Show JL I 1 by E EDGAR RICE T AK aj A BURROUGHS af AND THE author W of tt tarzan of OA theames the Apes pcs JEWELS OF OPAR W AIR son of Tarza till Cor libl 1911 by br A C A C my ALL NIGHT I 1 SHALL TORTURE HIM 1 I synopsis in tho tha jungle alter after killing tits lili captain in ft a fit it of brooding madness libut albert belgian officer Is in captured by achmet zek arab lave slave raider who spares his life and proposes to him a scheme to kidnap jane wife ot or tarzan bord greystoke and sell her into slavery warp a r accepts posing as aa jules julea pre coult french traveler la Is hospitably re calved by the lie he learne his hot host la is in financial str straits altis an and a to la planning an expedition to the treasure vaults of opar to procure sold weeper informs achmet zek of 0 the ilia opportunity to seize lady Grey and follows tar tarzan Z an to learn the secret of opar spying on tartan bets sees him load fits hl blacks with gold cold from the treasure chamber chari ibor of the sun slin worshiper A convulsion of 0 nature mature causes the col collapse lapsa of the vault imprisoning both men recovers from the ilia shock and leaves leaven tarzan apparently dead seeking s a way to safety Is seized by priests of the blaming god a degenerate race lie ile Is about to be offered vp up as a a sacrifice when the ceremonies are interrupted by the tha appearance of a hunger maddened lion believing tarzan dead tits his black fol follower lowert return home with the gold bold achmet zek acting on herpers pers erB information hits has attacked the Orey greystoke stoke home burned it and carried off lady greystoke Orey stoka Mu gambl Tar lieutenant Is in bevelly Bev eely wounded but recovers and follows the raiders lord graystoke Grey recovers consciousness but the accident has destroyed his memory and lie he Is again tarzan of tha apes lie he finds himself in the jewel room of 0 opar lie he ills fills his hl pouch with pretty pebble diamonds 0 great value ile iio reaches the ilia sacrificial chamber just as the lion halts the sacrifice of by la ile he la in recognized mccog by la high priestess whom he had known in previous bettis ile ho slays thel the lun alln and releases tarzan arid and watch the formers tor mers party return and bury the lite gold tarzan has no memory of tha ilia place isreals the diamonds and escapes to achmat stronghold lady greystoke Urey stoke IS IB there a prisoner tells the arab of the gold but not of the Id Ul amonds lamonds achmet discovers weri lVer jor gr jigs has the ilia jewels and the belgian fearing for his life escapes with the gems tarzan misses verper but does not discover the theft bof of the jewels lie he resumed the life of a 0 wild man CHAPTER IX continued 8 for several hours tarzan lolled upon tits ills swaying leafy couch until once again hunger and thirst suggested an excursion stretching lazily he dropped to the ground and moved slowly toward the lie river tarzan lind had almost reached rea the point where the trail debauched debouched debou deboue ched fied upon the open river bottom when lie saw a family of lions along the path from the direction of the river the ape mon counted sevena seven a male a and nd two lionesses full fill grown and i four young lions as large and quite as formidable as their parents halted growling and the lions paused tile the great male in the lead baring his fanges and rumbling forth a warning roar lit in ills hand the ape roan man held his heavy spear but lie he had no intention of pitting tits his puny weapon against seven lieven lions yet lie he stood there growling and roaring and the lions did likewise it was purely an exhibition of jungle bluff hach each was waa trying to frighten off on the he other neither wished to turn back and gle give way nor lid did either cither at first desire to precipitate an all encounter the lions were fed up su sufficiently 11 so as not to he bo goaded by pangs of hunger and as for tarzan taryan lie seldom ate the meat of the carniv ores but a point of ethics was tit at stake aind neither side wished to back down so they stood there facing onu one 21 nn other nother making all sorts of hideous noises the lie while they hurled jungle invective back and forth there came an interruption which put an end to the deadlock and it came from rear lie ile and the lions had been making so much noise that neither could hear anything above abbye their concerted bedlam and so it was that hat tarzan did not hear tile the great bulk hearing bearing down from behind until nn all instant before it was waa upon lint und and then lie he turned to see huto buto the rhinoceros ills his little pig eyes blazing charging madly toward hint him fin tind already so close that escape seemed impossible yet so BO perfectly we remInd were mind an and coordinated co in tills this unspoiled primitive man that almost simultaneously with the sense tion of the threatened longer danger lie he IV wheeled heeled and hurled his spear at butos chest it was a heavy spear epcar shod with iron and behind it were the giant muscles of the ape mati while coming to meet it was the enormous weight of baio awl and tile the of tits his rapid rush ruih all that happened lit in the lit in stant that tarzan turned to meet tile the charge of the irascible rhinoceros might take