| Show R by EDGAR R RICE I 1 C AN BURROUGHS AND THE authar of t JEWELS OF T an ra of the A apes P CS OPAR son of tarzan c 1911 loor y L C c CHAPTER XV continued Conti rued 14 binally the lion lifted a forean anil and turned the tody body of the tile girl halt half over then lie etol gain cydne her as though still undetermined mlle thir life was extinct or not some noise or olor odor from the nearby jungle attracted alq h attention for a moment ills eyes ditl did nut not ogain return to jane canton and arid presently ly he lie it lift ft her walked mulled over mer to the n mains of an ani crouch lug down upon his ills kill lill with his ills back toward the tile girl proceeded to devour thi apt up it mais upon this scene that june laton at last opined her tier a it in ared to datig dangar cr ehe she maintained her tier bolf I 1 ait ion in tho the face of the startling bill hii ipri pr it which i tier nav nf found con 1 ili I 1 I 1 it s rl tall 1 I to I 1 er bhe blie saw atut the tile lion hid killed the ape ani H t hi IL was deou devouring ring his 1113 prey less ta alin i to dufty fiat ft et froni front m where here she lay but w alint lint could slip do her iler hands hand and fit fut t w wire 4 re hound bound she must unit alt then in what she slip could command mm jintil ninna numa had eaten ano aru digested dig isted the ape hn without i doubt he lie u would return to feast upon her unless in lit lie the the dread biegan lisull ill iso cpr vrr npr her tier or some other of tit the nu tin iner us prowling enni hora of the jun gle IP As he lay tormented liy toy these frightful fr slit fill thoughts the she suddenly he be Ot Belom that the bonds on hor fists wrists and nil crinkles no longer hurt her an annl I 1 then of tit fart that her tier hands mere arc t one lying upon elther side ff f hr hor instead of both beans con nn fn 1 at tier back lr for a inocent jone jane cliton una mani hi lined with ith joy an and thank sli ing lut I 1 lit only for a mornant N hat lint frood 00 oo uj her new found liberty in lie the fire of the tile beast crouching so 0 o dose aide lier tier SIP watched the lion nar narrowly lie ile fild not see ha without writing his 1114 ibid alij more than halama around she ile boull out attempt a ruse allf silently she site ri rt lied 0 r in the direction of the near it st tree and ama from front tit lion until she he lay aluen in lit the sanie same position in ulilah guinn hill tilt left hr h r but a 11 few feet further from him lapie she luy lily tilt lion lut tilt tho tile beast agne no andlen ion lien that t chad heard hear aught daught tor trouse ha r thair bhe rolled oer a few fe noro more feet and again ahn lay in n rigid contemplation of the I 1 beasts east s tack back the pirl girl was but a fett few paces froni from tilt trea tre rea a more inore anti she be close enough to chance I 1 to her tier feet throw I 1 ig caution aside and milling a and ten bold hold 1 dish I ish for safet i ilie ito anns ns oer in ncr her turn her face away from froin the lion ft hen he suil luddeni dent turned his ills greit it head and fastened his ills eys ays upon lier tier lie BOW saw her tier roll over ui ul on her tier side tilde away from him film and then her tier eyes tere erp turned again toward him and the off old aw awat at broke from front lie the girls mery pore as she he reali zd flint ith tilt life al at must within her grasp death had faund her tier out lor t or a long time little neither the tile girl nor tho the lion inmee the beast lay motion kis ill his head turned upon ills e 6 nil mit ders and his glaring aei fl l upon ill alid vie ile ini tin now nearly lift lards away Ile allying tint tivit she file could not abuin tu u to without lt hout attracting his lit immediate tit I 1 perhaps fatal attention jane clay ZIP J V 1 A I 1 here she lay breathe watching the lion loll 1011 on to risk all in one lat last nt at apt apt to reach the tree and clamber to tte ile lower low branches gathering the ff rt ehe the leaped suddenly gud deoly to her feet lot t At the floe lion llo ra aag up and with alde ide adli dl jaw and roars ged raly f down upon her r r can work wonder arja anih u RId spring of he the lion ilan ai be ar the trw tree into ibach he lie t 1111 ling brought hl his talon f in row w lui ith her she el 1111 aided hh his il msp p asp and as he I 1 11 artl I 1 1 J or ar her the tirl girl iu briw hereof into tile art of tile 1 r illies ill t ill rt hii lor some time tile loll 1011 macei growling S and moaning I 1 tile tree in lit which jane june clayton crout crouched hed ranting and trembling it was dark lwe before lie finally quit the clear ing S and anti even esen had his alph alae th tilt remnants remnant of the mangled ale not been H usurped by a ao pack or nas ane da claton ton would dearco ly ime dared denture from her tier refuge rofu in the tile fan fact of ruling roding night tired nir nit e at lat last overcame earne een her tier fars gars and she dri dr i ped into a deep squint blumler or acied 1 ili a it comparatively are though rather uncomfortable lo 10 atlon f against the tile lole tole of ills hi tree and anti supported by two laree branches which kiew outi outward ard almost I 1 orizon tall but u few apart ahe bull was as high in the heans atlen fell oie at last ast awoke an atil I 1 betik atil lit