pieces,
unless Khan Cochut had contrived to shoot her. Several times he poked
one of his pistols through the slit, but the Brahmin entreated him not
to fire. Whether or not Faithful suspected what he intended, she kept
at such a distance that he would, in all probability, have missed her
had he fired. At length, wearied with her exertions, she retired to the
end of the court, where she lay down in the shade, keeping her eye fixed
alternately on the slit in the wall and the door through which her enemy
had passed.

She had now completely turned the tables on them, for, as they had no
provisions, they must either die of starvation or surrender at
discretion. At length the Brahmin proposed sending Bikoo down, that,
while the tigress was tearing him to pieces, they might make their
escape. To this inhuman proposal the slave very naturally objected,
observing that the tigress must before long fall asleep, when they might
slip out, favoured by the darkness, and so make their escape,--he, as
being the most active, hoping, should the tigress awake, to get ahead of
them, and leave them to the fate his master so generously proposed for
him. Had Faithful suspected their intentions, she would probably have
allowed her captives to have made the attempt to carry them out, and
would have caught them all in succession.

As she lay in the shade, she began to meditate after her own fashion on
what had occurred; and suddenly recollecting her beloved master, she got
up and bounded towards the spot where she had last seen him. As she did
so she passed within range of Cochut's pistol. Notwithstanding the
Brahmin's prohibition, he fired. Though the ball missed her, she was
somewhat frightened by the report; and her mind being set on discovering
Reginald, she sprang through the gateway, and trotted off in the
direction her instinct told her he had taken, as she certainly did not
follow him either by sight or scent.

CHAPTER SEVEN.

THE TEMPLE IN WHICH NUNA IS A PRISONER REACHED--DICK'S PLAN FOR RESCUING
HER--THE TOP OF THE TOWER GAINED--ESCAPE--PURSUED--FAITHFUL APPEARS AT
THE PROPER JUNCTURE--ANOTHER TEMPLE REACHED--AN UNEXPECTED ATTACK--
FAITHFUL PLAYS HER PART--BURNETT ARRIVES--CAPTAIN HAWKESFORD FINDS THAT
HE HAS MADE A MISTAKE--THE JOURNEY TO THE CAPITAL--A DAY'S SPORT--
REGINALD AGAIN ESCAPES FROM A TIGER--THE JOURNEY CONTINUED--THREATENED
BY THE REBELS--TAKE REFUGE IN A FORT--THE MAJOR'S ASTONISHMENT.

Reginald and h