Show I 1 7 ISY EDGAR RICE TAR TARZAN AN lip 4 AND THE fulfor of tarzan taman of the apes JEWELS OF or OPAR AR son s of taman cirii CT rii 1911 ml tr br A C etchu A C rim T v NUMA THE LION STRODE majestically INTO VIEW 11 1 1 in the jund jungle after his til captain in ft a lit of brooding albert herper Ver pr officer Is by zek arab stay il tv raider who pared par his ht lit and propos to him a scheme to kidnap jan 1 if of tarzan lord greytok drey tok and nd sell 11 II her into slavery le copts 1 osing aa J jule jules Fre coult french traveler is hospitably re alv by the Orey toki M II 11 learns his hi hoit boat is in financial and to 12 an to the treasure vaults of opar to procure cold told pitr it erek pr inform achmet 7 ak of the th opportunity to seize tx lady greystoke and prepay to tarzan to I lam imm mm the merit secret of opar CHAPTER ll 11 continued the belgian did not have ions long to wait for the follo following InC day hie his eals ary sary with word that taman end bad a party of fifty warriors hid hd set out toward the southeast early in the morning called his hi head nan man to hi ill n after writing a long letter to achmet thia this letter he banded handed to the head man send a ru ninar at once to achmet zek with thin this he instructed the fiend eneri remain emain Il here in camp nu awaiting alting further instruct instructions iona froni from him or from tap me it if any come from the bungalow of the englishman tell them that I 1 am very ill within my tent and can see no one now give nse me six porters and six alx lx akarl lit the strongest and slid bravest of the safari and I 1 will march after the englishman and aud discover where his gold la to hidden and so 0 o it ryas that as tarzan to the loin cloth and armed after the primitive fashion ho he best loved led his loyal wasiel toward the dead lead city of opar the renegade haunted hie his trail through the tons long hot days and camped close behind bilm by night and sa its they marched achmet zek rodo fode alth ith hie his entire following follow ng bouth ward lowerd tho greystoke Oreye toke farm to tarzan taman of the apes the expedition was in the nature of a holiday outing ills is civilization was wail at akst but nn an outward veneer which he gladly peeled off with hia his unchul uncomfortable fort ab 0 european clothes whenever any reasonable pretext P presented rented itself it will A tt Nen omana lans love which kept tar xan tan cen cien to the semblance of clyl liza liona condition for which familiarity had ad bred contempt lie tinted hated tho hann and the hypo hypocrisies corl ties of it and with will the clear vision of an ung unspoiled pollet mind he lie had hold penetrated to tho the rotten core of the heart of the thing ho the cowardly greed for peace pence and ease and the tile of property right rights and aud ao so tarzan taman always camo came back to linture in tho the spirit of a ION 1 or keeping a ionic ion deterred aryit after it period behind prison wall walls ills at narrow were more civilized than lie ahey hey cooked their neat ment before they tiey nto RIO it and they shunned many articles of food as ut atlean lean that tenon h had ad eaten cotten with ith guso gusto ull his life lite andio anil in la Is tho the virus of hypocrisy that even tile stalwart ape man hesitated to giro give rein rela to his natural ion longings in gs before them lie ate burnt eleah when he ile IN hive have preferred it raw and and ho dowa game with arrow or spear when he would far ruther rather navo have leaped upon it from ambush anil and sunk his big strong teeth in its jugular bat at last the call of the milk of tho the mother that had suckled him lu lit infancy rose to nn tin in alstedt demand deman dh ho ci Q 4 1 the hot blood of a fresh kill and his Inus muscles cles yearned to pit themselves against the bavage jungle in the tile blittle for exist enco ence thit had been his sole note birthright for he first twenty year of his life lite moved by these vague yet ull all power fu 41 the man lay awak awake one night in the little aborn boina boma that pro ectyl in ft a way his party from the I 1 d predations of the g great re at ca alyo m of th jungle A single warrior flood stood sleepy guard beside tho the fire that yel yet low erets out of the darkness beyond the carup roade imperative the and the coughing of the big cats eats mingled min glet with the myriad noise of tile lie lever feer denizens of the jungle junr to to fan tan the ravage flame it in the breast of this ear say pre english lord he ile toss tossed ea 1 11 mn his ills bell 11 f grasses sleepless for an hoar and find then herome he roso noiseless as its a wraith and lille ho the S back was turn hj vaulted tho the bonin bowa wall rail in the face noe of ibe the flaming eyes swung silent ly IY into a great tree and WAS gono for lor a time in shear exuberance of spirit ho he raced through tho the maddio terrace swinging perilously across wide from ono jungle giant to the next and then ho fic claw leered upward to the nayla 1119 lesser boughs of the upper terrace where the tho moon hone shone full upon him and the air was by little bredies and death lurked ready in each frail trail branch here he paused and raised lit ahli face ACO to buom the moon with uplift ann he h stood the cry of the bull ape quivering