Evening star. [volume], April 17, 1938, Image 105

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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LIKE A CONSUMING PRAIRIE FIRE
THE JAVASE HORDE SWEPT ACRO#
THE VELDT-.
.WHILE
WITHIN THE WALLS
THE THIN BAND OF
PIONEERS RALLIED
10 THE DEFENSE.
- SOME TOOK UP
STATIONS ON
THE RAISED
’LATFORMS; OTHERS
FIRED THROUGH
THE LOOPHOLES
IN THE WALLS.
mm iFFMED EWWRF AT ONCE, PI5P05INS HIS
MEASER FORCES TO BE5T APVANTA&F.
WE URGED THE WOMEN TO SEEK SHELTER
IN AN INNER SECTION OF THE TOWN,
BUT ONE ANSWERED FOR ALU
"WE HAVE SHARED THE LIVES
Ij OF OUR MENFOLK--WE SHALL
^ STAND BT THEM IN DEATH!"
MAW OF THEM TOOK UP ARMS: OTHERS SERVED
AS LOADERS; NONE WAS IDLE.
THOUGH THE FIRE OF THE PIONEERS TOOK HEAVY TOLL,
THE SAVAGES SURGED ONWARD IN STDRMV WAVES.
Ptarzan smiled,
U FOR THE BULLETS
F AND ARROWS OF THE
I toE SPLINTERED
I AND SPLASHED
4ARMLE55LV AGAINST
H\5 WALL.
SOON THE RANKS OF THE SAVAGES PIVIDED TO 'PB
ATTACK ON ALL SIPES ANPSPlIT THE DEFENDERS1 FORCES:
Mr THENTHr-^
“APE-WAN WS
■ DISMAYED TOSEE
■ THAT THEY CARRIED
A SCORE 0?SCALING
■J, 1
IF TO SURMOUNTED THE WALLS ALL WAS LOST-MASSACRE
WAS INEVITABLEJ—A0<r WEEK— VILLAINY