The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1915-04-10

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said Bruce They may never have
| heard one before; but instinct tells
them quickly OF the menace. Years
! ago at home, when | used to fish for
| bass, during the close season I'd see
| thousands of duck and geese and deer.
Yet single gunshot when the season
opened and you never could get within
| a mile of them"
| That is true. / have fished and
hunted with father"
Surely! | keep forgetting that It's
ten to one you know more about game
than | do
Silence fell upon them again. On on,
without pausing. Bruce was getting
sleepy himself, so he began munching
biscuits Lighter and lighter grew the
east: the moon dimmeG, and by and by
everything grew gray and the chill in
the air seemed sharpest yet.
They we're both awake.
Sunup they stopped by stream.
Bruce dismounted without having the
elephant kneel and went to the water
to fill his canteen. The hunter in him
became interested in the tracks along
the banks. A tiger, a leopard, some
apes, and herd of antelope had been
down to drink during the night Even
as he looked huge gray ape came
bounding out, head on toward RaJah,
, who despised these foolish beasts, Per-
laps the old elephant missed ALI per-
) laps he was still somewhat upset by
his failure to join his wild brothers
he night before; at any rate, without
warming, he set off with that shutting
gait which sometimes carried him as
swiftly as horse. An elephant never
! conception of the term; he shuflles.
t scarcely lifting his feet off the ground
: The mahout yelled and belabored the
5 elephant on the skull. Rajah did not
. mind this beating at all. Whatever his
dea was, he evidently proposed to see
/ t fulfilled. Cunningly he dashed I'M
Ter some branches, sweeping the ma
lout off his neck. The branches with
| crash as of musketry struck the how
iah. but it held, thanks to the stout
ness of the belly bands and the care
With which they had been adjusted
round the huge barrel
Bruce stood up, appalled,. For time
!, he was incapable of movement Short
Is the time was, it was enough to
give Rajah such Roadway as he need
ed. He disappeared from sight Bruce
saw the futility of shooting at the
n beast The only thing he could do was
to mount up beside Ramabai and Pun
dita and give chase; and this he did
0 n short order, dragging up the bruised
md shaken mahout with him. The
Il pursuing elephant, with this extra
handicap, never brought Rajah into
sight. But the trail was clear, ant
- they followed
N Sorely that poor girl was marked
: for misfortune. In all the six year
Bruce had possessed Rajah he ha,
Or never exhibited anything but docility
The elephant was not running amuck
" though he might eventually work him
self into that blind ungovernable rage
Off like that, without the slightes
warning! If Kathlyn could only kee
him clear of the trees, for the oil
90 rogue would do his best to scrape Of
The irksome howdak
Kathlyn heard the shouts from b,
hind, but she could not understan
W whether these were warnings or az
vice. Gould they overtake her befor
=, she was flung off? She tried to r,
call the elephant talk Ahmed ha
10 taught her in the old days at the farm
but just now she was too dazed. A
The end of an hour all sounds from tn
he rear ceased; no more pistol shots
encourage her with the knowledge tn,
lty friends were near. Rajah must ha,
outstripped them two or three mile
At length she came into a sma
"a clearing amid the tall jungle grass,
" dead and brittle last yeay's growt
Oh She saw two natives in the act of kic
- ing out dung fire. Rajah headed
.04 rectly toward them, the fire evident
being the lire of path he had chose
This rare and unexpected freedo
20 this opportunity to go whittier
:. listed was as the giant fern he used
- eat in the days when he was free a
.o4 wild in Ceylon.
Kathlyn called out to the men,
mt. they turned and fled in terror. To thu
Rajah was amuck. The elephs