The daily morning Alaskan., 1902-03-08
.RETRIBUTION
Icopyiight. 1901. by c. D. Lewis.l

Guya Jansi was the owner or hal- poor. the largest elephant at work on the public Improvements at Rewah. India.
 Guya Jansl was a man forty years old. and be was generally spoken of by his fellow workmen as "Tae Silent One" He was not given to song or chatter. He would give fair days work. but his answers to his boss were brief and surly and he answered his companions not at all for days and lays. His elephant was like him. He was strong and willing and intelligent. but he avoided hls kind as far as pos slble and permitted no man but his master to be familiar with him. The English boss under whom Guya la' bored at ReYah said to himself that the native was bad tempered man and that the elephant had the devil In his eye, but so long as the work was well done he had no fault 10 find. The fifty other laborers in the gang with Guya were offended by his silence and his refusal to chatter. and argue, and they whispered to each othe::
 "This man and his beast may cast spell over us. Why not set rid of themT
 Three days later man complained Of being robbed of a sum of money. and when suspicion had been directed toward Guya his tent was searched and the empty purse discovered. Al first he contented himself with sullenly denying his guilt, but when he had been locked up as the thief and the gang were shouting his name in con tempt he stood erect. with tears In his eyes. and sald;
 "How dare they say such things Of ne! am Guya Jansi. You can trace my family back for 200 years and you wlll not find thief In lt. an. silent because men have wronsed mo and mine. and l brood over it. but does it follow that because l am silent am also a rogue? Look for the thief among the men who chatter more than they work"
 Three days later the English district judge reached Rewah on his circuit. cnd Guya was arralgncd as n thief. There was a conspiracy to ruin him. md the false testimony offered satis led the judge of his guilt. The affair was treated in an orhand way, and when the accused asked for time to bring witnesses who could vouch for hls character hlS request was refused. Hc was convicted of theft and sen :crccd Co jail for three months. H. scDt and cried out over his disgrace. 1ut hc wos only laughed at The judge went hls way without giving the case a ;cconl thought. He had hundreds oi such cases per year. and there was nc 1a~iicular reason why he should give his case special attention. Before be ng sent to prison Guya asked pelmiS ,ion Co bid hlS elephant goodby. This vas granted. Raipoor seemed to under
 gad that misfortune had come, and .ncsc who stood close by caw tears in l.s eyes as he lovingly caresscd his master.
 "Th,y have done me great wrong.
 ai Guya as 1T talking to a fellow nan. "I am innocent as God knows hut they have declared me to be [ thief. and must go to jail. We have been poor my beloved. but we havt been honest and never until todal have we been ashamed 10 look men tp thc face. IT the Sahib judge had been fair minded, this disgrace would mol have cone. hut Lc took the word oi liars and refused to hear me. He Is mol, just judge"
 They would have put the elephant ai work under another mahout. but he es' capped from the camp that night and took to the jungle. Guya was thrown Into jail among a lot of malefactors, and within two weeks there was a quarrel in which he was stabbed to death. That was the end of him so far as any one at Rcwah was concerned.
 The district judge had long circuit and many cases. and 1t was two months before he approached Rewah again. Night overlook him while he was yet twelve miles away. and with his serv- ants he made camp by the roadside. When he had eaten his supper. he drew a little way from the camp and sat down on a stone to smoke his pipe. lt was a bright moonlight night. without breeze enough to move leaf. and the batter of a hycna's feet on the hard baked earth could have been heard a quarter of a mile away. So strong was the moonlight that a prowllng jackal could be made out along the edge of the jungle forty rods away There was no fear of tiger or panther. and the judge was peacefully content as he smoked and cast a careless eye about him. He had not been seated ten minutes when an elephant moved out of the fringe Of the jungle and advanced upon him The great beast moved almost without sound. His feet made no more noise than those of fox. One acting as sen tlnel for the camp would have seen him at once as he moved out. but the eyes of the judge looked vacantly into space as his mind was busy with his legal work. The elephant had 300 feet of open ground to pass over. There sat the judge. and there were half dozen servants moving about. but no one saw him. Not sound reached any mans ear. He crept forward like the shadow of death. and by and by be reached out