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BY C. DUNNING CLARK.

 

TO THE AMAZEMENT OF ALL, THE CHARMER LEAFED UP AND GRAPPLED WITH THE TIGER IN THE AIR.

 

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Cruise of the Flyaway;

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YANKEE BOYS IN CEYLON.
BY Grist—CLARK.

CHAPTER I.
THE FLYAWAY AT SEA—THE CINGALESE
’ PILOTS.

THE scene opens on the spicy shores of
the Indian seas, and a beautiful topsail
schooner, under. easy sail, is seen run-
ning through the bright sea at racing
speed, winged out to catch every breath
of air which came from the west. A
schooner perfect in every line, a model of

uty, grace, and speed. She was yacht
built, after the American model; which
is to say, she had rout breadth of beam,
and was calculate to carry a great spread
of canvas. Her prow was as sharp as a
knife blade, and cut through the water
with a hissing sound. Her canvas, as
we have said, was remarkably heavy for
so small a craft, but she stood u under
it bravely and showed every qua ity of a
good sea boat. She was painted black,
with a red stripe, and white ports. With-
J out intending to fight, she carried two
r small brass six-pounders forward, kept

 ’. bright and clean by the crew, who potted

the s, and talked,of what they would
“do ' they met a Malay pirate in’ the nar-
row seas beyond Indo-Uhina, where they
meant to go after they had proved them-
selves hunters amid the jungles of Cey-
lon, for which island they were lmaded.
The crew were neatly dressed—blue
pants, Wide at the bottom, in true sailor
style; close—fitting “ Guernsey's,” or J er-
se , so called, and jackets of the same
0001‘, slashed with white. Upon the
breast of the shirt at large capital “ F ”
was worked in white. They wore Scotch
' caps with the word “ Flyaway” worked
upon the band. The crew were ten in
number, and evidently able seamen
chosen for their skill in navigation. But
, with them, at present we have little to
 do, but turn to the officers, who are all

 'V on deck.

They are four in number and wear uni-

forms very much like those of the Ameri—-

can navy bearing res ’tively the in-
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lieutenant, and sailing-masher. The cap-
tain is a young man not over twenty-two,
with a handsome, sunburned face, lafige
gray eyes, and curlin brown hair. is
figure is stalwart, an he is evidently a
hard customer to meet in a close grapple.
This is Richard Wade, owner and com-
mander of the schooner F lyaway, New
York, bound on a cruise of adventure in
the eastern seas.

The “first ” and “second” are his
brothers; you can see that at a glance.
The same bright expressive eyes, curling
brown hair and strong build, although
“ch” is only nineteen and “Will” a.
year younger.

The sailing-master is a man about forty
five years of age, and every inch a sailor.
His closely—cut hair is getting gray, and
his face, by long exposure to the sun and
wind, has become tanned to the color of
mahogany.  hands. from long use in
the rigging and at the wheel and oar, are
curved inward, and it is almost impossi-
ble for him to open them entirely. In
person he is short, but his shoulders are
those of aHercules, and no man, after
being once in the grip of sturdy Captain
Dave Sawyer, ever “ hankered " after an-
other hug.

“Keep her north—east by east, you at
the wheel !” owled Captain Dave.
“Captain W e, if we don’t have a
snorter before long, then I don’t know
anything of the Injin seas.”

“The Flyaway can stand it, Dave,” rc-
plicd Richard Wade.

“I reckon she can,” was the repl .
“ There ain’t a boat of her inches, if I do
say it, that is a patch alongside of this
yacht. It did my old heart good to see
icr walk away from that steamer when
we came out of Cape Town. Give me
the right Wind, and all the pots and lut-
tles in creation can’t beat the Flya-
wa .”

“ The wind is going down,” remarked

Ned, looking up at the sails, which no ‘

longerfilled. “ Are we going to have a.
calm?" -

“ Maybe so and maybe not,” answered
the sailing-master, casting a. quick glance
over the lee rail. “All on Flyaways—
jum N Stand b to take 1n sail! ’

“ Bake in sai ?” cried Ned, in astonish-
ment. “ We’d do better to send up the
kites and ‘balloons’ instead.

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ing- , “what shall I do, since this
young man chooses to interfere?”

“ Do as you think right. Dave. At the
same time, I don’t think Ned meant to
interfere with you.”

“Not at all; but it looks as if we were
finng to have a calm, instead of a storm,”

ed explained.

“ You won’t have long to wait before
1ysou are satisfied on that p‘int, ” returned

ave Sawyer. “Down with the main-
sail and secure all! Be lively, my lads;
jump, if you strain blood—vessels.”

The men sprung to the work with a
will, and in less then ten minutes, under
their quick and skillful hands, the main-
sail was down and secured, the forersail
close-reefed, and the Flyaway moved
slowl throu h the water, under close-
reefedyforesa' and storm jib.

“ I guess she will stand that,” muttered
the sailing-master. “ Now, Ned, my
boy ”——turnin to the first lieutenant—
“me be I spo e a little sharp just now,
but know these seas better than you.
We are going to have a bu’ster.”

“There is a. boat,” cried Will. They
were miles from land, and yet, close upon
them, a small light boat was lsap'ug' over
the waves toward them. She w: built
something like an Indian canoe, sharp at
both ends, and had carried a smell trian-

sail. But that was down now, and

e two men in the boat were using their
paddles, sending their light craft flying
through the water at every stroke. They
had seen the Flyaway and were heading
for her.

“Hail them!” sug sted Richard. “A

ilot will be a good t ' g for us, if there
is danger."

“ No need to hail them,” replied the
sailing-master. “ They are coming fast
as they can.”

The boat was now so near that they
could see the brown and nearly naked
bodies of the Cmgalese as they worked at
the addles. A moment more, and the
boatlay close to the side of the schooner,
and a straight, supple form bounded upon
deck, and placin his hands upon his
forehead, made a ow obeisance.

“ Let the sahibs listen to the words of
their slaves!” he s ke in the sweet per-
suasive voice w ic seems to be an attri-
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and destroy them. Darkness will sur-
round them; the breath of the tempest
will suck them in.”

“ Oh, give us arest,” re lied Dave Saw-
yer, who understood the anguage of the
Cingalese. “Does all that, bein‘ inter-
preted, mean that we are going to have a
wind?”

“The Sahib Captain has heard the
words of his devoted slave, and he has
seen the dark cloud in the sky.”

“Modo, you rascal!” cried Dave, sud-
denly. “ How came you here?”

This was addressed to the secondnative
who was just climbing over the rail.
The moment he saw Dave Se er he
joined his hands over his h , and
plunged head—foremost into the sea.

“Call him back, the blasted thief,”
roared Sawyer. “Does the cuss think
that a native-born American sailor holds
a, grudge forever? Tell him to come_
back; I won’t hurt him.”

The man who was on deck shouted to
his friend as his head appeared above the
waves, in a tongue unknown to the
young men. At first he seemed averse to
returning, and appeared rather inclined
to trusting to his wers as a swimmerto
getting into the ands of Dave Sawyer. ,
But, after a while, he swam back slowly
climbed into his boat, and again up
on deck, his dark hair chipping with salt
water.

“ Now, ain’t you a. nice bird, Modo?”
sneered Sawyer. “Don’t you think I
ourrht to run on up on the main sheet
and leave you gling there?” \ ,

The man, a wily s )ecimen of the native
Cingalese, prostrate himself upon the
deck at the feet of Sawyer.

“Modo is at the feet of the Captain
Sahib,” he whined. “He is as the dust
of the earth before him for him to tread
upon. Your slave has been in darkness,
overpowered by the snares of the insidi~
ous. He was blown about as chafl" be“
fore the wind, and did not know which
way to turn, when, in 'an evil hour, the
temjmr came and led him away from so .
gr ;: 1 and noble a. master.”

“Oh, you skunkl Who tempted you
to steal my best gun, and run away with
my ship’s dingey?”

“The evil spirit had power over the
heart of Modo in that 11121;? My hour.”

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I won’t say any more about it, though I
promised to tan your hide the first time
wemet.”

The man arose with a peculiar look
upon his face. Of all wily vagabonds
none can egual those strange people, and
they consi er it apart of their duty to
Sfimll the E tiansm every possible way

ut they h to deal with a man who
understood them, and would be on his

_ guard against them, and they knew it.

.. _ it?”

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' glish.

“The skunks won’t try to fool me, cap-
tain,” declared the sailing-master. “The

,lmow old Dave Sawyer, and that I w’

“What are those ts which seem to

00mg wigiréts?” askgg. ic’llizlilrd. .

ea- m . ey are tryin
to make head agZinstyit, but it is no useg:
They make aterrible fuss in a wind like
thlS. Steady, you at the wheel; help
him, Barker.”

One of the best amen the men stepped
to the wheel, and melt is place with the
man already there. They knew well
that in these terrible winds the wheel has
been literally torn from the hands of a.
single man and the ship sunk before
they could do anything to avert the ca—

take the skin off their backs if they try lamt

any games upon me. Here,.Modo, you
browp thief, are we going to have a
e? .

“A terrible one, sahib.”

“ From what direction?”

Mode lifted his hand and pointed to the
north-east.

,“Just as I thought, and I am afraid
we can’t clear the coast. Now, see here;
When the wind comes I am going to run
before it, and depend upon ou totake
me safe through the reefs. an you do

“ The Captain Sahib knows that Modo

“All right. I am going to trust you,
but I tell you now that if you play any
games on me, et the schooner ashore, or
anything of t at sort, I am going to
on on the head before we go
am a man of my word; remem-

. [is the best pilot in Ceylon. ”

The man said nothing, but walked aft

_ to‘ the man at the wheel.

“Me ilot,” he said, in execrable En-
“ Big 00d pilot, too You mind

me Sahib S ' or.”

‘l Not just yet, Modo. When I ut the
schooner in your hands you she. know

' it,” interrupting Sawyer.

“ Wind come now, sahib "declared the
Cingalese, pointing 'to the north-east

., agam- . . .
' V Every e e followed the direction of hlS

finger, an saw, far away, in the distant

horizon, what appeared to be a dark wall,

rolling ra idly across the waves. In the
midst of ' wall, and above it, number—

, less dark spots could be seen, hurried to

and fro by some mighty power. .

1“That is the Wind!’ cried Sawyer.
‘fI’m, mighty glad we stripped her in
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“ Hold hard all!” shouted Sawyer.
“ Here it comes flying light.”

The black wall rushed up rapidly, with
a rush and roar like that of a thousand
demons suddenly released. The sky
turned black about them, and myriads of
sea-birds, hurried forward by the mighty
gale, passed all around and through the
rigging, screaming out their fear. The
so ooner received the first terrible stroke
of the tem st a little on her quarter, and
went over ' e a top; but the men at the
wheel “touched her up a little,” and she
righted, and shot ahead through the boil-
ing surge, the wind whistling through
her rigging, and every spar bendlélli; to
the blast. But the Flyaway was b ‘ t of
stanch material, and the tapering masts,
althou h they bent like reeds, stood the
testI ne of the Cingalese cowered and
whimpered under the lee sail, but Mode,
thief and vagabond as he was, was
stanch and true. An hour passed and
they saw before them the long, dark line
which indicated land.

“The schooner is yours, Modo,” now
remarked the sailin —master. “If you
take her safe throng the reefs, I_Will

've you the choice of five good rifles.
If you fail—you know what wfll hap-
pen p)

Modo sprung upon the lee rail in spite
of the dashing spray, and looked out
ahead. Before them ran a lon line of
breakers, and toward these the Elr‘lyaway
was ing like a race-horse. But the
dark ace of Mode showed no fear. He
had spoken to the men at the wheel and

iven them his signals for “ rt,” ‘zstar-
ard,” and “amidships,” or no voice
could have been heard at the distance of
five feet in that anul wind. Through

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wider than a man’s hand, and throu h
this 0 ning the Cingalese meant to 6
these ooner. The had little hope of
safety, but beyond t e breakers the shore
was seen, and there was a chance of life
by swimming. The bow of the beautiful
schooner rose into the air, and at the
same moment the right hand of the pilot
was lifted.

“ Port! it is I” he howled.

The helm went over and the schooner
lunged into the dark line. A moment
ater, when she seemed rushing upon a

black rock which could be seen when the
surgéa went down, Modo raised his left

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“Starboard! it is!” 1

For one terrible moment she dashed on,
and all expected to hear the keel crash
upon the rocks, when suddenly the Cin-
galese leaped down with both hands raised
above his h .

“Helm ’midshipsl it is!”

The schooner glided out of the dan-
gerous breakers into the comparatively
calm waters beyond, and at a signal the
anchors went down to the coral reefs be-
low and there clung. The schooner
swun in toward the shore, the foresail
and jib went down, and there she lay,
pre to ride out the terrible storm.
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CHAPTER II.
HUNTING TEE BUFFALO.

FOR the rest of the day and the ni ht
which followed, the Flyaway lay at er
anchors, and the watch kept the deck. It
was a stormy anchorage, but quite as
good as Colombo, the chief city on that
coast, which is nothing more than an open
roadstead; and this was in a measure pr0~
tected by the reefs in front. Besides, at
this point, there was a stronglgcmdertow,
which acted rrainst the wind, eeping the
schooner y.

Morning broke, and the boy officers
were on deck, breathing in the s icy fra-
grance from the delightful isle. he odor
of the cinnamon trees came to their nos-
trils, the frail waved its umbrella-
sha, dto in eair, andthedistantbay
of e w' d do came to theirears. The
were on the t hold of a land whic
carries its history back for centm-ies—a
small island having more population than
many of the greatest States in our Umon

 

——an island which, small as it was, had
once been the seat of seven independent
monarchs at the same time—the land
where Sir Samuel Baker, with “Rifle and
Hound,” had struggled with the giant
elephant, the tiger and the buffalo.

“ Why can’t we land?” demanded Ned
Wade. “I want to give the guns a trial.”

“ We shall be at them soon, my be ,”
explained the sailing—master, “I don’t
want to stay inside these reefs any longer
than is necessary.”

“If the sahib will listen tothe words of
his slave,” put in Modo, “and would
like to hunt the buffalo, I can quickly
take him to the place where they dwell.”

“The rascal is a good hunter,” con-
fessed Dave, turning to the youn men.
“If he has a mind to be faithful, ere is
not a better man in Ceylon to find the
game.” ' V

“This seems to be very good holding
ground, and the wind has gone down,
captain,” replied Richard. “ f you thin];
it safe for us to land with this fellow for
a guide we will do so.” ,

“Mode, on know me pooty well by
this time, out you?”

The man replied by a grin.

