The task was over, accomplished within 20 minutes. The Professor had fully vindicated his claim.
'The actual hunt defies adequate description. The performance, if one dares to use the term, was $0 p weird. His right hand tightly bound in a handkerchief, his wrist held by 'Mr. Cameron, the Professor, obviously in an' abnormal state, was [sometimes like a man demented.
At times he strained like a bloodhound on the leash, leading the party which gathered in strength at every stride, along Queen's Road Central towards the City Hall Occasionally he would pause, take two steps forward and three back as if in doubt, and then continue with renewed energy.
Outside the Astor House build ing, he pulled Mr. Cameron into the road, but was soon on the trail again, and continued almost without hesitation until he had passed the City Hall, Hereabouts he almost ran across the road towards the Murray Parade ground, and walked frantically along the path, once jumping up as though to climb the railings. Suddenly he reeled and put his hand to his head and then headed for the Cricket Club down Jackson Road,
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