The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-19

sailor, but the older and craftier for
bade them. They wisely said that if
it should be discovered. the men would
leave the ship, which would then drift
without control and every tiger on
board would die of hunger and thirst.
Better suffer a few days and then sue
coed, rather than have a single meal
and perish miserabiy.
The advice Of the wiser ones prevailed,
and as the next day they found several
bales Of dried fish in the cargo which
they dug out and ate ravenously, there
was peace in their ranks for a week.
But the dried fish increased their thirst
and their taste for warm, fresh blood.
The water in the casks had grown a lit
tie foul, and by degrees all of the big
brutes had become eurly and reckless.
On the tenth night, just as the prahu
had reached that part of the sea where
the Lord Of the Typhoons, who is the
first servant Of the Lord of the Winds,
starts upon his journeys, the craftiest
tiger, biding his opportunity, crept on
deck and sprang without sound upon
the helmsman, while captain and crew
were lost in sleep. He carried the body
to the hold, where his mates devoured
him. Instead of satisfying the creatures
it increased their desire for blood. Three
went on deck, and soon by some trick
or stratagem induced a sailor to come
out on the deck He shared the same
fate as the helmsman.
Unfortunately, or fortunately, the last
attack made SO much noise that it
aroused the crew, who fearing that there
might be pirates aboard, came rushing
out armed, though naked. There was a
horrible struggle. Each side knew that
there was no hope of mercy or escape,
and each fought to kill. One tiger fell
with spear driven through his heart
put the next moment the spearman was
torn open by the claws of another brute
Three tigers were desperately wounded.
yet fought more fiercely than when they
were unarmed In a few minutes every
man was dead excepting two, who
wounded and crazy, had sprung over
board and vanished as the ship drove
on.
The captain, who slept in a little room
Tar aft, was not aroused until the close
OF the fight, and might never have
awakened but for the roar of a wounded
animal. He jumped from his berth and
opened the little door which led out to
the deck. In the dim light of the stars
ne saw blood, bodies and brutes magni-
fed until they seemed twice their natural
size. A cold SILVER passed through him
and then his eye rested upon a body
under tigers paw, not twenty feet
away. 1t was his youngest brother, who
u.
gered back, and his hand touched the
little bag which contained the magi-
cans charms. He clenched his fingers
ever 1t and, screaming, Lord of The
Winds is this the way in which you keep
your promise?' rushed like a whirlwind
across the deck to the ganwale and
leaped into the blue water beneath.
The Lord of the Winds heard the
scream of the captain and the words.
He looked out from the windows of his
house, which is behind the mountain of
Ildar, the Spike of the Universe. He
saw the deck covered with blood, the til
gers devouring the slain and the prahu
sailing swiftly toward Luzon. The tigers
did not see the Lord of the Winds, but
they felt him afar. Something tingIed
through their bodies and their furry
coats rose up on end and moved to and
iro as a field of grass when stirred by
the breeze
The Lord of the Winds SPOKE. AMI ey-
eryohlng in the heavens heard him. and
the people upon the earth said in some
piaces: 1t is an earthquake" and in
others: 1T is thunderstorm.
When it's last echo died away. some
thing began to move IN that strange
country which lies north of the land of
the Moros 1t was the Lord of tho
Typhoons, who had heard the voice of
his master, and who had come forth in
obedience to the command. Men could
not hear him, but the tigers did. They
stopped eating their victims, and some
Whined and others crept into the hold of
the ship Then the wind went down
and the sea became as calm as the blue
sky. In the southeast white spot ap-
peared upon the horizon, and the tigers