“I thought so. Now I’m going to send
you ashore with these young men.
they git hurt in the we of business I '
that’s their look—out, and don’t visit it
on you. But, if they git hurt throu h
the gineral cussidness of your natur’, El]
skin you alive.” -

“ May I eat dirt if I do not guideth
American sahibs safely,” replied Mode.

“All right. He is a brave fellow
enough, and will fight until the last leg ‘ '
goes from under him, but he is a born
thief. He steals 'ust for fun, and robbed
me in a hundre ways when I was in
Kandy in ’69. I can’t go with you, thin
trip, because it’s my duty to look after the j‘
schooner, don’t you see.”

“I’ll trust him,” aver-red Richard
“Lower away the boats, and send us
ashore. You only need put two men in
each boat, to take care of them while we ’
are on the hunt.” ’"

The boats were quickly in the water; " ‘

each of the young men pulling an ear, V ‘

and in half an hour they landed on the '
low shore. , They had taken ea two ,
rifles, both long~range ieces, which V e
had chosen out of e many ode.de
as the best, all things considered. ,

’ was not quite as

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Mode had been nicknamed “Pete ” on
the spot, and his companion, whose name
was unpronounceable, received the beau-
tiful nom de plume of “ Luke McGluke,”
and bore the name proudly, as something
given him by the “American sahihs,” for
whom he had the highest respect.

“Now then, Pete,” said Ned, “you
promised to show us some game.”

,"I can do it, sahib,” answered the
man, quietly, “and what I say shall be
done. Do you want gun—bearer? Here
are many.”

As he spoke a motley crew of dark—
faced men, in the same “undress” uni-
form worn by the pilots, came trooping
down to the beach.

gPick out two,” ordered Richardi
“ ou may carry my spare un, an
Luke Can take charge of Ned’s. ’g I

“I am a hunter!” replied Modo

proudly. “I must have my own gun
and shoot.”
“All right I” responded Richard.

“Pick out your men, and I will pay
them.” .

The men were quickly selected and
Wi had
3. Winchester carbine, a sixteen-shooter,
and, as a spare gun, the Remington. 110
00d a shot as his

‘ brothers, and, calcu ating upon this, he

had a reserve in the repeating weapon, as

: ,,he did not need to load so often. The

men who had been selected as bearers
looked down with lofty pride upon their

compatriots, who had not been distm-

is led by the sahibs from the West.
hey ste ped oil’ with a martial air in the
rear of t 6 little party ready, if the truth
must be told, to run he black sheep in
the hour of danger. The coast was low

‘ at this point, and they crossed a sort of

eral, s

swale, overgrown with thick jungle

“Pete ” with the air of a major-gen—
ked on in front, turning now

>' Hand then to administer a haughtyreproof

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to some of the bearers, who had presum-
ed upon their sudden advancement so far

' as to speak aloud. After a march of half

a mile they came to higher ground, and
began the ascent of a little ric ge, covered
with dense jungle, through which they
fore their way with great difficulty.

. o raised his hand for silence as they

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bearers began to lose the hau hty air
which had so far distinguished em.
“ Buffalo!” said the guide, briefly.
They looked down into a little circular
valley, in the center of which was asmall
lake, or rather a large pond—for Ceylon
has not any lakes properly so called. The
banks of this pond were low and bare of
vegetation, and a number of dark spots
were seen, moving about upon the verge.
At that distance, nearly three miles, the
Americans could not make them out.
But Will had a field-glass, which he
brought to bear upon the moving objects.
They were six in number, hu e creatures
with sha gy fronts and cum rous horns
—the wil ufl’alo of the East.
“Hurrah!” cried Ned, as he took the
glass in his turn. “ They are bior fellows,
Dick. One, two, three, four f wn
and two youn ’uns. Let‘s get at t em.”
“Wait!” or cred Mode. “I can send
the buffalo to you, and then you will not
have so far to carry the heads. The
American sahibs like the head best, and

the Cingalese are not too roud to take

what they leave. They w' eat the rest.”

“Does he think we eat thelheads?”

asked Will, laughin .

“Do your work!’ commanded Rich-
ard briefly. Modo turned to the bearers
and spoke to them in their own ton ue.
Two dropped their rifles and turne to
the right and left, skirting the valley to
reach the other side.

“ There are two paths where the will
come out,” announced Mode. “T is is
ogre of them, and you are sure to get a
s 0 .’

“I’ll stay here with the Winchester,
boys,” decided Will Wade. “I’ll be
bound the don’t 0 throu h this pass
under the tusillade ’ll ‘ve t em.”

“ Don’t kill them all fore they get to
us, Will,” suggested Ned, laughing.

“Oh no,” was the answer; "but you
must not expect me to leave you more
than one apiece.”

The boys followed Pete across the crest
of the rid 8 until they reached a lace
where anot icr path led out of the v ey.
On each side of this pass they stationed
themselves and looked out toward the
huge game, which had left the water
now, and were feeding quiet] upon the
rich grass further up the vafiey. Half
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bulls suddenly erect his head and look
wildly toward the other side of the pond
as two dark figures darted out, with wild
shouts and uncouth gestures. The bear-
ers who had been sent out b Modo were
doing their work. Alarmedy by the sud-
den ap arition, the bufi'aloes turned and
tore ' dl down the valley, followed by
the two carers on the run shouting
and waving their hands a ve their
heads. ‘ In spite of the frantic speed of
the herd these men kept up to them, urg-
ing them to new exertions as they ran.
Will, crouchin in the jungle, saw that
the were h ’ g directly for his ass,
an laid his Winchester in the rest w 1ich
he had formed by thrusting two crossed
sticks into the earth, and, lying down be-
hind it in the western style, with his left
elbow on the earth, he waited.

He knew well that the Winchester,
while not so good as a breech or muzzle
loader at long range, was trusty at close
quarters, hence he did not fire until they
were within easy) range. Then, looking
through the dou le sights, he opened fire
upon them. His first shot lanced from
the horn of the leading b and stung
him to madness, for a roar bloke from his
throat of such terrible volume that, the
bearer who stood behind the young
hunter began to look down the ri ge to
see which way he should run. At the
second shot the bull went down, shot
tlhirough the heart, mild the bealrl‘er presied
t e s gunupon t e 'oun untcr or
he hapdlxiever heard of 3a wega n which
could be dischar ed more t twice.
To his horror, t 1e youngster did not
move, but sent another ball among the
buffaloes with deadly effect, for a calf
dro ped before it. The bearer started up,
andp as the fourth shot echoed through
the hills, he picked up his active heels
and went flying thmugh the jungle, de-
termined that not for fee or rem would
he stay with a conjurcr, who had a gun
which‘ was always loaded! The last shot
did the business and the four remaining
buffaloes turned away from that deadly
fusillade, and went flying along the rid e
in the direction of the second pass, l'tde
dreaming of the reception which awaited
them there.

The rest of the party were waiting.
They had witnessed from their hiding-
place in the bushes, the valorous conduct
of Will. and at one time Richard began

 

to think that the boy would not evenbe
as good as his word— give them “one
apiece” to shoot at. But, when the herd
turned and came tearing down toward
them, they were all excitement.

“ Here they come!” Whispered Dick, as
he made ready his Remington. “Oh,
look at them, will you! There is more
real game in those fellows than half a
dozen of our buffalo. Look at those
horns—what heads for my museum !”

“ Keep still," called Ned, softly, as he
brought _up his breech-loader. "Here

thely are. "

hree rifles spoke to ether. for Modo
fired with the rest, an what is more,
made a capital shot. Richard’s bullet
was flattened against the frontal bone of
the leading bull: the second plunged for-
ward with Ned’s ball in 1115 shoulder,
while a third dropped dead in his tracks
before the unerring aim of Pete.”

The fourth, a gigantic bull, caught ' '

sight of Richard as he stood erect, reach-
ing behind him for the s are rifle in the
hands of “ Luke McGlu e." But that
worthy, seeing the’bull char ing straight
at them, at once showed a clean pair of
heels, taking with him the two spare
rifles. Besides the rifles the boys always
carried revolvers, navy Colts, of the heav-
iest kind. Richard snatched this wea n
from his belt and fired three shots as est
as he could cock the weapon. Every ball
told, but the huge beast only shook\his
shaggy head and dashed on. Two more
shots were fired, when Ned pistol in hand,

dashedu to aid his brother, reckless of ' ’4

his own 1fe. Dick fired his last shot when
the muzzle of his wea
the front of the Buffa o, and then bound-
ino' rapidly aside he turned to run, when
a ghout from Ned called him back. He
did not hear the beat of )1me behind
him, and whirling suddenly, he saw the . .
buffalo slowly sinkin to the earth, the

white foam drooping from his distended I .'

nostrils. A moment more and he came
tothe earth with a crash and they all
saw that he was dead.
fired when scarcel

a pace separated ‘
them, had done t e

work, piercing

through the glaring eye to the ver brain. ' ’ "
Richard drew a long sigh of relie . I

“I thou ht I was done for,” he admit— r =._
ted. “ W ere is that scoundrel, Luke? v ~ 1‘
I’ll give him the worst dressing down He
ever got.” i,

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“ He is a coward ” said Pete, loftily.
“You see that it is best to trust in one
whose arm is mighty in the hunt? and in
battle.”

“You have behaved well,” replied
Richard.

“Will you speak to the Sahib Sawyer,
and tell him so?”

“Yes; load up again, and finish that

fellow with the broken shoulder. The
other is off.” _
Ned loaded quickly, and running up

close, sent a ball through the heart of the
wounded buffalo. The one which had
been hit by Richard, in the first instance.
had charged past them and escaped, but
five out of the six had been laid low.

At a peculiar si al from Modo, fifty
Cingalese appears from as many hiding
places, and, amid shouting and rejoicing.
the heads were separated rom the bodies
of the three largest bulls, and a >arty
selectedto carry the calf which Wil had
killed to the ship. The rest of the meat
was 'ven to the villagers, and while that
laste there was feasting and rejoicing
among the Cin leSe. who remember to
‘this day the hour the Americans landed
on their coast. “Luke McGluke "
streaked back among the rest, but Rich‘
ardtook thegunsfrom him, “lifted” him

. with all the force of a number eight boot
’ and so discharged him, while Pete looked
on calmly, caring nothing for the dis-
of his comrade. Then they re-
' turned to the schooner, and before night
fall, with their trophies, they were out-
side the reefs, headmo‘ toward Colombo,

where they meant to land for supplies.

CHAPTER III.
HUNTING THE WILD HOG.

" They did not stay long in Colombo, the
main rt of the coast—first, because the
place 'd not afiord good anchorage; and
second, because of their taste of the ex:
'citement of hunting-life in Ceylon had
made them anxious for more of the same
sort. In Colombo they purchased need-
ed supplies, and selected a man ascom-
panion for “Pete,” whom that worthy
recommended as equal to himself in
knowledge of the country in which they
proposed to hunt. Then they bought
orses, each takin a spare one, in case
one should be disa led in an we. . The

V 3am horses carried the su p 'es, or they
I d not'care to engage coo es until forced
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to do so by the character of the country
through which they must pass.

It took about three days to fit out, and
at the end of that time the oung men,
only accom anied by Dave ‘awyer, left
the town, ter ordering the first mate to
take the schooner to Point de Gallc,the1e
to remain for thirty days. They rode out
upon the beautiful road which the English
troops had made in the direction qt Kandy
where lay the best hunting grounds. All
along the route, as they rode, they saw
evidences of the primitive character of
this peculiar people, who were then pre-
paring the rice—fields for lanting, using
a wooden plow, which did ittle more than
scratch the surface of the earth. This
plow, with one handle, was drawn b a
pair of tame bufi’aloes, looking little 'ke
the ferocious brutcs which the boys had
encountered upon their first day’s hunt.

They rode thirty miles that day, and
made their uarters in a Cingalcsc vil-
lage. The ead man, who understood
the English language, invited the party
to tarry for a day, or a “pig hunt ”—-a
sport which Ca tain Savvyer well under-
stood and delig ted in; so, of course be
pressed the boys to stay, promising t em
noble sport. They were only too willing
to accept the invitation, and spent half
the nig t in making their reparations.
As they did not understandp the use of
the boar-spear, the young hunters pre-
ferred to use their rifles.

At early morning they rode out of the
village, accompanied by a crowd of na-
tives on foot, to act as heaters. The head
man had two dogs, rough, ungainly-look-
ing creatures, but, as it afterward prov ,
like the traditional “singed cat better
than tney looked. They sneaked on be-
hind the horses, villainous in appearance
but when once u on the hunting-ground
their demeanor c an ; they stru gled
with the leashes in w ich they werelield,
and were wild to get at the game. It
was a ride of four miles, through a broken
count , somewhat resembling the foot-
hills 0 California. The heaters made a
circuit, holdin long bamboo poles in
their hands wit which they thrashed the
bushes, driving before them all the game
within the circuit.

“Now, my boys, ” called out Sawyer,
“let me tell ou it is no boy’s play to
hunt the Cey on boar. They are tough
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kill a horse on the spot. -. I’ve had many
a. tussle with them, and I’d sooner fight
an elephant. Aim well, and then get out
of the way when they charge.”

The bushes were now crashing under
the rush of the coming game, as the
shouts of the boaters were heard, and
then there broke from cover a. drove of
wild hogs of such ferocious aspect that
the boys were startled. Huge, gaunt,
with long, erect bristles, their great tusks
gleaming white from their open jaws, and
t eir small eyes sparklin with malignity
as they came plungin (Town the rugged
hill directly toward t e spot where the
hunters stood, they were indeed “ugly
customers.”

“Forward!” cried the captain. “Let
them have it.”

Will made one leap from the saddle to
the top of a great bowlder nearly six feet
high, callin to his gun-bearer to take
his horse. rom this secure eminence
the lad sent a bullet into the shoulder of
a. huge beast which charged him, and al-
though the boar staggered he kept on,
Withtllls mali t eyes fixed upon the
boy on theroe . Rearin against it, he
placed his fore feet upon t e edge of the
rock, and made furious attempts to lea
up. But Will stood there, confident an
serene and let fly three balls in close suc—
cessiom‘aiming at the exposed throat of
the fearful beast. The last shot did the

business, and the brute dropped, with a
crash which shook the soil.

“Done for!” cried Will. “Now to see
what the others are doing.”

He looked over the rough field. A
strange and vvildTEanorama was spread
out before him. e Cingalese had scat-
tered in every direction to get out of the
reach of the rushing drove. Sawyer,
careless of dan er, had charged one of
the largest of t e drove, boar-spear in
hand. Awed b the furious charge, the
boar turned an fled, but after him rode
the captain with his spear at his hip,
ready for a. blow. They scrambled over
the crest of the hill together the boar
only a little in advance of the horseman,
who was riding at a. furious pace. The
next moment they were out of sight.
Will then looked back.

