with the rope and there was neither sign nor nor whisper down the to show where the others had gone little stared again and again the clearing as he remembered it had grown in the night more trees stood in the middle of it but the and the grass at the sides had been rolled back little stared once more now he understood the the had stamped out more room � had stamped the thick grass and cane to into the into tiny and the into hard earth said little and his eyes were very heavy � my lord let us keep by and go lo s camp or i shall drop from thy neck the third elephant watched the two go away wheeled round and took his own path le may have belonged to some little of the king s establishment fifty or sixty or a hundred miles away two hours later as was eating early breakfast his who had been double chained that night began to trumpet and to the shoulders with very foot sore into the camp little s face was gray and pinched and his hair was full of leaves and with dew but he tried to salute and cried faintly the dance � the elephant dance i have seen it and � i die as sat down he slid off his neck in a dead faint but since native children have no nerves worth speaking of in two hours he was lying very in s with s shooting coat under his head and a glass of warm milk a little brandy with a dash of inside of him and while the old hairy hunters of the sat three deep before him looking at him as though he were a spirit he told his tale in short words as a child will and wound up with now if i lie in one word send men to see and they will find that the elephant folk have trampled down more room in their dance room and they will find ten and ten and many times the book ten tracks leading to that dance room tbey made more room with their feet have seen it me and i saw also is very g little lay back and slept all through the long afternoon and into the twilight and while he slept and followed the track of the two for fifteen miles the had spent eighteen years in catching and he had only once before found such a dance place had no need to look twice at the clearing tu see what had been done there or to scratch ills toe in the packed earth the child speaks truth said he all this was done last night and i have counted seventy tracks crossing the river see where s leg iron cut the bark of that tree yes she was there too tliey looked at each other and up and down and they wondered for the ways of are beyond the wit of any man black or white to p years and five said have i followed my lord the elephant but never have i heart that any child of man had seen what this child has seen by all the of the of the hills it is � what can we say and he shook his head when they got back to camp it was time for the evening meal ate alone in his tent but he gave orders that the camp should have two sheep and some fowls as well as a double of flour and rice and salt for he knew that there would be a feast big had come up hot foot from the camp in the plains to search for his son and his elephant and now that he had found them he looked at them as though he were afraid of them both and there was a feast by the blazing in front of the lines of and little was the hero of it all and the big brown elephant the and drivers and and the men who know all the secrets of breaking the wildest passed him from one to the other and they marked his forehead with blood from the breast of a newly killed cock to show that he was a and free of all the and at last when the flames died down and the red light of the logs made the look as though they had been dipped in blood too the head of all the drivers of all the � s x s s the book other who had never seen a made road m forty years who was so great that he had no other name than � leaped to his feet with little held high in the air above his head and shouted listen my brothers listen too you my lords in the lines there for i am this little one shall no more be called little but of the as his great grandfather was called before him what never man has seen he has seen through the night and the favor of the elephant folk and of the gods of the is with him he shall become a great he shall become greater than i even i he shall follow the new trail and the stale trail and the mixed trail with a clear eye i he shall take no harm in the when he runs under their to rope the wild and if he slips before the feet of the charging bull elephant that bull elephant shall know who he is and shall not crush him my lords in the chains � he whirled up the line of � here is the little one that has seen your dances in your hidden places � the sight that never man saw give him honor my lords my children make your salute to of the to ll i of the � thou hast seen him 