The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-08-30
(6y FRANK cONlv.)

India In June is Hades, Many vii
disagree with this assertion. but they
are not OF those who have had TO keel
the Caledonia Company's mines run
ming in the hot spell. The Caledonis
Company does not mine for rubies-
Just coal.
When the heat came everyone thai
could got away to the hills. Myra, the
superintendent's daughter had decid
ed TO 20. but changed her mind. Hei
woman's instinct warned her TO stay
Hetherington was chief engineer
Bob Stanley was surface manager
Walters. the superintendent. was otter
IN Caledonia
Stanley and Hetherington were ths
best OF friends. Their rivalry fol
Myra's affections was open and light
hearted; but Hetherington had an ugly
side to his character which 7. as his
subordinate. had reason TO know.
When a man got bowled over BY
the heat the company sent him up &c
the hills 10 recuperate: and Hether
inEton got n touch. The superintend
ent advised him 20 quit; but NJ
wouldn't. He didn't want to leave the
neld open 10 Bob Stanley: but he go
uglier in temper. and consequently
more difficult 10 get on with. and his
friendship for Bob cooled down e
nothing
Myra had always held the balance
pretty even between these two: bu
now she seemed to favor Hethering
ton. and he began to assume proprie
tary rights and resented Bob's goini
near her at all. Bob himself was get
ting surly on that account. and | coult
see there was trouble brewing.
II first showed itself when Hether
ington told Bob that he intended "a
marry the girl. and dared him 10 e
near her again. The heat had got hin
pretty badly by this time. but Bot
was In no mood 20 take that into &C
count Just then. so they fought with
their naked fsts.
Neither was a pretty sight when
they were through: but Rob licked his
man clean. and offered TO shake hands
his medicine as a man should, and
r. fused 10 shake. from which I gath
cred that the trouble had only begun
The real crisis came the night oi
the tiger shoot.
Most pople think the way 10 shoot
tigers IN India is from the back OF al
elephant Well, that's one way; Dul
II wasn't ours.
We didn't have far 20 go for our
sport. YOU see. for Myra kept animals
around, and there was a big cat al
some kind growing about almost eN
cry night. SomC times Il was pan
Their. and sometimes though more
rarely-a tiger. We were never par
ticular which came along II We bat
our .3OS English rifles handy.
I've noticed. in knocking about th'
world. that wherever there Is mininl
going on there are goats. ! am no
try .ng TO explain the fact. merely
stating IL.
We kept a few al tho Caledonia
on account OF their usefulness as live
bait
Our method was simple enough
About 100 yards from quarters there
was big tree. where We had fixed NJ
a screen OF brushwoOd. well up anon.
the branches. BEHIND the screer
three or four men could hide. and VI
were lot safer there than on an ele
plant.
beyond the tree there was a cIs areI
space. running right down TO the ed 81,
OF the jungle. and on this space w
made our goat frisk and bleat by pull
ing his leg with q long cord
You had 20 make him act as naiur
ally as possible. OF the beasts wouit
have got suspicious and sheared OF
once a panther. or old stripes. was "
sight YOU could trust the goat To T.
az natural as you could wish. and D.
was "A point Of honor with us not Il
sacrifice our bait
II was I who expected a shoot tw,
or three nights after the fight
thought II might help 20 clear mp the
bad blood have blamed myself many
A time since. but something wal
bound 20 hapI,en anyhow.
From the first we had trouble VIII
the goat He would persist in makinr
for the Jungle. and the more W.
pulled the more stubborn he got ~
WA young. or he would have known
better.
IS " was. when a big tiger showed
for a second IN the moonlight ths
goat was between as and u and W
couldn't do any more mOukeyiug with
The cord. IN CaFp We should scare
him ~. when the brute sprang
was 20 startled by the size Of him
that ] forgot 20 take aim
Stanley and Hetherington both fired
and at least one ball hit the beast
FOR he stopped In midair. turned and
landed heavily. Then. before I could
get In shot IN the uncertain light
he had crawled back into the Jungle
growing and snarling savagcly
Bob was excited. and before had
81 inkling of his foolhardy notion he
was down the tree and hair way
ACROSS the open SPACE ] shouted a,
him but no paid no heed
! looked round for Hetherlncfon
~" Was alrady on the ground and
starting after Bob From the express
sion on nj face ~ he looked NJ N
m" know that only one OF .hesc two
nVr1ru $1,000