Argosy All-Story Weekly, March 15, 1924 — page 152: what you’re looking at

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TARZAN “ With all my heart, Komodoflorensal!” AND THE ANT-MEN. —_ They seemed to have forgotten that another - existed but themselves. alone with their love.. Tarzan found himself in the hand of a male and he also found himself wondering, In death they were even as he faced certain death, how it oc- . curred that this great band of male and fe- male Alali should be hunting together, and then he noticed the weapons of the males. They were not the crude bludgeon and the slinging stones that they had formerly car- ried, but long, trim spears, and bows and arrows. And now the creature that held him had lifted him even with his face and was scru- tinizing him and Tarzan saw a look of recog- nition and amazement cross the bestial fea- tures, and he, in turn, recognized his cap- tor. It was the son of the First Woman. — Tarzan did not wait to learn the temper of his old acquaintance. Possibly. their re- lations were altered now. Possibly they were not. He recalled the doglike devotion of the creature when last he had seen him and he put him to the test at once. . “ “ Put me down!” he signed, peremptorily. “And tell your people to put down all of my people. Harm them not!” Instantly the great creature set Tarzan gently upon the ground and immediately signaled his fellows to do the same with their captives. The man did immediately as they were bid and all of the women but one. She hesitated. The son of the First Woman leaped toward her, his spear raised like a whip, and the female cowered and set Talaskar down upon the ground. Very proud, the son of the First Woman explained to Tarzan as best he could the great change that had come upon the Alali since the ape-man had given the men weap- ons and the son of the First Woman’ had discovered what a proper use of them would mean to the males of his kind. Now each male had a woman cooking for him—at least one, and some of them, the stronger, had more than one. | To entertain Tarzan and to show him what great strides civilization had taken in the land of the Zertalacolols, the son of the First Woman seized a female by the hair and, dragging her to him, struck her heav- VSL ily about the head and face with his clenched fist, and the woman fell upon her knees and fondled his legs, looking wistfully into his face, her own eloquent with love and admiration. That night the six slept in the open sur- rounded by the great Zertalacolols and the next day they started across the plain to- ward Trohanadalmakus where Tarzan had resolved to remain until he regained his normal size, when he would make a deter- mined effort to cut his way through the thorn forest to his own country. The Zertalacolols went a short distance out into the plain with them, and both men and women tried in their crude, savage way, to show Tarzan: their gratitude for the change that he had wrought among them, and the new happiness he had given them. © Two days later the six fugitives ap- proached the domes of Trohanadalmakus. They had been seen by sentries when they were still a long way off, and.a ‘body of walriors rode forth to meet them, for it is aways well to learn the nature of a visitor’s business in Minuni before he gets too close — to your home. When the warriors discovered that Ko- modoflorensal and Tarzan had returned they shouted ‘for joy and a number of them gal- loped swiftly back to the city to spread the news. | ’ The fugitives were conducted at once to the throne room of Adendrohahkis and there that great ruler took his son in his arms and wept, so great was his happiness at having him returned safely to him.. Nor did he forget Tarzan, although it was some time before he or the other Trohanadal- makusians could accustom themselves to the fact that this man, no bigger than they, was the giant who had dwelt among them a few moons since. Adendrohabkis called Tarzan to the foot of the throne and there, before the nobles and warriors of Trohanadalmakus, he made him a zertol, or prince, and he gave him diadets and riches and allotted him -quar- ters fitted to his rank, begging him to stay among them always. Janzara, Zoanthrohago, and Oratharc he gave their liberty and permission to remain in Trohanadalmakus, and then Komodo- COMmiicloe <SHGO) "