Part 5 (1/2)

Tarzan could see him quite plainly now Below the ape-man Bara was about to pass Could he do it? But even as he asked hiry man launched himself from his perch full upon the back of the startled buck

In another instant Numa would be upon theain, he must act quickly

Scarcely had he touched the sleek hide of the deer with a rasped a horn in either hand, and with a single quick wrench twisted the animal's neck corip

The lion was roaring in rage close behind hi a foreleg between his strong teeth, leaped for the nearest of the lower branches that swung above his head

With both hands he grasped the li, drew himself and his prey out of reach of the animal's cruel talons

There was a thud below him as the baffled cat fell back to earth, and then Tarzan of the Apes, drawing his dinner farther up to the safety of a higher li yellow eyes of the other wild beast that glared up at hi insults flaunted the tender carcass of his kill in the face of him whom he had cheated of it

With his crude stone knife he cut a juicy steak fro, back and forth below hie belly, nor ever in the choicest of his exclusive London clubs had a meal tasted more palatable

The warm blood of his kill smeared his hands and face and filled his nostrils with the scent that the savage carnivora love best

And when he had finished he left the balance of the carcass in a high fork of the tree where he had dined, and with Nue, he made his way back to his tree-top shelter, where he slept until the sun was high the following

Chapter 4

Sheeta

The next few days were occupied by Tarzan in co his boith tendons fro upon the new shore, and though he would have preferred the gut of Sheeta for the purpose, he was content to wait until opportunity perreat cats

He also braided a long grass rope-such a rope as he had used so many years before to tantalize the ill-natured Tublat, and which later had developed into a wondrous effective weapon in the practised hands of the little ape-boy

A sheath and handle for his hunting-knife he fashi+oned, and a quiver for arrows, and from the hide of Bara a belt and loin-cloth Then he set out to learn soe land in which he found himself That it was not his old familiar west coast of the African continent he knew fro sun cale

But that it was not the east coast of Africa he was equally positive, for he felt satisfied that the Kincaid had not passed through the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, and the Red Sea, nor had she had time to round the Cape of Good Hope So he was quite at a loss to knohere he ht be

Sometimes he wondered if the shi+p had crossed the broad Atlantic to deposit him upon some wild South American shore; but the presence of Numa, the lion, decided him that such could not be the case

As Tarzanthe shore, he felt strong upon hiradually he coret that he had not cast his lot with the apes He had seen nothing of them since that first day, when the influences of civilization were still paramount within him

Noas h he appreciated the fact that there could be little in coreat anthropoids, still they were better than no coround and again a an occasional fruit or turning over a fallen log in search of the larger bugs, which he still found as palatable as of old, Tarzan had covered a mile or more when his attention was attracted by the scent of Sheeta up-wind ahead of him

Now Sheeta, the panther, was one wholad to fall in with, for he had it in ut for his bow, but also to fashi+on a new quiver and loin-cloth froone carelessly before, he now became the personification of noiseless stealth

Swiftly and silently he glided through the forest in the wake of the savage cat, nor was the pursuer, for all his noble birth, one whit less savage than the wild, fierce thing he stalked