Astounding Stories, June, 1931

_Castaway_ [Illustration: _There, the words were written._] [Sidenote: High in jungle treetops swings young Bentley--his human brain imprisoned in a mighty ape.] Lee Bentley nev...

_Into the Jungle_ They had to smile together at the results achieved with the bedraggled bits of cloth. Bentley suspected that they had been taken from bodies washed ashore as gru...

_A Night of Horror_ The meal consisted of various fruits, some meat which Bentley could not identify, and wild honey which was delicious. The bread tasted queer but was distinctly...

_Grim Awakening_ Bentley returned to consciousness with a dull headache. He rose to a sitting posture and looked dully about him. Dimwittedly he tried to recall all that had passe...

_Fumbling Hands_ Now Bentley was beginning to realize to the full the horrible thing that had befallen himself and Ellen Estabrook. He knew something else, too. It had come to him...

_Puppets of Barter_ The thing that Barter then contrived was destined to remain forever in the memory of Bentley as the most ghastly thing he had ever experienced. Ellen hurried i...

_Lord of the Jungle_ Apeman, never realizing that his actual strength was that of but a puny human being, was racing with Ellen Estabrook into the very midst of animals which woul...

_Struggle for Mastery_ It was Apeman who charged. Pity for Apeman welled up in Bentley. That was his own body which Apeman was so illy using. His own poor bruised and bleeding bod...

_Fate Decides_ Morning brought the great apes of the jungle--scores of them. They had approached so silently through the darkness that Bentley had not heard them, and his ape's no...

_Written in Dust_ As Apeman was borne deeper into the jungle in the great arms of the she, what was more natural in the circumstances than that Ellen keep close to her only remain...

_Barter Acts_ Bentley remained motionless, awaiting Ellen's return to consciousness. He waited in fear and trembling. How would she react to the horrible thing he had told her? N...

_Jungle Justice_ Again that grim concentration on the part of Bentley, forcing the unaccustomed great hands of Manape to perform things they had never done before. He must release...

_The Horror Passes_ Slowly consciousness returned to Bentley, and his first thought was one of horror. From somewhere distinct came a doleful wailing sound. He thought he knew wha...

A Very Human Princess That night in 1777 near the home of the murdered Major Atwood brought to Larry the most strangely helpless feeling he had ever experienced. He crouched with ...

_A Thousand Years into the Future_ 1930 to 2930--a thousand years in three hours. It was sufficiently slow traveling so that Larry could see from the cage window the actual detail...

_The New York of 2930_ Larry stood alone at an upper window of the palace gazing out at the somnolent moonlit city. It was an hour or two before dawn. Tina and Tugh had started al...

_Harl's Confession_ Larry was awakened by a hand upon his shoulder. He struggled to consciousness, and heard his name being called. "Larry! Wake up, Larry!" Tina was bending ove...

_Tugh, the Clever Man_ "Sit quiet, George Rankin. And you, Mistress Mary; you will both be quite safe with Migul if you are docile." Tugh stood before us. We were in a dim recess...

_The Pit in the Dam_ Larry, with Tina and Tugh, stood in the tunnel-corridor beneath the palace listening to the commotion overhead. Then they rushed up, and found the palace in a...