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Show - i ii r . ...f.muwpiin-.,wtrai..B TIKE ALMOST CAUSED TRAGEDY. Exciting Experience of Automoblllsts at a Jain Temple. ' A thrilling story of how tho side slipping of a motor car nearly resulted In a man being roasted allvo Is told by Ernest Ksdale, Haya Motoring Illustrated. Illus-trated. Tho IncMint orciirrcd In, Duh-11b, Duh-11b, a village on tho road from Delhi to Bombay. The tar was being driven Blowly past a Jain temple, nmld tho whooping of natives und tho beating of tom-toms. "At the temple entrance," writes Mr Hsilale, "stood two priests, regarding us with no friendly visage. Uangl And our back tiro had burst a deep rut In the road hns caught tho wheel, too. In a moment wo Bvvcrve around, nnd, horror! Smash right Into the temple door. AIiib, wo hnvo committed sacrilege sacri-lege ol tho worst kind. "Wo set to work to repair tho tiro and Just as vvo had finished a heartrending, heart-rending, enr piercing shriek rings out from tho temple Inclosure, Wo rush In, brushing aside two juvenile priests, who try to stop our progress A crowd of white-robed prlists stand between us nnd tho Inner Banctinry. Hut tho three of us nro old for jail players; tho priests nro down III t ninepins. "Wo tear tho curtain hbUIo nnd stnnd for n moment rooted with horror. hor-ror. Thero nn it rude nltnr our poor native motor boy Is biing literally roasted alive Only n second's pauso to Inko In tho situation nnd with n niBh wo nro on them "Seizing tho uplifted knlfo from tho nearest fnnntle, wo cut tho leather strings nnd lift the fainting sacrifice from tho ultar Then wo boat.tlio priests off, rognln our rar nnd ride nwny amid n shower of missiles." |