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Show SOLDIERS STUNNED BY ! BECKONING CORPSE . . Pariati Dog Frightened Evan Sol-! Sol-! diers Who Had Taken Delhi, 'TnilB most unplensant experience I of my life?" questioned the old I British nnny olllcer. who wns being coaxed by a piazza full of young folks to toll one of his adventures In India during the days of the mutiny. 1 "Well. I should say It occurred one night In Delhi. The only thing about it is I'm nfrnld it's too horrible ror your young nerves." After being assured thnt his listeners preferred to be horrified ho began: 'Our siege of the city wns over After four long months of never ceasing strife day and night in the furnace heat of tho hottest part of the year and during tho stltllng. enervating rainy season the city was at last stormed nnd after six days lighting In the streets was entirely In our possession. pos-session. "The regiment to which I then he-longed he-longed wns ordered to occupy the A J ' mere gate of the city, which we hud ' g--J P ""H THE I)EAI Al'.M KOBK AS IV TO CAI.Ii l'OH lll'.l.l'. I ' done accordingly and proceeded to make ourselves as comfortable as circumstances cir-cumstances would permit. At la.it night ciiiiiu on and with it a stillness to which we had loug been unaccustomed. My chum, who had been sitting near me for some time in silence, got up. saying he could not remain any longer without a pipe and j i proposed that we should take a stroll 1 through the streets aud enjoy a smoke j before seeking rest on the hard stones j ' of our tenement. I "Though there was no moon. It was , not what could be called a dark night. I I The stars shone brightly, nnd we could I see well eighty or a hundred yards I around us. and on entering a fairly ( broad street lending toward the AJ-1 mere gate wo saw some little way on a pile or corpses where evidently theio bad been some hot contention during the sireut lighting. I Suddenly I felt my arm seized by my companion, who In an awed whH-per whH-per said: 'Heaven: Hid you .ce tlisitV 1 had seen what he referred to nnd we halted, gazing at It. "From the summit of the pue or t corpses rose a man's hand and iirm j It beckoned to u and then dropped down. Again It rose, beckoning and j fell, nnd again it did the same it suddenly sud-denly Hashed upon my mind that -'n poor wretch in whom life jet remain ed lay among the dead and Hint ue wanted assistance to get away from his fearful position. So I said. Voiue on; It's some one wanting help.' and we moved forward. As we did so a large pariah dog 1 sprang from the pile of corpses and 1 made off down a bylane. and an ex amination of the dead bodies snowed i how he bad been employed and what , had eniised our scare He bad been tearing at the body to which the heck-1 oiling hand belonged, aud. tugging nt : the shoulder In the steady, persistent way I had often seen othera of hlH species employed on the carcaw of a i defunct buffalo, had caused the ar to rise and move as if beckoninc to us to conio on." |