upon his big lip yet he tie remained allent lest let it he trouse his ills alth ful tut wa OM who were vere all tott too familiar with the hideous challen challenge of their roaster muster and then ho arnt on more slowly alid nd with tin greater vater stealth raj aol aal ca caution ullon for DOW flow taman of the apes woj w seek log ing a kill kilt down to he ground he came in the utter black blackness nest of the clomile closest met boles bolts and the overhanging verdure of or be jungle he ile stooped from time to time and put his nose dose clee to lie ile sought and found a M tn trail and an d at lat last bis his nostrils were reward id d with the scent of the freeh fresh poor of bam the deer tar zana mouth watered and a low groni escaped hie his patrician lips sloughed from film was tho the last vestige of alti facial caste once again he was the primeval hunter the first man the highest caste tie of the human rare race up wind he followed the elusive spoor with sense of perception eo so transcending that of ordinary man as ai to bo be ln in conceive concel val ie le to us presently the body cent scent of the deer tod told tarzan that bis his prey was as close at baell it sent him into the trees again into the lower terrace where he could watch the ground below an tin I 1 catch with eara ears and noso the first intimation ti mation mailon of actual contact with hu hij quarry nor was sins it long before the ape man came catao upon dam standing albort ht rt the edge of a moon bathed clearing noiselessly tarzan taman crept through the trees until ho he was directly ovir the deer in the admans ap mans band hand was the long hunting knife of his father and in his heart the blood lust of the carnivore just for an instant ho he polard above the he unsuspecting kara bum and anti then he lie laun launched thed himself down muni surd upon the sleek back the impact of his weight carried the deer to its knees and before the tile animal could IC its feet the knife had found its ho starr art As A taman rose upon tho the body of his 11 ll it to scream forth his hideous victory cry into the tile face of the moon the wind ind carried to his nostrils some thing which filch froze him film to statuesque immobility and silence ills 1111 savage eyes blazed into the dir direction e action fir from in which the wind ind had borne down the warning to him and aud a moment later th grasses at one side of tho the clearing parted and numa the lion strode majestically JestIc ally into view from the tile lips of the tile ape man broke a it rumbling growl of warning numa au answered but he did lid not advance if instead be stood aning his tall gently to and fro and presently tarzan taman Equal equalled led upon his its kill and und cut a gen arous portion from front A hind quarter dumn uma eyed him with growing resentment and rage as berreen lie tile ape man growled out his savage warnings now this particular lion lind nestr before come in contact with taman of the apes apt and he was much MY StIlled here was the appearance and the scent of a man thine thing 1 aai I numa had tasted human flesh and learned that though not the most palatable it was by far tho the easiest to sure secure yet there tta lial that in the bestial gronis of the Sti strange range creature which reminded him ft of formidable antagonists and gave hint pause while Ms big hunger a and ad tho the odor of the hot t ot flesh of llara dara goaded him almost to madness at last numa I 1 f I 1 numa 0 a lion strad majestically alto it view could stand it no to loneer longer ills III tall shot udde tily erect and nt at the same in slant stant the wary ape man knowing nil all too well what the signal portended gra gracd pd he the remal iader of te tile d der ev rs hind quarter between his teeth teet h and leaped into a nearby tree as numa him with nil all th thal pd and a ia sufficient semblance of the weight of an express s train tarzan TAr tute retreat was no indication that he be f alt it fear jungle lite Is ordered along different binm than tharl ours art ard dif ferent standards prevail lied taman been be le would of 0 uh iles have stood his big ground and slid int met t the llone lions charee charge lie ile had bill done the thine before upon more than one occasion jurt as in the r rt at he had bad chand ilona bat but iko was far 1 y from famished and in the hind quarter he lie had carried off with mith him was could cat eat let et more nore 1 raw flesh than he 1 it t was ris with no equanimity that be he looked down doun upon numa rending me the flesh of 0 kill the presumption ot of this strange numa must ue be punished I 1 and forthwith tarzan pet set out to t make life miserable for the big cat close by fir were maicy trees bearing large hard fruits and to one or of these the ape man swung me the of a t then commence a bombardment which I 1 aught forth earth earthshaking shaking roars from dumn uma it was wag impossible for the tawny tany cat to cat cut under that ball hall of ini missiles salles h he e could but roar and growl grout and dodge and eventually he lie m was as driven away avay entirely from the of bars the deer he ile went ment roaring an and d resentful but in the very center of the clearing his ills voice us was suddenly hushed and taman saw the great bead lower lover and hatten flatten out