The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-23

me moose was drawn up. In like manner
Faltu vas then lowered.
Pink locked critically at Myles. s. IL. m
afraid you're too heavy for me-, he sala
| Can you go it alone now?'
AS there was obviously no other course
MyleS declared that he could. PINK leaned
over the parapet and shouted down 10
| i'altu and Jack to draw the rope tauf
In fear and trembling Myles began the
descent, not daring to gaze into the dizzy
gulf over which he was dangling. But the
rope sWayed very little, and confidence
grew as knot after knot slipped through
his hands,
At last the ordeal was over, and he
umph.
Pink now hauled up the moose and low
cred all the traps in a bunch Then the
three lads held the rope tight for him. and
he slid safely and quickly down.
Il IN glad that's over,'' he exclaimed
you chaps showed lots of nerve If we
go right ahead with the rest we may fin
lsh before dark, and snatch a bit of sleep
10 freshen US for the long tramp
how abe ut the roper" inquired Myles.
No use to tear it down Right about
face, lads. Forward march,
In single file the little party followed
the stream up the gorge. 1t was now late
/ IN the afternoon, and the gloom was in
/ tense. The narrow strip of blue sky be-
yond the lofty mountain walls was begin
ming to pale.
Now and then weird, biood-curdling
cries were heard in the distance. and once
some huge animal, stirred from its lair.
bounded away through the timber.
=, That proves the gorge to ave an OUT
let muttered Pink, who had his rifle on
the half-cock. as he went along.
l. When Tlppoo Sahib's barrier was near
~ nile behind Jack suddenly stood STILL
trembling like leaf.
Look he yelled hoarsely, "a tiger"
Two of them" cried Mvles, and, sure
enough, pair of huge yellowish animals
: Sides nd
feet ahead.
Pink's rifle went to his shoulder and
! ne hred at the nearest of the beasts
monkeys and birds, who chartered among
the tree tops.
But the tiger never moved, and the
next neg i instant Pink ran boldly up to it
and clapped it on the back.
What an idiot 1 ami he cried to the
mortified lads. Il might ave remem-
bered where we are. The beast is made
! troop of Them
Their fear. banished. The boys were
qlsposed TO laugh at Pink's hasty shot
When they had Joined him, they were
! amazed TO ind themselves at the en-
/ trance to an avenue Of Stone tigers,
which stood i'm a double breast about ten
feet apart.
Each one was of enormous size, and
was qsagniflcently carved out of yellow
ish rock.
/ The avenue was carpeted with wavy
grass, and through the centre rippled
! the stream. At the farther end a doned
temple doomed still and dark out of the
SWpl3g'nt- Behind each TOW of tigers the
forest was like a black wall.
1t was a weird and solemn place, and
as the little party went slowly forward,
feeling of superstitious awe stole over
rhen-a reverence for the remote an
uqulty no which these inperishable mon
Pushing on they reached the end of the
avenue. Here the torrent deviated from
its straight course to describe an arc
around one side of an oval-shaped patch
| Of earth and rock, which rose three or
! tour feet from the centre CT the valley.
J 1t was about ten yards long, and looked
as though mature had INTENDED it to be
| AN island.
( But instead of flowing both ways
around 1t, the stream washed only the
| left side. To the right was. a sort of
a sernt-circular dry gully, and of course
| its bottom was somewhat higher than
! the level of the water
On the centre of this raised, mound-like
formation stood the temple, surrounded
| bank of the stream, Pink and his com
pangons were able to reach 1T without
wading.
| The once majestic structure was now
! I'm ruins. Fallen columns and stones OBJ
structed the floor, and in the carving of
| the corIlices. birds and bats had matte
their nests. The roof was still sup
/ figures. whose grotesQue faces looked
! lifelille in the misty gloom.
How old do you suppose this place
! s?'' asked Jack.
Hundreds of years. replied Myles
Many of the Hindoo temples were built
in the 18th century, and likely this is
one of them"
That's about right lads" chfmed in
Pink. Long before Tippoo Salhih's time
the Hindoo rajahs used to be buried ERE.
Every tiger stands for "a tomb, and
that's why the place is called Tiger
tomb. 1t was sort of sacred to the peo-
pie and they came ere on pilgrimages.
Tippoo was a, Mahometan, SO e built
the barrier out of spite
And why Gid he make the passage
through it," asked Myles.
$50 e would ave a safe place to take