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Meantiot her loss in her interest in the

bullock cart with its grotesque lure; and she climbed into the cart

just as Kathlyn appeared, followed by the excited leopard She saw the

child and snatched her instinctively from the cart The leopard leaped

into the cart at the rear, while Kathlyn ran toward the chief's hut,

into which she staggered without the for her advent

The father of the child had no need to question, though he marveled at

the white skin and dress of this visitor, who had doubtless saved his

child fro the door shut and dropped the bar Next he

sought his gun and fired through a crack in the door He htened the leopard away

And later, Bruce, ith the anxiety over the disappearance of

Kathlyn, caone

forth to hunt the leopard, and the leopard had hunted hi the ht the leopard by the back of the neck and by a hind leg and swung

her into the sea

The chief was severely et to his feet and

walk The white woman had saved his child and the white man had saved

him He would remember

Thus the leopard quite innocently served a purpose, for all her deadly

intentions; the chief was filled with gratitude

When the colonel and the others came into view the former seized