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XV YYWYYW W W W VYYYYY WYYWYYW YYYYYV *X loud scream of recognition and of joy, ' and a moment later the beast had leaped to the ground, followed by a score of bulls like Mmself, and was waddling toward them, shouting iu the Primordial tongue of the anthropoid: "Tarzan has returned! Tarzan, lord of the jungle!" CHEVROLET TRANSPORTATION It was Akut, and instantly he com- menced leaping and bounding about JAKZAN the trio, uttering hideous shrieks and moutMngs that to any other human beings might have indicated the most ferocious rage, but these three knew HE transportation of your merchandise is too that the king of the apes was doing homage to a king greater than him- iliflll T important a question to decide lightly. More self. £>u EDGAR RICE Korak laid his hand affectionately 7 upon his father's shoulder. and more progressive men are finding their logical BURROUGHS "There is but one Tarzan," he said. Copyright by "There can never be another." and entirely satisfactory answer in the Chevrolet Frank A. Munsey C«. L "Korak!" cried Meriem from th*> CHAPTER XVIII. One-Ton Truck. CHAPTER XVII. foliage above him. A Family Reunion. Tarzan Returns. Instantly the bull swung about low- Two days later the three dropped And Korak? ered his burden to the ground and, from the trees on the edge of the plain, Trnntor carried him deep into the trumpeting savagely, prepared to de- across which they could see the smoke The reason is obvious. jungle, nor paused until no sound fend Ms comrade. The ape man, rec- rising from the bungalow and the from the distant village reached his ognizing the girl's voice, felt a sudden cookhouse chimneys. Tarzan of the keen ears. Then he laid his burden lump in his throat. Apes had regained Ms civilized cloth- The Chevrolet is made in a big way-big gently down. Korak struggled to free "Meriem!" he called back to her. ing from the tree where he had hidden himself from his bonds, but even his Happily the girl clambered to the it, and as Korak refused to enter the enough to haul all kinds of goods to capacity, do great strength was unable to cope with ground and ran forward to release presence of Ms mother in the savage the many strands of hard knotted cord Korak, but Tantor lowered his head half raiment that he had worn so long it efficiently, do it consistently day in and day out, that bound him. ominously and trumpeted a warning. and as Meriem would not leave him And while he straggled through the "Go back! Go back!" cried Korak. for fear, as she explained, that he and do it as economically as it can be done. night with his bonds Baynes and Meri- "He will kill you!" would change Ms mind and run off em were riding rapidly northward Meriem was almost at Korak's side into the jungle again, the father went along the river. The girl had assured when Tantor saw a long knife in her on ahead to the bungalow for horses One-Ton Truck and light delivery can be seen Baynes that Korak was safe in the hand, and then he broke forth, bellow- and clothes. jungle with Tantor. It had not oc- ing horribly, and charged down upon My Dear met him at the gate, her at the Chevrolet Service Station, Indiana, Pa. curred to her that the ape man might the frail girl. eyes filled with questioning and sor- not be able to burst his bonds. Baynes Korak screamed commands to Ms row, for she saw that Meriem was not bad been wounded by a shot from the huge protector in an effort to halt him with Mm. Ilfle of one of the Arabs, and the girl but all to no avail. Meriem raced to- "Where is she?" she asked, her voice wanted to get him back to Bwana's ward the bordering trees with all the trembling. "Muviri told me that she West Indiana Motor Company home, where he could be properly speed that lay in her swift little feet disobeyed your instructions and ran cared for. but Tantor, for all Ms huge bulk, drove off into the jungle after you had left "Then," she said, "I shall get Bwana down upon her with the rapidity of an them. Oh, John. I cannot bear to lose Howard S. Houk to come with me and search for Ko- express train. her, too!" And Lady Greystoke broke . He