Part 2 (1/2)

Chapter 3

As the trainer, with raised lash, hesitated an instant at the entrance to the box where the boy and the ape confronted him, a tall broad-shouldered man pushed past hiht flush mounted the boy's cheeks

”Father!” he exclailish lord, and then leaped toward hi wide in astonishh turned to stone

”Akut!” he cried

The boy looked, bewildered, from the ape to his father, and from his father to the ape The trainer's jaw dropped as he listened to what followed, for froutturals of an ape that were answered in kind by the huge anthropoid that now clung to hiured old man watched the tableau in the box, his pock- expressions that a have I looked for you, Tarzan,” said Akut ”Now that I have found you I shall cole and live there always”

The h hisrapidly a train of recollection that carried him far into the depths of the priht shoulder to shoulder with hi his deadly knob-stick, and beside the whiskers, Sheeta the terrible; and pressing close behind the savage and the savage panther, the hideous apes of Akut The le lust that he had thought dead Ah! if he could go back even for a brief ainst his naked hide; to setation-frankincense andof the great carnivora upon his trail; to hunt and to be hunted; to kill! The picture was alluring And then ca and beautiful; friends; a hoiant shoulders

”It cannot be, Akut,” he said; ”but if you would return, I shall see that it is done You could not be happy here-I may not be happy there”

The trainer stepped forward The ape bared his fangs, growling

”Go with him, Akut,” said Tarzan of the Apes ”I will come and see you tomorrow”

The beast moved sullenly to the trainer's side The latter, at John Clayton's request, told where they ht be found Tarzan turned toward his son

”Come!” he said, and the two left the theater Neither spoke for several minutes after they had entered the limousine It was the boy who broke the silence

”The ape knew you,” he said, ”and you spoke together in the ape's tongue How did the ape know you, and how did you learn his language?”

And then, briefly and for the first time, Tarzan of the Apes told his son of his early life-of the birth in the jungle, of the death of his parents, and of how Kala, the great she ape had suckled and raised him froers and the horrors of the jungle; of the great beasts that stalked one by day and by night; of the periods of drought, and of the cataclyser; of cold; of intense heat; of nakedness and fear and suffering He told his that seem most horrible to the creature of civilization in the hope that the knowledge of thee frole Yet they were the very things that le what it was to Tarzan-thathe forgot one thing-the principal thing-that the boy at his side, listening with eager ears, was the son of Tarzan of the Apes

After the boy had been tucked away in bed-and without the threatened punish, and that he had at last acquainted the boy with the facts of his jungle life Theforeseen that her sonwhich his father had roae beast of prey, only shook her head, hoping against hope that the lure she kneas still strong in the father's breast had not been trans day, but though Jack begged to be allowed to accompany him he was refused This time Tarzan saw the pock-nize as the wily Paulvitch of fors, broached the question of the ape's purchase; but Paulvitch would not na that he would consider the matter

When Tarzan returned home Jack was all exciteested that his father buy the ape and bring it hoestion The boy was insistent Tarzan explained that he had wished to purchase Akut and return hile home, and to this the mother assented Jack asked to be allowed to visit the ape, but again he was met with flat refusal He had the address, however, which the trainer had given his father, and two days later he found the opportunity to elude his new tutor-who had replaced the terrified Mr Moore-and after a considerable search through a section of London which he had never before visited, he found the smelly little quarters of the pock-, and when he stated that he had come to see Ajax, opened the door and adreat ape occupied In former years Paulvitch had been a fastidious scoundrel; but ten years of hideous life ae of niceness from his habits His apparel rinkled and soiled His hands were unwashed, his few straggling locks uncombed His room was a jureat ape squatting upon the bed, the coverlets of which were a tangled wad of filthy blankets and ill-sht of the youth the ape leaped to the floor and shuffled forward Thethat the apethe ape back to the bed

”He will not hurt me,” cried the boy ”We are friends, and before, he was le My father is Lord Greystoke He does not know that I have co; but I wished to see Ajax, and I will pay you if you will let me come here often and see him”

At the mention of the boy's identity Paulvitch's eyes narrowed Since he had first seen Tarzan again fro in his deadened brain the beginnings of a desire for revenge It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their oickedness, and so noas that Alexis Paulvitch was slowly recalling the events of his past life and as he did so laying at the door of the man whom he and Rokoff had so assiduously attempted to ruin and murder all the misfortunes that had befallen hiainst their intended victim

He saw at first no way in which he could, with safety to hih the reat possibilities for revenge lay in the boy was apparent to him, and so he determined to cultivate the lad in the hope that fate would play into his hands in some way in the future He told the boy all that he knew of his father's past life in the jungle and when he found that the boy had been kept in ignorance of all these things for so ical gardens; that he had had to bind and gag his tutor to find an opportunity to couessed ireat fear that lay in the hearts of the boy's parents-that he le as his father had craved it

And so Paulvitch encouraged the boy to come and see hi for tales of the savage world hich Paulvitch was all too fa until he was surprised to learn that the boy could reat beast understand him-that he had actually learned e of the anthropoids

During this period Tarzan came several times to visit Paulvitch He seemed anxious to purchase Ajax, and at last he told the man frankly that he was prompted not only by a desire upon his part to return the beast to the liberty of his native jungle; but also because his wife feared that in soht learn the whereabouts of the ape and through his attach instinct which, as Tarzan explained to Paulvitch, had so influenced his own life