Richard’s first shot had been fortunate
and the pig at which he aimed was down,
rolling over and over upon the earth in

the agonies of death. Dropping his gun

 

into the extended hand of his bearer, he
caught a. boar~spear from another, and
rode at a second animal, which, scatter-
ing the natives before him, came charg-
ing down the slope. Dick went after
him at a mad gallop, with a wild cheer of
delight and was soon close upon his sav-
age~ coking game. The ho , with an ugly
grunt, turned upon the orseman, and
charged him furiously. Before Richard
coul pull in the enraged creature was
under his horse, and, lifting his huge
head, struck the noble animal under-
heath.

One who has never witnessed the effect
of such a blow can have no idea of the
power of the boar. The horse gave a
convulsive leap and bounded away,
almost disemboweled by the blow his
blood pouring out at every stride. bick
had buried his spear twice in the body of
the boar, but his vital arts had been
beneath the body of t e horse, and
although the keen spear passed through
his body twice it seemed to have no other
efiect than to render the hog doubly furi-
ous with ra e; he rushed after the wound- »
edhorse, w ‘c frantic with pain, had

dashed away. e r beast was stag~
1gltlaring weakly, his lood pouring from
e ga ' wounds. Dick saw that if he

kept e saddle, he must fall with the
horse, when he would be entirely at the -
mercy of the hog, if he should be injured ‘
or hampered in any way. Behind him

thundered the boar, gaining upon him at

every step; he loosened hlS feet in the

stirzlilips and sprung suddenly to the

ear

In his school days, Richard had been a.
famous runner and if he ever needed to
put forth all  powers, now was the
time; and he set to work in a way which
showed that he was in earnest.

Sup sing that the boar would stop to
vent rage upon the horse, he found
himself much mistaken, for the small
blazing e es were fixed upon him malig-
nantly; t e boar would not even look at
the stagger-in horse, but pursued the
young man. fiichard ran for a hundred

ards, thinking to 'n on the pursuer;

ut, looking over his shoulder, he dis-
covered that the beast was close upon him
and gaining at every jumlp.

Somethin must be one, and that
quickly. e put forth all his energies to
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hog, but the efi'ort was useless. Whirl<
ing suddenly, he lea ed into the air, and
the “ pig ” passed un er him at full speed.
So furious was his pace, that for the mo-
ment the animal could not stop himself,
and Richard had gained fifty feet in an
other direction before the boar was again
in pursuit. Will was on the rock, far

. out of reach, Ned had trouble enough of
his own to attend to, Captain Sawyer was
out of sight, and the Clngalese were not
the men to thrust themselves forward in
an hour like this. “Pete” would have
given him aid, but just then he was en—
gaged in tr 'ng to save Ned, who was in
an awkw position. Take it altogether
there was no he e for aid from any one
and Richard fe t that he must depen
upon himself.

“I will run no further,” he thought,

gins ing his spear firmly. “ Live or die,

w' end it here.” .

’ He loosened his knife in its sheath,
, gasped his spear, and dropped upon his
ee, With the shaft of the spear firmly
hinted against a stone. The boar, the
lood and foam droppin from his dis-
tended jaWS, sprung at rim. Richard
lowered the point of the s ar so that it
struck the animal full in t e breast, and
two-thirds of the len th of the stout spear
\ was buried in his b0 . The shock over-
threw the young iunter, but, as he
sprung up, knife in hand, the huge brute
lay dead at his feet, with the spear buried
in his heart. .He started up, utteringa.
shout of triumph, but casting his e es
about him he be old the great peril of
brother Edward. Drawing the spear from
the body of the slain beast, Dick ran to
the rescue.

Ned was in danger, indeed. Like his
older brother, he had fired at one of the
pigs, and brought him to the earth; then,
seizing a spear, he set off after another.
More successful than Richard, he had
planted the spear in the back of the game
when the hog1 gave a leap which drag, e
him out of t e saddle, and ‘he actu - y
ali hted astride of the huge animal.

'till grasping the spear, he clung to it
with the tenacity of terror, while the ani-
mal began to run to and fro, seekin
some avenue of escape. Mode woul
have fired, but dared not do it while the
lad remained upon the bags back. The
Cing‘alese gave way with startling unani-
mity whenever the boar came near them.

his throne on the rock.

 

This free ride was hardly pleasant to
Ned Wade, but he did not dare to leap
off, knowing that the boar would turn
upon him the instant he did so. The
spear, rankling in his flesh, galled the hog
terribly; hence he strove in every possi-
ble way to rid himself of his rider. Ned
shouted for the dogs, but they were off
after the pig which Sawyer had chased,
and did not respond.

Modo, with a spear in his hand, was
rushing to the boy’s aid. Richard, still
further away, was straining every nerve
to reach him, but Ned felt that he could
not hold on much longer. He would
have used his knife, but that had been
jolted from its sheath at the start; he
really was weaponless. Des airing, he
was about to leap off and take is chance.
when a. fierce howl was heard; a. dark
body Was launched at the furious boar.

It was one of the dogs, returned in
time to save him. Ned at once left his
unruly steed, perfectly willing to resign
him, and beckoned one of the bearers to
advance with a . But “Pete,” fear-
ing for the dogs ‘ a shot should be fired,
dashed in with his spear. The boar, in—
cumbered by the dogs, met him silently.
But Modo easily eluded his €183.le110‘
charge, and darting to one sid plante
the spear behind the shoulder, e sharp

int passing completely through ' the

cart. The work was done, and with a
squal of gain, the brave brute staggered
and fell, leeding his life away.

“I’ve had a. free ride,” remarked Ned,
“and I don’t want another. Hullo,
Dick; how do you like it, yourself?”

“ I will say this much, ’ replied Rich—
ard. “I have done some hunting in my
time, and have been in danger, but I
never was so near death as I have been
in the last half-hour.”

“That is because on have not et re—
duced it to a. science,’ shouted Wil from
“Just look at
me.”

“ Oh yes I” retorted Ned. “You might
know at Will would be in a safe place.”

“Science, I tell you; science! I’ve
seated myself here and have killed four
pigs, while you have worked your life
out to ln'll two, and have lost a. good
horse into the bargain Three cheers for
the old Winchester!"

Will had staid upon the rock, and
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ually killed four. The natives looked at ‘
him in wonder, for they had not seen him
load his weapon, and therefore regarded .
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CHAPTER IV.
THE COBRA AND SERPENT CHARMER.

THE day’s sport had been glorious,
sufficiently seasoned with danger to make
it interesting. The poor people of the
vicinity looked upon the hunters as their ;
benefactors, and agreed to preserve thel
heads of two of the largest boars to add 
to the collection which the boys were
making. They went back to the village,
minus one horse—Will‘boasting in his
Elay way of the manifest advantage of a
‘ ’gh rock over a horse.

“In the first place,” he said, “arock
can’t throw you out of the saddle, and a.
horse can. In the second, a wild boar may
file his tusks against a rock until he gets
tired of the sport, and the rock won’t

'V6 in; but a horse is not near so tough.
have almost decided to discard horsesm
future.”

“ All right,” said Richard, as he plod-
ded along on foot, and suiting action to
word he pulled Will out of t 1e saddle.
“I’ll ride this horse to the village. I

so set against them you ought not to ride
one.”

He bounded into the saddle and rode
away, kee ing out of the reach of the .
boy, who elt that the tables were turned
upon him in a far from pleasant manner.

“ Oh, say, Die ” he shouted, “this is
more than a joke. ’

“ Oh, no, Will; don’t you fret, for I
will ride to the  and tell them that
you are on the way.’ I

And in spite of the protestations of that
practical 'oker, Will, he kept the horse,
and Will to foot it to the village or
take some other means of locomotion.
Presently he was seen in conference with
the head man, and at a rapid order given
by the chief some of the cooliesvsiprung
into the thicket of bamboos, and 11.1 sat
down on a rock to wait for them. In a
few moments these coolies joined the
party on a trot, with a hasfily-consnuct-
ed bamboo frame upon their shoulders,
me Which W sat m stately pndemth

 

his arms folded on his bosom. He was
bound to ride to the village after all.

“What do you say to my team, Dick?”
he shouted. “ I’ve got. a four~in~hand,
you see. That is more than you can say
for that barr of bones under on. He isa
regular old skeleton that iorse, and I
wouldn’t change with you for any con-
sideration. ”

He stretched himself at full length up-'

on the bamboos, and, spreadii a hand-
kerchlef over his face, cnyoyc the ride

hugely. His weight was nothing to the
coo ies, accustomed to carry great bur-
dens for a long distance. They had gone
nearly two miles, when a man was seen
to cross the path in front, at a rapid
pace.

“Who is that, Pete?” demanded Saw- ,
yer. “ Can it be Abenhua?”

“It is I” re lied Mode, in an excited
tone. “Sh- I call him?”

“Yes; he will give the boys some
sport. Besides, I would give anything
 he would go with us to Kandy.”

Modo uttered a peculiar cry, at which
the man halted and came toward them.
He was a tall, gaunt, wiry fellow—a
genuine Hindoo from the north, a man
of gigantic strength, with a face so sad
that the boys were in sympathy with him
at once.

He wore a white calico tunic, open at
the breast leavin his massive bosom ex-
posed.  sanda were dusty and torn,
and the knotted handkerchief about his
forehead was stained with blood. At his
back he carried a small oblong box, and
in one hand a kind of flute, rudely form~
ed from a small joint of bamboo.

“Abenhual ” cried Sawyer, bendin in
the saddle to salute him, “I am glad to
see you again.”

“Abenhua has not looked on the face
of the Captain Sahib for seven years,”
replied the man, witha low bow. ‘ What

od wind has blown his ship again in
fie land of the Cingalese? ” - '

“I have come out with these younifi
men to hunt the tiger and elephant. W
you go with us again? ” '

“Abenhua promised that if the Cat};
tain Sahib came back he would again
his servant.”

“That is all right.
snakes now? ”

“ TWOv” answered Abenhua .5

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“This is the best snake-charmer in
Ceylon,” explained Sawyer, turning to
the young men; “and as for juggling,
he can do things that will make your
hair stand on end. Show us the snakes,
Abcnhua.”

The man set the box upon the earth,
and opening a small slide, thrust in his
hand. There was a sh rht commotion in
the box, and he wit 1d1'cw his hand,
holding by the neck one of the largest
of the venomous serpents of India as
well as the most deadly—the cobra. di

capello, or hooded snake—a huge crea- v

ture, over four feet long, its beautiful
mottled body sparkling in the rays of the
sun as it coile about his wrist and arm.
The ex anded hood, marked with a fig-
ure in 1: 1e shape of a pair of spectacles;
the thick body, with its beautiful mark—
ings, and the scintillating e '05 proved it
to be of that dreaded family Yet the
snake—charmer did not appear to fear it in
the least allowing it to coil about his
neck and arm, and holding the head
c§ose to his face, teasing it in every possi-
b .e way. Yet the snake made no attempt
tobite him, and they began to suspect
that the fangs had been extracted.

“The young men think that the ser-
pent has no fangs, Abenhua,” said Saw-

er.

“So much do I think so that I will
take the snake in my ham ,” said Rich-
ard bending in the saddle to take the
sn e. The charmer moved away with
acry of alarm, and Sawyer caught the
young man by the shoulders.”

“A enhua never told a lie in his life,”
he said. “ If he says that the serpent is
dangerous, I, for one, require no other

roof.” .

“ It is dangerous,” replied the Hindoo.
“ Let a. coolie bring me a bird.”

One of the Cingalese, who carried on
his shoulder a small pea-hen which he
had snared,ap reached the snake-charmer
and held out t e bird. Abcnhua took it
and held it before the serpent, thrusting
it against his head and teasing him in
every possible way .until the SCI ienf-
threw back his head, revealing the long

white fangs, and struck the fowl in the
neck. Abenhua held the fowl for a mo-
ment, and then dropped it upon the earth.
The bird made no attempt to escape, but
remained seated upon the earth, ulterin g
10W. feeble cries of pain.

Four minutes

 

after she fell upon her side, fluttered a
moment, and was dead.

“Do you doubt now?” asked Sawyer.
“Would you like to handle the snake?”

“ Excuse me; I was a fool to doubt him
but I did not think that the man “(-le
dare to handle a really venomous snake so
boldl .”

“ e here,” said Ned eaking to ‘he
charmer. “If that snake s ould bite you,
would you reall die?”

The man 100 at him a moment in
silence and shook his head.

(l Wily?”

“Because I have the golden secret
known only to my race—the antidote for
the venom of the cobra.”

“ Will you tell what it is?”

“It is a secret, handed down through
my tribe for many centuries.”

“And wh not tell it for the common
good of ' ”

“ I only know one epic, and that
people my own,” replie the man. “If
a serpent should bite you, I would cure
you. but I would do no more.”

“ That will do for the snakes, Abcnhua.
Now let us see some of your jugglery,”
said Saw er. “ But where is Rona?
don’t see or anywhere.”

Abenhua. replaced the serpents in the
box, and placing the flute to his li s began
a low, soft, melodious strain. Att 10 sound
the bushes parted, and there came fortha
beautiful girl such a woman as the boys,
unaccustomed to the East, had never
seen. She was dressed in an Eastern cos-
tu1ne,.a rich tunic of satin, slashed With
gold, and over this a. blue jacket, embroid-
ered with silver braid. She wore Turkish
trowsers of ellow silk, and her feet were
covered by ainty slippers which could
not conceal the beauty of her little feet.
A scarf was wrap ed about her head in
the shape of a tur an, fastened in front
by a blazing jewel—a black diamond.

Her face was “ brown but comely ;” her
features of the Oriental style, with great,
brown. almond-shaped eyes and small,
delicate mouth. Her hands were small,
and loaded with rings of rare price. She
approached with a free, careless step,
and bent before Abenhua as before a mas-
tcr.

“ You have come at myrcall Rona,”
he said. “ These men from‘ the West
would witness our skill. Shall it be?"

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pd; “what you tell me that I will per-
Orin.”

He took two small bamboo cylinders
from her hand and planted them upon
the earth. Then, lifting her in his arms
as though she had not been a. feather’s
weight, he placed her so that one elbow
rested upon one of the bamboo tubes and
her foot upon another. Then he passed
from one to another, tappin upon them
softly with a small stick, ant to the won-
der of the young men the cylinders began
to increase in lenoth, risin higher and
higher, until thefhad lite y carried the
gl-ilrl up to the hight of fifteen feet from
t e earth. Then, striking one of the bam—
boos heavily, it began to recede leaving
Rona calmly reclinin on her elbow, far
above them. Then t 1e bamboo began to
revolve slowly, and the girl revolved
with it, supported only by her elbow,
upon the point of the bamboo. Then the
c armer made another sign, and she came
floating down from above, slowly as a
bird sinks, and alighted upon the earth
close beside them, while the bamboo fell
to the earth, apparently no larger than
it was before.

