Year: 1867

II AbDaS. AS there was quite current OF air com
ing in at the open window, we moved the table W
into one corner, opposite the foot Of the bed, t.
take the light from the Pickering draft, after which
Ben Abbas produced the books and papers We
had been engaged over the account half an hour
when noise out of doors arrested our attention
It was a chattering sound, accompanied by sort
of hoarse grunt.


'Abba, F" cried the clerk, 'that is surely Kaka- u


sand who is Kaka p


"He was my master baboon, replied Ben Alb
bas. "He ran away more than week ago.


sWhy did he run away? "


Because Hoosian Kahn whipped him. He
came into this very room while his master was out
and ransacked the closet, and pulled the clothes
from the bed. Hoosian caught him in the very
act, and beat him without mercy. Kaka leaped
from the window and ran away into the woods,
and has not been seen since"


As the clerk ceased speaking, I heard the ba,
boon mounting the tree, and at once extinguish.
ed the lights and bade my companions draw back
with me into the extreme corner behind the table
for had great curiosity to see what his baboon,
ship would do. I remembered the animal very
well, as had frequently seen him about the prem,
ises. The zemindar had captured him when young
and reared him for pet. Up the tree the fellow
came, and presently he swung himself upon the
stool, and thence to the room. The moon was
shining brightly, and as the rays shone in through
the window, leaving us in the shade, we could OBJ
serve the movement of the interloper without be.
ing ourselves detected, and you will remember,
furthermore, that we had the table as a screen.
Kaka was one of the lungoor species, standing
five and half feet hig Oh when erect, and present
ing pretty good specimen of physical develop
ment. As saw him enter the room, looking so
ugly and dangerous, I instinctively clapped my
hand to my pistol. Perhaps you will imagine the
suspicion which had already dashed upon met
This brute and not the khidmutger had killed the
zemindar. Crouching behind the table, and re-
manning perfectly still, we watched the fellow
movements. As he entered the room he stood
erect upon his legs and gazed upon the bed then
he went to the closet and opened the door and took
down the dressing case, the contents of which he
overhauled almost as Systematically as man would
have done. Presently he uttered loud cry, and
dashed the case upon the floor, and then sprang
toward the bed. He seized the clothing and tore
III oE chattering and gnashing his teeth in most
fightful manner. Coverlete, Sheets pillows and
mattresses come off IN quick succession, and when
the brute found that he was only spending his rage
upon inanimate substances, he caught one of the
pillows and tore it into fragments, scattering the
feathers over the room. ss szsS
I could bear the scene no longer. As the lun-
goor moved back, after having rent the pillow, he
stood directly in the moonlight and I think never
beheld more savage and repulsive looking mon
ster. I carefully raised my pistol above the table
and aimed it at his head. lam not apt to miss my
mark, and did not do so in this instance. As
fred, the fellow reeled and clapped both his hands
to his ears. In an instant / was soon upon my
feet, with my sword drawn and before the brute
could recover himself, I had run him through the
heart - .... -
By this time the family was aroused, and in a
little while we were Investigating the subject Of the
murder under the light of these new and wonder
full circumstances. One look at the feet of the
lungoor enabled me to account for the curious
blood prints which had attributed to the hand Of
man. There were the very outlines and proper
tions which had been stamped upon the floor
And now, too, could account for the breaking OF
the shank, and for the mass of hair that had been
pulled from the head Of themurdered man. Hoo
sian widow as soon as she saw the body Of Kaka,
and heard our story, cried out that the lungoor had
killed her husband. She informed us that Kaka
had been in the habit of seeing his master shave,
and that several times he had been found with the
razor in hand standing before the mirror Then
she told us what Ben Abbas had already communi-
cated-how that Hoosian had whipped the lungoor
severely, and that the brute thereuponran into the
woods.


On the following morning the native officers
were called in, and after very short consultation
| it was decided that Gholam was innocent and that
the lungoor had done the murderous deed. There
could be no mistake about it. One experiment
which had not been thought Of at the time of the
trial was now tried. 1t had been evident that the
murderer had gained entrance to the zemindar'f
chamber from the tree; but when we came to ex
pertinent, we could not find man able to perform
that feat There were several branches dropping
toward the house, but they were not strong enough
to bear a man, and we now had it demonstrated
that man of Gholam's bulk, in order to reach the
window from the tree, would have to make clear
leap of at least twelve feet In short the evidence
was plain and substantial The lungoor was tht
criminal


Gholam was happy man when it was announ
ced to him that he was free; and Hoosians widow
was particularly grati6ed, for she priced the khid
muteer as the best servant of the establishment.
The only recompense which Gholam claimed in re


turn for the indignity he had suffered, was tn


teeth of the lungoor. They were readily given t.


him, and he wears them about bis person, as 81
many charms against future i'll.


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