“But is that true, Buck?”
“Yes, sir; true enough, for I have seen it. I wouldn’t tell you a tale like that without letting you know it was a bam-bam afterwards.”
“Ah, well, I’ll believe you, Buck. Ugh! Listen! What’s that? Did you ever hear anything so horrible in your life! Somebody’s being killed. There it is again! There!”
Chapter Thirteen.
“Don’t wake the Wrong Man.”
“What are you laughing at, Buck?”
“You, sir,” cried the man. “You’ll get more used to our noises in time.”
“Then it’s that horrible brute of a hyaena again. What a doleful howl! Sounds just as if it was crying after its mother.”