Show DANGER DANGEROUS op U S GROUND by ta QUAD by 0 IL B ITIL when leave 1 of absence li ence wa wai granted me after my first year at the military post of c Alla habad I 1 did dot not go up to the tb hill hills with other others seeking cel ling rema tion nor yet into the jungle jungles bit his game in a cautious lou way why ao so AS not to apoe expose myself to ridicule I 1 had made inquiries etui and ascertained that RaJi loor ayah well known in ton con nettle with the occult llred lived but 60 50 bile miles away la ili a but by himself and w a as 9 willing willits to take me tn AS a a 4 pupil 1 without iut a word d to anybody bet but my avila nar native me errant I 1 net set out one out morning sod ad red rode as to the but and recel receded a it welcome I 1 must tell you bat that ayah was wa a most won darful magician a great beiler bojer ct of the nick ick and riling ailing and that on several oc oe radon be bad had apparently died been buried for three daya days and then been resurrected sod ad brought back to life ue he wu was not an AD old man but one of I 1 oom M MX KT RA RUO ON not distinguished look and bearing 1 and sad the common people reveren ced him and find believed that he could do anything be he willed the authorities author itle bad watched him closely for a year or of two ready to pounce down upon him hould should be utter words of edition but thai thus far lie he hail had dot not meddled with politic politics la in any manner no waa was generally gener referred to by the english to a a fakir and a charlatan but I 1 had a tar far IrIg higher heir estimate eitl mate of if bin him ayah a but tood stood among amor the bill on loll the edge of a jungle and wa wall dot vot an uncomfortable place lie ile bad with him many book books and parch parchment ments relating to the mysteries of life and death lod and likewise Ilkew lie boatly relic relies ito and ou froia train vailous temples and slid forgotten bitle I 1 felt at borne home with the man and yet in a iene sense I 1 eared feared him now and sad then he be looked at me in to a way that took all my will power away way and I 1 realized reali sed that be he bad but to speak and I 1 should be compelled to obey op up to that little or nothing waa was known of hypnotism but there were people who could magnet magnetite tse by rub bing the forehead nothing worthy of i note soft happened for the first three day days thea then after our bumble humble breakfast break fut baj poor ayah put his bl buds on 00 my aboul about der and looked into my eyes and aid said brother go to forth and bad find me a cobra and bring it list here that I 1 may w what soul br has passed into it I 1 bad a natural horror borror of serpents aad and it waa was only with a great gnat effort that 1 I could app a dead one oo 00 bat but I 1 let ott out on my million mission without the alight art at reluctance tancel the man a will had bad overpowered mine ming had nad be told me to walk through fir are I 1 should bar have done to so I 1 set out and wandered wander sill about and after a time I 1 sallied a is cobra inning itself on a rock rl I 1 walked straight dp no to the horrible thing and picked it op up la in uy my bandla it writhed and blend bat but did dot not me earning caming it colled coiled about my right arm I 1 arrived at fit the hot but and oyah took it from me we and lit eat down and sang to it in to a low voice the serpent grew quiet and find stretched etched itself out at our out feet and by and by the mm man aid said to mo me it wu was a serpent before and it Is I 1 a serpent now we will let it go away after three or four minute minutes the tb cobra became more active and went crawling away and I 1 felt so 0 o weak week and lethargic that I 1 fell upon a couch and waa was presently asleep it waa was afternoon when 1 awoke sod found oya bend bond ing over me and touching my face with his hi oft soft fingers when I 1 oat up be he aid said come and ad walk with me ana and it will show yoo a tiger path pam tonight you will go into the jungle and find and a tiger and bring him to me and you thai shall bear ui us converse together W we walked for or two or three miles a and a we walked oyah point ed ad out ant misshapen tree tract and told me that the spirits cirit of bad men had bad passed into them and made them what they were wem by dr and by we came cam to a if path oed used by as a they pared passed from the jungle to the stream and bick back aad and the man laid said look well about yon you that you may and the do poth la in the migal then we wo returned borne home lad and he be prepared ti tb inning meal As A we lingered over ever it ne lie told me tile soul of his brother who bud bad been a bad man and I 1 bad been beon tiling hung for murder hail bad pas into the body of f a jackal but the pray play en ors of till his widow and children bad per haps preal pre ailed led ere era this abi aud bud the soul ou bad had been beta whitened by truing passing into the body of a tiger it wai was an hour after urk dark when I 1 let met out outs baying DO to one B whatever there were woo wolves and bienai ana and panthers ben and tigers in that anil awl it wai was notorious notor lout for its beate be ler peat ate but I 1 felt na no personal pera onal fear ai as I 1 passed alog alof N teben bait I 1 truck struck the path I 1 boldly entered the jungle and 1 I believe I 1 had gooe gous a dIs dir tance of bait a full bile when I 1 caught tight eight of the gilt glit 4 fit gerlog ring eye eyes of tome some animal before aue I 1 cried out to know it if it was wa a it tiger and belne assured in some manner that I 1 cannot explain tint that it waa was I 1 corriel about aad and retz retraced aced my steps tep 11 aben boa I 1 reached the open ground I 1 looked over ny my shoulder and saw a tiger trotting at my beela heels he closer until I 1 put my baad hand on bit big bead head and so we anally arrived at the cabin red bar bare dune well wy very well welt 1 aysh to me we ai as he be row rose up 11 bli tile eat seat at the door bit it yoa you dowding down dow dind anil emoke smoke and listen 31 tapp am be agan talking with the tiger tit it V id 4 1 lot at lu in tl 11 u sim 1 tonko an as he b balled to me we buc but yet I 1 could anler atil I 1 11 I 1 of lint ilat he old said while the th tiger annare by whine whines for yes awl and growls for no it to I 1 not my city brother SAW the roan man to it e the soul of my brother li to till wit ta in ti tie a body of tho the jackal it was wa blacker ta tinn an I 1 though t tor for the tiger may olly go now it una as kind of bho to come cinc the tiger roue ran up and stalked off looking lack back at fit til us once or twice and dd then we w vent ent to bed aben hen morning came I 1 felt clear beaded headed but weak la in limb tl ough my appet appetite lt waa was fair an hour after our meal RAJ ar oyah said to we 1 lou I on must help me to cleans cleanse the vw worl I 1 of its ta wickedness wicked nem oo 00 forth aad and bod R ryot and bring him here and we burn the soles of at till his feet and make him confess bli his I 1 neat eat without hesitation the high road roe n ai an only half a mile distant and ai as I 1 truck struck it I 1 turned to the right hoping loon soon to meet with eom am farmer oo 00 bin til way to market ai As tt it happened however the mall mail coach was the first to come along and on the box waa was a broil er officer there them wu was something la in my appearance to create surprise and IM as I 1 answered at random when questioned I 1 waa was taken up and find on to the next town there X bad chill and wa was on the lick hat list for a fort bight meanwhile a party bad gone out to find oyah and bring him to book but be bad vanished I 1 carried the memory of every ingle single incident clearly in my head bead for month mouths and month months but found that others and particularly medical men disagreed diu greed 1 with me they declared ray my adventures adrea turea with cobra and tiger to be hypnotic dream and that I 1 bad not left the cabin at all but when it came to the question ef of how I 1 was wa found on the my oo 00 one could more than ram ruess however I 1 had trodden on dangerous ground and I 1 resolutely tamed froni from the hole subject and put it behind me we beyond resurrection |