“ Wonderful!” cried Will. “ How do
you explain that, new?”

“ I don’t attempt to explain it,” replied
Sawyer. “The tricks which Abenhua
does are only tricks, it is true, but I want
tosee any one else do them. Half the
tricks which are performed by the ‘ 'ug-
glers’ in America would be regardec as
mere child’s play by such men as Aben-
hua.”

The charmer laughed, and raising his
right hand he called to Renato cut it
01?! She tookalargeand sharp knife, and,
raising it above her head, the charm-
er extended his hand when she struck
with all her force. The blood spurted
from the severed wrist, and he held it up,
the blood running like a fountain.

“He has hurt himself,” cried Ned,
leaping from the saddle. “Help him,
Dick; try and sto the bleeding.”

Sa er laughe as Rona caught at the
save hand, which lay upon the earth,
replaced it on the bleeding wrist, and
covered it with a white cloth. After
holdjn it there a. moment, she took away
the 010%), and the charmer held up his
hand uninjured in any way.

“ These are small thin to do,” said the
Hindoo. bowing 10w be ore them. “If

 

the sahibs Wish it I will cut off Rona’s
head before them and replace it in.”

“ No, no 1” said Sawyer, hurrie y. “I
have seen you do that trick once, and it
is altogether too real. We have seen
enough for the present, but, if you will
follow us to the village, you shall go
with us to the hunting - grounds of
Kandy.”

“Rona. must go, too. Where I go she
must go also.”

“ Of course,” answered Sawyer. “ That
is understood.”

“ Is she his daughter?” asked Richard,
in a low tone.

“ Yes,” replied Sawyer. “Is she not
beautiful? Search through all the world
and you will not find a better or purer
girl than Rona. You should hear her
sing and see her dance."

“ ZVVe will see her dance when we get
to the villa re.”

“Not un ess she is in the mood. Rona
is modest and does not like to Show off
her accomplishments before the crowd."

“She is beautil'ul, that I am willing to
allow,” dceLared Richard. “Try your
power upon the girl when we get to
camp.”

For some reason the rough sailor had
a great influence over the beautiful Hin-
doo girl; and so, when the lights were
blazing, Rona sung the wild melodies of
her native land in the voice of one in-
spired, and danced an enchanting fio'ure '
to the music of her father’s flute. That
night the younger lads went to their
blankets raving about the beautiful i 1,
but Richard threw cold water on threir
rhapsodies. r

“If she cares for any man it is for
rough David Sawyer. But, be that as it
may she is a good and beautiful girl,
an her father is a great addition to our
party. You must be careful not to do ~
anything to drive him awa '.”

' ‘he boys promised, and went to sleep
to dream of dark-eyed Houris, dancing
to ravishing measures and only awaken-
ed when the sun—rays, streaming in their
faces, warned them that it was time to be
on the road.

CHAPTER V.
THE ROCK TEMPLE—THE PYTHON.
THEY bogflit mete horses at the '
to accomm te those lately added to their
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hunt, the party mounted and rode away
to the north. Abenhua refused to ride,
and laughed when they said that he
would he left behind.

I “You don’t know the Charmer,” said
Sawyer. “ Why, boys, I’d back him, a
hundred dollars to ten, to beat any horse
in the party in a fifty-mile race. What
do you say to that?”

“It would not surprise me,” rcplicd‘

Richard. “My father knew an lndi .1)
who used to carry the mail from ()swc o
to Syracuse, in the State of how Yer ,
, about forty miles. He’d go down one
day and back the next, carrying a heavy
‘ mail-bag, Winter and summer,
thought no more of it than you orl would
of a five-mile walk daily.”
I “And this chap could do it just as
/ easy. Bescause, you understand, while a.
’ horse might beat him on level ground, he
does not change his pace when going-up
hill. You will see before the day’s march
is over. ”

Sawyer rode by the side of Rona, and
talked to her in her native language. It
was lain that they were well acquainted
and liked one another well, and the boys
winked at each other slyly. Yet know-
ing that Dave Sawyer was an honorable
man, one who could be trusted in any-
thing, the did not wonder that the Hin-
doo girl  him.

The march was a. long and arduous
one. They stopped for an hour in the
heat of the day, not far from a Cingalese

’ village, whose people came out to see the
strangers. When the shy natives dis-
covered the Charmer, they were satisfied:
knowin that as he trusted few men upon

' earth; t ese must be friends; but the
looked askance at Modo, ior, althoug
his reputation was great as a hunter, it
.was equally great as a thief.

Shooting a deer or two for the use of

,the village, the march was resumed amid

r the blessing of the simple Cingalese.
' They were now in the country of the
'Kandians~a land known in the annals
of old times, and when theycamped in
the afternoon, and the air grew cool,
Sawyer spoke to one of the men in the

I native tongue. The man made an an-
. swer which leased the sailor, and he

’ turned to Rio ard. "

, “Would you like to see one of those

‘ 91d rock temples of the Kandians?”

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“ Certainly I would,” replied Richard.‘
“ How far is it?”

“ Not very far; Rona. will show us the
Way.”

“ Shall we take the horses?”

“ No; it is not more than a mile, but a
rough road.”

The party which went to the temple
consisted of the Americans, Rona and
two natives. Modo and Abenhua re-
mained to keep camp.

Turning aside from the beaten path,
they entered a dark forest, in the midst
of cocoanut, palm and teak trees—a mag-
nificent forest, full of trailing vines and
pendent mosses. The chattering of
monke s was heard, and droves of these
active 'ttle creatures went leaping about
in the branches, grinning and chattering,

dro ping from branch to branch and“-

sen ing the scattered leaves down upon
them in green showers.

“ I want cocoanuts ” observed Sawyer.
“ Do as I do, and then stand from
under.”

He took up some small stones from the
little stream which flowed through the
forest, and began to hurl them into the
trees. The monkeys looked down angrily
at the intruders, and by way of answer,
plucked the cocoa-nuts overhead, and be-
gan to hurl them at the party with such
good aim that the were forced to dodge
rapidly to evade t em. When each had
secured four or five nuts, they went on to
an open o‘lade, and there stopped awhile
to open the nuts.

First they drank the rich milk little,
like the sort which the boys in Yankee
land so delight in and then broke the
shells and scooped out the white pulp.
When fully satisfied, they went on
through the forest, and after along walk
reached the temple which they sought.
The priests no longer made their sacrifices
here, the outer walls were covered with
moss, but the grand structure showed the
skill of the men long since assed away,
who had once ruled 1n Kan y.

It was built upon a rocky eminence-—
or. rather, the cat bare rocks had once
been excavated y mighty labor, and hewn
into the shape of turrets and towers, with
long passages, great rooms and staircases.
From the spot where they stood a. stair-
way of forty stpps led up to the great door
of the temp e. p these steps they scram-

   

  

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bled, and reached the arched portal, but
there the two natives paused, explaining
that they dared not, for their lives, enter
this holy place; they were not pure. Just
at the door of the temple 3. beautiful spring
bubbled out of the rocks, and ran down
the side. Sawyer, heated by the walk,
took a tin cup from his irdle, filled it
at the spring, and was a ut to drink,
when one of the men dashed it from his
hand.

“ Look here, my man,” the sailor said;
“ I’ll have to give you a. lesson in polite-
ness, I rather guess.”

“The sahib must not drink,” replied
the man, in a hurried tone. “ Is be mad?
Does he not know that this s rim is
sin/cred, and that only the gods iniof
i t

“ What will happen if I drink it?” de-
manded the captain, taking up the cup

again-

“You will fall dead upon the spot,”
responded the man, in a tone of horror.

‘ I’ve no doubt that you mean well,
my man,” said Sawyer. “I am going to
taste this water, and if you knock the
cup out of in hand again, I shall feel
compelled to mock you clean down the

stefis.”
e filled the cup and drank (lee 1y,
while the Cingalese looked at him in or-
ror, evidently surprised that he did not fall
dead in his tracks. ()n the contrary, he
seemed to like it, and took some more
and was mightily refreshed. He asse
the cup to the rest, and they par-
took. 7

“Do not offer it to me,” said Rona,
waving aside the cup. “ While I do not
believe all the tales which have been
handed down through long generations,
I will not do that which our traditions
forbid. Come into the temple, and let us
go through it while there is yet da .”

They entered awide portal an came
into a. lofty room, arched like adome,
the center of which was at least fifty feet
from the floor. About the walls of this
room were seated or standing stone
fl res of the gods which the ancient

dimis had worshiped. The surface

of the rock, on every side was covered
with paintings in the richest colors, in
which paintings the great god Boodhoo
(Buddha) was represented in every imag-
inable posture. 1n the center of this great
room was a beautiful Sagobah, eighteen

 

feet in hight, rising above a flat ped
upheld at the four corners by $
statues of the great god. In anotherpart
of the room in a leeuinbent posture, was
another statue of the same god, of '-
antio size, being nearly thirty feet In
ength, lying with its head resting upon
its hand. The face was handsome and
had an aspect of majesty in it which awed
the young men, in spite of themselves,
The ictures on the wall also re resented
the eeds done by some great  long
passed away. It was a history, writtenin
red, yellow and white, which the learned
men ofCingalese knew how to read.” _

” Let us go on,” said the captain.
“ Tlfiere is another room. I tilfie 12:11

'1‘ ey passed through 3.110 or ,
and entered a room nearly as lar asege
last, the walls of which were gliterally
covered with paintings. Rona. ran them
over carequ , giving the names of the
heroes, and t e deeds which had brought
them this distinction. Then she turned
and entered a small chamber on the right,
when they heard a. strange cry, and she
disappeared from the doorway. Sawyer
sprung forward and looked in, and to the
surprise of the rest, drew a. heavy bowie
at his belt and sprung in, with a. hoarse
c of horror.

but had happened?

The small room was one set aside for
the deeds of one of the most noted Kan-
dian heroes. It was Rona’s intention to
show them this apartment before she
turned back to the camp). It was lighted
by a. single window ut one side was
rather dark, and she had stepped into the
room before she was aware t at any dan-
ger lurked in that black shadow. But
scarcely had she taken three steps, when
a, rustling, gliding sound was heard u n
the floor, and some great monster—w t
she could not tell—suddenly caught and
dragged her down. Her arms were pin-
ione to her sides, and fold after fold was
wra dped about her body, so that she
co not stir hand or foot. It was at
that moment that she uttered a. terrified
cry for help, which brought the captain
to the door. He looked once, and sprung
' knife in hand ‘

hat did he see? ‘

Rona was in the folds of a. gem
amonsterso large as to put has 0
those dwarfed and puny specimens of the

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see in menageries; a monster of nearly
thirty feet in length, of a yellowish color
beneath, and brown above, and a body
thicker than a man’s thigh. The head
was covered with unsightlyllotches. dark-
er than any other part of the body, and at
a. glance he knew 1t.

A “rock-snake!”

But Dave Sawyer came of the fighting
blood of the great West, and knew the
wee n in his hand.

9 fiery eyes of the great python were
fixed upon him, and to the surprise of all,
he unooiled himself slowly from the now
senseless form of Rona, and began to roll
his ponderous length toward the Yankee.
Dave waited the onset with his right
hand raised high above his head, armed
With a, glittering bowie. Richard, who
had carried a boarspear, the better to
assist him in walking through the tangled
woods, and also as a means of defense
ran in to aid his friend, while Will slipped
to one side with his repeater. The small
head of the monster was lifted ei ht feet
from the earth, and he seemed to esitate
upon which to descend when Richard
hurled the boar-s mm, which passed com-
pletely through t e neck of the monster.

Now followed a. terrible scene. The

t tail of the python whistled throu h

8 air With tremendous force, and Ric <

ard was dashed against the wall, stuimed
‘and bleediIuif. Sawyer eluded the blows
with diflic ty, but Rona still lay sense—
less, and he feared that she was dead. He
would not retreat and leave her there, and
rushed in to seize her body and eat it
awa , reckless of the danger. He ad

' her in his arms Shep} lasaw 
gian' tserpent again reare an a ut to
upon him. He could do nothing incum-
bered as he was, save hold up his lmife, in
the hope that the monster would fall upon
the edge. '

Crack, crack crack!

“ Get out of the way I” cried  “The

b' thief is done for. ”
‘ . 8 boy had watched his opportunity,
when the head of the snake was in the
air, and had sent three bullets through
the blotched and ugl head. Sawyer
darted aside and rush out at the door
carrying Rona in his arms, while Will and
Ned caught up their brother and dragged
him out. There was a terrible commo-
tion in the small room, and then all was

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carrying Rona, and pausin at the foun-
tain laved her face and nec in the clear,
bright water. In a few moments she re-
vived and was able to sit up, when the
captain assisted her to descend the ste s.
Then the men went back, and with t e
greatest difficulty dra ged out the bod ' of
the snake and slid it own the ste 3. ‘he
two natives remained to removet e skin,
and to this da Will brags of the battle
with the sna e in the temple and the
superiority of his weapon over all others,
and points to the stuffed skin of the py-
thon in proof. '

CHAPTER VI.
THE RED ANTS—THE DYING ELK.

THE villages of the Cingalese were left
behind, and the plunged into the midst
of the forest of and . That forest cov-
ered the ground w ich two hundred
years before, had upheld flourishin cities
and the grand monuments of stern
skill. But the cities were gone and only
the ruins of the temples and palaces,
which time could hardly destroy, re-
mained to mark the spot where the cities
had been. The ele hant the tiger and/
the buffalo made their aunt amid the
crumblin relics of the civilization passed
away. iles away from any Village
surrounded by trackless forests and
jungles, they made their camp, and pre-
pared for the battle with the greater
game which they had not et met.

