| Show tarzan and the jewels of opar by EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS author of TARZAN OF THE APES SON OF TARZAN ISSI M A C MICI mcclute it ft ca C 9 TO HIM THEY WERE BUT PRETTY PEBBLES a a hiding in the after killing aln captain in bi ift alt of 1 brooding arab aiace aleut albert in se L limme belgian imme 1 lit 1 1 4 by achmet ma fell am rainer who im spares hla life and to him to kidnap lano I 1 wife mile ot 1 T barban tarban nth N mma r lord greystoke war acl her I 1 into beavery ac cupta we ran cegred urda as aulca julca Fre coult trench h i traveler sacr ir r Is 1 me hospitably lauddy r re by the he he learna alb a boat 1 la 1 in financial rua mt and it la is planning informs ing an expedition to the treasury trea sura r vaulta sol of at opar ise to procure ure bold W T achmet it sk of th tha of opportunity to I 1 balce se bady IS mom and ad bilam filom hit as to I 1 learn so the he t of opar or spying on as an I 1 or sea him load blackb with mom gold from r the tr treasure chamber or at the sun an A 11 convulsion an ot of nature w 6 pauaea u s the rho collapse colars oc 1 ili the vault it aus both nien men I 1 or recovers fro from the in block and leaves tartan apparently ru r U dead dd a way may to adso safety sri la is 1 I it or by aels priests ot at the flaming god ad adlaw degenerate 0 race he I 1 IB about lot to be in d up ili as a I a sacrifice I 1 whom when th tha art am interrupted up by al tho I 1 ow appearance ranes of a huntr cadd maddened 4 lion Is CHAPTER V 4 th the A arab b raid after their first fare terror had subsided subsequent to t the be shock shack ot of the earth wake quake barutt and his hia s warriors mr hast beat pled ened back in into the passageway in search earb of tartan und and two of their am own number who were also mining they found filled w th the bw way blocked by jammed and ad ill distorted rock k for far two tire d davs they ax labored d to te tear or a way through to the their imprisoned bends wends ft lends but buttchen w be after Iler herculean cullan efforts they had bad unearthed hot but a I 1 few e ards of 1 the choked passage go and d discovered the mangled allied forral remains of one of their fel iowa the they Y word were forced fares d to the condu sion the that it tom tareal a and ad the second ad wa 1 till I also alo Is tie dead a it beneath the rock 1 me masa farther I 1 I 1 in herald he human aid and no he longer susceptible of it th they gave up the search tearfully Tearful iv e rh they ra cast a last at I look IK K at the shatter battered tomb of their master shouldered the beav heavy y burden of gold that would at least f furnish ih comfort fact if not happiness to their bers bereaved rd and beloved mis IS tress and made the their c mournful wo dav back across access the d desolate valley of opar opa and downward through the for bryand ests beyond toward the distant bunga low and as they in marched mild what borry ry fate was use already 7 d y it ming drawing upon that peaceful happy home I 1 fre from the north came 1 Al lintal zek riding to the an summons of his lieuten heated ants ant 8 letter with him caroe came his horde of renegade at arabs ili a outlawed maraud mrs ere th and equally degraded blacks g gd garnered d flu from the more tie de based and ignorant tribes of savings savage to cannibals through whose countries the raider passed to and ad f fro milk perfect impunity Mue ambi the ebon hercules who she bad ad shared the dangers ung and oil td audes tudes of his him beloved anana from jun joe gle island hiland almost to the headwaters ot I 1 the us TABS the tint first to note ants ill the bold approach r of the sinister cam caravan ran Us be it was whom tarzan had left in charge of the w warriors who remained wood to guard lady Grey greystoke toke old braver or more loval guardian hoe been found in any clime or upon any soil soft A giant in stature a savage fearl fearless warrior ric the huge black possessed also son soul and judgment in pro ba portion to his hia bulk ua k and ana his ferocity the raiders w were still ill a long me vav oil off when heit the warrior a seen keen eyes all ds if r covered orbed them ere he a issued orders rap imp idly in compliance with there them the men seized ugwa upon their weapons and their shields some ran to call in the workers fro from the fields and to warn the tenders of the flocks fleck and ad herds bold the majori tv followed rabi bulk back toward the bu bungalow m galow the dust ot of the raiders was as still a loog long diets distance re away could it not at I 1 know aw positively that it hid a an en ed my emy i but he be had spent pot a lifetime ow ot if murg life 1 in savage aga Af africa rille end ad he had see seen parties before come came thus un n heralded sometimes they had bad to come a in is peace old and some sometimes they had come in n aarone tie could never ever tell it was well to b be prepared th the greystoke Grev stoke bungalow w aa not net well adapted for defense no palisade surrounded surround it it for situated as it was heart its waster master in a the heart of loyal bad anticipated no possibility of an attack 1 in force fare by may any enemy heavy wooden shutter bh utters there them were t to a ea close the ibe window apertures aper tures against hostile arrows arcane and these theme we