Part 30 (1/2)

In the face of the frightful beasts the courage of the mutineers wavered and broke Those with revolvers fired a few scattering shots and then raced for some place of supposed safety Into the shrouds went some; but the apes of Akut werewith terror the Maoris were dragged from their lofty perches The beasts, uncontrolled by Tarzan who had gone in search of Jane, loosed the full fury of their savage natures upon the unhappy wretches who fell into their clutches

Sheeta, in the ular For adarting down the companionway toward his cabin

With a shrill scream Sheeta was after him-a scream which awoke an almost equally uncanny cry in the throat of the terror-stricken China reached his cabin a fraction of a second ahead of the panther, and leaping within slaainst it before the catch engaged, and ain the back of an upper berth

Lightly Sheeta sprang after his victi of Fachan were ended, and Sheeta was gorging hiy flesh

A moment scarcely had elapsed after Schneider leaped upon Jane Clayton and wrenched the revolver from her hand, when the door of the cabin opened and a tall and half-naked white man stood framed within the portal

Silently he leaped across the cabin Schneider felt sinewy fingers at his throat He turned his head to see who had attacked him, and his eyes hen he saw the face of the ape-htened upon the mate's throat He tried to scream, to plead, but no sound caled for freedom, for breath, for life

Jane Clayton seized her husband's hands and tried to drag the ain,” he said quietly ”Before have I permitted scoundrels to live, only to suffer and to have you suffer for my mercy This time we shall ain harm us or another,” and with a sudden wrench he twisted the neck of the perfidious mate until there was a sharp crack, and the rasp With a gesture of disgust Tarzan tossed the corpse aside Then he returned to the deck, followed by Jane and the Mosula woman

The battle there was over Schmidt and Momulla and two others alone remained alive of all the company of the Cowrie, for they had found sanctuary in the forecastle The others had died, horribly, and as they deserved, beneath the fangs and talons of the beasts of Tarzan, and in the ht upon the deck of the unhappy Cowrie; but this ti was the blood of the guilty and not of the innocent

Tarzan brought forth the men who had hidden in the forecastle, and without promises of immunity from punishment forced them to help work the vessel-the only alternative was immediate death

A stiff breeze had risen with the sun, and with canvas spread the Cowrie set in toward Jungle Island, where a few hours later, Tarzan picked up Gust and bid farewell to Sheeta and the apes of Akut, for here he set the beasts ashore to pursue the wild and natural life they loved so well; nor did they lose ainto the cool depths of their beloved jungle

That they knew that Tarzan was to leave them may be doubted-except possibly in the case of the ent Akut, who alone of all the others remained upon the beach as the se lord andas their eyes could span the distance, Jane and Tarzan, standing upon the deck, saw the lonely figure of the shaggy anthropoid le Island