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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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