the body crouch and the long tall quiver as the beast slunk cautiously toward the trees upon the opposite side immediately tarzan taman was alert he lifted his head bead and sniffed the slow jungle breeze NN hat was a s it that had attracted numas attention and token him soft footed and silent away from the scene of his discomfiture just as thi the lion disappeared among the trees beyond the clearing tarzan tuman caught upon the down coming corning wind the explanation of his new now interest the scent cent spoor of roan man was wafted strong ly 17 to the sensitive nostrils caching the remainder of the deers hind quarter ill 10 the crotch of a tree the appman ap moved through the trees the shadow of a wraith the savage cat and the savage roan man saw mi nit na not s g quarry almost st simultaneously though both had known before it came within the vision of their eyes that it was a bick birck wrin u their sensitive nostrils had told them this much and had told him film that the scent spoor or was nas that of a stranger stronger old and a male for race and flex and age each has its own distinctive distine scent it was an old man that trade his way may alone through the gloomy jungle a wrinkled dried up I 1 little old roan man hideously scarred and t tattooed and strangely garbed with the sun abin of n hyena about his shoulders and tho the dried head mounted upon his arav pate tarzan recognized the earmarks of the witch doctor and awalt cd ed numas charge with a feeling of 0 pleasurable curable anticipation for the bad had no love for witch doctors but in the tile instant that mma numa did charge the white roan man sullenly sud lenly recalled that the linn unit had stolen his kill a d few minutes before and blat revenge Is sweet the first intimation the black man had that he was as in darger was the crash of twigs a as numa charged through the bushes into the game trail mt but m t twenty yards behind him then lie 10 turned to see a huge black ion lion wing toward him and even ns as he ie turned numa him film at the same instant tb tr ape man dropped from rom an tin overhanging full upon tho the lions back and as he alighted he lie plunged his knife into the thel lawny tauny side aide behind the left shoulder tangled the fingers of LIs right hand in the long mane wane burled buried his teeth in numas hect arid wound his ills powerful erful legs about the beasts torso with a roar of pain pala 1114 rage numa reared up and fell ackward backward upon the ape man but still the mighty man thing clung to his hold and repeatedly the long knife I 1 fa plunged deeply into his side her oer and oer rolled numa the lion clawing ng and biting at the air roaring and growling 9 horribly in savage rit empt to reach reah the thing upon ita back more than once was tarzan taman almost brushed from ills his hold lie was batt emot and bruised and covered with blood from fromN numa dmn and dirt from the trail yet not for nn an in stant stoat did he lessen the ferocity of hta ill mad attack nor his grim bald upon uron the back of his antagonist vi here he had fallen beneath tho the spring of tho the lion n the witch doctor lay jay torn bad ble bleeding ed unable to drug drag ill himself insela away and watched tho the terrific terr ilic battle between th theo the e two lords of the tile jungle ills sunken eyes glittered and his wrinkled lips moved over oyer toothless gums as he hf mumbled weird Incan incantations tati ong to the demons of his cult for a time he felt no doubt as to the outcome the strange white bilte roan man must certainly succumb to terrible kuma whoever heard of a lone roan man armed only with a knife laying slaying go nil clity a beast I 1 yet presently th the old black roane faes went wider and ho he to have Ms his doubts and what wonderful sort soft of creature creaturo wa as this that battled with numa and find held bis his own despite th the e mighty muscles of the kin king 9 of bea beasts beatts then slowly there ol downed in tho those sunken eyes MS gleaming so brightly from the scarred and wrinkled face the light of a dawning recollection it ono tho the picture of a lithe white skinned youth swinging through the trees in company with a band of at huge up apes nd th tin 9 old eyes blinked and a grant fear came into them theol the super MIMI loul fear of one who mho belle in and and dei det ions tons and came mine the siule once more ht the witchdoctor witch doctor no 00 longer doubted the outcome of the duil dui yet ills first budz j ad 9 ment was rl reversed for zi now ow bo he knew that the jangle jungle god go would stay 1 ta terrified and the old black wae was evau more fate at fit the ot of his own impending hands of the victor than he had been sudden death which by the sure and meted the triumphant lion would have weaken eaken out to him hint lie ile saw the lion from loss of blood lie ile saw the mighty limbs tremble and stagger and at last tink sink down to rise no he saw the beast he ile aw alv the god or demon dewon more rise from the he vanquished foe and placing a foot upon th the e still quivering carcass raise h his Is face to the file wa moon on and that tha t froze the bay out a hideous cry eans veins of the tile witch ebb ebbing na blood in the doctor octor CHAPTER III prophecy 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