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Tarzan of the Apes 1 IN ENGLAND, A. D.      1886

Lord Greystoke was summoned by the government to suppress Arab slave trading in British Africa.

2 "You, my dear lady? Impossible! You would be in a wild country absolutely unattended. You could not even  take your maid."

3 "Is courage only for   men, then?"

4 "John, tell him we    will go."

5 CHAPTER II PERIOD 1907.

6 TARZAN - - The Boy.

... GORDON GRIFFITH

7 Off the coast of Africa, the ship's captain was killed in a mutiny --

8 "-- and the lives of Lord and Lady Greystoke were saved by a sailor named        Binns."

9 They were set ashore by the mutineers at the edge of the almost impenetrable jungle.

10 Attempting escape to rejoin the Greystokes, Binns was captured by Arab slave traders.

11 Only the leopard outside the door heard the cries of the new-born heir of Greystoke.

12 Before the child was a year old Lady Alice passed away.

13 Kerchak, the Ape, Kala's mate and head of the tribe, was in a frenzy of rage at the death of their baby.

14 And Kala, the Ape, nursed the son of an English nobleman.

15 Happy with Kerchak's tribe, Tarzan did not dream he was different from the apes.

16 Until one day in the mysterious depths of the pool he glimpsed a vision that set his little English brain to wondering.

17 Kala loved this child of another race who had filled the place of the offspring Nature denied her.

18 And Tarzan gave freely to Kala the affection that might have gone to his mother, Lady Alice.

19 Hatred of the British for their fight against the slave trade, the chance to persecute a Christian -- the motive of revenge - - these brought on Binns ten years of tortured agony.

20 Clothes! At the bottom of his little English heart survived a longing for them.

21 In his discovery of the cabin Tarzan had no idea it once had been his home -- since Kala had no words to convey that thought.

22 The wonderful weapon which would trans- form him from a weakling to the master of the beasts.

23 The return of the Arabs to the old locality brought to Binns the resolution to escape and join the Greystokes.

24 The apes' deadly enemy -- the gorilla.

25 "I wonders if they died a thinkin' old Binnsey broke 'is promise to        'em."

26 "It's a kid's fist as made that. It must be their     young 'un!"

27 "I couldn't keep my word to you, Ma'am, until too late. I'll find this kid o' yours and take 'im back     to England."

28 Nursed by Tarzan to returning strength, Binns taught the eager boy his slight knowledge of the printed word.

29 Tarzan's whole faith was placed in his first human friend, who set out with his young charge to reach England.

30 "Escape if you can, Kid; I'm off across the jungle to the coast, then to England - to look up     yer folks."

31  CHAPTER III PERIOD TODAY

32 TARZAN - - THE MAN.

... ELMO LINCOLN

33 A group of scientists and relatives of Tarzan's par- ents had finally decided to investigate Binns story of    the jungle waif.

34 "Seeing the monkey in his native haunts will be like gazing into     your past."

35 "You talk as if I were proof of Darwin's       theory."

36 Jane's maid, Esmerelda.

37 The death of Kala.

38 In superstitious awe of the strange white being who killed their chief, the natives for days made offerings to appease his wrath.

39 On the shore described by Binns.

40 Tantor, Tarzan's friend.

41 "Binns told the truth, for here's the proof."

42 "No, by jove! Binns lied about the child!    Look here!"

43 "These finger prints might have been valuable evidence, for they never change from infancy to old age. But the skull is proof enough that the     baby died."

44 "Oh, I'm disappointed      in you."

45 "Come now! You're not angry; you and I are to be married before long."

46 "I wonder if that could be Tarzan, and the man for whom we're    looking."

47 Struggling with his shyness, the girl's magnetism kept Tarzan constantly near her, seeing but unseen.

48 "It was killed by a giant white man dressed only in skins above his waist.  He must be the man        we seek."

49 "When we find this man, I am sure that we will  end this mystery."

50 While the weary searchers wander near the native village, and into new and unsuspected danger.

51 "The Whites are coming   to attack us!"

52 The council of war.

53 Whipping themselves into a frenzy, the negroes prepare to repel their fancied enemies.

54 The nearness of the clinging form, the warm touch of the first woman he had ever known, thrilled Tarzan with a new emotion and every throbbing pulse-beat spurred him to take her for his own.

55 "Tarzan is a man, and men do not force the  love of women."

56 As Kala, the Ape, had comforted his childish fears, so Tarzan comforted the woman he loved.

57 - - and thru the long night, the strong guarded the weak, and his great love and courage shielded her from all harm.

58 While the anxious rescue party continued their perilous and seemingly hopeless quest.

59 "Tarzan!"

THE END.

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