h r was no sign either of numa or the hena hoth both hunger unit thirst G all ailed her tier now and realizing riall zing hit wit she must dwonda or die of she at last summoned courage to under take tho ordeal of continuing her jour ney through the jungle from lie the tree she ket out in a southerly sout hirly direction toward the tilt point w m here she bellei believed ed the 1 lain 4 of lay and though she kne knew that flint only ruin rula and dc marked the spot where once her tier happy home it hid id stood site he that thai by coining coming to the tile I 1 road plain i lie he might tien 1 I reach one of the billage i that were til our mtr the surrounding rounding eur countr or chance upon a roving band of these indefatigable huntsmen tile da aas half spent ulten there broke unexpectedly ua ou on her tier startled ears tl it e sound of a rifle liot shot not far ahead of lir As she site pause bauld to listen this first shot was as foll followed med b and another hat lint could it mean As the tile firing became less lipil she caught the bound sound of mens alces though tl at e could distinguish no words and she heard two wo men calling to eath each other wier in loud tonia then there wa n ns it long silence alch was finally broken b the stealthy i 1 adding of footfalls on the trail ahead of pf her and in another moment a man mail appeared in vie view back lit ing her a rifle ride in his ills hands and 1 hs ills ees directed lu lit careful vatch match fuzesi ru along the way that he lie had coine me almost instantly jane claiton recognized the man as at 1 jules I 1 re coult nho uhn so recently had been a guest in her tier boint bhe she was mai upon the point of tailing calling to him film in glad relief when she he saw gals lint leap to one tie tide side and hide tilde himself in the thick verdure at tt ti e trall e 9 side it was itts evident that flint he lie nus being foli followed omed by n enem and nd so jane clayton kei kel t gillice gile ice lest ehe she detract di dl tract Fre recoula s attention cr or guide his foe to Us ls hiding hitting place beni elly had hall hidden him elt kelf than tle the fig ure of a white robed rab rah crept silently along tho the trail in lit pursuit from her hiding place jane clayton could we see both men plainly she recognized achmet zek as the kador of he lie wh wit had raided her tier home and made her a prisoner april oner and as she saw sau Fre coult the tile opposed supposed up posed friend and ally rale his gun and take careful aim alin at the arab her tier heart stood still mid and every power of her soul was ins directed uon a fervent braer fur or the accuracy of his aim alm achmet aek paused 1 in the middle of hie the trail III ills been keen fes ces stan canned neKI emy buh huoi and tree within the he radius of lit 11 A i islon ills tall figure pro rented a n per feet target to the perfidious assassin eliere was a sharp report nad a little puff purr of f mole arose from the bush that hid the belgian aa lachniet aek stumbled forward and pitched pit cheil face down upon the trail As herper erper stepped back luto into the rail rat lie rall 1 startled by b y the tile sound of a glad cry from front above hira him ani ca Us be he olice led about to discover the chor bof I 1 of this unexpected interruption he 1 mw saw jane claton drop lightly front roni a tree and run forward with out stretched hands to cong congratulate him epou poll hi ills victory if the beilman had entertained any doubts as s to the hontans knowledge of his par part t in the perfidious attack upon her home hone and arid herself it was quickly dissipated ilmi by the genuine friendship rj of her erecting greeting bhe she told him film qui kly oc of all that had befallen tier since lie had departed deported aiom her ehe sh poke of the e deth ileth oine and as its e fioke oath of cof lier her husband her eye eyes were nere belled could not repress which the she by toy the tears pre is 1 I am r knocked hock ed MM in 1 ell simulated Upu but I 1 am not surprised that levit devil there and he pointed toward the body of achmet zek ha has terrorized the entire coun lour maeirt are either ester try driven out of initiated aled or have been heir their country tar far to the south out our mis only hope lies w in traveling ilig northward of coming to t th he rail dl as we ins as knowl the ap rs before of the n M camp aie edge of ac ad det et ze ks k s death reaction racha and of ot left there ther e ubo bo vere ere I 1 through botne ru rus e en in ekcert ta ining the north it is our i Y and arid roost iw Y bady 1 fa fill in me if I 1 at to L here a loon 01 tent walt valt fer for me beel ale tb 0 arab body the w title I t ta talk lw from and 1 t tha I 1 be he tot mole free me 33 oprel tp rel ll to the tile dead lut turn it s hide file arid kneeing fought sought with lift q bukk lingers fingers the tile pouch of jewiss to till his consternation there was no ign of them in lit lie the of Alch conict ck k I 1 guzzled disappointed and unit anar he ile at a t last I 1 a t returned to the girl the wallet allet ie Is cone gone he tie cri crupl ami arid I 1 dare not it lay tiny longer in search of f it ut t must reach tin tilt caknip a before the returning irs un ti of the char acter r lane clabou guw saw nothing pecullar in ili lif 4 i inns lans or in ill