must come and live with us." What was that? Korak's eyes start down and wept as she pillowed her All night they rode, and the day was .ed from their sockets. A strange fig head upon the broad breast where so fctill young when they came suddenly ure had leapel from the tree the shade often before she had found comfort in upon a party hurrying southward. It of wMch Meriem already had reached the great tragedies of her life. was Bwant himself and his sleek, —leaped beyond the girl straight into Lord Greystoke raised her head and black warriors. the path of the charging elephant. looked down Into her eyes, Ms own At sight of Baynes the big English- It was a half naked white giant smiling and filled with the light of hap- man's brows contracted in a scowl, Across Ms shoulder a coil of rope wa piness. but he waited to hear Meriem's story looped. In the band of his gee-string "What is it, John?" she cried. "You before giving vent to the long pent was a hunting knife. have good news. Do not keep me "There is no place for princes in a anger in Ms breast. When she had A sharp command broke from th waiting for it" republic." he was wont to say. finished he seemed to have forgotten stranger's lips. The great beast haltec "I want to be quite sure that you Lord Greystoke received the hawk Baynes. His thoughts were occupied In Ms tracks, and Meriem swung her can stand hearing the best news that nosed, gray mustached soldier in his with another subject. self upward into the tree to safety. ever came to either of us," he said. library, and after a dozen words the "You say that you found Korak?" he Korak breathed a sigh of relief, no "Joy never kills!" she cried. "You two men had formed a mutual esteem asked. "You really saw Mm?" unmixed with wonder. He fastenet have found—-her?" She could not bring that was to endure through life. And "Yes," replied Meriem; "as plainly herself to hope for the impossible. tUe soldiers' words laid vividly before as I see you, and I want you to come "Yes, Jane," he said, and Ms voice was husky with emotion, "I have found his host scenes and erents nearly twc with me, Bwana, and help me find him decades old. He told his host how h« again. her and—Mm!" "Where is he? Where axe they?" had been a captain in the Foreign Le- "Did you see Mm?" He turned to- gion of France stationed at that tlnu ward the Hon. Morison. she demanded. ! "Yes, sir," replied Baynes; "very "Out there at the edge of the jungle. in Africa. He told how he had huntec UR Job Office is fully and plainly." He wouldn't come to you in Ms savage down marauding bands of Arabs and and thoroughly equipped "What sort of appearing man is he?" leopard skin and his nakedness. He blacks in the heart of the great desert O continued Bwana. "About how old sent me to fetch Mm civilized cloth- of Sahara. He told how he had ic for printlrg Letter Besds, Bill would you say?" ing." camp with him his little four-year-old Heads, Envelopes, Sale Bills, "I should say he was an Englishman She clapped her hands in ecstasy and daughter and how he came back tc Menues, Folders, Pesters, about my own age," replied Baynes, turned to run toward the bungalow. camp one day to find that she bad Bwana turned to Ms head man. "Wait!" she cried over her shoulder. mysteriously disappeared. 4 Cards, Faim Stationery, Etc. "Take Miss Meriem and Mr. Baynes "I have all Ms little suits. I have Neither the wealth of her father and In tact gnything in the job home," he said. "I am going into the saved them all. I will bring one to mother nor all the powerful resources printing line. jungle." you." of the great French republic were able Then he motioned to his head man Tarzan laughed and called to her to to wrest the secret of her whereabouts You will find cur work first- to take Ms horse and commence the •top. from the inscrutable desert that had class and cur prices reasonable. return journey to the farm. Meriem "The only clotMng on the place that swallowed her and her abductor. slowly mounted the tired horse that will fit Mm," he said, "is mine—if it A reward of such enormous propor- Try us. had brought her from the village of isn't too small for