The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-05-09

| by wild things. There is a rock in
/ the ravine nearby called the Bee Rock.
| where the multitudes of bees are un-
| countable like the leaves of a forest.
There we will leave you both bound
| hand and foot. light a fire of rank
grasses. and then see from afar off
what takes place. The goddess will
! be avenged"
, The shouting grew louder outside
| the temple.
Now | 90 to tell them OF my plan.
said the Brahmin sternly; but mean
while, you stay in this ROOM" and
he pushed them roughly into a little
| dark room at the end of the garden
wall opposite to the temple.
There was small window with
wooden bars high up in the wall, and
| Immediately the boys were secure in
side Alec asked Tippoo to give him
back, and, standing on his shoul-
doris, he broke the wooden bars with
the butt-end OF the musket. Then,
having fastened Tippoo's puggaree to
the window sill. Tippoo climbed up.
while Alec dropped outside. The boys
soon left the temple garden behind
them. and, taking advantage of the
cover afforded by the tall growing
wheat, made their way through the
fields as fast as they could.
1t was nearly ten minutes after
their escape that their flight was dis
covered. but the yell of rage came TO
them distinctly. and in a few minutes
the leaders of the mob were seen rae
ing in their direction.
ITO the nullah. To the nullah."
shouted Alec
They raced along. painting for
breath. yet only to know that their
pursuers were gaining fast on them.
The foremost of the natives were now
only some thirty yards behind them.
Suddenly Alec heard Tippoo gave
sharp cry. and, turning round. found
he had fallen. Before he could regain
his feet he would certainly have been
knocked on the head with a bamboo
club. Alec stopped. put his gun to
his shoulder. and pointed it at the
foremost native. The man at once
ceased running. and began to retreat
Taking advantage of the pause, the
boys were soon speeding forward
again. but the hoarse cries of rage
and anger of the natives sounded I'M
pleasantly close in their cars.
The boys had just passed the Bee
Rock about thirty yards. when Tippoo
pumped down in the last stage of ex-
haustion. saying he could not go a
step farther.
-hitS III tOoh seNtEti
long breaths to steady his nerves.
and, just as the crowd of natives were
under the Bee RocR. he threw forward
his musket and fired-not into the
mass Of humanity before him. but at
the enormous black masses of bees
suspended from the rock above.
1t would be hard to describe what
followed: but If you will try to i'm
agine a great CARLOAD of SCOT being
shot down that rock upon tho crowd
below, you will get some idea of what
it looked like from a distance. wha I'll
It felt like to the naked natives would
be harder to say. but a hundred req
hot needles stabbing into your body
all at once might give a faint concep-
ton of the attack of those terrible |
bees. Yells of agony rent the air as
one after another plunged into the |
stream.
Part of a great hive had fallen like
a barrier between the boys and the |
natives, and SO the latter could only
escape in the direction from which |
they had come.
AS soon as Alec had fired that fate
full shot, he made Tippoo get on his
back and ran with him a couple of |
hundred yards before he felt they
were safe. But even they did not es- !
APE without n few stings. Then from |
/ distance they looked back and saw
he swarm chasing the villagers.
1t was not surprising to him when |
the boys got home that one of the |
Eggs was broken. The other Matched |
and a beautiful white /
peacock took its place in the men,
lgerie.
But when II dances on the lawn, the |
of all beholders, Alec can't |
help thinking how nearly that bird |
cost him and Tippoo their lives that
lay in Morbagh. the garden Of pea
locks.
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