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Bhanah spoke gravely; his words falling like weights: "That he is seldom seen till it is too late to prepare. He is treacherous." "Where does he hide?" "In the large-leaved trees which stretch their branches like that." And Bhanah held his arms out horizontally, one above the other, parallel. "All right." "That he is quicker than a man's eye." Skag waited.
Skag arose and held his hand high, palm toward her. She beckoned, but still came forward. Skag moved without haste, but rapidly. All the beauty and wonder of Carlin was the same; it lived in his heart, integrate and unparalleled as ever, but some power had come to him from the cough of the tiger.
It wasn't the thrill of a hunt that animated Skag. The fact is, he hadn't even a six-shooter along. This was the closeness of the real thing again the deep joy, perhaps, of testing outside of cages once more, the power that had never failed. And just now along the river and beyond the place where the cough came from Carlin was coming! The last of the monkeys had flicked away.
"Breathe!" the mystic said, as he rose from the floor to stand on his own feet. That instant an impact of force from him struck Skag like a blow; and the next moment his sense of strength had become like that of twenty men it was hard to bear. "Steady slow!" It was a soft, but imperative order. Gradually the warmth increased; not in degree, but in the rate of its flow.
If there were drama or any interest in the tale, there was no sign from the Deputy, whose eyes now cooled upon Nels, and widened. Presently he interrupted Deenah to inquire who owned this dog. The servant signified the American, and Skag took the straight glisten of the Englishman's glance for the first time. "May I inquire? From whom?"
This mahout must be one of the great ones, else the master-mahout would not have spoken to him. But he will always speak to the elephants something." A strange name filled the air, rolling up and away. It was followed by a courteous request, in softer tones; and Skag watched another big elephant approach from the unpicketed lines.
There was a laugh about it, a sense of self-deprecation; but above all, Skag knew for the sake of the future that he must get himself better in hand against this incredible pull to the place where she was. It seemed quite enough to reach the compound or the grass plot and hear her step. She was not at the gate. He halted. Malcolm M'Cord was expected home this day. He might have come.
"She says I am your guardian, sent by the gods, to destroy the serpent for your sake so saving the people." Cadman finished huskily. "But I didn't reach him, Cadman," Skag protested. "I didn't touch him inside!" As they all came into the village enclosure, Dhoop Ki Dhil slipped into a house near by, saying that Dhanah thought the child slept too deeply she would care for her.
"Do you want her to come back from the margin of departure, for the sake of others for the sake of her ministry to their need?" The answer to this last question came up in Skag waves on waves, rolling into engulfing billows. "That answer may avail!" the man said conclusively.
They had been dismissed with a benediction; nothing further could be obtained. Otherwise Skag would have been a question-mark before that poor old man till morning. "But he knows!" The words seemed wrung out of Skag, as they sat apart. "He does; there's no gamble about that. But if we challenge him, the chances are he'll revoke that benediction!" Cadman speculated whimsically.
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