| Show tarzan and the jewels of opar by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS au fi TARZAN OF TIIE THE APES SON OF TARZAN cop mit 1 A C CHAPTER XVI Cn continued tind ag he 1 Is worse the than crobu k said aid a quiet voice ahe belat behind ad them taran turned in as ton binn en t to see bee a tell tall man pa in caul uniform tume waiting standing 1 in uie the trail frail a few fee paws from frail him no back rk of the m min were wele a number ambe umbe of mack black soldiers in tile fe uni uniform forin of the congo I 1 ree a state stale tie IT 1 Is res a murderer mon monsieur leur con tinned the officer 1 I have followed 11 ed him hit for a long time date to take boin lalni buck back to stand trial for the ot f his lium or officer in 1 I A cip erper was upon ills his felt feet now DOW gating m white and ad trembling at illis the late via via it hat overtaken taken him even in ane hie 1 e to s ot of the I 1 ibi rin thime jungle instinctively B ile he turned to flee but of the aps apes reached out a 2 fofol b annd im and grasped him toy by tile the aouger shoulder id walt bald aid tile the ape pe ninn to his him ce captive P ire this gentleman wishes ima on oil od so do L inbau im bal th with ni lie a to may ay have mra you yon tell me what he has be become a a of an mv site a lie ahe belgian officer reed the almost a E thed I 1 i ite is giant with call curiosity olat U ile could nt not quite dac mine ill the status of this creature cre crp iture but he be knew that he did not relish the e v isy ft assurance or ce with which the ahe fellow pre edmed ad to plicate who when lie dc might take cake p list of the r pardon adma roe ai he still mid stepping for ard it nud ad placing hla his hand on iner ater pet pel a other lj houldin hould id ir but aliis 9 centle at man inan Is my prisoner lie ile must t come with ill mp me vb athen I 1 me am through ill hit him ie a plied to tarzan am aploda both alie law and the p mer to en fore a it I 1 are re upon pon my bide aide announced one the a officer tor let us I 1 hae a as no trouble I 1 lour our leg legal I 1 rights it me e not abe above e suspicion pe ale my trend it replied term tarzan md ard bour our power to enforce bour corn mands ads aie Is only apparent U ut not t teal lou ion hac presumed to enter br tish list thoe terri territory with nith an aimed force ceic ja Y your mil laty tor far it this Irvi invasion tt IN aci i e are the eti which ulac m warrant at the arrest rr of this num nian A and wh at ic alar 1 have thit I 1 met bring brigg a an rated armed force about VOH wilt III peet P tour or to tile conro congo I 1 ree aabel CU aff temper 1 I have no disposition to argue willi th a naked liked savage be is tried cried ladr lelesi you wish 1 1 1 to be hurt you w will III not at total fore kith it 1 me lake the prisoner sier ber efant iper raised IM ills ilia lip lips 11 clow to T 11 ir tells zan s ear keep me fiam them smil ind I 1 van can ile how you ran the very spot whole eisaw I 1 lour bite ife latt but night he vhs its she cement cannot be tar far fl aiom am licie at this verv verr minute tile the soldiers tl following loIng tile signal sunil fratin their sergeant elred in to vue seize tarzan tarsal grubbed grabbed the belgian bel in about bell t the we waist L and beating him he be aith it b 8 arm 1 as 11 1 1 11 gh 1 1 time na iad a ancl lour door 1 ped fraud 1 in a nn attempt to bicak through tile the cordon action ills ilia right fist caught tile the neatest sol 1 dier upon the jaw ind scot him hurt hort ling backward apon 0 ra au his 1 I to r clubbed rille rifles were vere far torn flum it lie hands of thus those lie ho barred his mv v and tag it old and left the marla black soldiers oll bor should stumbled aside ind 1 an fn t alie is ance of the ape ninna mans caage break top fee liberty so cuple completely tely did tile blacks ur or round tile the tu two that ills chev dired dared not at fit lie for far fear air of hillar 11 one of 1 their ow awn number andow and mi Ts ag ad flood catli a the theli and it up upon the point of dodging 1 late into the concealing I 1 lucies 8 of d the nun who he had up upon him if from an behind ark bim ban a henvy heavy him blow upon tile the lind head with will a rife inma int instant the sp app man was town bid to a do dozen b lack black soldiers were upon id lias hack back cism fl te lie be regained co con ioina he found himself see securely ely amad me as was ma 1 also I ana a voluble n lot io in tits ills protests lie he ex that tra taran was an ay 1191 ill lord load but the officer mr ant onla I 1 at he be and ad his prisoner 0 save bac his him breath tor far his hi defense I 1 in ebirt toward evening the cilam hailed belted bemid a ma made ad r camp mr and pre paras tatlo p pared ared alie evening tg 1 meal I from tile the a thick hick false of the he near nearby by antle a watched vat ched tile the act achiu I 1 pit r of 1 fierce am ties of at it malformed black alth ith ld hi but and to carain me mad had been iving iring 1 mind behind 1 demull I P pile the I 1 of et ko kop klap P mcl from ills ibe time t list the 11 biad ad lial ted hut hat fill the al if f t the he mobil mi mm tim plead ordered deed la them to and come came for or vard said to 11 one pt ol the I 1 fir fires oil where cm their be it lod would Is ie unfettered that they might el As tile