He allowed her to slip through his arms until her feet touched the ground; then her eyes fell on the kneeling figure.
"Father!" she exclaimed.

With a cry the man leaped to his feet, sprang to her and seized her in his arms, and poured out words of endearment.
Then suddenly he released her and threw himself on the ground before Bathurst, with ejaculations of gratitude and thankfulness.
"Get up, man, get up," the latter said; "your daughter can scarce stand alone, and the sooner we get away from this place the better; that savage beast is not likely to return, but he may do so; let us be off." He mounted his horse again, brought it up to the side of the girl, and then, leaning over, took her and swung her into the saddle in front of him.

The man took up a large box that was lying in the road and hoisted it onto his shoulders, and then, at a foot's pace, they proceeded on their way--Bathurst keeping a close watch on the jungle at the side on which the tiger had entered it.
"How came you to travel along this road alone ?" he asked the man.

"The natives only venture through in large parties, because of this tiger." "I am a stranger," the man answered; "I heard at the village where we slept last night that there was a tiger in this jungle, but I thought we should be through it before nightfall, and therefore there was no danger.

If one heeded all they say about tigers one would never travel at all.