long to tell and yet iv would 0 uld have taxed tile the swiftest lens ions to t 0 record reci As A his spear left its his hand it alie file ape man it 11 was looking down upon tile mighty horn torn lowered 0 toss jilin him so close was kuto buto to him the spear en cn the rhinoceros neek flock tit at tta its junction with the left shoulder and almost entirely through the beasts body and at ai tha ho instant that lie he launched it tarzan leaped straight into the air alighting upon butos back but escaping the knighty horn then buto buo espied the lions and bore down upon them while tarzan of the alie apes leaped nimbly into tit the tangled creepers cree perm pera at one side of tit the trail tho the first lion kon met butos charge and was tossed high over the back of file lie marld maddened ened brute torn and dying and then toe the six remaining lions wel were wele e upon tho the rhinoceros rending and tearing tile the while they were being gored or trampled from the safety of his porch perch tarzan watched the lie buttle battle royal with the keenest interest for a time it seemed that buto the rhinoceros would prove victor lit in the lie gory battle already hn and lie he accounted for four of tile the seven lions find and hadly wounded voun ded the ho throe three remaining when han in a temporary lull in the encounter lie he sunk slink limply to his fits knees pad rolled over upon its his side tar mills spear had tile the great lungs find and buto with victory almost in n sight succumbed to 0 o internal hemorrhage then tarzan came down from his fils sanctuary and as tho the wout wound idea cil lions gro growling dragged away the apo ape man cut his spear from tile body of 0 buts ikuto bucked backed olt off a vanished into the jungle the episode was over it hod had been all in the days work something which you and I 1 might talk nhoun tor for a lifetime dismissed from tits mind the moment that the scene passed from hla his sight swinging back through gli tile the jungle jung lelo la a wide circle the ape man came to tile the river at another point drank and took to tile the trees again and white while he liuna ed all oblivious of hlll past and careless of ills future there came through the dark jungles and the open plaicey plaices and across the wide meadows where grazed tile the countless of the mysterious continent a weird and terrible caravan in ili search of him there were fifty rightful frightful men inch with halry hairy bodies and gnarled find and crooked legs they were armed with knives and great bludgeons and tit at their head marched an utmost naked woman beautiful beyond coin coal pare it wits was la of opar high priestess of the Pla ining god find fifty of 0 her horrid priests searching for the pur joiner of the sacred sacrificial knife knafo never before had la passed beyond the crumbling outer walls of oearl but never before had need been so insistent si the sacred knife was gonot gonet handed down through countless ages age it had come to lier her as a heritage and an insignia Insl guta or of her religious ollice land regal authority from somo some long dead progenitor of lost and forgotten atlan its when that cointin continent ent with all its mighty cities and its cultivated fields and great commery commer comme ruo 0 lina culture and riches sank cank into the sea ion ions agai tarzan lea leaped ped straight into ta liiv mr fir since it took with it nil all but a handful of colonists colon isas working the vast gold mines of central africa from these find and their degraded slaves and a later late rl intermixture of the blood of the an all sprung the gnarled men of opar but by some soine queer freak of fate aided by natural selection the old at teall strain had remained pure ond and tn in the females descended from n single princess of tile royal if so of atlantis Atlant ts who had been in ur r nt at tile the time ot of the great catastrophe such was ln la durning with white hot finger anger was tile lie high priestess her heart a seething molten mass of hatred haired for tarzan of the apes tile tho zeal of the fanatic whose altar has been desecrated was triply enhanced bj the rago rage of a wol woman liali scorned twice had she thrown glicr ter heart at ac tho the feet of the godlike ape mau ilian and twice had iho been repulsed before COMB that first time to opar la had never seen peen a human male other than the grotesque and knotted men of tier her clan with one of these site she must mate sooner pr or later that flint tile the diree direct t line of high priestesses might not bo be broken unless fate a should 0 uld aring other inu to opar among the 0 apar aver atre 1 0 talc ataleg a ot godlike nn m of W e olden line fline and of black men wha hild come more recently but these latter halt had been enemies who killed and robbed d I 1 too these legends always held forth the hope that i orne tiny lay that continent front which alch their race had sprung would rise one moru more out of ill the tea t ea find and with slaves shives nt fit ilia long sweeps would send tier her cliven roid gold packed galleys forth to succor the long exiled colonists the coming of lind had aroused within las breast tho wild ald hope lope that lint at last the fulfillment of this fills duclett prophecy nt at handi but more strongly strong y