Show I x i Ii I t By EDGAR RICE II TA R. R Z A N i BUR BURROUGHS AND THE Author r o ef if f I Tarzan of th the J JEWELS VELS OF F OP OPAR AR Son of Tarzan Apes L 1911 r. r lr r 7 A. A C C. C A C C. C I g ALL NIGHT I SHALL TORTURE HIM Synopsis Hiding In the Jungle after killing his hi captain In a fit of ot brooding madness Albert Belgian officer Is I. captured by Achmet Zek Arab slave raider who spares his life lite and proposes to him a scheme to kidnap Jane wife of ot Tarzan Lord Greystoke and sell her Into slavery ry ac ac- Posing as Jules French traveler Is hospitably received received re reo re- re b by the Greystoke He learns his host Is In financial straits and Is planning an expedition to the treasure vaults of at Opar to procure Gold sold Informs Achmet Zek Zak of ot the opportunity to seize Lady Greystoke and follows Tarzan to learn the secret of at Opar Opal Spying on Tarzan sees him load his haa blacks with gold from tram the treasure chamber of at the Sun Worshipers A convulsion of ot Nature causes the collapse of the vault Imprisoning both men recovers from the shock and leaves Tarzan apparently dead Seeking a way to safety Is seized by priests of or the Flaming God a degenerate race He Is about to be offered up as a sacrifice when the ceremonies are Interrupted by the appearance of a maddened hunger lion Hon Believing Tarzan dead his black followers return home with the gold Achmet Zek acting on on Information has haa attacked the Greystoke home borne burned It It and carried carried carried car car- ried ort oft Lady Greystoke Tarzan's lieutenant is severely wounded but recovers and follows the raiders Lord Greystoke recovers consciousness but the accident has haa destroyed his memory and he is again Tarzan of or th the Apes Ape He finds himself In the Jewel room of or Opar Opal He fills his pouch with pretty pebbles pebbles cut cut ut diamonds of or great value He lie reaches the sacrificial chamber Just as IU the lion halts the sacrifice of or by La Ho Is recognized recognized recognized by La high priestess whom he had known In previous pre years He slays the lion and releases Tarzan and erper watch atch the formers former's party return and bury the gold Tarzan has no memory of the place erper steals the diamonds and escapes to Achmet Zek's stronghold Lady Greystoke Is there a a. prisoner tells the Arab of at the gold but not of or the diamonds Achmet discovers has the Jewels and the Belgian fearing for tor his life lite escapes with the gems Tarzan misses but does not discover th the theft of at the Jewels He resumes the life lite of a wild man fit at CHAPTER IX Continued 8 For severn several I hours Tarzan lolled upon his Ills swaying leafy couch until once again hunger and thirst suggested suggested sug sug- ested an nn excursion Stretching lazily lazily lazily lazi lazi- ly he dropped to the ground and moved slowly toward the river Tarzan Tarzan Tar Tar- zan had head almost reached the point where the trail debouched upon the open river bottom when he saw a family of lions approaching along the path from the direction of the river The male man ape counted seven seven seven-a a and two lionesses full grown and anel four young oung lions as large and quite as ns formidable as ns their parents Tarzan i halted growling and the lions paused the great male in the lead baring his fanges and rumbling forth n a warning roar In his hand the man ape held his hen heavy V spear but he had bad no Intention Intention intention tion of pitting his puny weapon against seven Re lions yet ct ha stood there growling growlIng growl growl- rowlIng rowl- rowl Ing and ran roaring ring and the lions did likewise like like- wise It was purely an exhibition of Jungle bluff Each Ench was trying to frighten off oft the other Neither wished to turn back hack and give way nor did either at first desire to precipitate an encounter r The lions were fed up sufficiently sufficiently suf suf- so as not to be goaded by hy pun pangs s of hun hunger er and as for Tarzan he seldom ate the meat of ot the carnivores carniv carniv- carnivores ores arcs but a point of ot ethics was at nt stake and neither side wished to back down So they stood there facing one another making all sorts of hideous hideous hide hide- ous noises the while they hurled jungle Jungle Jun jun- gle invective back and forth There came an Interruption which put an nn end to the deadlock and und it came from tram Tarzan's rear lie He and the lions had been making so much noise that neither could hear anything above their concerted bedlam and so It was that Tarzan did not hear the great grent bulk bearing down from behind until an nn Instant before It was upon him and then he turned to see Buto the rhinoceros his little pig eyes blazIng blazing blazing blaz blaz- ing charging madly toward him and und already so close that escape seemed impossible yet ct so perfectly were mind and muscles co in this unspoiled unspoiled unspoiled un un- spoiled primitive man that almost simultaneously with the sense tion of at the threatened danger daner he lie wheeled d and hurled his spear at Bute's Butos chest It was a heavy spear shod with Iron and behind it were the giant muscles o of the man ape while coming coining to meet It was the Ule enormous weight of ot Buto Duto and the momentum of ot his rapid