into the hearts of his hearers
Bdtlsh Raj‘linS tUB
He I
“’ I
XMOAG ti/iff BEASTS.
Crocodiles, Lions and Hippopotami
Lnuangec Lives of Railway
bri n8\Whi|t8 10 1110 llps’ and that 1113
bridle hand was trembling
Builders in Africa.
the croWl1 ye”Pd 80mc"
The
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I c X m t ra,lcou.s' tals«Ho voice, and
toria I'aii4 and the Cape to Cairo'
11
1
words at once.
., man loosed up sharply, woman In India who mattered—of Mrs. L..ny?ur ieilows down country have Railway has suddenly and necessarily
fl* *2-a to every human being Harold. With that thought came also mutinied and killed their officers ’ 1 brought a great many people together
to Harold. ‘Did you hear what i at this spot, where there was previous- *
jjere
, h0 -jn one shape
necessity for action, and when a cried
that man said?*
he t'lo in “is allairs’ the
man is called upon to act he is relieved Lutm^
US’ G°’ help D8-’ h0 «'■ ly but an occasional traveler or hunter.!
' i though it “iay “°t *?ad on to from the curse of thinking.
Besides the birds and the butterflies
“Harold s camp lay some thirty miles | claimed In that same hoarse, tense' and
„nr vet down to ruin, proves
the fish, the chief living auimals
^«wbat ii i“ him- brlngs °,ut to the north of my station. As soon the tart‘*et U3 ECt °U—t° the fort—10 were lions, elephants, hippopotami, J
►/J® iorth counting that may bo as the news spread the lives of Harold
A great strapping Muhammadan, a crocodiles, jackals and hyenas.
him and exposes his weak and his wife and sister would not be butcher
The crocodiles were found to be so
in a red turban, leaped from
“hen enough. That tide worth a minute's purchase.
—as many as thirty being '
*^1 'me in the Terrible Year—in
"I slipped out of the bungalow, went the crowd and seized the rein of Mrs. numerous
together sometimes—that they
* th found us English folk, lit- to the stables, found and Baddled my Harolds horse with one hand. The seen
7 nerals of us, isolated, almost dc- mare, locked the ntables securely be other held a meat chopper. The horse have had to be killed in great numbers
I rose in my Btirrups, raised for the safety of the people at work, i
facing the brown millions hind mo and rode out into the dark reared.
loaded riding crop and brought the One giant saurian killed a man and a
*“<c^’nn'ce were banded together ness. I took a path which soon led my
butt
down
full between the fellow’s woman, and was itself killed only af-1
^Fu b? hato and wrath. I was mo clear of the town, and directly 1
ter seizing another man. A native |
He dropped like a log.
Stant deputy commissioner in a was in the open country I put the mare eyes.
“ ‘Get on to the fort, Harold, In God’s woman was taking water from the'
¿ken district in India, and had Into a hard canter and headed for the name,
and take the ladies with you,’ I river when the crocodile knocked her
‘ ¿ long alone among the natives Harolds' camp. The time for dream cried breathlessly,
for now I was lay. in with its tail, seized her in its hor
fl not speak half a dozen ing and for fear was ended, and 1
ing about me with that heavy butt, and rid mouth and dragged her away. Her
* ‘ , of my own language without knew it. The time for action had the people, screaming with tear, were husband was close by, but was power
S in a word or two of Persian como and with it a sort of intoxication tumbling over one another in their less to save her. He determined to
of recklessness that filled mo with a eagerness to get beyond the reach of bo avenged, however, and for several
Undnstanl
I prided
fl^rs
on the myself
pulse of upon
na- fierce Joy and pride.
my arm.
nights waited in a canoe with a load
“It was only a little after midnight
i life in that district. Things were
“I caught a glimpse of Mrs. Har ed gun. He, too, disappeared, and it is
A ward of which I could not that I reached my destination. I con
old’s face, flushed with excitement, her thought the crocodile knocked him out
J rhe hang. There was mystery in trived, not without difficulty, to arouse eyes flashing with enthusiasm and a of the canoe as it had knocked his
fair; you felt
could fiad to Harold. I led him away from the Bort of fierce delight.
wife off the bank, and taken him to its
tents, and told him the news that had
hole.
“
'Oh,
how
splendid
of
you!
’
she
'^■■During those months I knew what come In.
A week later it got another man, but
cried. ‘How splendid!’ and then she
“ ‘You mustn’t lose a second,’ I said. and Harold and his sister were off, at instead of taking him into its hole, it
, £ to be possessed by a demon of
1. I told myself that it was all ‘The one chance of safety li s in Mrs. a gallop up the hill toward the fort, carried him to an island. Here its
v ictim got hold of the reeds and strong
Ecr that Asia was playing the devil Harold and your sister getting to the Harold leading.
that I was losing my nerve. fort as soon as may be.’