sp eLlous of hl ills fornier for hie the and anti so 0 o the site with milli alacrity the see aing hope for safety ulilah lie proof fred her tier ani anil turning she site g sit t out u with ill albert ibert 1 I 1 toward the tile hostile howe camp cump in ili which she he ko k o latel intel had flail been a prisoner calling floud to hose those who i ho tended the ault s 1 eror derpo r I 1 jane jaue clay ton 1 tie ile arm M walked I 1 of adly acro naros s the tile clearing thoe those nho he opened tile tip gatea to him film permitted their surprise to liow show clearly in their e expressions 1 press lons lint the discredited and il limited lieu tenant hould be thu thus returning fear lesl lesi les I l of his own olin to disarm them quite as lily ns as his ills manner toward lady greystoke Gre stoke had find dic elred her tier jane clayton was again conlin cd to tit pran lut but she had forn arly mccu tiled pled but as an she flint thi this as I 1 tit it part of tit the tile deception which ehe she and recoula Ire I 1 re coull coult wore were playing upon the creda on ous raiders it as mith a dicter differ ent sensation that flint she again entered tit alic ille anil and nichy interior front that blikh she site had previously when lien hope mas go so far away one once more she site m as boun I 1 and anti een men tries trici placed the door of her tier but before left tier he m words of cheer into tier hor ear rhen lit ili ifft rind made ills hi way hack back to the tint tent of mohammed bead acl ach met s lieutenant Molian mud hed sit cross legged upon a rui rug smoking the arab looked jp lip as ul the e european Luro Lur peau came into hia his pres let ce greetings 0 br brother otherl I 1 he lie said GM n pi led arper lor a while neither ecole further the arab mus the first to break the silence and nil my master muster achmet 7 aek ua was well when hen last iou saw him I 1 I 1 11 he a aked I 1 Is etier was he lie safer frow rota the sins and anti dan dangers ars of mor mort allt 11 r replied the belgian it la Is well said mohammed bead bloing a little pud puff of blue smoke straight out before him film again there was ans silence for several minutes and tt if lie were u ere daudt tend asked the belgian determined to lend up nil to the truth and attema t to arll e mohammed ild bd into his ills the alabe eeg narrowed and he lie leaned forward ills hi gate boring 11 straight into the tile eyes of ot the belgian I 1 I 1 lime liae bt bun n thinking much lo Verper sinic on returned so expectedly to the camp of the man inan wrom you de tie belied and u who ito sought you with death in ills hi heart I 1 haye hare thought much as I 1 bild said arid the result of iny my thinking his Ms assured me that achmet zek li Is drad dt ad tor for ou on would neer neier hive dared return to hie film cati caina liti WPM ou on he tie either a braver lormer inan or a big ger fool than I 1 hae haie imagined and if it tilt hi of iny MY judgment Is not sufficient I 1 have but jast just now received from froin bour our onn un III evil eyen more con witness for did you not say that achmat wits neler more safe from front the sl sins iq and danger dangers of mortal ity I 1 lell ell me v why by you has ahne e come back brick here tell me we mint lint you want and erper if you still till powe he jein J atela of which zek told me trip there Is nu no reason why by you and I 1 should not ride rifle north together and divid divide the ran son pout of tre tte ie glisn and the con tent tents of the pouch you wear about our person MV arper wn was boti both and die dis by the arabs attitude tho complacency with which he accepted the death of hh ills chief lifted d a conslo crable erable burden of from the shoulder shoulders of Ac Acio hiliet iet assas ansas sla 1 bat but hs lim demand for a blikre of the jew jewels els bodi bodt dl a III for iii erper when whon mo bummed bed should liae lime learned that the precious stones tone were mere no long cr er in the belgians pos kosslon slon 1 I Us es he lie bald said achnicht sick zek Is dead lie ile fell in battle wills with tilt a company of abyssinian cavalry that held hold me captive during the fighting I 1 escaped but I 1 doubt it if at tani of ac comet zek roen men live 11 and the cold the sought Is in the pos kosslon slon of the ilven 1 now they are doubtless oa on thi this camp for or they were kent sent by Mn friek to punish achmet zek and hit his followers toy for R raid upon the tat beean sain lan ian ril tillage lage there are many of 0 them and if we vre do not make haste to escape tv shall all suffer the came same ate fate as Ac lirot al 71 mohammed beld ik yd listened in silence lence art ilov iw of the 11 story he might lately ely wiese he tie did bet not know but as it afforded him an air excuse for deserting the village nd d making tor for the he north be ve was not inclined to ere aih alon the tb belgian too ton minutely and it if I 1 rm north va with ith yoo ym he halt talf lie the jewels and hal the hi ft aa fredi aed edi mabll of t tw k geehin n hll be miner aft paled M fir good suld mohammed kent 1 I 1 co now to ia the order for the breaking of camp early on the morrow anil and he lie rose to leato tile tent erper laid a detaining hand upon his ami arm alt aft he a ald 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