under canvas, for there was only
accommodation for a single company at the station. The two subalterns
occupied a large square tent, while the other three officers took
possession of the only three bungalows that were vacant at the station,
the Doctor having a tent to himself. The Major and Isobel had stayed
for the first three days with the Hunters, at the end of which time the
bungalow had been put in perfect order. It was far less commodious than
that at Cawnpore, but Isobel was well satisfied with it when all their
belongings had been arranged, and she soon declared that she greatly
preferred Deennugghur to Cawnpore.

Those at the station heartily welcomed the accession to their numbers,
and there was an entire absence of the stiffness and formality of a
large cantonment like Cawnpore, and Isobel was free to run in as she
chose to spend the morning chatting and working with the Hunters, or
Mrs. Doolan, or with the other ladies, of whom there were three at the
station.

A few days after their arrival news came in that the famous man eater,
which had for a time ceased his ravages and moved off to a different
part of the country, principally because the natives of the village
near the jungle had ceased altogether to go out after nightfall, had
returned, and had carried off herdsmen on two consecutive days.

The Doctor at once prepared for action, and agreed to allow Wilson and
Richards to accompany him, and the next day the three rode off together
to Narkeet, to which village the two herdsmen had belonged. Both had
been killed near the same spot, and the natives had traced the return of
the tiger to its lair in the jungle with its victims.

The Doctor soon found that the ordinary methods of destroying the tiger
had been tried again and again without success. Cattle and goats had
been tied up, and the native shikaris had taken their posts in trees
close by, and had watched all night; but in vain. Spring traps
and deadfalls had also been tried, but the tiger seemed absolutely
indifferent to the attractions of their baits, and always on the lookout
for snares. The attempts made at a dozen villages near the jungle had
all been equally unsuccessful.

"It is evident," the Doctor said, "that the brute cares for nothing but
human victims. No doubt, if he were very hungry he would take a cow or
a goat, but we might wait a very long time for that; so the only thing
that I can see is to act as a bait myself."

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