Up to this ‘ time Will ade had been
luck . Fortune had given it into his
han s to have the laugh upon his
brothers in evel instance, but the time
was coming w en he was to get into
trouble himself. After the first night in
their new camp Will, Ned and Richard
accompanied only by the charmer an
the two dogs, left the camp for the pur-
pose of killing small e for the camp
supply. They carri their rifles in case‘
they should meet any game which their
shot- could not touch, and double-
barreed pieces for the smaller game.
Will was a little in advance, for the rest
had halted to drink at a beautiful spring,
when, as the boy passed under a tree
something which looked like a bent and
decrepit old man, with a. flowing beard,
stooped suddenly from the branches
above and snatched his gun from his
hands. It was the gra -bearded monke
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Will uttered a yell of anger as he saw
his beautiful gun going up in the hands
of this grinning satyr to the very top of
one of the hu talipot trees, the leaves of
which, s reading out like umbrellas,
complete y screened him from view.
Will, who had a. quick temper, literally
danced with rage as he sent shot after
shot from his revolver fiyin up into the
tree, inwhich this remarka ie thief had
taken refuge The other members of the
party, who had seen the theft, fell to the
earth in convulsions of laughter.

“What do you mean b lyin there,
teme the ground an laug ing at
me? h don’t you help me to get my
gun, you lockheads?” roared Wi .

Even the 'm Charmer smiled at the
situation. e knew well that it would
be useless to attempt to get the monkey
down, and as Ion as he kept himself
concealed amongt 8 great leaves of the
tree they could not get a shot at him.
Will, nearly beside himself with rave,
was running up and down in front of t 1e
tree, trying to get si ht of his invisible
foe, w en the mo ey make his ap-
pearance, walking across the trailing
vines which passed from one tree to an-
other. Midwa between the trees he

aused and flxe his eyes upon the party
below, who began to cock their rifles.
There is nothing on earth which a
monkey will not tr to imitate, and he
began to pull at the ammer of his gun,
in imitation of them.

“Stop,” said the Charmer. “Do not
fire at him and you will see some sport.”

He lifted the light gun which he carried
and fired at graybeard. The latter had
managed to cock the gun in some way,
and was holding it in both hands with
the butt against his breast, when he ac-
cidentally touched the trigger.

Ban l
uttered a cry of delight as he saw
the monkey fly Off the vine, literall
kicked from his perch as the butt of the
struck him in the breast. He loosed
hold of the weapon and it came rat—
tling down through the leaves, while the
gray thief, turning a double somersault,
came tumbling after. Half-wa down he
caught a swaying bough and ung sus-
pen ed. Before they could fire he spruiég

'up rapidly, and was again conceal

among the leaves of the tafipog probably

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the most astonished monkey in the wilder-
ness of Ceylon. The boys laughed until
the tears ran down their cheeks, and
even the staid Charmer condescended to
smile again.

Will picked up his gun with a crest-
fallen look, and proceeded to load the emp- ,
ty barrel. He was one of those practical
‘okers who can appreciate a good joke

etter when it is on some one else, and
{he laughter of his brothers did not please
nn.

“ How Sawyer will laugh when we tell
him,” said Dick. I’d give fifty dollars to
have had him here.’7

“ Oh, yes; wait until you get into
a scrape and see how you like it,’ replied
Will. ‘ “ I‘ll get even with you before we
get through with this hunt.”

“If you do the laugh will be on us,”
said Dick. “ Come along.”

Will, who was rather sulky at the ill- '
luck that had befallen him, again ran on I _
in advance, followed by his gun-bearer,
the man they had hired in Colombo to
take the place of “Luke McGluke.” He
wanted to get ahead of the rest somehow,
for if he could onl kill something before
the got a chance 0 would have the best
of t em.

“Young master sahib,” said the bearer,
“you be careful; s’pose you meet ele.
phant, you git kill.” *

“ I am not afraid of an elephant,” re-
plied the boy, haughtily.

“ You not afraid, maybe; s’pose ele-
phant come, you be sorry.”

They were passing through a little open
glade in the midst of which arose a num-
ber of conical mounds, nearly three feet -
high. Hearing a noise in front, Will
leaped on one of these to look ahead, in
spite of the warning cry of the bearer and ’
t e shouts of the Charmer who was close
behind. No sooner had his feet struck
the mound than he went up to his shoul-
wder—like earth, while‘a
cackle of dehg t broke from the lips of
the bearer. Hardly had ‘Will’s feet
touched the solid earth below the mound
when he was suddenly attacked in all _

arts of hilbody by savage bites, 
ike the st g of bees, The bearer caught
him b the shoulder and dragged ltum
out, f0 owed by myriads of  "red
ants, into whose palace he 1 broken.
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he danced in agony, while he tried in
vain to free himself of his troublesome
enemies.

“Pull off your clothes, sahib,” cried
the Charmer. “It is the only way.”

Assisted by the two natives, his clothes
were rapidl stripped 011’ and flung aside
while they brushed oil? the insects whic
were clin ' g to his person, biting fierce-
1y. “ and Dick were forced to turn
away to hide their laughter, for Will
was mad enough to commit crime if he
had seen them laughing now. At last he
stood, a nude statue, with a hundred
lumps rising on all parts of his body,
_ Where he had been bitten. The Charmer

ve his clothes to the bearer, and or-

ered him to turn and shake them, brush-
ibnag off every ant before he brought them
k

“ Now, don’t laugh,” said Will, grind-
ing his‘teeth. “I am patient, I am very
patien ”

And to prove it, he foamed at the
mouth!

“It is not pleasant, I believe,” said

‘ Ned, “ but u on my word, I should have
' laughed— ah! take ’em off, some one!
Oh, thunder and turf; blood and bones!
The thieves have got on me!”

Some of the scattered enemy had
swarmed up Ned’s trowsers legs, while he
' stood laughing at Will, and had given

. him a taste of the fun. Instantly Ned
was transformed into a. raving maniac,
dancin wildly about, and undressing
himself more quickly than he had ever
done before.

‘,‘ How do you like it?” demanded Will.
“ If some of them would only pitch into

~ I Dick now, I could die happy.”

i The Charmer had hurried away and
. » now came back With a uantity of leaves,
which he rapidly crus led to a pulp be-
tween .two stones. This done, he anoint
ed the‘body of the boy with the pulp, «and
although it made him dance at first, the
result was soon apparent in the rapid sub-
sidin of the numerous bunches. Ned,
who ad only been bitten in afew places
was next attended to, and after they ha

satisfied themselves that none of the ob-

' , noxious insects remained in thir cloth-

inn‘. they Went on. .

’ But Will no longer marchedm front.

‘ He was satisfied that the Kandians were
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forests than he was, and. quite content
to let them go in front.

They were now a preaching a. “ tank ”
or nd to which t e wild animals came
to 'nk, and the bearers gave the word
for caution. At last they reached a place
where a path, beaten hard by the feet of
heavy animals, led through a defile.

“This is the place " said the Charmer.
“They must come t 's way to get out_of
the tank and you must give it to them
when they come out. Remember that it
is deer we want now, to make food for
the cam .”

The lunters were planted u n the
high rocks on each side of the de ' e, from
which they could pour the shot into the
game as it passed, eight or ten feet below
them. Will‘s bearer, accompanied by
Pete, now left them, running along the
sides of the ravine toward the tank. The
bellowing of the buffalo the peculiar
whistle of the deer and the gruntin of
hogs, could be heard not far awa . elf
an hour passed, and the crashing dis-
charge of the guns—which the bearers
had taken with them—-and their shrill
cries, echoed through the rocky glen.
Hardly had this been done when the
noises at the tank increased and thou-
sands of game birds, hares and such small
game, went down the pass. Behind them
the earth shook under the tread of com-
ing hoofs and they knew that the huge
game was comin . First came a drove
of hogs. wild wit fear, their white teeth
gleaming;1 as they dashed down the pass.

ext a. erd of small deer. somewhat
like the American red deer. U 11 these
the boys opened With their revo vers, for
they were ca ital meat. Next came a
drove of buff 0, makin the earth shake
beneath their feet an Will brought
down a. fat cow an calf, while the rest.
not having so many shotsto throw awa ,
waited, and not in vain, for behind 10
buifalo came a dozen elk, their great ant-
lers tossing in the air. Every rifle was
thrown forward, and as the elk dashed
into the pass, shot after shot rained down
upon them; and when they passed on,
five elk, six red deer, and the buffalo cow
and calf, lay extended on the sod.

“A grand battue,” said Dick as he
sprun down into the pass. “We may
as wel butcher these fellows, and get
them ready for the camp.”

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He walked up to the nearest elk, u gi—

ntic fellow, with great branching ant-
ers, and seizing him by the prong of his
antler, drew his knife from its sheath
and inserted the point in the loose skin
upon the throat. He had scarcely done
so when he was hurled backward with
tremendous force, as the elk, which was
onl wounded, strove to regain his feet.
Ric lard, still clinging to the antler, en-
deavored to strike, but the agile brute
forced him back by sheer power of mus-
cle, the extended an.lers keeping him so
far away that he could not strike any
vulnerable part. Snorting with rage and
pain, the mingled blood and foam drop-
ping from his arted lips, and his feet
stain ing on 6 hard soil, the deer
foug it on. So suddenly had he arisen,
that, as luck would have it, every rifle
was empty, and not a revolver m the
party had a full chamber. Ned shook
out the em ty shells from his revolver,
and presse others in as rapidly as he
could, before he sprung down to aid his
brother. Then he leaped headlong from
the rocks just as the elk shook off Rich-
ard’s hold upon the antler and dashed at
him with his head lowered.

Richard bounded rs. idly aside and at
the same moment a from Ned’s re-
volver struck the elk near the base of the
antlers, driving him to utter madness.
Whirlin on his hind feet like a pivot,
he dashed straight at Ned, regardless of
the shower of balls which he sent at him.
Close by his side, ran Dick, his bloody
knife grasped and ready for a. blow. The
elk rose in the air, intending to crush the
brave lad beneath his fore feet, when
Richard, darting in, buried his long
bowie to the very hilt in his heart. The
elk gave a gasping sob, and fell like a
log at the very feet of the young hunters.

‘ Well done, Dick,” cried Ned. “ Now
take a. lesson from a youn
yourself, and never touc
you are sure he is dead.”

“ We have always something to learn
on the hunting grounds,” replied Rich-
ard. “One thing is certain; you have
savedm life.”

And t e brothers shook hands over the
body of the slain elk.

 

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CHAPTER VII.
TEE COBRA-COY—AMONG THE ELE-
PHANTS.

THE next day was a beautiful one, and
the Charmer said that he would find ele—
phants and give them their first battle
with the giant of the Ceylon forests. They
had not yet seen one, although they had
heard their trampling in the distance,
and the natives at the last village had
said that they had ‘ust been invaded by a
great drove, whic had trampled down
their fields and caused great destruction.
Another man told of a rogue elephant,
who had his haunt near where they were
now camped, and had killed three men
within a. month. , '

What is a rogue?

As among human beings the rogue is
not a pleasant character. On the con-
trary he is a rough, pu acious individ-
ual of his giant race, 'ving a solitary
life; and, speaking in the vernacular,
“ always spoiling for a fight.” They will
charge anything they may chance to see,
and in rigs jun le such creatures are to
be tires-den, for e assailed man does not
kJIC'W .‘ .v «anger until the huge beast
comes crashing upon him.

There was a rogue, then, in this part of
the forest, and they must guard '
him, for they could not tell at what time
he might take it into his head to charge
through their camp, carrying death and
terror in his trark. There was great pre-
paration for the attack upon the king of .
the forest; the larger guns were brought
out, and the boys nreDm’ed for desoerate
work.

They marched at early daybreak, troop—
ing through the forest in Indian file,
Abenhua in front, and the coolies bring- 0
ing up the rear. Some of them were in
mortal terror, for a report had passed that
the big rogue had been seen on the night
before, not far from their camp. A half-
hour‘s march brought them to the stream
known as the Dwina—Ora. A deep, beau-
tiful stream, the banks lined with trees ‘
of great size, in which monkeys of va-
rious shapes and sizes leaped and chatter-
ed wildly at the strange apparitions below
them. A strange creature started ufilbe-
side the stream, and looked at em

fiercely, clashing its pointed 'aws to- ' 

gether. A beautiful creature o the liz-

ard s cies, marked u n the back and
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was thrust out, and brandished like the
tongue of a serpent. She might have
been eight or nine feet long, and had
four short legs, more like fins, as indeed
! they were when in the water.

“A cobra-coy!” cried Mode, evidently
deli hted. “She is laying her eggs in the
san and Will fight for them.”

. “ is she good to eat?” asked Ned.

, “Oh yes; you see.” ,

‘ He caught up a heavy stick and leaped
at her. The heavy tail swept the air and
drove him back but immediately he ran
in, and struck t e ueer beast a rap upon
the nose. As Wit most of the lizard
tribe, a blow upon this part is fatal, and
the cobra-coy was dead. The Cingalese

‘ scraped away the sand near where she
had stood, and began to pick out the eggs
which were buriec a little below the sur-
face. He found fifteen, about the size of

a goose-e g, with very white shells, and
very ha .

“These are her eggs,” said Mode. “ I
will send her back to the camp, and to-
night I will make you a. soup which is
better than turtle.”

Two of the coolies lifted the cobra-coy
upon their shoulders and ran back to the
camp, with orders to join the party again
.at a certain point on the river. At the
 lace where the cobra was killed was a,
ord, and they stepped through the wa-

r ter quickly, keeping a sharp look-out for

- alligators. Dick, who was the last one

, to cross, stepped upon a log which lay

V close to the bank, and be an to stamp the

water from his boots, w en the log be-
came suddenly endowed with life, and

i s for the water at a furious .ace.

Dic ,gave one jum , which would ave

" ‘ made’General W'as iington turn pale with

envy and alighth on the bank, just as a
big alligator, His jaws clashing together
like castanets plunged headforemost into
the stream. 2Will at once dropped upon
the earth, roaring with laughter, as the
body of his big brother flew through the
air. He was avenged: the adventure in
the ant—hill was wiped out now.

 “That was a lively log,” said Dick,
. coolly. “I may thank my stars that I
 did not walk into his gaws. What are
 {gun roaring at, Will? 'd you eat any-
 ' disagreeable?” ,

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cramp, or the cone, or something of that
kind. Let’s get on.” ‘

Will followed, chuckling audibly as
they proceeded, for he had een wa tin
his chance in Silence ever since his bad
luck of the day before. An hour passed,
and they approached the hunting-
grounds, a circular glade in the forest,

ounded by the river upon half its cir-
cumference. The timber was scattered in
bunches, and in the open space was a
short green and very sweet grass, 11 on
whic the elephant loves to feed. he
place was approached by a sort of cause-
wa not more than twenty feet wide,
an two hundred yards long. Upon
each side of this place was a deep morass,
through which it would be impossible for
the ame to pass.

“ Vait,” said the Charmer. “Here is
the place Where we must stand.”

A huge teak tree stood close beside the
causeway. This tree was hollow, and
could be entered by a small opening at
the base. The moment Will saw this, he
claimed it.

