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 Fifteen minutes later, he burst into Sahib Anderson's tent and with a wild cry of terror and despair, threw himself at the Sahib's feet, clasping the man's knees and sobbing incoherently.

The Sahib at once concluded that Uncle Bahi was after Ali and lifted him up to comfort him.

"There, there, sonny, don't cry. I won't let him hurt you. Perhaps I won't let you go back."

For several minutes all Ali could do was to sob incoherently, but he finally sobbed out his story so that the Sahib understood.

"I was in bamboo thicket asleep," he explained, "oh, oh, and great tiger came to eat me, and I said, 'Peace, brother, peace,' and at last he went away.

"But this morning, I wake up and such