him. Yoir little boy tions was offered that many adven- the sheik. A litter was rigged for the •»*** has grown, Jane." turers were attracted to the hunt, MESSENGER PUB. CO. now feverish Baynes, and the little Then He Charged Down Upon the She laughed, too; she felt like laugh- among them Jenssen and Malbihn. Indiana, P cavalcade was soon slowly winding oft* Frail Girl. ing at everytMng or at notMng. The This was no case for the modern de- along the river trail. world was all love and happiness and tective of civilization, yet several of , Ms eyes upon the face of Meriem's de- joy once more, the world that had these threw themselves into the search. Bwana stood watching them until liverer, and as recognition slowly fil- been shrouded in the gloom of her The bones of some are bleaching be- they were out of sight. great sorrow for so many years. So Slowly he turned toward a nearby tered Into Ms understanding they went neath the African sun upon the silent wide in incredulity and surprise. Tan- great was her joy that for the mo- sands of the Sahara. iree. Leaping upward, he caught a ment she forgot the sad message that lower branch and drew himself up tor, still rumbling angrily, stood sway- "I have come to you," explained among the branches. His movements ing to and fro before the giant white awaited Meriem. General Jacot as he concluded, "be- were catlike and agile. High into the man. She called to Tarzan after he had cause onr dear admiral tells me that tree he made Ms way and there com- Then the latter stepped straight be- J ridden away to prepare her for it, but there is no one In ail the world who menced to divest himself of his cloth- neath the upraised trunk and spoke a he did not hear and rode on without Is more Intimately acquainted with ing. low word of command. The great knowing of it himself. Central Africa than you. *«****» beast ceased Ms muttering. The sav- When they arrived the mother faced "We did all that love and money and After Bwana had left his party, age light died from his eyes, and as Meriem, an expression of sadness even government resources could do to sending them back toward the farm, the stranger stepped forward toward erasing the happiness from her eyes. discover her, but all to no avaiL Meriem had ridden for a short dis- Korak, Tantor trailed docilely at Ms "My little girl," she said, "in the "A week since there came to me ia tance with bowed head. What thoughts heels. midst of our happiness a great sorrow Paris a swarthy Arab, who called him- passed through that active brain who Meriem was watching, too, and won- awaits you—Mr. Baynes did not sur- self Abdul Kamak. He said that he may say? Presently she seemed to dering. Suddenly the man turned to- •vive Ms wounds." had found my daughter and could lead ward her. The expression of sorrow in Mer- - sight come to a decision. She called the me to her. I took him at once to Ad- od as 6 COM t, ft. «brOT.- he j man, for he head man to her side. "Come, Meriem!" he called. And iem's eyes expressed only what she then she recognized Mm with a star- sincerely felt, but it was not the sor- ! born theory, that had "I am going back with Bwana," she eled some in Central Africa. The man's men sat in silence. General j mind the moment his eyes had announced. tled "Bwana!" row of a woman bereft of her best be- story led the admiral to believe that Jacot was too well bred to show in "Jack!" cried the white giant, kneel- loved. 1 on the baby face of Jeanne Jacot- The black shook his head. "No !" he the place v.-here the giri the Arab sup- any way the chagrin and disappoint- i General Jacot took one look si. announced. "Bwana says I take you ing at the ape man's side, "I am sorry," she said quite simply. posed to be. my daughter was held in ment he felt in the summary manner in "Father!" came chokingly from the "But it was not love, I did not know ' Merit-in, then turned toward home. So I take you home." captivity v/as not far from your Af- which Lord Greystoke had dismissed J Greystoke. "How lone have you Presently her horse passed beneath Killer's lips. "Thank God that it was what love was until I knew that Korak rican estates, and