Section Two THE% KADOKA PRESS. AND KADOKA REPORTER Press, Vol. 18, No. 36 KADOKA, S. D., FRIDAY. FEBRUARY, 13 1920 Reporter Vol. la, No. 85 tlelpati enjoyment. Ills hands were with terror; but Tarzan turned, and thought. Dusk came, und after r.\ the jungle chanced to show himself to the cupped to receive the life blood of the gathering La in his arms raced for the dusk came night. A great fire blazed enraged Tautor. The great heaai victim—the red nectar that at Opar nearest tret*. Tantor bore down upon side, down upon within the little thorn boma about turned to one bore would have filled the golden sacriticiul hint trumpeting shrilly. La clung with uinn, snuffed him the camp. The flames played upon the crooked little goblets. both white arms about the ape-man's out, then, diverted from his the new altar erected in the center of and La approached with upraised knife, neck. She felt him leap into the air blundered away toward the the clearing, arousing in the mind of course, her fuce turned toward the rising sun and marveled at his strength and his eveu the the high priestess of the Flaming God south. In a few minutes and upon her lips a prayer to the ability as. burdened with her weight. noise of his tnunpetlug was lost in a picture of the event of the coming swung nimbly ARZAN burning deity of her people. The high Ite Into the lower the distunce. dawn. She saw this giant and perfect AND THE priest looked questlouingly toward dropped to the ground and form writhing amid the flames of the Tarzan her —the brand was burning close to 7 Lu to her feet from his back. burning pyre. She saw those smiling slipped his bund and the faggots lay tempt- together," suid Tar- lips, burned and blackened, falling “Cull your people ingly near. Turzan closed his eyes zau. nwny from the strong, white teeth. psp and awaited the end. He knew that "They will kill me,” replied La. She saw the shock of black hair tou- he would sufTer, for he recalled the “They will not kill you.’ contra- JEWELS OPM sled upon Tarzan’s well-shaped head or faint memories of past burns. He ape-uian. “No oue willkill dicted the [EDGAR BICE BURROUGHS] disappear in a spurt of flame. She inew that he would suffer and die, you while Tarzan of the Apes is here. (2*” saw these and many other frightful /453%E2£> . hut he did not flinch. Death IS no Cull them und we will tulk with them.’ pictures as she stood with closed eyes great adventure to the jungle bred, raised her voice in a weird, fiute- *TAI'ZAN OF THE APRS" and clenched fists above the object La who walk hand in hand with the grim call that carried fur Into the of her hate—ah! was it hate that La llke specter by day and ,lie down at hi> jungle on every side. From ueur and “cSOH Of TARZAN" of Opar felt? VE|% jJrflflV. side by night through all the years of far came answering shouts iu the burk- night The darkness of the jungle their lives. As a matter of fact, as ing tones of tlie Opuriau priests: “We had settled down upon the camp, re- his end approached his mlud was oc- come! We come!” Aguin aud ugain. lieved only by the fitful flarlngs of the cupied by thoughts of the pretty peb I.a repeated her .summons until singly fire that was kept up to warn off the ales he had lost, yet his every faculty and iu pairs the greater portion of her lay quietly "The man took it away vfl'th him when man-eaters. Tarzan In his still open to what pussed around following approached aud hulled a he «lip|jt*d away during the night. Of bonds. He suffered from thirst and him. short distance away front the high from the cutting of the tight what good was your knife, anyway? strands He felt La lean over him and he priestess aud her savior. They eame about his wrists and ankles; but he TARZAN You can make another. Did you fal- opened iris eyes. He saw her white, with scowling brows and threatening made no complaint. A jungle beast low us all this way for nothing more drawn face and he saw the teurs mien. When all had come Tarzan ad AND THE was Tarzan, with the stoicism of the i than n knife? Let me go and hud him blinding her eyes. “Tarzan. my Tar- dressed them. beast and the intelligence of man. He ape-man. and I will bring It back to you." zan !" she moaned, "tell me that you “Your La