patrician last an lip lips sloughed ire from him us was the last vestige of artl fickal it 11 1 1 1 caste casta once ance again ile he was the primeval hunter bouter th the first nimi man the highest hibb t costs tape aspe of the human ence up wind he be tattooed followed the edae delushe spoor with sense sene of perception so go transcend ing 1119 oit ait of ordin ordinary rry man as to be in I 1 conceivable to a us presently the body scent of the deer told taran that bis big prey was an close ili al hand it sent ba him into the trees gain again into to the lower for terrace where he could watch match the ground below and catch with son eara and ad nose the first fire in tl matton of actual contact if with his quarry nor was as it long before ape apen min n I 1 came upon bura standing alert at the edge of a moon bathed clearing not noiselessly u alesky tarzan taman crept through the tree unit 1 he was waa it directly I 1 erectly over me deer in the afeman s hand bead aas has thed the long olg hunting kni knife to of his to fa I 1 ther it and in b his heart h I 1 the blood lust last of if the eirin vore just for an instant he poised above be hie file un suspecting hem bara am and it then he launched jeanette d bim himself m ali down ward eard upon tile the a sleek I 1 ck b back ack the len im pact of his weight eight carried the fhe deer to ita in knees and before the animal could regain it its feet the left knife had found faced it its bell heart C As tarzan rose case upon the body a of f ill his kill hilt to scream foilb his hideous v victory lacto cry into the f face A ce ot of the moon the wind find carried to his hia nostrils some thing which froze fe him to statuesque immobility and ad silence his savage ases hissed into tile the direction from which th the e wl wind d had borne down the warning t to 0 him and a moment later he gm grasses at ore one side ade of the clearing parted and numa ae R a lioa leg strode me ma J ahloy Jelt cally into view from the lips of f the afeman ape man broke a rumbling 1 leg growl 0 of f w warning numa name milu answered ered but he be did not advance in tend stead he stood vaeng waging his tail hot gently to and in fro and presently tarzan taman act squatted tied upon his kill and I 1 cut u t a gen erus erous portion from a hind blad quarter NO numa aad him with growing resent ment eat and rage as between mouthfuls mouth fuls tile the growled out ill ills savage eclar oil labig new w this do particular lion had bad never neer bufore come in contact with tar targan of the apes ape and ad he was much mystified here we was the appearance and ad the scent cut of a man thing and so mima had bad tested tasted human flesh an and it learned that thou feti not at the moat at twI palatable it me was certainly by far the easiest to secure yet there them was i that in the bestial growls of tile the strange creature which bich reminded him bill of formidable antagonists antagonist and gave him baue peu while his hunger honest and the odor der of the hot flesh of baia goaded him almost at to madness at last ast NO numa could stand it no longer his film tall ahm suddenly erect nod and tit at tile the same in visor slant tile the wary ape man knowing all too well nell what the signal portended grasped the remainder of th the a deer s hind quarter between his teeth and leaped into a nearby tree as numa charged him with nith all the speed and a sufficient semblance of the weight of an am express train tarzan taman a retreat ana an no indication that be ile he ehlt 11 tear fear jungle life 1 Ss ordered along different lines than ours and dif ferent standard prevail kind had lam barzan been fishe he be would doubtless he have ve stood his bis ground and 16 met the if lion s charge chare he had done me the thing before upon more than one occasion asam just HS as in the past he hod had charged tons lions himself but tonight he vas maa far from famished and in the hind ind lion ter he had bad careld oft off with him was more a raw flesh than he could eat yet it was man will C no equanimity that lie ile down upon apon numa rending reading the llie elsh it at tartan tom 9 kill th the it alon of tills thin strange NO numa budt aint be t and forthwith tarzan taman bet alt out not to make life tor far the big bg let cat achie close by were ere many my tell breeb be bear a leg ing large r as hard ard aralts and to one of these the ape man swung alth it t the he agility of a squirrel then them commenced a 1 bombardment which brought forth feet earth shaking else coara fr from numa it was impossible for the tawny loony cat at to eat cut under that hail of amb missiles edlea he emild could hot but roar ind