h the wall, is more than I can tell."

"I don't think you are likely to have been deceived," said Reginald.
"But what can have become of Faithful? Had she not gone off her post,
she would have caught the fellow."

No one had remarked when the tigress stole away, and her disappearance
was another mystery to be solved.

Fatigued with their long march, rest was absolutely necessary; they
therefore determined to sleep where they were, one at a time keeping
watch.

"Please your honour, I will keep the first watch," said Dick; "and if
you will lend me one of your pistols, I will send a bullet through the
body of the first petticoated gentleman who heaves in sight, whether he
is a ghost or not. If so be I starts off, just be good enough to follow
me when I make chase, and we will have him in limbo before many minutes
are over."

Reginald now lay down, feeling perfectly confident that Dick would keep
wideawake; and recommending his companions to follow his example, they
were all in a few seconds fast asleep.

We must now follow Faithful, who maybe was in search of a lamb or goat
from some flocks feeding at no great distance from the temple. She had
not left the precincts of the place when a person in the robes of a
Brahmin fearlessly approached her, and patting her head, offered her
something which he held in his hand. She took it, and fawning on him,
followed as he led the way to a distant part of the ruin. Here was a
high tower with some winding steps leading to the summit. The Brahmin,
for such he was, began to ascend, the tigress still following. When on
the summit, the stranger opened a door and proceeded along a narrow
gallery, scarcely affording room for the shoulders of the animal to
pass. Suddenly he slipped through another small door. The poor
tigress, missing him or the tempting bait he held, advanced stealthily,
when there came a crash, and down she fell head foremost; her betrayer
looking over the parapet, exulting in the success of his treachery.

"Aha! I have often tried to poison you, but you were too sagacious to
be taken in," he said. "Now I have succeeded in finishing you, your
master the young rajah will easily become my prey. He expects to rule
this country, does he, and reform abuses and destroy our ancient
religion! Clever as he thinks himself, he will find that he is
mistaken, and that there are those who can outwit him. It has been
prophesied that when the Feringhees rule the land