“That will just suit him,” said Ned.
“He wants to get into a hole with his
blamed old Winchester, and take advan-
tage of innocent little elephants.”

“ Oh yes,” said Will. “But I get the
best of you in everything.”

“Except in ant-hills," said Richard.
“There, don’t get mad, Will, but go into
{four hole, and pull the hole in after you.

0w keep quiet and on will be sureto
get a shot. We w' go on with Modo
an'ilghe Chamlgé’ h 1 h

e captain a uge e ep ant gun
which he had bought at the Cape, al-
though the he s laughed at it, and called
it a mountain iowitzer. But the captain
cared nothing for their laughing.

“ Now see, said the Charmer. “You
know the ground, Captain Sawyer, for
we have hunted ele hants before. You
take your bearer an go to the. big stone
in the bend of the river. ' ‘

The captain hurried away, followed by
his bearer. . - -

“ You, Mode," continued the Charmer,
“take our young master to the _ lace
where 1e trees have fallen. He be
safe there.” ,

Modo called to Ned and hurried away
and the Charmer was left With Richard
and two caches.

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“ Give them a. little time to get to their
places," said Richard. “Where are you
going to take me?”

“ You are one of those whom I love,”
said the Charmer, “ and I am oing to
teach you how to hunt the edephant.
You have heard it said that it takes many
bullets to kill an elephant. Baht they
are fools, and the sons of fools who sayso. ”

“ What do you mean?”

“ You shall see me stand and kill them
with a single ball. You shall do it too, if
you dare.”

“ I wouldn’t give a penny for a hunt
unless there was some little spice of danger
in it,” replied the young man. “ I am
with you, and whatever you do I will try
to imitate to the best of my ability.”

“ You can do no more,” said the Charm—
er. “ Let us begin the sport.”

The Charmer carried a heavy double-
barreled rifle, which he handled like a.
man who knew its use, and did not fear
to trust his life to it. Richard used a
breech—loader, considering it by far the
most available weapon in any kind of
field sports. He had the gun made es-
pecially to carry a. very heavy ball, for
such game as this. It was heavier than
the common rifle, and a beautiful weapon.
They stepped into the opening and began
to cross toward a clump of trees wlnch
stood in the center.

“ Stand here,” said the Charmer, as he
stepped among the trees. “I can tell you
soon whether there are elephants at the
river.”

He was gone in a moment and Rich-
ard moved slowly along the edge of the
clump of timber, when his attention was
attracted to a. rustling sound amid the
leaves over his head. He looked up quickly
and saw a long, pliant cylinder wrapped
like a snake about ahandful of leaves. He
had seen that peculiar cylinder too often
to entertain a doubt that what he saw was
the trunk of an elephant, engaged in feed-
ing upon the leaves of the tree. He could
now make out a gigantic body among the
leaves. The head was upturned, as we
have said, and the flexibletrunk handing
down food at a rate which would have
made the heart of the keeper of a board-
ing-stable sick with grief. As yet the ele-
phant had not seen him, and did not sus-
pect his presence, but Richard knew that
any attem t to retreat might bring him
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and bring a charge upon him when he
could not get as good an aim asnow. He
was satisfied that he could drive a. ball
into the brain of the elephant from where
he stood. While he was in doubt the face
of the' Charmer appeared not far awa
and Richard knew that if he did not fire
now he might never have a chance. His
rifle was already cocked, and he brought
it to his shoulder quietly, and took good
aim. The giant towered above him a
monster ten feet high at the shoulder, his
great, yellow tusks, of ponderous size,
piercing the leaves as he raised his head.
l'wice Richard removed his rifle, not sat-
isfied with his aim, and at the third at-
tempt his finger touched the trigger. He
did not turn to run, but with a presence
of mind scarcely to be looked for in so
young an elep ant-hunter, darted into
the woods, passing so close to the side of
the stricken elephant that he did not see ‘
him. The creature uttered a shrill trum-
pet of pain, and charged madly out into
the open space, blind with rage. But he
had not taken a dozen steps when he
stopped, his trunk drooped, and he fell
dead in his tracks, the first elephant
bagged in that campaign.

“Good shoot, good shoot,” cried the
Charmer. “I have nothing to teach
you. The best hunter in Ceylon_eould
not have done it better. This way, this
way. ’ -
They ran through the woods rapidly, .
and as they reached the edge a herd of
seven elephants came up from the river
at a rapid ut awkward rate, rolling along-
over the broken ground toward the open-

ing by which they entered the feeding, 2' A.

und. In doing this, the must pass
y the point of the thicket in which the
two hunters stood. ‘

“ Come out boldly ” cried the Charmer. ‘
“You are brave, an need not fear.”

The darted out to ether, and as the

herd caught sight of t em they changed

their course, running toward that partof

opening, in which Dave Sawyer was ~-

hidden. But two great bulls tossing
their trunks in the air, charged the two
hunters boldly. The Charmer cocked
both barrels of his rifle and ran forward.
The elephant he had chosen ran toward
him, trumpeting fiercely, with his head
high in the air and his shrill note sound-
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barrel in the same spot at which Richard
had aimed. The giant stag red 3. little but
kept on, and was almost a ve the hunter
when the second shot was fired, this time
with deadly efiect, and the elephant came
down to his knees with his trunk upon
the und. A moment more and he
roll over on his side and lay motionless,
the blood wellin from the ghastly
wounds in his hea . The Charmer threw
his rifle forward to load when he heard
the crack of a in, and looking it quick-
ly saw Richer in danger. He hat waited
for the charge of the elephant as before,
but just as he pulled the trigger a heavy
leaf which dropped from the tree over
his head fell 11 on the barrel of his gun.
It was not muc 1, but enough to destroy
his aim, and although the ball struck the
ele hunt in the jaw, it only enraged him,
and) he charged straight at the almost un-
armed oung man. In his desperation
Ric ’ drew his revolver, and com—
menced firing at the knees of the monster.
The shots told but of course had little
effect upon the huge beast. Scarcely ton
yards separated them, when, to the horror
of Richard, the Charmer, unarmed, darted
between him and the furious beast, and
raising his hand in a lofty and command-
ing gesture, shouted out some words in
his native language, deliveied in aloft
tone of command. At the same time hls
' burning eyes caught those of the elephant,
who slackened his pace, and as the Char-
mer shouted again, paused irresolutcly.
Richard remembered what he had heard
of the wonderful power of this man over
the beasts of the forests, but had not
believed it until now. The Charmer
spread out his hands and advanced bold-
l , ‘n thundering out a sentence in
1’ gin ostanee. The elephant faltered and
began to step backward, and, as the gal-
lant Hindoo still advanced, he turned
‘ suddenl and fled as if a hundred demons
were at ' heels!
“This is my power.” said the Charmer,
' ting to the flying beast. “ Even the
E1111]; of the forest must bow to my Will.”
Richard pressed his hand in silence,

‘ ‘ and they turned back, just as the report of

a rifle was heard from the spot where the
captain was seated on his rock.

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CHAPTER VIII.
DAVE SAWYER IN TROUBLE—A STRANGE
SHOWER-BATH.

SAWYER, with his bearer, had taken
his place upon the top of a high rock,
near which the elephants would be sure
to pass in making their way out of the
valley. The sailing-master had not come
out here so much for his own. pleasure as
to show the hunting-grounds to his
young friends, by w om he was em~
ployed to do this work. He had hunted
the royal beast before, and did not care
particularly if the boys had all the fun.
If the elephants came his way he would
take a shot at them, but if not it was all
the same to him. The rock on which he
stood was a peculiar one, a huge bowlder,
wlnch cropped out of the soil of the
valle , only accessible from the rear, at
whic there was a narrow but rugged
footpath. From his elevated perch the
captain could see the whole plain and he
had seen Dick’s first lucky shot at the
edge of the wood.

“That boy has got the right sort of
pluck,” he said. “He’s got more than

that, good judgment, and that is more '

than you can say of Ned. Will is a
queer one, and what he don’t know
about tricks ain’t worth knowing,
scarcely. ”

At this moment he saw the second ele-
phant go down before the deadl aim of
the Charmer and the danger of lllichard.
He uttered a perfect war-whoop as the
elephant turned tail and ran down the
valley after the troop, which had now
nearly reached the rock where he sat.
Preparing his rifle, he fired at the fore-
most as the herd passed, and had the
satisfaction of hearin the ball tell
soundly upon her shoulder:

“Oh, sahib!” roared the
“ Lookee here.”

He turned quickly, and saw that the
surface of the rock was literally alive
with snakes, creeping out of the crevices
in every direction. It needed but a. sin-
gle glance from his ex erienced eyes to
tell what they were. here is no more
beautiful or deadly snake in the island
than the (rm-memo. Its backisofa en-
ish hue, but seems to change its co or as
the rays of the sun fall u n it. The
under part is of a silve w ‘te, and the
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had started from the crevices of the rocks
in all directions at the report of the gun,
and were closing in on the hunter with
wild, gleaming eyes. The bearer made
one flying leap from the rock, and struck
the earth ten feet below, darting out of
sight behind the rocks. The captain
knew his danger, and lost no time in fol-
lowing. But the last was not the best in
this case, for as he picked himself up
after rolling over once or twice, he saw
the elephant which had fled before the
burnin eiejs1 of the Charmer close upon
him is ' ghis tail from side to side,
his‘small, malignant eyes sparkling with

lie had jum d out of the frying-pan
into the fire. ut there was no time to
think about it, and dartin around the
rock, the captain ran for his ife, while the
elephant thundered after. He was plainly
ashamed of himself for being forced to
runb a man, and was determined to
have ' revenge out of this fellow in
front. Dave ran earnestly; in fact, as he
said, “ when he undertook to do a thing
he always liked to do it well.” He was
heading for the river preferring to take
the chances with the alligators sooner
than his big friend in the rear, who was
evidently ' 'ng on him. For, ungainly
ashe is, e elephant can get over the

und rapidly enough, as many a poor
fellow has found. But Dave, having his
heart in the work, ran nobly, and although
the elephant gained, it was but slowly,
and the river was not far away. Between
himself and the river was an open green
patch of ground, two hundred yards
wide, but he doubted whether he could
cross it in time to elude his furious enemy.
Indeed, as he set his foot.upon the green
turf, the trunk of the ele hant seemed to
hang suspended over his ead. The man
fled on, and felt the ground shake under
his feet as he passed lightly over it; but
looking up he saw that ominous cylinder
bendin toward him, and reaching for his
coat-tail in a way he did not like in the
least. He “put on a spurt” and gained
a little, whe 1. to his surprise, he heard a
great plunging and spluttering behind
him, and was about to look when he
wept up to the waist in the treacherous
morass, and gave himself up for lost. In
his terror he wrenched himself out of the
mud, turnin as he did so, in order to be
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he found his enemy in the same situation
as himself, struggling to get forward, and
at every effort sinking deeper and deeper.
Sawyer utttered a perfect yell of delight,
and drawbmrhis rifle toward him be 11
to load rapidly, while the elephant reac ed
for him, stretching his rehensile trunk
until it almost touch him. Sawyer
wriggled back a little, put on a. cap, and
took a snap—shot at the head of t e ele-
iplhant, without trying to raise his wegpon

igher than his breast. It took e ect,
and the animal made another furious
plunge, which only sunk him deeper in
the mud. The beast was now com-
pletely cowed, and trumpeted wildly in

is terror, while the ca tain calmly loaded
again, and as the belliemoth raised his
head, sent a ball through his skull from
below, piercing the brain.

“.There, you old skunk!” roamed the
captain. “How do you seem to like
that?”

The shot was fatal. The huge beast
gave a sort of half—human sob and his
head dropped upon the mud, and in a
moment more every motion ceased, and
he was dead.

Sawyer, after satis ing himself that
the animal was not s amming, by cut-
ting into the trunk with his bowie, seized
the trunk with both hands, and exerting
all his stren th, dragged himself out of
the mud an mounted the back of his
dead enemy, Where he flap
and indulged in a loud an
crow.

Then, taking a flyin leap from the
back of the animal, i6 reached safe
ground, and shouted for his bearer, who
came crawling out, evidently in doubt ,,
whether the mud—bedaubed fi before
him was really the “ Captain ahi .”

“Oh, come along, you thief of mis-
ery,” roared Sawyer. “You can’t. do
anv good now, so you may appear.”

‘he man came up slowly, and looked “
in awe at the ponderous form of the ele-
phant, half-buried in the mud. -

“ Big thief, that one,” he said; “ Ca.
tain Sahib run like a man, that time.”

“I’ve a good mind to mash you in the
jaw,” roared Dave: “If you'say another
word_I’ll give you one that will make
you sic ."

“There go other elephant, sahib,” re- . .
plied the man, humbl . “Other young  '

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The remainder of the herd were pas-
sing through a causeway between the
river and a huge pile of fallen timber
thrown down by one of the hurricanes
which sometimes sweep over the island.
As they azed, Ned Wade and Pete, who
were hid en under the logs opened fire
upon the amazed animals, w 10 were now
nearly frantic with rage and terror. They
rushed at the logs, trum eting madly,
but'their efforts were use ess. The two
men, securely concealed from their fees,
loaded and fired rapidly, and one of the
herd had fallen before the realized that
this was a losing ame, an turned to fl ,

. followed by the Slots and shouts of t e

two hunters. Richard and the Charmer
were rimning up rapidly to cut them off
from the causeway, but the ele )hants got
there first, and saw safety for t‘icmselves
in the great jungle beyond, when Will
opened on them from the hollow tree with

such a bewildering hail of bullets that

they paused dumfounded, not knowin
which way to turn. Sixteen shots di

, the boy pour into the astonished herd, and

he was loading again to give them a new
fusilade. when they again began to run.
But, just as they reached the hollow tree,
one of the animals, sorely wounded,
leaned against the tree for support. It
gilded, there came a loud crash, and
’ ill stood glaring at a huge elephant ly-
ing on its back, with its four huge legs
sticking up like gigantic bedposts. But
he was strugglingl to regain his feet, and
Will dove sud only into the hollow
tree, or rather a section about twelve feet

 in length, which had broken off short

when the tree came down. The elephant
reached for him when he went in, and
took away a piece of his hunting-shirt;
for Will, seeing his danger, made a slash
at the cloth with his knife, and it parted
with a loud rip.

"‘ There I” muttered Will, as he crawled
into the dark recess of the loo‘. “ I don’t
know what he will do next, but it occurs

, to me that if he finds out how rotten this

log is, he Will stamp me into the ground.
I ain’t. sure that I chose a very safe place,
after all. ” '
The elephant was on his feet, snuflin
viciously about the log. Then he kneele

V , in front of the opening and thrust in his

trunk, which did not reach Will, who

' crawled as near the upper end as he could.

