IN THE NICK OF TIME. tIJ 



ill, is the most trying ordeal before us. If we can reach port with our prizes I 

 .ud. 1 feel that nine-tenths of the real work is successfully finished." 



4 ln:n, from the camp, we will make excursions through the surrounding com 

 try, ;n aear;h of what we want ? " 



"That is my plan; what do you think of it?" 



" It strikes me js good, since, as I understand it, we cannot hope to find any 

 more desirable prizes farther north, nor, indeed, in any direction, without traveling 

 much farther than you ever intended to go." 



" You are right. Then, too, we can give the young better care in camp than 

 while dragging them across the country." 



"There is enough in South Africa to keep us busy." 



" I rather suspect so. The list is a long one, embracing, as I am sure you know, 

 hyenas, rhinoceroses, monkeys, zebras, porcupines, wild boars, koodoos, the secre- 

 tary birds, hornbills, ichneumons, elands, hippopotami, not to mention the leoparas, 

 lions, antelopes, and giraffes, and other animals with which we have already come 

 in collision." 



" You have omitted one," said Dick, significantly. 



" If my list were twice as long, it would omit scores." 



" But I conceive this to be the most important of alL" 



" What is that ? " 



" The gorilla." 



Mr. Godkin smiled in return, and said: 



We shall see." 



