Part 13 (1/2)

Silently theywhich surrounded the palisade, and here they cla the village occupied by the enes

A horseateway of the village Tarzan, whispering to Chulk and Taglat to reh the trees in the direction of the trail the Arab was riding Froiant to the next he sped with the rapidity of a squirrel and the silence of a ghost

The Arab rode slowly onward, unconscious of the danger hovering in the trees behind hiht detour and increased his speed until he had reached a point upon the trail in advance of the horse the narrow, jungle trail On careat desert land of the north Above hie brute that was today bent upon the destruction of a human life-the same creature who a few months before, had occupied his seat in the House of Lords at London, a respected and distinguished ust body

The Arab passed beneath the overhanging bough, there was a slight rustling of the leaves above, the horse snorted and plunged as a brown-skinned creature dropped upon its rued from his saddle to the trail

Ten arments of an Arab bundled beneath an arm, rejoined his co in low gutturals the details of his exploit Chulk and Taglat fingered the fabrics, s them to their ears, tried to listen to thele to the trail, where the three hid the to wait before two of Achmet Zek's blacks, clothed in habiliments similar to theirto the caether-the next they lay stretched in death upon the trail, threeover thearain retired with Chulk and Taglat to the greater seclusion of the tree they had first selected

Here the ape-y fellows and hiht have appeared that three white-robed Arabs squatted silently a the branches of the forest

Until dark they ree, Tarzan could view the enclosure within the palisade He marked the position of the hut in which he had first discovered the scent spoor of the she he sought He saw the two sentries standing before its doorway, and he located the habitation of Ach told hi pouch and pebbles

Chulk and Taglat were, at first, greatly interested in their wonderful raiarded each other intently with every mark of satisfaction and pride Chulk, a hurasping the hood of Taglat's burnoose pulled it down over the latter's eyes, extinguishi+ng him, snuffer-like, as it were

The older ape, pessi as hus-to search for fleas and to attack The pulling of the Tar about his head and eyes could not be for the performance of the former act; therefore it must be the latter He was attacked! Chulk had attacked him

With a snarl he was at the other's throat, not even waiting to lift the woolen veil which obscured his vision Tarzan leaped upon the two, and swaying and toppling upon their insecure perch the three great beasts tussled and snapped at one another until the ape-ed anthropoids

As apology is unknown to these savage progenitors of man, and explanation a laborious and usually futile process, Tarzan bridged the dangerous gulf by distracting their attention from their altercation to a consideration of their plans for the iuments in which et such trivial encounters, and presently Chulk and Taglat were again squatting in close proxi the e of the Tar after darkness had fallen, that Tarzan led his coround and around the palisade to the far side of the village

Gathering the skirts of his burnoose, beneath one arht have free action, the ape- start, and scra lest the apes should rend their garments to shreds in a similar attempt, he had directed them to wait below for him, and himself securely perched upon the su his spear and lowered one end of it to Chulk

The ape seized it, and while Tarzan held tightly to the upper end, the anthropoid clirasped the top of the wall To scramble then to Tarzan's side was the work of but an instant In like lat was conducted to their sides, and a moment later the three dropped silently within the enclosure

Tarzan led them first to the rear of the hut in which Jane Clayton was confined, where, through the roughly repaired aperture in the wall, he sought with his sensitive nostrils for proof that the she he had colat, their hairy faces pressed close to that of the patrician, sniffed with hiht the scent spoor of the wo to his teht

It left Chulk indifferent The she was for Tarzan-all that he desired was to bury his snout in the foodstuffs of the Tarani He had come to eat his fill without labor-Tarzan had told him that that should be his reward, and he was satisfied

But Taglat's wicked, bloodshot eyes, narrowed to the realization of the nearing fulfillment of his carefully nursed plan It is true that so the several days that had elapsed since they had set out upon their expedition it had been difficult for Taglat to hold his idea uppermost in his otten it, until Tarzan, by a chance word, had recalled it to hilat had done well

Now, he licked his chops, and henoise with his flabby lips as he drew in his breath

Satisfied that the she here he had hoped to find her, Tarzan led his apes toward the tent of Achht was dark and the white burnooses hid the hairy liure of their leader, so that the three, by squatting down as though in conversation, were passed by, unsuspected To the rear of the tent they made their way Within, Achmet Zek conversed with several of his lieutenants Without, Tarzan listened

17

The Deadly Peril of Jane Clayton

Lieutenant Albert Werper, terrified by conteht await him at Adis Abeba, cast about for soailance the Abyssinians redoubled their precautions to prevent Werper following the lead of the Negro