and growl and ad dodge and eventually he was driver driel away so en lively irom the comas carcass of here bara the deer eer Us he went roaring and ad reseat resentful ful but lit in the very center of the clearing his Is voice was waa suddenly hushed and taiwan saw the great head lower and flatten flattem out cut the body crunch crouch and the long tall tail quiner a as the b beast t slunk look cautiously toward the trees upon the me opposite side immediately tarzan taman was alert H he a lifted his head and ad sniffed il the glow jungle breeze IN what list was I 1 it t that h had a it attracted numa null a attention and token him boft it footed and silent away my from the he scene of his bis discomfiture jut just as 19 the lion disappeared among the trees reea beyond the tearing bearing tarzan taman caught aught upon tile the down coming I ing wind win the exIlIn explanation nati of his new interest the scent spoor of me ann 0 was wafted wafred strong ly to the sensitive nostrils catching the rom remainder minder of the deers deer hind ter J lii tile hie crotch of a tree the MO ape rain min moved through the treet trees the shadow of a wraith the savage cut cat and the savage nine saw new numa a ry almost simultaneously though oth both had known before it came within the islon of their ebes chea that it was a black mon man their sen nos friia tad lad told them this his much and tarran a had told him him that the scent spoor poor n was that of a at stranger a old ld ind and a male I 1 s Itil tor race and nd rall dl sex sen and age each hns its t e own distinctive in scent it me was an old ann the that made ad ill his I 1 way alone afir through ah I 1 the he gloomy jungle a mill a wrinkled e d tried dried up 1 little old man bid hideously county scarred ried and ad tattooed and strangely g garbed rb d wit with h the skin of a avena h vena about bo his h shoulders 8 a liters old and the dried head bead mounta up upon his hia gray pate taman recognized the ear marks mark of the witch doctor and ad await ed ad numa no a charge with jtb a feeling of pleasurable anthell ant anticipation lell at for far ft the ape p man had bad no a love tor for witch it doctors oc t a A but in the instant that no nuna did charge the he white man suddenly re called that the lion had stolen his kill a few before and that revenge Is sweet et the first intimation the black man hail had that he was to in danger was the crush crash of twigs tw digs a aa notes charged through the I 1 bash bushes 1 luto ct the game gain trail airall not twenty yards yard 1 eldrid behind ill him tit then tie he turned to see sea a huge black lion racing toward him and even as he turned numa seized him at the same instant the ape man dropped train from so an overhanging limb full upon the it lion s back and ad as he lighted alighted he be plunged its his knife lot into the tawny taunt side dir behind tile the I 1 left s ft about shoulder tangled the fingers of hla his right hand bond in the long mane burl burled his teeth in numa hamm a neck out and wound his powerful legs about the beast a torso with a roar of pain and rage auma reared lp and fell backward upon the afeman but still the mighty man thing clung to his bis hold and repeatedly the long knife plunged deeply lot into his aid aide over and over ever rolled huma the lion clawing old and bit ing bg ut at t the h a air roaring rearing and growling horribly or ably in savage attempt to reach the till thang upon pa its in b back k store mcce than ator once we waa taran so almost brushed from ill lih hold held tie he me ans battered unit and bruised and covered with blood from dumn and dirt from the trail yet not net tor for an in slant about did he be lesson the ferocity of his mad attack nor his grim hold upon the buck of his antagonist where he be had bad fidile fallen beneath the spring of the ton lion the witchdoctor witch itch doctor lay torn and bleed bleed ing unable to drug drog himself may away and it watched the terrific C battle be tile between those these two too lords a of I 1 the 1 jungle I ate his sunken eyes glittered and his lips alpa moved over toothless I 1 guma as he mumbled me weird I 1 incantations to 1 iv the demons of his cult for a time he felt no a doubt no as to beloti atme the outcome ten a the strange white man must certain certainly I 1 y succumb to terrible auroa heard beard of a lose I 1 man armed only with a ilife elating so go mighty a boost beistl I 1 yet presently the old black man mans eyes went veat wider bler and he C commenced to have his doubts and misgivings what wonderful sort art of cammi cru iture wa um this that 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