“The crowd had fallen back before grass, and held on so tightly that the
“ ‘And do you seriously believe all me, and I rode straight at the Muham crocodile could not get away with him.
r«| was in the deepest folds of the
jirk Valley when Harold came up into this rubbish?’ Harold inquired, stand madan preacher. I hit him, as I had Of course he screamed with all his
hit the butcher, full between the eyes, might, and a gang of men with crow
and I felt the bone shatter beneath the bars went to rescue him. This they
succeeded in doing, and also in slaying
blow.
“ ‘You dogs!' I cried. ‘You dogs who the dangerous monster. Tuese croco
dare to bark because fools tell you diles are so ravenous that it is not pos
that the Raj of the British is ended, sible even to keep dogs with safety,
get to your kennels like the whipped and parents living near the river are
curs you are. And when sense re- in constant dread of losing their chil
turneth to you, come to me at the fort dren.
A Lion Terror.
craving pardon, lest I send word to the
government of the wickedness in your
One of the lions killed had also filled
hearts, and the hide be stripped from up the measure of its Iniquity ere it
you in punishment. Go!’
met its doom. The scene of its depre
“And then, why then, and it brings dations was a native village some dis
tears to my eyes when I recall it, for tance north of tho Falls. The native
they are men, these Muhammadans of huts are very slender, being built
India, though like children they be mainly of reeds. In such a hut a wo
easily led astray or aright as a man man was sitting when the lion pushed
may chance to lead them—the crowd aside the door, walked in and seized
set up a throaty shout, not of rage or her, carrying her away to his lair In
defiance, but of approval and admira the dense bush. Then ho bad an ox.
tion.
This was In the enclosure with other
“ ‘It is well done!’ cried many voices. cattle and donkeys.
‘It is well done, and behold our Sahib
The lion, failing to get Into the en
is a man. Let the Raj stand or fall closure, so frightened the animals with
elsewhere, here the Raj and our Sahib his attempts that they rushed in a hud
are one; and see, the Sahib stands dled, terrified mass from end to end.
fool who spoke vain things and their weight upon the palisading
while the___
lies yonder in the dust. It is in truth broke it down. They rushed oui
well done.’
through tho opening, which was Just
“I turned my horse slowly and what the lion wanted, for ho had now
walked him up the hill to the fort. For nothing to do but to take his choice.
me at that moment the world held only After the ox, he selected a donkey on
one thing—Mrs. Harold's face—and his next vi.it, and then a sheep, ami
that too said, ‘It is well done,’ and I finally another ox. At last the natives
think also ‘thank you.’
became panic stricken until some white
“After that there came some anxious men reassured them, telling them they
times, but in the end mine was one of would sit up all night for tho lion and
the districts that had no mutiny his shoot him. Tho lion came and got
tory. Harold's nerve had been shaken away with another ox, for tho white
by that scene in the town, and the mon, tired with the watch, had fallen
worst of it was that he couldn’t get it asleep. However, they were able to
back and that his wife saw it.
track him.
“At last it was safe for them to leave,
It was Important that having prom
and I thanked Go I for it, though lite ised to kill the lion they should do so.
didn’t seem to offer much to me when for that is the secret of tho whit
she had gone out of it. Anyhow, I man’s power over the native—never t<
knew it was the only thing for me, if break bls word. So they set oft to th
( was to avoid making a fool of my- thick bush bait a mile away, whither
• elf, and she—well, she was everything the lion's tracks led them. There the;
came upon him and killed him wit.,
.hat a woman ought to be.
“The evening before they were to go ono bullet, that entered the right nos
away I came upon her sitting in the tril. This was what big game hunt
veranda cf my bungalow—we had ers consider a good kill, as the bullet
A MUHAMMADAN BUTCHER SEIZED THE REIN.
moved out of tho fort ages before, in did not disfigure the lion hor lnjur<
ing
there
in
his
pajamas,
his
face
Un.
By district'to shoot, bringing his wife
suite of Harold's frenzied protests— his skin. Near by was the carcass of
Bid sister with him. I did not know naturally white in the moonlight.
and she began to speak of all, she was an ox, and a little further In the bush,
“ ‘I do,’ I said.
I htn from Adam, and I had not seen a
in a sort of tunnel of Impenetrable
to say, they owed to me.
“ ‘On no better grounds than mere ‘ pleased
European lady for over three years, so
“‘Don’t,’ I said. ‘It is I who owe thorn, were tho gnawed bones—the re
j ’as a bit bothered by the intrusion. native gup?’
a debt—to you. It is you who have mains of some of his former victims.
“ ‘On that and on a hundred and one helped me, helped mo to play tu© man.
I felt shy and awkward in the com-
Tame Baby Hippopotamus.