But he did not like it in the least. and

 

indeed the situation was rather awkward.
A moment after he heard the elephant

going awe. ,and crawled back to look;
‘he

east ad not gone far, but was fill-
ing his trunk with water at a pool beside
the causeway. '

“I wonder what the big fool is goingto
do now?" he muttered.

He soon found out, for the animal turned
and came back, malicious cunning spark-
lin in his small eyes. Will she/[med
bac into-the log, for he did not care to
have the beast see him again. As before,
he kneeled in front of the opening and
thrust in his trunk, but Will only
laughed at that. But his laughter was

quickly turned to mourning, as a stream
of dirty water, delivered with all the
force of a. hydrant, struck him full in the
face, drenching him from head to foot.
If ever a young man was disgusted with
his life, and perfectly willingtoquit, that

oung man was Will Wade. He would
have sold himself for a Portuguese rats,
the thousandth part of v a dollar, and
have taken payment in old clothes. He
never felt meaner and smaller in his life
than when that ele hant, having deliv-
ered himself of his lbad, stalked calmly
back to the water and filled up again.
Wet and miserable, Will crawled own
and looked out, hoping to see his friends
coming to his aid. But as he ceased fir—
ing, they came to the conclusion that the
herd had escaped, and were coming in a.
very leisurely manner, taking matters
VBII'fi coolly, indeed, never dreaming that
W' was in such desperate trouble.

“Oh, wonlt they never come?” he
gfisped, as he dove into his hole again at
t e approach of the desperate-looking
beast, with a new supply of fluid.
Crowding himself as closely as he could
into the. small space at the upper end of
the log, he waited in breathless expecta-
tion for the shower bath. It came, with
terrible force, nearly taking him off
through the other end of the log, and
the e ephant, with cheerful patience,
turned back to fill up again. It was )lain
that he meant to fight it out on that ‘ne,
no matter what happened.

“Oh, ain’t this mean?” thou ht the
boy. “They are loafing along, ta in it
easy, and he’ll have me drowned be ore
they get here. I’ll make a break for the
jungle.”

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but this portable water—tank had his eye
on the victim, and at once charged back.
Will, seeing that he could not escape,
dove into the hole a ain with an e'acula—
tion which was no a prayer. T e ele-
pliant having run him into his den,
turned back quietly and again filled his
trunk with water, while Will cursed; the
unhappy fate which had led him to
take refuge in the tree. Again the dirty
flood poured in, but he was too wet and
miserable now to care anything about it.

“It can’t last forever,” he muttered,
feebly. “Let him pour it on.”

But the elephantwas tiring of the
sport. He rose, after delu 'ng the boy
for the last time, and looke hard at the
log. Then he set his foot upon it, and
bore some weight upon it, as if testing its
strength. Apparently he was saying to
himself: “ [his is not so ve strong,
after all; I believe I will b it up.”
He rose upon his hind legs and came
down with all his force upon the log,
which splintered and cracked beneath his
weight. For the first time Will realized
that he was in danger, for it would not
take long at this rate to break the log into
splinters. Again the mighty body rose
into the air and came crashing down
upon the log, breaking out a piece from
the hollow shell at least three feet long.
A cloud of dust fell about the boy and
nearly strangled him, and he felt that all
was lost.

Again the heavy body came down, and
this time a crack opened in the 10 so
that the monster could see him his
crack would have closed again, but for an
upright piece of wood about four inches
square, which had dropped in such a way
that, while it only just touched the edges
of the crack, it kept it open. Will saw
this and had lifted his foot to kick it out,
when the elephant thrust in his roboscis
to seize him. Will kicked at t e block
viciously, and had the satisfaction of see-
ing the crack close like the jaws of a
trap, while a scream of agony from the
giant told that he was caught. Will
cre t to the opening, shot himself out,
an rolled away rapldly, to keep out of
reach of the ponderous feet of the ele-
phant, just as the party of hunters, wild
with fear for his safet , came dashing up,
the Charmer and M o in advance. Fhey
rushed in at once and while the ele-
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child, they put two balls through his

head and the great body came crashing
down, while Will, a frowsy and mud-be-
daubed image, looked from face to face,
ready to assail the first man or boy who
dared to laugh. '
“Come, out with it! The first one who
dares to laugh, down goes his shanty.”
“We are not going to laugh at you,

Will,” said Richard, kindly. “ My heart ‘
sa

was in my mouth when W the tree
down, and that great brute crashing down
upon it. I thought on were done for.”

“I got asnap on im,” replied Will,

faintly. “But, by George! when he was
pouring dirty water into that log, I felt
meaner than a poleeat. I’ll tell you
about it to-night in camp.”

They cut off the tails of their game
roof of their skill, and left the coolies
ring in thetusks. Only three of the ele-

phants had them, but this was far better
than the average. And at night, when
they fought their battles over, with Rona

listening in wonder at their bravery, Will :

and Dave Sawyer bore the laughter which
ran round the fire at their adventures.
For Will was wonderfully comforts]:i
when he found that Dave had suffe
nearly as much as himself.

CHAPTER IX.

 

THE menu’s LEAP—ABENHUA’S LEGACY. ’

FOR three weeks they had glorious
ipogt, and grew fresher and stronger day
y ay.
But, as yet, they had not met the royal
beast of the eastern jun les the tiger. »
They had slain the e e hant, t e elk,

the leopard, buffalo an deer without

number; but as luck would have it, the ,

tiger had not come in their way, and the
boys were mourning because they had
not had a chance to feel their bones crack
under under the jaws of the beautiful ani-
mal they sou ht, and the Charmer saw
that they WO (1 not return tothe schoon-
er contented unless they had met the
royal beast.

“You seek the ti er.” he said, one day V

When they were ta 'ing of returningto
the schooner. “I have warned you

against the terror of the jungles of Ce -  K.

lon, but you would not listen to me.
be it, then; I will show you the lair of
the tiger.”

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They did not sleep much that
night, and at early morning, taking no
one with them except the Charmer, they
followed him into the jungle. He crossed
the river on a raft of logs and struck
across through the forest. It was a beauti-
ful day one of the most beautiful
they had yet seen in Ceylon. The
forest teemed with life, the monkeys
lea ed and chattered in the branches, the
birds of varied plumage flitted through
the leaves. In one part they came upon

a flock of those strange birds, the toucan,
with beaks so much out of proportion with
the rest of the body, and their brilliant
plumage shining amid the leaves. . Now
and then a cobra or a carawilla, amused
by their steps, glided out of sight among
the grass, for the snake rarely attacks
man unless there is no chance of escape.
The deer, aroused from their harbor,
started up at their approach, and went
careeringsthrough the woods at their best
5 . ut not a trigger was drawn, for
t ey had premised on that day not to
waste lead upon any game less royal than
the tiger himself.

The Charmer strode on in front. His
brow was dark and lowering, and he
s oke little. Thus he always was when
a ut to hunt the tiger, for an old pro-
phecy had said that y a tiger he must
meet his fate at last. Like all his race,
he was superstitious in the extreme, and
believed in these old prophecies and
visions. Yet' he never shunned danger,
and had willingly consented to lead them
1 against the tiger even though he met his

' gown fate.

Two hours passed and the moody fit of
the Charmer seemed to have infected the
rest.

“ See here, Abenhua, ” said Sawyer, “if
you don’t like to 0 on this hunt, say so,

, and we will turn 'ack.”

' ' f‘ Abenhua never turns back in the hour
of danger,” was the reply.

“Oh, I know that you are as brave as
a. lion, 01d fellow; but that is not it. You
don’t like to go on this hunt for some

’ . other reasOn.”

” See,” said the Hindoo. “ What will be,
will be. If I am to die to-da , I shall not
enter into
my rest. There is one thing that troubles

‘ me, and' one only: when I am gone who

Wlll be kind to my beautiful Rona?”
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don’t you? I give you my word that if
anything happens to you I will look upon
Rona as my own sister, and guard her as
carefully. You may trust me.”

“I do,” replied the Charmer. “Then
let fate do its worst, since Rona has a
guardian so brave and true.”

They climbed a 1'11”de ridge which led
up amontr the foothills. The country
was so like California that Richard
almost imagined himself up among
the foothills of the Sierras. At last
they came to a circular platform,
hemmed in on every side by mountain

peaks—such a scene as the boys had often '

seen inthcir own land in other days. The
Charmer took a bow from his back, and
ordering them to halt, went away into the
surrounding woods. He was not gone
long when he was heard approaching,
carrying in his arms a mountain ki ,
which he had disabled but not killed He
drove a stake into the ground and made
the kid fast, and then the arty drew
back and sought places of she ter among
the rocks. The kid at first endeavored to
escape but finding itself tied, began to
struggle and bleat moui’nfully. The pecu-
liar wail sounded through the forest and
mountains, and a peculiar smile passed
over the face of the Hindoo. ‘

“ He will hear it, the great king of the "

woods ” he said. “He will say: ‘ There
is 1’0 for me and for my mate; let us go
and take it.‘ He will come, and you will
know What it is to fight with the royal
tiger.”

Half an hour passed, and nothing was
heard. The boys were getting impatient,
as the wailing of the kid seemed to bear
no fruit. Suddenly a rustlin sound
was heard, and the kid redou led his
efforts to escape, and a warning whisper
from the Charmer made them grasp their
weapons, and throw them forward, ready
for work.

“ Oh, look, look!” he whispered:

A gigantic black and yellow form came
sudden into view on the right-hand
side of t e opening, coming up t e ridge.
The long, graceful body, the black and
yellow stripes, the beautiful head and
changing eyes, could belong to only one
animal on earth, and that was the royal
tigpr It was quickly followed by an-
ot er, nearly as large, his mate, and
more ferocious-looking by far. . They lay
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lon tails, which waved slowly back and
fort , while their gleamimr eyes were
fixed upon the ‘strug ling ki , which had
already seen its terri le enemies, as they
crouched upon the earth. Then they
began to glide slowly toward him, draw-
ing themselves along the earth as the cat
creeps toward the mouse. The boys
waited, in eager expectation, ready to
pour their fire into the fearful beasts,
when the Charmer should give the word.
Of one thing the were well assured: if
they did not killithe tigers, the tigers
would kill them.

“ Just look atthem ” hissed Ned. “ M-y
eye! I never dreame that any tiger ever
grew as large as that .”

“ uie ,” replied the Charmer.
“ They  hear you, and if they do we
shall not get a good shot.” >

The anlmals had now come so near
that they could see that the kid was
fast, and could not get away. It
was evident that this puzzled them,
and they did not know what to do
about it. The kid, literally abject in its
terror, had fallen trembling to the earth,
and was moaning feebly. The b0 5 were
in a fever to fire and save the kid, ut the
Charmer restrained them.

Nearer and nearer crept the tigers, and
the bod of the male rose suddenly into
the air, aunched straight at the kid,which
was literal] covered by the heav body
as it came own. But now, to t 0 sur—
prise of all, a new actor appeared upon
the scene. A she goat. stamping furious-
ly, rushed out of the cover of the rocks,
called by the plaintive moans of her kid,
and rung upon the terrible enemy.
Incre ible as it may seem, this timid
beast assailed the destroyer of her young.
It was the self-sacrifice of the mother,
whether a brute or a human beng; ready
to save her young at any hazard. T e tiger
looked up With a snarl, lifted his huge
paw, and the mother lay dead beside her
young.

The tigress crept up beside her mate
and fastened her tceth in the body of the
kid, sucking the blood oontentedly. As
they lay, the offered a fair mark to the
aim of the unters, and five rifles were
brought to bear, two upon the tigress and
three upon her mate. All aimed at the
same spot, just behind the fore—shoulder.
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shot at that distance told roundly u n
the hides of these forests bandits. The
Charmer and Richard were the two who
fired at the tigress, and they were not the
men to miss. Indeed, their bullets were
found to have passed into the body of the
tigress within an inch of each other and
both had passed completely through the
heart of the huge beast. The long fore
legs were stretched out convulsively, she
gave a leap into the air, and fell like alog
upon the earth, dead.

The male had not fared so badly. As
luck would have it, he lay in a place
where a slight rise in the earth shielded
him, and this rise, unknown to any of
them, was a solid rock scarcely an inch
below the grass. Those balls which were
aimed so as to cut through the top of this
hillock glanced from the rock and flew
over the huge beast, and the others just
cut the skin upon his back without doing
more than enraging him. Scarcely ha
the tigress fallen before the dead] aim of
Richard and the Charmer, when t ey saw
the body of the monster in the air, as’he
came at them with reat leaps, e rrcr to
avenge the death of is mate. W' , who
was out of conceit with the Winchester
had this day taken out his double—banded
rifle, and had but a single shot, as had
the captain. The others, using breech-
loadcrs, were working to load as rapidly
as possible, but they had not much time.

’ he elephant—gun roared once and
Will sent a ball at the fierce brute, but it
is not easy to‘ hit a tiger on the leap, and
only one of the bullets touched him. but
did not check his course in the least.
Richard pressed down a cap and brought
up his rifle as the tiger alighted Within
ten feet of him, aiming between the glar-
ing eyes. The instinct of the born hunter
told him that his aim was true, and his
finger touched the trigger. But only, the
click of the falling hammer was heard,
and the cap did not explode. The body
of the animal again rose into the air, and
Richard Wade whipped out his knife,
when, to the amazement of all, the Char-
mer leaped up and grappled with the
tiger in the air. ‘

One brown hand was clinched in the  r L

loose skin upon the animal’s throat, and
the other held his knife, which even as
they fell to the earth together, he drove

to the hilt in the body of the tiger. , A g. i '

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sacrifice, never was done by mortal man.
It was done so quickly, too, that the two
were on the earth together, rolling over
and over, before they had time to think.
Then Ned sprung in with his rifle, which
was now loaded, but he dared not lire
fearing to hit the Charmer, for the head
of the tiger was close to his breast, and
his strong white teeth fastened in the
naked shoulder, a sickening sight. Saw-
er and Richard rushed in with lifted
ives, and the steel clashed to ether in
‘ the heart of the monster, whic , with a
last effort of exfpiring strength, wrenched
himself free rom the grasp of the
Charmer, and actually tore the knives
from the hands of the two Americans.
But, as he gathered himself for another
spring Ned shothim throu h the head,
and the tawny beast rolle over, dead,
before they could strike again. The
Charmer started up, covered with blood
from head to foot
“We have won,” he cried. “Aben-

' ‘ hua has again saved the life of the young
a American.”

“ I will repay you, if such a thing can
be done," cried Richard.

