Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 23, 1924 — page 119: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

By EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Author of ‘‘ Tarzan and the Golden Lion,’’ ‘‘ The Moon Maid,’’ ‘‘ Chessmen of Mars,’’ etc. WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PARTS I, ll and Ill. ARZAN of the Apes, now Lord Greystoke, crashes in his biplane in a hitherto undiscovered African jungle. He is found unconscious by a huge female of the Alali, voiceless brutes more akin to the gorilla than to man, and she carries him to her den The males of the tribe are timorous weaklings who lurk in the forest in continual dread of the dominant shes that cruelly hunt them down with bludgeons during the mating season. On recovering consciousness ,Tarzan escapes in company with a youth of the Alali to whom he teaches the art of the bow and arrow. An Alalus woman waging war on a troop of white pygmies mounted on dwarf antelopes, turn from them to capture Tarzan, but he slays her with an arrow. The pygmies welcome him to their city of ant hill structures, and in a battle with a rival city of ant-men he 1s overwhelmed by countless numbers, stunned and taken prisoner. On awakening he is amazed to discover that the former enemy pygmies now are his equal in height and that their antelopes are as large as the Giant Eland. Condemned to slavery in the quarries, he finds Talaskar, a beautiful slave girl, eager to do his cooking. And then suddenly she appears to his eyes a hideous and wrinkled hag. CHAPTER XI (Continued). “My mother taught me this,” she said, “so that when they came and looked upon me they would not want me.” OD!” ejaculated Tarzan. ‘“ But would it not be better to be mated Slowly the girl’s face relaxed, with one of them and live a life of comfort assuming its normal lines of beau- above ground than to eke out a terrible ex- ty, and with quick, deft touches she ar- ‘istence below ground?” he demanded. “ The ranged her disheveled hair. warriors of Veltoptismakus are, doubtless, This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for February 2. * Copyright, 1924, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. THE SLAVE GIRL. ae 277 COMIC OO KS (E@) eat 4 ' , CP FEN A OR Sy Se a a ~_ = 5 of | . eg Te