is safe.” suid the knew that his doom was sealed —that Jewels Opar La laughed u bitter laugh, for In her love me—that you will return to Opar “Had she slain me she would now her- of no supplications would to tem- heart she knew that Tarzan’s sin was avail with me—and you shall live. Even in self he dead and many more of you; per the severity of his end, and so he greater than the purloining of the sa- the face of the anger of my people I but sin* spured me that 1 might save cred sacrificial knife of Opar; yet as wusted no breath in pleadings, but I give her. Go your way with her back to = willsave you. This last chance E waited patiently in the firm convic- < way Into she looked ut him lying bound and you. Whut is your answer?" tpur, ami Tarzan will go his £ E tion that his sufferings could not en- (here be peace al- EDGAR RICE helpless before her, tears rose to her At the last moment the woman in La the jungle. Let dure forever. ways Tarzan und La. What E BURROUGHS E eyes so that she had to turn away to had triumphed over the high priestess between hide them; but she remained Indexible In the darkness La stooped above ot a cruel cult. With heaving bosom is your answer?” in her determination to make him pay him. In her band was a sharp knife or The priests grumbled und shook := Author she leaned close above hint. "Yes He Swung Nimbly Into the Lower E their heads. They spoke together aud in frightful suffering and in eventual and in her mlud the determination to ao?" she whispered. Branches. § "Taman qf th, Apm" = La and Tarzan could see that they death for daring to spurn the love of initiate his torture without further de- Through the jungle, out of the dis- Tanan" = lay. large tree quickly were uot favorably Incllued toward E "Sonrf La. The knife was pressed against tance, came faintly a sound that uranches of a and bore ber upward beyond reach of the the proposition. They dltl uot wish to When the shelter was completed La his side and La’s face was close to brought a sudden light of hope to trunk of the pachyderm. take I.a buck aud they did wish to OoprngM. lilt, by A. C. MoClorg *Co. had Tartan transferred to it. “All his when a sudden burst of flame Turzuu’s eyes, lie raised his voice sinuous night shall torture from new branches Momentarily huge complete the sacrifice of Tarzuu to I him," she mut- thrown upon the in weird scream that sent La hack battled here, the u Flaming God. At lust the apc-uian tered to her priests, “and at the first tire without lighted up the interior of or two. The impa- elephant wheeled ami l>or»* down the BYNOPBIS. from him a step Impatient. streak of dawn you may prepare the the shelter. Close beneath her lips priest grumbled and switched the upon tin* hapless priests, who had now became tient "You will obey the cuinniunds of CHAPTER I.—Hiding In the Jungle llaming altar upon which his heart La saw the perfect features of the one to other, at scattered, terror-stricken, in every dl- torch from hand the go to after killing his captain In a fit of brood- shall Flaming forest god and into her woman's raction. The nearest he gored and your queen." he said, “and hack ing madness, Lieut. Werper, be offered tip to the the same time holding it closer to the Albert Bel- high among brunches of a Opar with her or Tarzan of tin* Apes gian officer, is captured by Achrnet Zek. God." heart welled all the great love she had tinder at the base of the pyre. threw" the Arab slave raider, who spares his life and During of the felt for Tarzan since first she had seen tree. One he seized in the colls of his will call together the other creatures proposes to him a scheme to the balance the day “Your answer!” Insisted Lu. “What kidnap Jane, him, upon a huge bole, the Jungle and slay you all. I-a wife of Tarzan (Lord Greystoke) and sell priests of Opar were busy erecting an and all the accumulated passion ,s your to the love of La of trunk and broke Jof her slavery. accepts. answer charge, saved me that l might save you and into Werper altar in the center of the clearing, and of the years that she had dreamed of dropping the mangled pulp to i DparV” (ter. I know not where the sacred CHAPTER ll.—Posing as Jules Fre- while they worked they chanted weird him.