Year: 1867

A


extinguished the lights and bade my COM
| panions back with me into the extreme


corner behind the table; for / had great
Jicuriosity to see what his baboonship would
do. / remembered the animal very WE'LL


as [ had frequently seem him about the
premises. The zemindar had captured him
when young and reared him for a pet.
i Up the tree the fellow came. and presently


swung himselfupon the stooL,and thence
to the room. The moon was shining bright


ly, and as the rays shone in through the
-window, leaving us in the shade, we could


observe the m vement of the interloper
| without being ourselves detected, and Won
will remember, furthermore, that we had


the table as screen. 49,. .


Kaka was one of the lungoor species,
standing five and half feet high when


erect, and presenting a pretty good speci-


men of physical development. AS 1 saw


him enter the room, looking. so ugly and
dangerous, l instinctively clapped my hand


to my pistol Perhaps you will imagine


the suspicion which had already dashed


upon me. This brute and net the khidmut-
| ger had killed the Zemindar. Crouching be-
hind the table. and remaining perfectly
still, we watched the fellows 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 owe. hauled almost as system
atically as a man would have done. Pres
emily he uttered a loud cry, and dashed the
case upon the floor, and then sprang to-
ward the bed. He seized the clothing and
tore it off in quick succession, and when
the brute found that he was only spending
his rage upon. inaminate substances, he
caught one of the pillows and tore it into
fragments, scattering the feathers over uhe
room. liz .--et .- ..-.


I could bear the scene no longer. AS the
lungoor moved back, after having rent the
pillow, he stood directly in the moonlight,
and L think never beheld more savage
and repulsive looking monster. 1 careful
ly raised my pistol above the table and
aimed it at his head. am not apt to miss
my mark, and did not do so ia this in
stance. AS fired, the fellow reeled and
clapped both his hands to his ears. In an
sword drawn, and before the brute could
recover himself, had run him through the
heart. ar


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 wonderful 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 a
man. There were the very outlines and
proportions 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 the murdered man. Hoosians wild
ow, as soon as she saw the body of Kaka-
and heard our story, cried out that the lun-
goor had killed her husband. She inform
ed 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 oefore the mirror. Then
she told us what Ben. Abbas had already
nn0 ot1f1Ia nfad- hny fIhlf IoI
whipped the lungoor severely, and that the
brute thereupon ran 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
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 en-
trance to the Zemindar's chamber from the
tree; but when we came to experiment,
we could not find man able to perform
that feat. There were several branches
dropping towards the house, but they were
not strong enough to bear man, and we
now had it demonstrated that man OF
GhOlam's bulk, in order to reach the win
dow from the tree, would have to make
clean leap of at least twelve feet. In short,
the evidence was plain and substantial.
The lungoor was the criminal.


Gholam was happy man when it was
announced to him that he was free; and
Hoosian's widow was particularly graft
fled, for she priced the knidmutger as the
best servant of the establishment. The
only recompense which Gholam claimed
in return for the indignity he had suffered,
was the teeth of the lungoor. They were
readily given to him, and he wears them
about his person, as so many charms
against future ill. r.-