? ? ? ? Mr. Philander stole another observation astern.
? ? ? ? The lion was bounding along in easy leaps scarce five paces behind.
? ? ? ? Mr. Philander dropped the professor's arm, and broke into a mad orgy of speed that would have done credit to any varsity track team.
? ? ? ? "As I was saying, Mr. Philander--" screamed Professor Porter, as, metaphorically speaking, he himself "threw her into high." He, too, had caught a fleeting backward glimpse of cruel yellow eyes and half open mouth within startling proximity of his person.
? ? ? ? With streaming coat tails and shiny silk hat Professor Archimedes Q. Porter fled through the moonlight close upon the heels of Mr. Samuel T. Philander.
? ? ? ? Before them a point of the jungle ran out toward a narrow promontory, and it was for the heaven of the trees he saw there that Mr.
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