For a time it was heard roaring, and then the sound came only at intervals, and at an increasing distance.
"That was a good business, Abdool," Harry said, as they returned to their former post, where the Malay rejoined them.
"It was well done, indeed, sahib.

When I heard the beast climbing the tree, it seemed to me that, as we had no weapons except these little knives, he would surely make an end of one of us." The interpreter did not understand Mahratti, in which Abdool and Harry always conversed; but he said in Hindustani: "I have seen fights with leopards, my lord, but even with krises, two of my people would hesitate to attack one--they fear them more than tigers--but little did I think that two men, with small knives, could save their lives from one.

My blood turned to water, as I saw the beast climbing out on that bough, and you going out after it." "I have done a good deal of tiger and leopard hunting, in my time," Harry said, "and know that a leopard cannot spring from a bough, unless it is a fairly stout one--stout enough for it to stand with all its paws upon it.
"Well, the day is beginning to break.

In half an hour's time the sun will be up, and the wild beasts will have all retired to their lairs.

I hope we shall see no more of them.