still had it aroused tile lot liot ores fires of oc love lit in it heart that never otherwise would havo love known tho the lu enning of 0 that hut all passion for such ft wondrous creature na as lu lo could never liine have felt love for tiny any of tile tho repulsive pi priests tests of opar custom duty ond and religious 1 zeal might have co commanded inin the union but there could have been no love lo 10 on oil lits liis part silo had grown to young oung womanhood a cold and heart bean less creature daughter ot of a thousand other cold heartless beautiful women who lind had never known love anti and so when love loo anine to tier her it liberated all the pent passions of it thousand gen orations transforming la into a pulsing throbbing volcano ot of desire I 1 and with desire thwarted this groat fore force of it love jove and gentleness and sacrifice was transmuted by its own fires into one of hatred and revenge it was in a 11 state of mind dacca by these conditions that hat ln lal led forth tier her jabbering company to ro re wove the sacred eni emblem blein of lier office and wreak vengeance anco upon tile author of her wrongs lie ile should ile bo tortured ills should bo be a slow and frightful death ills punishment should be ba adequate to tho immensity ot of ills his crime lie hall had wrested lie sacred knife from la lie ho had lain join sacrilegious hands upon the high PrIe priestess of 0 tile floating flaming god lie he hall desecrated the altar and the temple for these things lie should die but ho he tind hod scorned tho the lovo love of la the woman and for tills lit ho should uld ho dle horribly with great anguish angnis li the march of la and tier lier r pr rl lusts ts was not without its adventures unused were these to the ways bf 0 tile jungle since place seldom lid did tiny any venture forth from behind epars crumbling wall alk 4 yet their very numbers protected ailein find and so they came without fa far along the tahil ot 0 and three great apes accod panted them find and to these was wag delegated the ho business of tracking tile the flu duarry arry a feat eat beyond tile the senses of file he Opar Op arfons tans ln la commanded silo she was a hard taskmaster too tor for slie she looked down with loathing and contempt upon the ho misshapen inis creatures which cruel fate biad act thrown her and to some extent vented upon illen her ber dissatisfaction and tier her thwarted love loc she ninde made them build tier lier it strong protection and shelter each cadi night and keep keel a great giant ire fire burning before it from dusk to down dawn when sho ilia tired of walking they were forced to carry her upon an all improvised litter nor did one dare to question tier lier nu dhority or tier lier right to such services for many days they marched the aves following tile tho trull trail easily and going a little distance ahead of lie body of the caravan that hot they might narn ivarn the others of impending danger it was during a noonday halt while all were lying og resting after a that ono one of tile apes rose suddenly and sniffed tile alio breeze breem in ili a to low w guttural lie he cautioned tile others to silence and a moment later was swinging quietly up wind into the jungle la ond and tile the priests gathered silently together the hideous little men flu fill gering bering their knives bud and bludgeons alid awaited the return of tho the shaggy up nor had they to long ng to wait before they saw him emerge from a leafy thicket and app approach them straight tola to la ln lie came find and lit in the language of the great which wits was also tile language of decadent opar lie ho addressed tier her tile the great ta rin all gant lies iles there lie he sold pointing in the direction front from which lie lind just cottle come come and we can kill him blin do not kill him commanded la I 1 in n cold tones bring tile great tar to me ino alle alive and unhurt the vengeance Is lits oo go but make no tio round until I 1 and slie site wavel waved tier her fiands to include all tier lier followers cautiously the weird party erect crept ohros gli tile the jungle in ill tile the wake of tho the great ape until at lust last lie ho halted them thein with a raised hand find and pointed upward a little attend ahead there they saw BOW tho giant form of tile the ape nian man stretched along a low bough and even lit in one liand hand grasped a stout thrill and one strong brown leg readied reached out find overlapped another at case cae lay tar nn of the apes ape sleeping heavily clifon 14 on a full stomach sto macli and dr dreaming earning of nu cuini i mn the ho lion ion mid find fiorta tile the boar and other odier creatures of the jungle no intimation of danar r assailed tho the dormant fac faculties of the ape man lie ho saw no crouching hairy figures the ground liene beneath nth hint him nor hor the three apes that swung quietly into tile tho tree botilde jilin him the first intimation of danger that came to tarzan tar can was tile the impact of three bodies as the three apes leaped upon hint and hurled him to the ground where lid alighted hair stun ned benei beneath till their liehr combined weight find was immediately get bet upon by the lifty fifty balry men or as aa many ciany of them nit n could swarm upon lila ver aon IN li |