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struck twelve Chanda Ryder trem bled as he heard the sound, and his first impulse was to cry out and save his master. Then he thought of what Dost Abkar would say to him on the morrow, and he sank back on his mat.
 lt was the hour for the cobra to awake. When it came out of it's sleep it would find the majors legs almost within striking distance. He who had been beaten waited and waited for the serpent to strike and for the sahib major to scream out He knew that the officer was lying back nhis chair, sound asleep.
 As the servant listened his ear pressed to the mating on the floor, there came a tearing sound, and the gauge at one of the windows was rent away. Then the head and shoulders of tiger were thrust into the open ing.
 For minute the beast surveyed the sleeping man and the quiet apartment, then softly bounded inside. With no more noise than would have been made by kitten, he struck the floor so close to the sleeping man that he stretched out his nose and smelled of his feet and hands.
 Here was his dinner. He had left the jungle in search of higher game than it's denizens, and here it was ready for his nav. He had bare1 his teeth, when a slight noise under the bed caused him to draw back. The next instant he had bounded across the room with low growl. The cobra had escaped from the bag, erect ed it's head, and hssed.
 The tiger and the cobra inhabit the same jungles about the same ruins. They hide in the same grasses and skulk and crawl in the same shadows. But they do not prey together. Be- tween them there is fierce hatred
 For moment in the quiet room, with the sleeping man by their side, tiger and cobra faced each other, and it seemed as if there would be bat kle. Then the tiger dropped his tail made swift, long swing and was out of the window, growing in anger and chagrin as he loped away
 FrWO-t D1inutoc ToccnH away, and then the cobra crawled to the feet of the sleeping man. The serpent knew that it was a man. It waited for him to move hand or foot It itched to bury it's fangs in one Of the dangling hands, but there was no provocation.
 It heard a jackal proving about outside. It. heard the breathing of Chanda Ryder on his mat It heard rat running about in the next room The sleeper did not move, and the ser pent did not strike
 When it grew weary of waiting, it turned to the window, lifted itself to the sill, dropped to the earth outside, and headed away for the ruins and it's mate
 When daylight came, Chanda Ryder softly opened the door of his masters room. The sahib major was still stretched in his chair, and the boy searched the room in vain for the ser pent. He saw where the gauge had been rent, and on the window sill was, the dust of the tigers tracks. The beast had come and gone and the cobra had followed it out.
 When Chanda was sure of this, he advanced to the sleeper on tiptoe and bent over him for moment. Then he strengthened up with a smile and whispered to himself:-
 "The cobra has returned to the ruins, but he struck the sahib major before. going. have seen the god of the Hindu and the god of the Faringee, and our god is the greatest"
 lHe SUI SSoH ol lne post ndu Deen with the dead man an hour when the colonel looked in and asked him if he had finished
 Just through, sir, he replied. "The major was dead ten minutes after he came in. It is straight case of heart disease. He died in his sleep,