the giant op ape clum rose asser at titled ot of recognition entered 1 ilie bd al cea a of 0 the watcher in the and a 10 low guttural woke floan tile the lip last instantly oil eman waa mi alert pon ar but the gruel growl db upon his his upa by the feel fear that ill t it I 1 ot of it ahr eol at might abou arou roods e tile suspicions dira sudden gudi lenly Y vis an inspiration ruen came to him he turned ad I 1 toward rd virpi e 1 I bin going gg to speak lo 10 you yon in a 11 loud nr i n a torance tongue mch you via da on not andel l ld 1 I r to ba I 1 listen ei trat to in 11 chit 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 0 and id deau I 1 eadd i ie pt piling tug 1 ID tile same 1 lin gaage our mor es 1 cape way may hinge binge up upon the success 1 of bem 1 our coca efforts axer nodded 1 in abent ent and ad under motice standing and immediately there broke from the lip 0 of him hia competitor companion a itra nife nip irgon which might have bar e been compared with equal propriety to the baalim barking and growling of a ties dog an aal I 1 tile the chattering of monkeys the tha nearer soldiers soldier looked 1 in 11 ur pl arle it at ch atie ape liaa a th the oft officer less up preached the pris prisoners while tarzan tn n has a baill t iab jabbering b oram and belted be behind 1 id them telling listening in perplexed interest theard and deep in the gloomy jungle amidst tile the darkening shadows of the th fulling falling night a hairy manlike creature swung swiftly am southward toward upon some secret mission of his own to J june Us claiton waiting in the tie atiee w heis had bad placed her it seemed olid that tb at the long night would never end ad yet red end it did at last and ad within an 1 I hour a of the it coming of dawn damn her lie spirit leaped with renewed hope nt at of a solitary huc horseman mv ap al preaching pro aching along the troll trail 1 bart burnoose move with it its iv I v hoort hid hd both tile the face and the fig figaire of the rid rider but that it vaa me M fre coult colt it the girl well knew since he had been garbed as ma an arab and be alone might be expected to sept se k her hid bid ing in place la SP she e did d ld 1 not I eee are the it black face beneath tile the white need hoed nor or the fin file of e ma h horsemen beyond th the s ivan a s head bend riding slowly in the wake anke e ot f their leader der thes things she tild did not see a at dart bo be ahe lie leaned dar downward rd t to until the he approaching rider a cry of welcome in 1 her throat at the first word the mota man looked up reining in 1 in 1 surprise fail and as am she he saw awn tile the black face of oc abdul mota chourak r it the ah ab she bhe shrank back I 1 in to terror among the bin blanches nelles be but t it was too late e th the e man had bad seen or her he bud and biltl ale a le now he e c called ile d to her let to descend she rell realized ld that resistance was futile faille and u it mum canic slowly muni down it to t stand 7 td t d UP the hie ground gr it before this new captor pta and ad plead her cause in ID the bame a of justice suit and normally humanity angered amed by recent defeat and ad by tile alic iras ot of th alip gold the dewen it his prisoners abdul me atna in I 1 52 al LZ IF their gud guard ordered them to rise a no mood it to be influenced bv any op pro peal to ill those softer bear sentiments to which as a matter of fact he was as almost a sponger sti anger under the most favorable conditions adult be ff looked locked for cor degradation and ad pos mis old bible deith 1 in punishment for or his tell a yes nad ad his bis misfortunes aher w hen he arii arca SS he hac ret fetui arild nad to his bis native stir aul and made hla him report to menelek lek ed but in I 1 an acceptable gilt might temper the be wrath of the belopa t or nud ad sure oun ly this fair flower ot of another ther race a should bout il be received by the black ruler III many 1 hours later and na its set june jane pm cla clayton y notwithstanding that she had passed a sice Pleas night the night eight be forc r had bad co urcel 1 thin than boned A daut sanse of dima deemed I 1 o 14 1 ann 4 lile a black poll pall over ever the camp the veteran troopers tro opera ol of it the his blacut a em kace perot vere em nervous and ill mt at ease abdul mound left his hh blankets blanket at floren duren times to par pace restlessly back and forth bace between the tethered horses and the ling fir are ahe roaring normal or of I 1 lions ion roset rose in bodden fury ill it the earth trembled I 1 t to the b hideous idea home chorus the rhe horses borez shrines the their leigha of fratar us sa they lay back up upon their doc it halter ter ropes 1 in their mad endra endeavors to firral break looe lease A lion inn large laree and birce e and me ge leaped almost to the boica be a run lit in tile the brillat brillit light from tile or alre A try raised has place and hied and ibe doe little leaden pellet tin on stopped poll the alata 10 of hell bell upon the clr ick camp I 1 llie lie cliot hot plowed phased a diep and ad painful mortal furrow mw m w 1 in the its lion a side fide arousing amusing all the bestial fury of tie the little brain but al bo ting not a bt the power and llor ilor of the dim great body unwounded the be bainn mad and the As se oleat he have turned hit him back but