he advised that I the subject of his <-a!l. As soon as the you! No one else in all the jungle lived." and she turned toward the ' it?" he asked, a trifle accusing! a low hanging branch, and the black come at once and call upon you—that young lady had come and he had been j "Since i'<>u showed me that could have stopped Tantor." Killer with a smile. you would know if such, a girl were in presented be would make his de- J head man found himself gazing at the jrmph n moment ago," replied the girl's empty saddle. He ran forward Quickly the man cut the bonds that Lady Greystoke looked quickly up your neighborhood." parture. to the tree into which she had disap- held Korak, and as the youth strug- into the eyes of her son. the son who "What proof did the Arab bring that A moment Inter Meriem entered. gled weakly to his feet and threw his one day would be Lord Greystoke. Xo "It is ?!.»," said Jacot, shaking ^c!:3: peared. He could see nothing of her. she was your daughter?" asked Lord Lord Grey-toke and General Jacot ' siippr--.-.-' '1 emotion, "but she dr.'.-; ^j.~ \ arms about his father, the older man thought of the difference in the sta- 1 f He called, but there was no response Greystoke. rose and fac.-d b<-r. Th>- F.i.crlisi.ir.an r"'-i~^-'.7.< me. Of Course, she co^iT/ unless it might have been a low. taunt- turned toward Meriem. tions of the girl and her boy entered "None," replif-'l the other. "That is spoke r.o v.ord of in'mTi'-i.-'n. He "I thought," he said, sternly, "that her mind. To her Meriem was fit for ' r.'n." T'.ien he turned to MISI-.ZL ing laugh far to the right. He sent his why we thought best to consult you wanted to s«-«: the ef;ecl of the first j "My <-h::<:,"' h^ said, "I am your * men into the jungle to search for her, I told you to return to the farm." a king. She only wanted to know that before organizing an expedition. The 1 Korak was looking at them wonder- Jack loved the little Arab waif. ! H':t she interrupted hi:n \\i~l: K. but they can .** back empty handed. ft-iiov,- had only ttn old photograph of c/:i<-::. pi-id cry »s she ran !.,\vartl h23. After awhile he resumed his march ingly. In his heart was a jrre.it yearn- The look in his eyes answered the her, on the back of which was past*'I injr to take the girl in his arms, but rrnestk-n in her hearf, and she threw towarj the farm, for Bayr.es by this a n< -..-paper curing de—vlicn;: her arrl ! "I ',::.<••' >oa: 1 know you:"' id v time \va.< del::-:-r:- v. :*!i fc-\>-r. in time he remembered the other—the i r arms about th<-rn both and kissed offtr.L^ a reward. We feared that, Merieni. «:•>•••» l!n- .'>" av-.k-.vard Arab dapper young English gentleman—and "m each a dozen tiir.es. h:r>::.-.; found this sor:. -.-b.-re, it had r<»: •» "hey I.:,-! ~;%e;i :.er in the .«h(ik'.« that he was but a savacr« ape man. "Nov.-," - cried, "I thr-ll really ;-r- .:- d hi-. f?;;).d:ty a:.': '.'-'I hlrn to Meriem looked up pleadingly into have a 'Irr .!.. : ( ...,.-••:; ; .! '.;< i,:<>;!:',- V,V-T* dourr, n.i-'I -" ridincr l-r> hes rind !.<•!;< ve that In some v.:... !.•• ^oul'l ob- ' ~-T....<:••], :••.''. vhiri the story :•,'. i*1 linr. : >.'»t .-:; :.!'• '< ;x< " ' ' ' : trie Bwana's eyes. It wi i-; --'-\t ral w^nry marches to tb° tain '.he rtu'i."''.. p->- -"••'> by fi-i-::.',^ "You told me," she said in a very _r<--' n.N-ion. br.t tlu-y waited :>r ' 1 , :\ •• '- for r'-t :.::d j'.:;.! -i u.i.ny ye»r- h..'I • :..;.—-1 thut :... '. • '. "'•• ~. side the man I love." And she turned *i r.-ilvn for the :rre;:t event bef'>:v v,e -,.<.;jid no* b* able i-> r< ••oui.Izti an nr-r PV<\« toward Kon>k, all filled with \\:.-j ( v upon the journey, and a'' r ••/.• ' - • -iy \on didn't marry 2^. fest dne e?.?t of thrt -!k'<= vi"-1 / - ' . ." ; t'tiT nil," said Merles. the wond"rf':l KcrJit that no othT rrnn ,-> ph< v,L'raph wit:: , 1 I moved silently ai.M •,.:•";]>-. r--o:;! her had yet <• --n hi them and that P.O.VJ • "I.-:/ !• i - "'.'" C,r< ;. -io!:e. \ ; "\ ,i -.- ;>.(>," replied the K:!T-:rri -mind she had ex?\:r._-'-'l n!J tb.-':-ht« otl^T ever vroti'd. 1 •:: an <•:.•- • !••"•]•••• fron ' ( "I n...-.-.• .5 n.y linie Me-leiu, :in