he cried. "Where
are you, Jackal?"

From the jungle out-doors Jackal shrilly yelped, "Here I am, mistress!"

"Come to me this instant," commanded Leopardess.

"Coming, mistress, coming," responded Jackal's voice faintly, for at the
sound of her call he had been alarmed and was trotting off.

"Why, what can be the matter with the brute, trifling with me in this
manner? Here, Dog, take this cub to the crib."

Dog hastened to obey, but Leopardess, whose suspicions had been aroused,
quietly followed him as he entered the doorway leading into the inner
recess of the house where the crib was placed. Having placed the living
near the dead cub in the crib, Dog turned to leave, when he saw his
dreaded mistress in the doorway, gazing with fierce distended eyes, and
it flashed on him that she had discovered the truth, and fear adding
speed to his limbs he darted like an arrow between her legs, and rushed
out of the den. With a loud roar of fury Leopardess sprang after him,
Dog running for dear life. His mistress was gaining upon him, when Dog
turned aside, and ran round the trees. Again Leopardess was rapidly
drawing near, when Dog shot straight away and increased the distance
between them a little. Just as one would think Dog had no hope of
escaping from his fierce mistress, he saw a wart-hog's burrow, into
which he instantly dived. Leopardess arrived at the hole in the ground
as the tail of Dog disappeared from her sight. Being too large of body
to enter, she tore up the entrance to the burrow, now and then extending
her paw far within to feel for her victim. But the burrow was of great
length, and ran deep downwards, and she was at last obliged to desist
from her frantic attempts to reach the runaway.

Reflecting awhile, Leopardess looked around and saw Monkey near by,
sitting gravely on a branch watching her.

"Come down, Monkey," she imperatively commanded, "and sit by this burrow
and watch the murdering slave who is within, while I procure materials
to smoke him out."

Monkey obeyed, and descending the tree, took his position at the mouth
of the burrow. But it struck him that should Dog venture out, his
strength would be unable to resist him. He therefore begged Leopardess
to stay a moment, while he went to bring a rock with which he could
block the hole securely. When this was done Leopardess said, "Now stay
here, and do not stir until I return; I will not be long, and when I
come I will fix him."

L