now the pain and the rage wiped c caution a atlon from hla his mind and with a 11 loud it and angry gy roar amu tie he topped lopped the barrier with nn an may 11 liap P nod it me was domig the horses phit tt hit tied lind lose been pandemonium before became now an indescribable tu ill ot of hideous sounds bounds the stricken I 1 horse upon which w aich the lion leaped ie aped id ed out its IM terror and its agony several about it broke their tethers and ad plunged madly about the comp camp men leaped from mm their blankets and with C ginis ready 11 jan toward the picket t line and then from the jung jungle ii beyond tile the bomb boina a dozen doze lions ambold emboldened bold boldi ened med by the example of their tel fal low charged fe fearlessly arlesly upon tile the camp amidst the cracking ot of the aides and the its growls or of tile the rose rese the death screams ot of stricken men and her giorsos m to us as they be were a dr dragged aged down by the bin blood oil mad cats cate the th raping hoping ver car nara na ra and the plunging horses horse presented any conceited action by the abi it met B ftc every d ery mart man tor far und in the mel melee the defenseless e woman was its either forgotten or ignored g by her or blick black cata A horse track struck by a stray bull bullet c t tell fell beside jane Ch clarion lIton a ito lion leap leaped e d mem across tile expiring beast full fall upon poa the brebt of ablack a black trouper trooper just bey beyond rid gaping fangs gs closed with a single crunch upon the fear uis tadd face and ad us the lie lion trade back across the body of the dead horse drag ging his limp and bloody burden with ith hiu V tie deeded sled the girl stood watching site she baw the carnivore step upon the corpse stumblingly as the grisly thing s swung between its colip ort paws s and her duog e is remained roul lical fixed 1 in f while the beast passed within a few paces of h her r amsa the I 1 interference al cifer enis of the body seemed I 1 to clo enrage stage the lion he shook the in amin animate is alty venomously he growled and i oared mored hideously at the dead in il sensate thing and the then lie he it and raised his he head d to look net about la tuala seal ch of some a a ih liam ing victim up upon which ih to 10 wreak his ill temper ei yellow ees fast fastened it th balefully ape upon the haar of tile the girl the lips raised disclosing the gi inning g fara A l fie roar broke from tile the sa age go throat fail aud the great beast crouched to upon this new and ad belal helpless iti quiet had bad fallen up upon the camp am where tarzan and lay securely baguia b bound ad silently I 1 ally and ad P the ape pl oom man strained at the bonds which fet fettered toled his aalst wrists ima knotted beneath the smooth brow broco skin of his or arms and ad the veins stood out upon liis ills join temples pla from the for force of his him ex ei etal s a strand parted another the and another and one hand was free then the from the jungle came a low guttural and ad I 1 the lie ape man be became 11 suddenly st a Z silent aleut rigid statue state e with eats eais slid and 1 nos I tails straining stra inlo to span tile black void old where bib eyesight could not reach again mine came tile the sound from tie the thick verdure be belond d I 1 the ha camp ab hie acie drew draw close clese together watching the black spot f aiom which aba alie vo voice a seemed to come I 1 aly awed not up approach P v each th their air te terror eza ceu prevented tile them final ato using their fellows 7 thy they could old fl only stood stand 1 in fla dozen fear fc and ad watch match I 1 for artile the fe fearsome about lUon they in mo a norn ment tarl arlly I 1 Y expect cx petted ed to see leap been from tile lie jungle nor had they long ions to wait A dim bully bulky form chopped lightly from tile bren brenckam clam ot of a tie atiee let into tile map camp at basht of it one ot of the a sen lattice tiles ered command of his muscles aud and his ili voice screening screaming loudly to 1 I lion tile the sleeping 1 I belo camp lie he leaped toward gicla the he fl watch u fire and threw a maas ot b broili b upon it ahe he fi flames leaped d high upon the re J ted me file lighting the entire map camp ond ad the awakened bened men w e shrank k back in superstitious tenor teri 0 r from the h bight that met their frightened g t boned and ad vision vast A dozen huge nod and hairy forms foring loomed largo large beneath ill the trees facts a at tahe the far side ot of the ima ure the w white steel giant one hand blind tree face tied had struggled to ills his knees nod and was wai calling 1 I tag to the fright ful in nocturnal visitors in I 1 B hideous i ih us ni or of bestial feut euttu I 1 a bai h m kings or and ad gron real liuga brigs gillig G illig the great pm loped to for r ward mail toward mu ond it r rp chulk led them ahe bagin culled tied to ills his men to fire upon up the in 1 but bur the held back tilled filled us they were ere aith ith leinor of tile the hairy tree in en old and with the r conviction jett illa that tile the mi white it goald clatt nho mile could thus summon mon the beasts of the HIP jungle to lo tits his aid was moie come than home drawing his own weapon m PO the ill bill c filed it and intran 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