was en an in lovering levering she lady grey stoke spooled appeared I 1 upon the veranda ere it she lie exclaimed athy NN by at tei has happened why are you yen lowering the 11 shutters miter a 1 the I go pa pointed out across ere 1 white 1 robed f force ot of here ml to IV plain re mounted on led men was now distinctly flue st als fide arana arab he be explained P I 1 mined they mine come in th h absence of for far no good gold burp purpose the great asta baw 1 I hundred th raid had d bane balled adb out upon ape ill the plot plain hastened down to I 1 ajla in him bis am war had d advanced led a lew few yards be he rare rth bors and ad him oil balled achmet t zak set timm 1 as the yr saddle before him straight alzi h 1 lanich S ar age to cried Mu gambl what do an t we be in place peace alamat abetz zat ean tied back a and ad go n P peace I 1 r replied im hi W WB do our not want and you Is to th there c cad be a no P peace sec between at me re of ra ato a U I 1 a r in em rd r A so at air b on or ing a ragged olcy was as poured int into ill the ranks ol of the nazire A couple of I 1 the humors fell the others were ere I 1 or charging the att attackers ackerm but was 1 a cautious as veil sell as a bra brave ve leads leader he be knew the futility of g ins ing me mounted u wild men armed with muskets he withdrew his force behind ili the shi b bacy of the garden hilf a dozen it so n he me sent at to the bun bungalow its itsell e with in attractions to keep their fair with in doors and to protect her with th their air lives its adopting the he tactics of oc the lie desert fighters fighter from which he had bad shiung g achmet zek left led his him followers at a 8 go gal top lop in a long thin line describing a great allot circle w aich drew dren closer and ad lines closer J la toward thed the defender fe the hiie 1 aziel Vaz lri justly tamed 1 for the their archery he I 1 found no BO c cabie ure to blush tor for their perform nce ince that lov dav time and again some swarthy lm rs threw hands above his bis he head ad and nd tc toppled train from his saddle pierced b by a d deadly wye arrow arms but the contest test was widle uneven ibe arabs arab outnumbered at bared the tha their bullets boilers penetrated the and found marks it that the arab rifle wen men had bad not at c even mem and ad the then alit ach met aek eh circled toward inward a half hal f mile above the bungalow tore fore down a sec a tion lion of the fence and led ird his him carau marau iran aers dea within the grounds saw the them mating coming and calling ailing those of ins bis warriors who re ran for the bungalow and the unfold last a at s stand to ad up upon t the it a veranda a read led greystoke Grev Gres stoke stood r rifle I 1 fie in g band it marc than a single raider mider had accounted to her steady teady nerves and cool coal aim for his mU outlawry ory more than a single pony raced led roll cl 1 in the wake make of the charging horde pushed his mistress back 1 into to the greater security ot of the in ID and with his depleted force pre pared to make a last stand against the f foe ort on came me the arabs shouting shooting and ad waging ang it 11 air long guns goes above their heads head past the veranda emd they raced led pouring a deadly ore fire into the kneel ing NN ft azeri who discharged their volley of arrows arms from behind their long rival oval shields aldrid shields bield well 11 adapted perhaps to stop a hostile arrow acres or deflect a spear but futile quite before the leaden missiles of the ri riflemen firme mu gandil gambi withdrew his fore force with within the building building agal again and again the arabs charged at last forming a stationary circle lout about the I 1 tittle little fortress and collide the eff effective tive rang of the defenders aders arrows from their new dew position they ored bred at will sill at the windows dows one by one an the fell fewer and fewer c 5 1 in the for forefront front of her he protectors stood the giant were em th the arrows that replied to the guns of the raiders end and fit at last A ach h met zeh zak felt safe la a nal an as sault firing filing as they ran the blood bloodthirsty I 1 b I 1 h horde de raced for the veranda A ritzen of them tell fell to tile the arrows of the de fenders but the majority reached the door heavy go gun butts butte fell upon it the rush crash of splintered wood mingled with the report of a rifle as jane dav to ton fired droll through the panels panel upon the relentless relent lebs 11 foe upon but both mid sides of 1 the door men melt fell but wt ut anat R at t the he trail barrier gave to the vill r u x ft assaul m aults of the mail mad demol attal attackers ere it crumpled inward and a doyen dinen bearth leaped into the llvine toom room at the tar far end stood jane clayton surrounded by the remnant n I 1 of 0 her devoted guardians the floor was waa covered hy by the bodies bodie of those thoom who already bad gi given I 1 up their bell lives la in 1 listed defense a in tl it e forefront of her ber protectors stood lead Q uie gum giant mu ile go gaehl bi the arabs araba raised raise a their rifles to pour pear in the last volley that would effectually end all rI resistance Ite but all ach met it zek roared mared out a warning older that am stayed ed their trigger fingers finfera ri fire