“THANK GOODNESS,” SAID BOB when he and the ranger checked the cage at first light the next morning and found a perfect specimen of panthera pardus pardus pacing up and down the cage. It spat and growled at them, furious to have been outwitted. It was a good six feet long. Bob judged it to weigh at least a hundred and fifty pounds.
“Third time lucky!” he said under his breath.
The cage was loaded onto a Game Department truck to be driven off the island. The captive would be released in the National Game Park at Njogo, up country in Opunto, where there was a shortage of leopards.
Handsome as the creature was, Bob was not sorry to see it go. Maybe things would settle down now and he could get on with some real work.
Sir Phillip congratulated Bob on the success of his mission, saying he ha