rush All AU that happened in the In in- Instant stant scant that Tarzan turned to meet the charge of the time Irascible rhinoceros might take long to tell and yet would have taxed the swiftest lens to record As his spear left his hand the ape ape- man was looking down upon the mighty horn lowered o 0 toss him so close clos was unto Buto to him The spear entered entered entered en en- the rhinoceros' rhinoceros ned neck at Its Us Junc June Junction Junction tion with the left shoulder and passed I almost entirely through the beasts beast's bod body and at or the tho Instant that he hl launched It It Tarzan Tamn leaped straight Into the air alighting upon Buto Butos back but escaping eR the Iho mighty horn Then Buto Duto espied the lions and bore bort madly wadi down upon UIn them while Tarzan of ot the Apes leaped nimbly Into tb the tangled creepers at nt one side of or the trail The Time tint t lion met Butos Buto's charge and was 89 t tossed high over the back of the maddened brute torn and dying J and then the six remaining lions were upon the rhinoceros rending and ond tearing th the while they th y were being gored oral or tram trampled From the safet safety of ot his perch Tarzan watched the battle battle bat bat- tle tie royal roal with the keenest Interest For n a time it seemed that Ruin Buto the rID rhinoceros would prove victor In the gory battle Already had bad he be accounted account account- mi Pd for tor four tour of ot the seven Hyel lions and noo badly wounded the three e remaining when In a n temporary lull luU In 10 the encounter encounter en en- counter he sank ank limply to his knees knes and rolled over upon lila hll side Tarp Tar xan's uns spear had pierced the great eat lungs lung and Buto with victory almost I In sight eight su succumbed to Internal hemor hemor- Then Tarzan came down front from his bis sanctuary and as lIS the wounded lions Hons i growling dragged themselves away the man ape cut hi his hi spear pear from the body of Buto Duto hacked backed off ocr a steak took and vanished Into the Jungle The episode I was over It had been all In the days day's work orl work something something which you and I might talk about for a lifetime Tarzan dismissed sed from his mind the moment that the scene passed from his sight Swinging back through the Jungle In Ina Ina Inn a n wide circle the man ape-man carne came to the river at another point drank and took to the trees again and while he hunted hunted hunt hunt- ed ed all oblivious of his past and careless careless careless care care- less of or his future there came through the dark Jungles and the open park- park like places and across the wide meadows where grazed the countless of the mysterious continent a It weird and terrible caravan in search of at him There were fifty rightful frightful men teen with hairy bodies and gnarled and crooked legs The They were armed with knives and great bludgeons a and d at nt their head marched an almost naked woman beautiful beyond com com- pare It was La of Opar High Priestess of ot the Flaming God and fifty of her horrid priests searching for the purloiner purloiner pur- pur of the sacred sacrificial knife Never ever before had La passed beyond the crumbling outer walls of at Opar but never before had need been so In In- The sacred knife was vas g gone gone ne 1 Handed down through countless ages it had lad come to her as RS a heritage and an nn Insignia o or of her religious office ce and andre re regal al authority from somo some long dead progenitor of lost and forgotten Atlan Atlan- When that continent with all aU its mighty cities and Its Us cultivated fields and great commerce and culture and acid riches richeR sank ank Into the sea ton on ages J 4 1 I i rS r I S i r 3 t I 1 J Tarzan Leaped Straight Into uio uw nor r since It took with It all but a n handful of colonists working the vast gold mines of ot central Africa From these and imd their degraded slaves sla and a later Intermixture of the blood of the anthropoids anthropoids an an- sprung the tIle gnarled men of ot Opar but b by some queer freak of fate tate aided by b- natural selection the old At- At strain had remained pure and aud In the females descended from a single princess of the royal house of Atlantis who had bad been In Opar at t the time of at the great catas catas- Such was us La WI Burning with white-hot white anger was the high priestess her heart a n seeth In Ins ing molten mass of hatred for tor Tarzan of or the Apes The zeal of the religious fanatic whose altar has been desecrated desecrated dese dese- crated rated was triply enhanced by the rage of a woman scorned Twice T had she thrown her heart at the Ule feet of the godlike man ape and twice had she abe bt been en repulsed I Before ore Tarzan came that first Ont time to Opar La had never neverseen neverseen seen MeD a n human male other olber than the grotesque gro gre ro- ro tesque and ond knotted men of ot her hur clan clam With one of ot these she meat t mate sooner sooner sooner soon soon- er or later that the direct line pine of high priestesses might not be broken un un- unless less leN fate should bring other men to Opar Among the le legends end of ot Opar were Werf tales of godlike men of ot the olden time and of ot black bInd men who bo had conic come more recently but these latter had