not it up upon the woman he rth cried sit IN nho ho harms her dies airs take the woman alive its I 1 the A arabs be rushed hall all across the room the aarl met them with their heavy s spears swords nashed flashed long p pistols roared moral out at their sullen death d dooms a ms launched hla his spear at t the ri streit of if the enemy rt r with will a fume force that drove the heavy shaft corn cam pie t chiv thru through nigh the ardi ar ib 8 body then he 1 seized a plant pistol fl from another other and posting grasping it by the barrel br brained allied all 11 ulm w ho fore forced it their may w ay too near me his mistress em emulating lating his example the few war biora rio who I 1 remained to him fought like he demons but one by one they fell un on til ill III onla magamol remained to defend t the he life and honor at 0 the app ape mans man s more mate from ac across acas as the room mom achmet zeh w itched ditched tile the unequal a struggle and u urged card on n his minions I 1 in n his hands ends ai a jc jeweled aled ra musket lint slowly he raised it to his him shoulder mulder 1 waiting until another move are should h ld place at hley bis mercy wit without he t endangering tag tia the iliae aises of the woman or may any of his him 0 own a followers fa at last the moment at come came and ad arb ach met zek pulled the trigger without a bocina the ti tie brave e mug add sank to the floor at t the he feet of jane clavier A an instant late later she he sam nas surrounded and III disarmed without a word they dragged he her from the bung bungalow as A 9 giant Is t urged negro lifted her to a the pot pommel of hla his saddle and while tile the fers scorched arched sp the bungalow and outhouse for plunder he rode with her beyond tile the gates and waited matted the coming of his master as er when m the raiders fit assembled after glutting their fury and their avarice and rode mile away with jane clayton toward the north she saw the smoke make and ad flames rising far into the hea he ens until the winding of the ira trail t I 1 into at the thick forests hid the sad ad view from her eyes am As th the flames ate at their mav into the in inga ing room re bla g out t forked tongues tongue to lick up or the bodies of the dead one of that gral gruesome some lorn company pway u hose bloody bugs had long since be aeed stilled moved age again it fis e hug black who rolled a ovar lupow upon bl his side and opened blood bloodshot shot suffering eves 3 Ig genall whom hom the arabs had left for dead still lived the hot flames IN acre ft ere almost upon him as he raised himself painfully upon his hands and knees and crawled slowly toward the doorway after what seemed to him do an interminable time during which hleb the furnace flum flames a had become became a veritable vei table fiery furnace at the far aid side of the room the great black managed to reach the veranda roll down the steps arid ad crew crawl off into the cool safety of some near by shrubbery all night he lay my there alternately unconscious and ad painfully sentient and in the latter state watching stitching with 40 4 0 hatred the lurad names flames which hibb still mill rose came train from burning crib and its buy cock A prowling lion iton roared mared close sy at handcut hand but the giant black blach me nas un on afraid there th was place far or but a we pla t thought bought in his him savage av ge mind la rei enget gif magol reve get g CHAPTER VI the jewel roo room of opar F for r some 0 m time tilman lay where be be had cofall talleo e n upon the floor of the tre treasure chamber beneath the ruined mined walls of 0 opar opal he my lay me as one dead but he be was not dead at length he sti stirred recil slowly tie he rose to a sitting posture listening no bound soon reached to the burled buried depths depth of his sepulcher he staggered to his him fact and groped his him way y among 9 the tiers tier of legal ingols what was he where was he eia hi head abc it but otherwise c s he felt no ill III effects ifie acts from fr the blow that had felled him ban the accident idem he did not at recall nor did he be recall ought aught of what had bad led up to it he let his h hands u d grope oer er his t miles limbs his torso and his head he edt of the quler at t hla him back if the knife in hta his loin cloth something struggled straggled for recognition within id his brain ali ah 11 he told had it thom there was ma something thing wis I 1 ng he about upon the floor done feeling with his hands lor far the thing taing lint IM instinct warned him gone go at last at he found flood it ft the heavy war spear that to in past years had bad formed so important a feature of his hie dally daily life almost of him hia very existence carean was sure sam that there was an ther other as and d more or in lovely my horld ld than th it which me was biall confined it to he it darkness n of the iol four 1 stone I walls ile surrounding a him he 1 1 continued aweld it hf IS I 1 search and at last found the hud leading inward b be neath th the cl city ty and the temple ibbs 7 his ile he fi followed fied ed mot incautiously lie U come to ane stone stis lending leading upward to the higher level he lacend end 1 ed I the them and ad continued winard onward toward the well ell blundering on through th fin darkness as though |
