Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-02-11

some stout tvIne ana Improvsed a rough kind of needle from a bamboo cane. With | this he sewed all over the mass of stuff a netting of string that helped to keep the com position in its place When finished it re- sembled nothing so much as a huge mattress. So far so good. The most difficult opera | ton yet remained.
 ~Take my gun" slii Ezra to me, land give me the revolver
 "Sahib.r said the Hindoo, "let Rance com plete his task. Is it not his work. If he fails, shall be not suffer'
 @You foolish mani" said Ezra. "Hox can you do 1t alonei We are wasting time" He pushed the revolver in his belt, laid hold of one end of tho netting and threw of his shoes With slow and nOiseless steps the net ting was carried exactly opposite the window and laid gently down; then both retired as ilently as they had advanced Rance then brought from the outhouse ladder, and with a gesture of entreaty signed to my brother to stand aside and take his rifle in biz hand.
 With bare foot the HindoO crept up to the window again and reared the ladder against the wall Taking a coil of wire rope from bis neck ho deftly fastened it to the highest
 
 quickly enlaced the short strand in the net ting, placed the ladder on the other side and ran it through the other staple.
 For the first time be made noise. It was unavoidable and was caused by tho netting being drawn upward till it hung like an i'm menSs curtain hiding the whole of the win dow from us. Ezra and l stood waiting and ready to fire.
 The Hindoo, with perspiration running from him at every pore, descended the ladder, which be took and placed horizontally on the windowsill and lashed 1t to the bottom of the netting and again fastened that to the two lower staples on either side. The thing was done. Far away in the east the dawn was breaking; ovcrhead the morning star was slowly paling its silver fire.
 ~But-Ramee, the shutters are still fas- tened"
 -Sahibl unfastened them. Presently the light will stream through They are open the breadth of two hands, :
 Quick fetch another rifle"
 He was gone, and swiftly returning handed me the gun, into which I slipped a couple of cartridges, and gave him the revolver A tight breath of wind passed, murmuring through the feathery crowns of the slender ,Ocoa palms, two great spears of light shot up into the sky, and somewhere in the garden a little bird sang. Tho sun had risen.
 "Wait for my signal,n whispered my brother: "now, Rame-'
 The Hindoo kne't down and initiated the bleating of kid that has los; its mother.
 At the instant he Sprang b his feet the silence was rent by sundering crash and one terrific roar, the shutters were torn from their sockets as H great mass hurled itself through the window, and ,he tiger, with it's bead and shoulders buried in the lime eolored debris, was graphing iE maddened rage with An enemy he coult not sec
 "Wait," said EzrG.
 The animal was twenty feet from us, tear ing up the graveiei path and coiling itself in hextricable confusion in the broken netting and splintered ladier. Rance uttered a loud cry. The animal had freed his head and stood, in an enforced listening attitude, with his mouth full of mingled wire and lime stained matter
 lt was the moment Ezra had waited for. and be fired. The tiger, evidently not seeing Us, sprang at the window, but missed the Opening. hurling itself against the wall and falling "n the broken shutter. At the mo- ment it alghtei aimed at the spot behind the shoulder and fired. It gave convulslve leap and turuei in our direction with blood shot eyes; then Ezra fired again and called to me to do the same. It fell "Back, back,s cried Rance The animal had gathered itself together, 'prang forward with one mighty bound and rolled over. It was dead.-Charles Lille in | San Francisco Chronicle