bad been enemies who killed and robbed And too these legends always s 's held forth the hope that some da day that nameless continent from which their race nice had sprung would rise o once ce more out of the sea and with slaves at the long I sweeps would send her carven careen gold- gold packed galleys forth to succor the long exiled colonists The coming of Tarzan had aroused I within Las La's breast the wild hope that at last the fulfillment of this ancient prophecy was at hand handi but more strongly still sUit had it aroused the hot fires tires of love In a n heart henrt that never otherwise otherwise oth oth- Ise en would have known the meaning of that consuming nil passion for such suchs sucha a wondrous creature as La could never have felt love for tor any of the repulsive priests of at Opar Custom duty and religious religious re reo zeal might have commanded the union but there could have been no love on Las La's part She had grown to young oung womanhood a cold and heartless heartless heartless heart heart- less cre creature ture daughter of a n thousand other cold heartless beautiful women who had never known love loye And so when love came to her It liberated all the pent passions of a thousand generations generations generations gen gen- transforming La into a pulsIng pulsing pulsing puls puls- ing throbbing volcano of desire and with desire thwarted this great grent force torce of ot love and gentleness and sacrifice was transmuted b by Its Us own fires Into one of ot hatred and revenge It was was- In a state of ot mind by these conditions that La led forth her jabbering company compan to retrieve retrieve re re- re- re trieve the sacred emblem of ot her high office and wreak vengeance upon the theauthor theauthor theauthor author of her ber wrongs He should be tortured His should be a slow and frightful death His ills punishment should be adequate to the immensity of ot his iris crime He had wrested the sacred knife from irom La he lie had lain loin sacrilegious hands upon the High Priestess of the Flaming God he had desecrated the altar and ald the temple For these things he should die but he had scorned the love of La the woman and for this he should die horribly with great grent anguish The march of La and her priests was not without its adventures ad Unused Unused Unused Un Un- used were these to the ways of the Jungle since seldom did any venture forth from behind Opar's crumbling walls yet et their very numbers protected protect protect- ed them and so they came without fatalities fatalities fa fa- far along the trail of ot Tarzan and Verper Three great grent a apes es accompanied t anted them and to these was delegated delegated delegated dele dele- gated the business of tracking t the quarry a feat beyond the senses of the La commanded She was a hard taskmaster too for she looked down with Ion loathing thing and contempt contempt con con- tempt upon the misshapen creatures amongst which cruel fate had hod thrown her and to some extent vented upon them her dissatisfaction and her thwarted love Jove She made them build her a strong protection and shelter each ench night and keep a great fire tire burnIng burnIng burn burn- In Ing before It from dusk to dawn When she tired of ot walking they were forced to carry her upon an Improvised litter nor did one dare to question her authority authority authority au au- au- au or her right to such services For or many days they tIley marched the tile apes following the trail easily and going a little distance ahead of ot the body of ot the caravan that they might warn the others of impending danger It was during a noonday noonda halt while all were lying resting after a tiresome march that one of the apes rose suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly and sniffed the breeze In a low guttural lIe he cautioned the lie others to silence and a moment later was swingIng swingIng swing swing- Ing lag quietly up wind into the Jungle La and the priests gathered silently to together ether the hideous little men fingering fingering fin fin- gering their knives and blud bludgeons eons and awaited the return of the shaggy an un Nor r bad had the they Ion long to wait walt before th they saw him emerge from tram a n leaf leafy thicket and approach them Straight ht to La Lu he came and In the language of the great apes which was also the language of ot decadent Opar he addressed addressed ad ad- dressed herThe her ber Tire The great lies asleep there lie he said pointing in the direction direction direction tion from which he had Just come Come and we can enn kill him Do not kill him commanded La LaIn LaIn Lain In cold tones Bring Dring the great grent Tar Tur mangani to me alive t and ond unhurt The vengeance Is s Las Lag Go but make no sound I and she waved her ber hands to Include all her followers Cautiously the weird party crept through the Jungle In the wake of the Ule great ape until at last he halted them with a 0 raised hand and pointed upward up up- upward ward yard a little ahead There they saw the thu giant form of the man ape-man stretched along a n low bough and even evenIn evenIn evenin In sleep p one hand grasped a stout limb antI and one strong brown bro leg e reached out and overlapped o another At ease lay Tarzan of ot the Apes sleeping heavily upon a full fun |