Now I was to find out to my cost that it was
also very cunning. I had imagined that it was
in panic flight, and that I had only to pur-
sue it. The idea that it might turn upon me
never entered my excited brain. I have already
explained that the passage down which I was
racing opened into a great central cave. Into
this I rushed, fearful lest I should lose all trace
of the beast. But he had turned upon his own
traces, and in a moment we were face to face.

Chapter 5