W of ladies. I was only too glad things that have gone before and that
“‘I don’t think you wanted much
now
have a new meaning,' I replied. ( help to do that,’ she said very seriously.
to ship the party oft into a corner of
A young hippopotamus, riding on Its
“
’
Well
I
don
’
t
believe
a
word
of
it,
me district whero game was plentiful
"In a moment we were on our feet, mothers’ back when she was shot, was
«soon as I could contrive to make the he said sneeringly. ‘We’ll talk it over facing one another, and her hands were saved and cared for by one of the
Mcessary arrangements. I did not care in the morning,’ ho said with a yawn, In mine. I knew then, I know now men. These animals are very danger
j
®uc“ for Harold, nor yet for his sis stretching himself Insolently.
that I might have kissed her. But—it ous to canoe men, for In returning to
“ ‘You will do nothing of the sort, 1 would have hurt her.
ter, but Mrs. Harold charmed and fas
the surface to blow they often come
cinated me. Harold was a cranl y sort said, and I could hear my voice vibrat “Instead I stooped and kissed her up right under thn canoe and upset It.
| ’i beggar and his sister turned up her ing with anger. ‘You may think 1 am
Sometimes they give chase to canoes
“ 'Goodbye and God keep you, I said, and then the native paddlers do all
u‘Inost things. Including me. Mrs. a coward, If you like. I ra responsible
for
what
happens
in
this
district,
and
arold was—well, Just everything that
bank,
a
and turning, left her.
they can to reach the
t— —
—. unless
-
a yoman can be! Beautiful, with a by God, man, you have got to do what
“That, I know now, was my greatest
, ‘ of glory of beauty that yet had in
" ‘Well, I do think that yon are a
h 8 certain dainty dignity that held
m>,i70r ds alj0V8 you, and good—you rather nervous person, but we’ll see
,
,,
«id see the goodness looking out of what my wife says.’
me speak to her. please, I said.
deed eyeS~and kind‘ *n thought and ‘As “ ‘Let
you will.’ he answered with a
fc.T,9 -’wolds had been gone a mat-
i r»Jh jOme three weeks when the news
, me the outbreak down coun-
smnt: ’a3 sitting on my veranda,
u ,.
f'PO and dreaming, when
I m . i ,-» Uhai?rnad Akhbar, one of the
», -ln? aatives of the place, came to
if„!udPenly 01,t of the luminous dark-
vl 2 01 ,the "¡sht. He was shaking
m,»V3Eci.tement as he told me of the
of
°* 0,lr troops down south and
I femi rapidliy with which the dlsaf-
lectwn v.-as spreading.
TH. v9 disaffection spreadethi fast
i ba7aaZery. nlEht it is known in our
to-morrow the villages also
eth .. ow' 1,len. perhaps—who know-
D4,a’ave Allali, the Merciful, the Com-
lonate?—the Raj of the Sahib-log
blood iiVBi
in blood, as in
It %
so had *ts beginning, nor will
oai. l !urn of our 'women folk to be
^stands"’161* Ior the fleaaure oi new
gr«/
word fear left me and a
from
al°ne remained. I rose
him
a,r and ,n an Instant I nad
„the throat
•hook
care- d°8!’ I cried, as I
Urt»/? ®/0 and fro while he gasped
the q.h?v? and struggled. ‘The Raj of
blood
°K 18 n°t yet ended, and if
thn •! . to he 'et> ®ee that it be not
tbsEngHshl1’ dIstrict 1 am the
of
f 11 lm frorn tne. half stran
fatn aa n * moment he was all ab
and entreaty.
*1th
J crle<l. spurning him
goth». y
He gathered himself to-
hick tn. .1 whlning excuses, dropped
•41. 0 5he darkness.
Instant ^
had gone I stood for an
•odden k ed ia a world that had of a
1 r»aii,r»e“ Mattered about my head
’hlter^. .,h® disproportion of the
of th. ®an 8 numbers In India to those
4® People of the soil.
41th ,
which Hal! Muhammad
tat» «,.♦ d 8Poken, hinting of the
Mia n ?w“lted Fngllsh women in
•fthth-t?6. across my mind, and
« them the thought of the one
“'We walked back to the tent in si
lence, and presently Mrs. Harold came
out to us. her tall, slim figure wrapped
in a white dressing gown.
“ ‘Your husband thinks that I am an
alarmist’ I said, ‘but I have informa-
Uon of a general mutiny of our troops
down country, and I know that the
nows is true. I have left my post in
a moment of «‘remV?er£Dmv fort'
der to bring you a.l in to my_ fo t
which is the nearest approachi to sa.< .j.
that I have it in my power to offer
you. Everything depends upon my ge -
[tag back before daybreak and beta e
(be natives know that I have left th"
place; but I wont go w.t _nit yo .
Will you come—now, at once.
•“Yes’ she said simply, bendtar
thoso grave, true eyes steadily upo.
me *We will come, of course. An
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