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The Tarzan Club

Book One

The Club

by William E. Steinberg

In 1914, just before the outbreak of The Great War, (World War I) Joe Butler, his brother Willie, and two black friends of theirs had a club.  Just outside Orlando, Florida was a small community with a lake, an island called "Witch Island" and several farms.  On one of those farms Joe's father had a hunting and fishing resort where his father's rich New York clients paid huge fees for trophy sized game and fish.  Behind the resort ran Simpson Creek complete with a quicksand bog.  According to the rules of the club to be a member in good standing new members had to swing across the creek on a rope hanging from a huge Sycamore tree and walk the quicksand.  Joe wanted his friend Morgan to join the club.

But Morgan was a soft, sickly sort of kid, overweight, clumsy and wore glasses.  It was going to be quite a job getting him ready to become a member in good standing.  On top of it all, Morgan's parents didn't want him to join the club.  That really complicated matters, because unless Morgan joined the club he couldn't become a real kid, get tough like Joe and the other members and learn to defend himself from Wayne Carson, the town bully.  It made a secret initiation on Witch Island necessary.  Aunt Rosie, a Voodoo Priestess from Haiti, told the boys it would best be done at midnight during the full moon when magic was the most powerful. 

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