_“ Give me your hand,” replied the
Hmdoo. “ Say that Abenhua has been a
true friend.”

“ None better or truer in all the world,”
replied Richard, gras in};r his hand.

‘I am paid,” said t e Charmer, feebly.
He would have fallen, but Richard threw
his strong am about him and held him

11 .*

P“ Lay me down,” he gasped. “ Why

' should we struggle against fate? The

prophecy said that Abenhua would die

the tiger and the prophet did not lie.

T e Snake-Charmer is sped.”

“No, no; do not say it. You may be
badl hurt, but we will save you ye .”

_ . “ ou cannot save me. It is written
that I shall die here, but before I go
romise me that you will not leave my

y a. rey to the wild dogs and the
jackal. ury me deep, and heap stones
above me, that I may rest in pcaca”

He asked for a piece of talipot leaf and

a knife. Working quickly he wrote some

words in his own language with the point

of the knife, folded it up and gave it to

Saw er.

“ ive it to Rona,” he said. “You
will take care of me when I. am gone.”

“I am here, Abenhua.” said Sawyer.

 

“You know that I will not forsake you,
living or dead.”

“ I have something to say to you. Do
you love Rona, the pride of my heart and
the light of my eyes?”

“ Dearly, if she only loved me.’7

“ Then listen; Rona loves you, and has
loved you since the day she first saw you,
when she was a. little child. You were
not of my faith, and while I lived I could
not bear to art with her. Now my race
is run, and go to my fathers who have
pfssed away. Dying, I leave her to you.

ake her your wife; teach her the faith
-of your people. Boodhoo is only another
name for the One God you worship, and
you only travel by another road to the
same place. Will you treat her tenderly
and let her not forget her father, the
wild Charmer of Ceylon?”

“God help me, and deal with me as I
am true to her,” replied Sawyer.

The dyin man pressed his hand, and a
smile passed over his face. A moment
more and Dave Sawyer laid the body of a
dead man tenderly upon the earth. The
great heart of the Serpent-Chamxer had
ceased to beat. The boys had their way;
the had found the tiger, and Abehhua
h met his doom.

CHAPTER X.
FIRE IN THE J UNGLE—HOMEWARD BOUND.
THEY were now without a guide since
the Charmer had bid good—by to earth,

and in a. part of the jungle with which

they were not acquainted. Yet they were
old woodsmen, and had no doubt by the
aid of the compass, to be able to reach
their old camp or, at least, some art of
the country where they had been fore.
They wou d not leave the body of the
Charmer to the tender mercies of the wild
dogs and jackals, and although they had
but little time to spare, they selected a
crevice in the ravine, laid the body ten-
derly upon a ile of aromatic leaves, fled
the stones hig above it, and left it ere
alone. Then, slowly and sadly they took
their weapons and marche , Sawyer
taking the lead.

“ I only wish we had Pete now,” said
the sailing-master, looking up at the sky.

“ I never was in this place before, and
I don’t feel quite certain of the latitude.
But a compass will fetch us out straight, I
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“Don’t you think it is clouding up
some 2” said Richard.

“ It looks smoky to the East,” replied
Saw er. “I don t understand it myself,
but judge we’d better hump along as
live] as we can, or we may get into
trou le.”

“ For a mile or two they were able to
follow their own course back, and then
they lost the trail. The atmosphere was
very oppressive. They were sensible of
ahus feeling in the throat, a weight
11 n t e lungs, and a feathery dust tell
a out them. Sawyer wet his finger and
took up some of the dust which fell upon
his arm, and tasted it.

“ Ashes! ” he said, uietly. “By
Geor e, boys, there is aqbig fire in the
junrr e, somewhere.” 5

“ t can’t be our jungle?” queried Rich-
ard, anxiously.

“I don’t know; seems as if it was, be-
cause there is little wind, and these ashes
would not travel very far, light as they
are. But, see here, if the fire is between
us and the river, what shall we do?”

N ‘(illurn back and get to the rocks,” said
e .

“ It mout be the best way, but there is a.
heap of dry grass between the rocks and
I don’t know how safe we would bet ere.
If I knew how the river run, we might
get to some bend and lay in the water
until it assed. Hu! look there!”

They ooked ahead, and there, scarcely
a mile distant, they caught the red flashes
among the trees which told that the fire
was coming like a race-horse. As they
turned back scarcely knowing which way
to fly, they heard the clear blast of abugle
which the captain had given to Rona, a
mile to the north.

“There is the gal,” cried the captain.
“ Good Heaven! what is she doing here ?”

“Answer her quickly,” cried Richard.
“As she is here, she is as well with us as
an here else.” _

awyer raised his fingers to his lips and
whistled shrilly. The whistle sounded
throu h the woods in the distance, and
soon t e beat of hoofs was heard, and
Rona, her hair floating back from her
shapely head, and her eyes wild, dashed
up to them, mounted upon the sw1ftest
horse in the camp.

"Why are you here?” said 83
proachfully. ‘Was it not enough

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lives are in danger, but you must come to
share it?”

“Where is my father?” she demanded.

Every head drooped. Not one of that
party of brave fellows dared to tell her
that her father was one.

“ You do not spea ',” she said, faintly.
“Is he dead? has the brave heart ceased
to beat? Has the man who was oncea
prince in his own land, fallen at last?1
Oh, my fatherl my father! Why was I
not by to die with ou? Where shall I
go? which way sh I turn, now that I
am alone?”

The ca tain took from his bosom the
leaf whic the Charmer had ressed into
his hand before he died. he read it
quickly, pressed it to her lips, and put it
into her bosom.

“ You are my master,” she said humbly.
“I will obey his dying words, but I fear
that there is little hope for us. If you had
horses you might get to the river in time,
but the fire is too close.”

“You, at least, may be saved,” replied
Sawyer, hoarsely. “ The horse is swift
and will carry Son to the high rocks two
miles above. 0 on know the way ?”

“ Do you think  fly and leaveyou
here?” said Rona.

“I order vou to fly!”

She leaped from the saddle and struck
the horse a blow upon the flank. He
sprung away at once, and Rona turned
back, with a bri ht smile.

“You have estroyed yourself,” the
captain said. “ Why have you done this?”

“ Come ” she replied “ If there is 'a
chance of] life, I will share it with you; .‘
if there is none we will die together.”

“ She can’t kee up with us,” said Ned.
“ Take one ban and I will take the
other, and we will help her along.”

“There is not one in the part
can beat me,” replied Rona.
one chance for us, and only one.
me, and swiftly.”

She took the lead and ran on before
them, with the ace and speed. of a
young antelope, t e others following at
their best speed. It was not the Jungle
itself that was burning, but the dry grass
and fallen trees and branches which cov- ,7
cred the round. On all sides of them .
they sawt e denizens of the jungle  -
ing for their lives. Furious beasts, who
would have assailed them boldly atarq .

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other time, fled by at a furious speed.
Wild dogs, jackals, leopards, tigers, even
elephants went crashing through the
jungle. beer and elk, with blazing eyes,
and antlers thrown back on their shoul-
ders, fled past them as they ran. And
scarce half a mile behind them, a wall of
flame, forty feet in hight, mixed with
rolling columns of smoke, was racing
down upon them. The hot breath of the
‘ tempest was in their ears, and the ashes
fell about them in blinding showers.
' “On, on,” cried Rona. “Stop not
now for your lives.”
win was lagging behind, being the
poorest runner 1n the party. Richard
, turned back, caught is hand and
dragged him on. But the lad was pant-
ing for breath, and had not much more
run in him.
“‘Leave me,” he gasped.
- r p itu , but you may be saved. Tell
’ them at ome that I died game.”
“Come back, Ned,” cried Richard.
‘f Take his right hand and help him
alon . How 18 that, Will, my boy?”
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j  beat.” _ _
x A “Kee it up; never say (he, Will,”
' ‘ said N , encouragingly. “By George,

there is the water.’

A quarter of a mile in front they
caught the learn of water through the
trees. The s1ght of that haven encour—

’Will, and he ran on with more
courage. But that wall of fire was creep-
ing ominously close, and the water yet
seemed far away.

“ If there is only a morass between us

,, and the water, we shall be all right,”

d”Sawyer. “Hurrah; we are almost
ere.

flnzsd is the fire,” saig Dick. “ 

' n grass won’t urn very eas' y.

. “There is dry grass under it,” replied

.Sa er, as they ran across the sort of

' r m ow between them and the water.

“Go on; lam going to stay here and

» a start a counter-fire.”
“No, n'o,” said Richard.
w15.513“) on!” thundered Dave. “Am I
- alwaysto'be contradicted in this way?”
, “1 Will stay with you,” said Rona, as
the rest ran on.
 , “Rona,” replied the sailor. “When
. , your father was dying he made me rom-
. i.- me that I would watch over you.
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you from all evil. I tell you now that I
am all right if you will go on. If we.
live, you are to be my Wife.”

He can ht her to his breast and kissed
her, and t en pointed to the water. She
hesitated a moment, and then, coverin
her face, ran after the rest. He walke
after her in a leisurely manner, looking
over his shoulder at the wall of flame
rolling up, scarcely a hundred yards dis-
tant. But he made no attempt to start
his fire until Rona was so close to the
water that she was out of danger when
he pulled some dry grass, li hted 1t with
a match, and ran u and oWn lighting
the dry grass under t e green at various

oints. It started with astonishing ve-
ocity, and he was forced to dash through
the wall of flame which his own hand
had made, in order to reach the water.
As it was the flames were close at his
heels before he reached the water into
which he dashed to put out his burning
clothes. Luckily, at this point, there was
very little except rass, and that very
green at the top. Tie fire which he had
started cleared out the dr grass beneath
and spread out to the rig t and left, an
they stood in the water watching it. The

great wall which had pursued themso

long reaching the place where he had
kindled his fire, spread also to the right
and left, and could do them no great
harm. But they were in an oven. All
about them blazing yramids ran 11 to-
ward the zenith, as the flames climbe the
high trees, catching the dry tendrils of
the vines, and shriveling up the great
loaves of the huge talipot trees like tin-
der. They were not in the river,‘but in
one of those strange “tanks” which are
frequented b the huge animals of the
island in the eat of the day. As far out
as they could see, the water was dotted
with moving forms. Elephants, with
only their huge backs and heads rising
above the water; state] elks, cheek by
jowl with the tiger and eopard, their tra-
ditional foes; and the jackal and red deer
standing or swimming side by side.
These animals never noticed that their
enemy, man, had taken refuge with them
in the water. Again anda ain great trees,
sapped at the roots by file fires, came
tumbling into the water sending clouds of
steam intothe air. Theheatgrew intense.
They were forced to b their heads be-
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and nostrils exposed and spreading wet
handkerchiefs overt en‘ faces, after cut-
ting breathing-holes in them. But at
length the fire assed on, and the step-
ped out upon tie smoldering ba {, and
ooked about them on ascene of utter des-
olation. Only the huge trunks of the
tahpots, teaks and hquidambers remained.
an these bare, leafless, scorched and
blackened. lVever had the young men
been Witnesses of such a gloomy scene,
and the tears stood in the eyes of Rona.

. “ It was a. beautiful land and he loved
it well.” she said, sadly. “ Now that we
are safe, I can weep for the dead. The
prophet spoke truly when he said that he
would (he by the tlger. Do you know
Wh at he Wrote upon the tahpot-leaf ?”

"‘ No,” replled Sawyer. I

She put the plece of leaf Into hIS hand
and he read there in Huidostanee:

"Light of my eyes, Abenhua, once a prince in
Kandy, bids you farewell. I have said that you love
the American, and he loves you. Give ymnisclf to
him without fear and he will make you his \Vlte and
20 with you to the land beyond the sea. Let his
faith be your faith; his God vour God. Be a true
wife to him. and forch not the man who has loved
you, and will never see your face again. Thisis
your father‘s last request, dying in the arms of the
man who loves you."

, “ Listen to me, Rona,” said Sawyer.
“I’m a rough man, but a true one. If
on do not care enough for me to be m'

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Wife, go With me as my Sister, and my old
mother Will we you a home.”
“ 1:137 father swash would be my law,"
repli . Rona-Simply. “But I love you,
and Will go With you to the ends of the
earth ”

They waited until the earth had cooled
sufficiently to allow them to pass over it
and then began to make their way to-
ward the river. Night came upon them
before they reached it, but Rona guided
them well, and at midnight the y reached
the camp, where they found the Coolies
huddled together mourning for the kind
master they had lost forever. They were
overjoyed as they came into camp, but
their joy turned into mourning again
when they heard that Abenhua was
dead. The next day they were on their
Way out of the jungle, which had not
been touched by the fire On this side of

e nver. As they were in can. they
heard a ten-ible clamor on the ro to the
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soon were met by half-naked men, com—
in to ask their aid. The terrible
“ ogue” had charged through their
fields and killed two men.

“Let us do one good deed before we
leave these people forever,” suggested
Sawyer. “Leave the s are horses with

: the coolies, and let us ri e hard.”

It was a break—neck gallop of several .
miles, the active villagers running with
them. At last they came out of the 'ungle,
and looked down into the level p ain, in
which the village stood. The “Rogue”
was still at work, trampling through the
fields, dashing down the rude huts, and
charging the Kandians whenever they
dare approach. His shrill trumpet an-
nounced that he was very angry, and as
he saw the horsemen he turned suddenly
and came down at his best speed, willing
and ready to meet them.

“ Spread out, boys!” commanded Saw-
yer. “It is our last hunt in Ceylon.” '

They separated, and rode in upon the
monster from diil'erent points, but all
upon the same side. ’lhcn ensued a
strange hunt, one which they had never
The great beast charged
again and again, but the fleet horses
eluded him, and at last he stood, no longer
able to charge, glaring defiance at them.
Then they rode in nearer, dismounted,
and fired together. The “ Rogue ” sta ‘
gored, his trunk went down and he fe
like a ruined tower, while e Kandians
leaped upon the body, thrust it with their
3  and exulted over their dead enemy.
T on, amid the blessings of the villa ers,
the party rode on toward the port, w ere

the h‘lyaway was waiting for them, fitted . i

for her voyage. They remained three
days in Colombo, and a missionary .
on his way to China, made Sawyer and
Rona man and wife. Then they sailed
for the China seas to seek new adventures
before they turned the prow oi the Fly-
away toward the far—distant West. And
before they a ain sailed into the placid
waters of the elaware the fleet schooner '
had dipped her prow in every sea which
rolls around the globe, coming home by
Ca e Horn.

ey had many adventures, and some
day it may be my fortune hotel] you what
they saw and did, in the v0 age from
Ceylon to their home. For t e resent,
we bid the Elephant-Hunters good-by.

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