The Independent. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 25, 1914 Page: 4 of 10
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TARZAN OF
THE APES
By EDGAR RICE
BURROUOHS
Copyright. 1912. by the Frank A.
Munsey Company
SYNOPSIS
The Infant son of Lord and Uady Grey-
stoke Is mothered by Kala, an ape. aftei
the death of his own parents
The boy, called Tarzan by the apes,
finds the skeletons of his parents In their
cabin, but still thinks himself a white ape
Tarzan wins renown by killing a goril-
la, He learns to read from books found
In the cabin
Tarzan kills his enemy Tublat. Kuion-
ga, a savage, shoots Kala and Is pursued
by the Infuriated apes
Tarzan slays Kulonga In revenge for
Kala's death and secures a bow and poi-
soned arrows from the native village.
He finds a photograph of his father and
his mother's locket. Worsting Ketchalr
in battle. Tarzan becomes, king of tiw
anes.
After subduing Terkoz, Tarzan leaves the
tribe and terrorizes the savages in the
village of Mbonga
Clayton, Tarzan's cousin, Jane Porter
and party arrive in a ship, the crew of
which has mutinied
Tarzan kills a Hon and saves Clayton's
life. Jane Porter and her maid, Esmer-
alda, are attacked by a tiger.
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office in Cashion, the last Monday in each
month and remains a week. <iet an appoint
ment early in the week.
CHAPTER X.
The Forest God.
WHEN Tarzan had finished his
repast he rose and, pointing
in a very different direction
from that which Clayton had
been pursuing, started through the
jungle toward the point he had in
dicated.
Clayton, bewildered and confused,
hesitated to follow hitn, for he thought
be was hut being led more deeply into
the mazes of the forest, but the ape
man returned and. grasping him by
the coat, dragged him along until he
was convinced that Clayton understood
what was required of him and then
left him to follow voluntarily
The Englishman finally concluded
that he was a prisoner and saw no al-
ternative but to accompany bis captor,
and thus they traveled slowly through
the jungle while the sable mantle of
the impenetrable night of the forest
fell about them
Suddenly Clavton heard the faint re-
port of a firearm—a single shot and
then silence.
In the cabin by the beach two thor-
oughly terrified women clung to each
other as they crouched upon the low
bench in the gathering darkness
The negress. sobbing hysterically,
bemoaned the evil day that had wit-
nessed her departure from her dear
Maryland, while the white girl, dry
eyed .and outwardly calm, was tortured
by Inward forebodings. She feared
not more herself than for the three
men whom she knew to be wandering
in the abysmal depths of the jungle,
from which now issued the incessant
shrieks and roars, barkings and growl-
ings of its terrifying and fearsome in-
mates.
Now came the sound of a heavy
body brushing against the side of the
cabin. She could hear the great pad
ded paws upon the ground without.
Then for an instant all was silence.
"Hush!" the girl whispered. "Hush,
Esmeralda!" for the woman's sobs and
groans seemed to have attracted the
thing that stalked there just beyond
the thin wall.
A gentle scratching sound was heard
on the door. The brute tried to force
an entrance, but presently this ceased,
and again she heard the great padded
paws creep stealthily around the cabin
Apam tney sroppeo 'benelun tne wiu-
dow, on which the terrified eyes of the
girl now glued themselves
"Heavens!" she murmured, for sil
houetted against the moonlit sky be
yond, she saw framed in the tin.v
square of the latticed window the head
of a huge tiger The gleaming eves
were fixed upon her in tense ferocity.
"Look, Esmeralda!" she whispered
"What shall we do? Look! Quick!
The window!"
Esmeralda cowered still closer to her
mistress and glanced affrighted toward
the little square of moonlight just as
the tiger emitted a low, savage snarl.
The sight that met the poor black's
eyes was too much for the already
overstrung nerves
"Oh. Gabriel!" she shrieked and slid
to the floor, an inert and senseless
mass
For what seemed an eternity the
great brute stood with its fore paws
! upon the sill, glaring into the little
1 room. Presently it tried the strength
of the lattice with its great talons
The girl had almost ceased to
breathe when to tier relief «the head
disappeared and she heard the brutes
footsteps leaving the window But
now they came to the door again, and
once more the scratching commenced,
but this time with Increasing force
until the great beast was tearing at
the massive panels in a perfect frenzy
of fury.
Could Jane Porter have known the
immense strength of that door, builded
piece by piece, she would have felt
less fear of the tiger reaching her by
this avenue.
For fully twenty minutes the brute
alternately sniffed and tore at the door
occasionally giving voice to a cry of
battled rage. At length, however, he
gave up the attempt, and .lane Porter
heard him returning toward the win-
dow. beneath which he paused for an
instant and then launched his great
weight against the time worn lattice
The girl heard the wooden rods
groan beneath the impact, but they
held, and the huge body dropped back
to the ground below.
Again and again the tiger repeated
these tactics until finally the horrified
prisoner within saw a portion of the
lattice give way. and in an instant one
great paw and the head of tlie animal
were thrust within the room.
Slowly the powerful neck and sboul
ders were spreading the bars apart,
and the lithe body came farther and
farther into the room.
As in a trance the girl rose, her
hand upon her breast, wide eyes star
ing horror stricken Into the snarling
face of the beast scarce ten feet from
her At her feet lay the prostrate
form of the negress.
The girl, standing pale and rigid
against the farther wall, sought with
increasing terror for some loophole of
escape Suddenly her hand, tight,
pressed against her bosom, felt the
hard outlines of the revolver that
Clayton had left with her earlier in the
day.
Quickly she snatched it, from its
hiding place and. leveling it full at the
tiger's face, pulled the trigger.
There was a flash of flame, the roar
of the discharge and an answering
roar of pain and anger from the beast
•Jane Porter saw the great form dis-
appear from the window, and then
she. too. fainted
But the tiger was not killed. The bul
let had but inflicted a painful wound
in one of the great shoulders. In an
other Instant he was back at. the lat-
tice and with renewed fury was claw
in« at the aperture, but with lessened
effect, since the wounded member was
almost useless
lie saw his prey two women—lying
senseless upon the floor There was
no longer any resistance to be over
come Sabor had only to worm his
way through the lattice to claim it.
Slowl v he forced his great bulk,
inch by inch through the opening
Now his head was through, now one
great fore leg and shoulder
Carefully he drew up the wounded
member to insinuate it gently beyond
the tight pressing bars
y taomer.it, more and both shoulders
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Barnard, W. F. The Independent. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 25, 1914, newspaper, June 25, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc107194/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.