The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-20
THE JHooT DEMON.
The Death OF a BiindsTerror OF the Jun
giles Who Had . Monkey for Guide.

The Death OF BlindsTerror OF the Jun
giles Who Had . Monkey for Guide.
The great Jhoot demon described by
Col. Downing in his narrative OF adj
ventures in India was a tiger whose
ways were as mysterious as his ravagess
were terrible. He could never be bag
ged. He killed every shikari. native or
European. who tried it. This trucu-
lent beast had never even been seen,
and as he never mangled a body, but
only sucked the blood through an
oritce made over the jugular vein, the
terror the great Jhoot demon inspired
is not surprising. He never forced {
door. yet he got into house after house.
Two subalterns went ont for him. and
the next day were found dead like the
rest.
One with his last strength had man
aged to scratch the words: Look out
for a L." But no amount of con-
lecture could solve the riddle OF these
words A famous shot, " no once for a
wager shot one hundred tigers IN
twelve months, met the same fate.
He, too, left creepy" and mysterious
message-the letters "A. NJ" Then
the colonel goes. He built himself an
ambush and watched.
Just as the full light of the moon
fell upon the steam and illuminated the
surroundings there was an almost in
audible rustic of leaves close behind
me, and, turning on the instant,
saw little gray-brown paw very
cautiously putting aside the twigs OF
| my shelter, and behind the paw
could discern two small green eyes at
tentively regarding me.
a lungoor,' / said to myself as it
vanished from view-a monkev. That's
what the lads and Dick Culverton
| meant to tell us, and, by George.
there's mischief here. Moved by a
sudden inspiration, for which I can
from the shelter and ascended the ad-
joining tree. ! had scarcely time to
seat myself comfortably upon one of
the lower branches when / saw the
lungoor returning. followed by the
most repulsive looking monster my
eyes have ever beheld.
'You talk, Snapper. Of your tiger DO.
ing NANCY: this one was absolutely
naked, nude as nut, bald as bottle,
not hair anywhere-a huge. ghastly,
glabrous monstrosity-a very Caliban
of tigers, as big as bison, and as long
as crocodile.
''As the CHASTITY creature crept after
ka hn al ~ Il,
curve and deviation of his guide with
the delicate alacrity of needle under
the influence of magnet. The adroit-
ness displayed by the tiger was sud.
denly converted into subject of hor-
rified wonder, for as the brute ap-
preached the ambush he turned his
hideous face up to the moon, and I
could see that his eyes were of a dull,
dead white, without light, intelligence.
or movement. The creature was stone
blind. For all that, he evidently knew,
or thought he knew, what lay before
him. for the saliva of anticipation was
clinging to mis- wrinkled jaws like a
mass of cleaning icicles.
1.-The monkey, when he had come
within jumping distance, gave a low
signal cry, made one vigorous spring
into my late shelter, alighted upon my
camp stool and sprang out again on
the other side. He was intantlv fol-
lowed by the tiger, who fell like an
avalanche upon the stool. crushing it
to match wood, and at once began to
feel about on all sides for his expected
victim.
Now was my chance. Beneath me
in the broad light of full moon lay
the demon of the Jhoot | aimed
steadily at a deep furrow between the
shoulder blades and held my breath
for the shot At that moment the
keen eyes of the monkey caught sight
of me, and the little animal uttered a
shrill note OF warning; but it was too
late; my finger was upon the trigger,
and I fred both barrels in quick sue
cession.-London Truth