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ward the gate along a rose embowered path that swung in a graceful curve through the well-ordered, though unpretentious, grounds surrounding the ape-mans rambling, one-story home. There were two men and a woman, all in khaki, the older man carrying a fliers hel­met and a pair of goggles in one hand. He was smiling quietly as he listened to the younger man. "You wouldnt be doing this now if mother were here," said the latter, "she would never per­mit it." "Im afraid you are right, my son," replied Tarzan; "but only this one flight alone and then Ill promise not to go up again until she returns. You have said yourself that I am an apt pupil and if you are any sort of an instructor you shouldhave perfect confidence in me after having said that I was perfectly competent to pilot a ship alone. Eh, Meriem, isnt that true?" he de­manded of the young woman. She shook her head. "Like My Dear, I am always afraid for you, mon pere," she replied. "You take such risks that one would think you considered yourself immortal. You should be more careful." The younger man threw his arm about his wifes shoulders. "Meriem is right," he said; "you should be more careful, Father." Tarzan shrugged. "If you and mother had your way my nerves and muscles would have atrophied long since. They were given me to use and I intend using them--with discretion. Doubtless I shall be old and useless soon enough, and long enough, as it is." A child burst suddenly from the bungalow, pursued by a perspiring governess, and raced to Meriems side. "Muvver," he cried, "Dackie doe? Dackie doe?" "Let him come along," urged Tarzan. "Dare!" exclaimed the boy, turning triumph­antly upon the governess; "Dackie do doe yalk!" Out on the level plain, that stretched away from the bungalow to the distant jungle the ver­dant masses and deep shadows of which were vaguely discernible to the northwest, lay a bi­plane, in the shade of which lolled two Waziri warriors who had been trained by Korak, the son of Tarzan, in the duties of mechanicians, and, later, to pilot the ship themselves; a fact that had not been without weight in determining Tar­zan of the Apes to perfect himself in the art of flying, since, as chief of the Waziri, it was not mete that the lesser warriors of his tribe should excel him in any particular. Adjusting his helmet and goggles Tarzan climbed into the cockpit. "Better take me along," advised Korak. Tarzan shook his head, smiling good-natur­edly. "Then one of the boys, here," urged his son. "You might develop some trouble that would force you to make a landing and if you have no mechanician along to make repairs what are you going to do?" "Walk," replied the ape-man. "Turn her over, Andua!" he directed one of the blacks. A moment later the ship was bumping over the veldt, from which, directly, it rose in smooth and graceful flight; circled, climbing to a greater al­titude, and then sped away in an air line, while on the ground below the six strained their eyes until the wavering speck that it had dwindled to disappeared entirely from their view. "Where do you suppose he is going?" asked Meriem. Korak shook his head. "He isnt supposed to be going anywhere in particular," he replied; "just making his first practice flight alone; but, knowing him as I do, I wouldnt be surprised to learn that he had taken it into his head to fly to London and see mother." "But he could never do it!" cried Meriem. "No ordinary man could, with no more ex­perience than he has had; but then, you will have to admit, father is no ordinary man." For an hour and a half Tarzan flew without altering his course and without realizing the flight of time or the great distance he had cov­ered, so delighted was he with the ease with which he controlled the ship, and so thrilled by this new power that gave him the freedom and mobility of the birds, the only denizens of his beloved jungle that he ever had had cause to envy. Presently, ahead, he discerned a great basin, or what might better be described as a series of basins, surrounded by wooded hills, and immediately he recognized to the left of it the wind­ing Ugogo; but the country of the basins was new to him and he was puzzled. He recognized, simultaneously, another fact; that he was over a hundred miles from home, and he determined to put back at once; but the mystery of the basins lured him on -- he could not bring himself to return home without a closer view of them. Why was it that he had never come upon this country in his many wanderings? Why had he never even heard of it from the natives living within easy access to it. He dropped to a lower level the better to inspect the basins, which now ap­peared to him as a series of shallow craters of long extinct volcanoes. He saw forests, lakes and rivers, the very existence of which he had never dreamed, and then quite suddenly he dis­covered a solution of the seeming mystery that there should exist in a country with which he was familiar so