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"Judging by the look of him he took a very prominent part in clearing your enemies off." "Oh, Badshah is a fighter. I daresay if there was a scrap anywhere near him he'd like to be in it," replied Dermot lightly, and tried to change the conversation. But the others insisted on keeping to the subject.
As far as he could judge they were a long way from Malpura, and it seemed to him that Badshah was not heading directly for the garden. But he had sufficient confidence in the animal's intelligence to refrain from interfering with him again.
A tremor shook the powerful frame, the tail twitched feebly, then all was still. The long line of elephants halted on the far bank of the nullah, swung into file, and moved swiftly out of sight. Their work was done. Dermot reloaded and urged Badshah forward, covering the tiger with his rifle. There was no need. It was dead. Noreen leant forward and looked down at the striped body.
"Excellent," said Daleham. "You'll meet Chunerbutty at dinner then. You'll find him quite a good fellow." "I'd like to meet him," answered the soldier truthfully. He felt that the Bengali engineer might interest him more than his host imagined. "I'll tell the boy to get your room ready," said Noreen. "Oh, what will you do with your elephant?" "Badshah will be all right.
Safely inside Bhutan he and Tashi had parted with the elephants in what appeared to be the same forest as the one in which Colonel Dermot and they had left the herd on their previous entry into the country. Frank had tried to imitate his chief in ordering Badshah to meet them there again; but he was very doubtful of the result.
That such terrible things can happen in it!" "I can assure you that they are very unusual," he replied with a cheery laugh. "You have been very fortunate; for you have crammed more excitement and adventure into one day than I have seen previously in all my time in the jungle." "It all seems so incredible," she said. "Did you really mean that Badshah brought his herd to our rescue?
The mothers supported the youngest calves with their trunks, the less immature climbing on to their backs. Tashi checked Badshah as he was about to follow the herd into the river and, lame as he was, slid down to the ground.
Dermot wondered how Badshah found his way, for there was no sign of a track, but the elephant moved on steadily and with an air of assured purpose. At one place he plunged into a deep narrow ravine filled with tangled undergrowth that constantly threatened to tear Dermot from his seat.
For his religion enjoins this hygienic practice borrowed by the Prophet from the Mosaic law to guard against long-dead carrion being eaten. At the touch of the Colonel's hand Badshah sank to its knees; and Wargrave, very annoyed with himself for his slowness in detecting the deer, forced his way through the undergrowth to examine it.
When night fell a plateau covered with tall deodar trees had been reached, and here the elephants rested. Daybreak on the third morning found Badshah leading the line through a still more bewildering maze of narrow defiles and a forest with such dense foliage that, when the sun was high in the heavens, its rays scarcely lightened the gloom between the tree-trunks.
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