From a safe distance on the running-board, he flourished this,
whooping the while in a shrill and dissuasive manner. Somewhere
down the street was heard a responsive yell, and a small, jerky,
olive-green policia pranced into view.
Thereupon a strange thing happened. The rescuing knight relaxed
his grip, leaped the back of his seat, dropped off the car, and
darted like a hunted hare across a compound, around a wall, and so
into the unknown, deserting his lady fair, if not precisely in the
hour of greatest need, at least in a situation fraught with
untoward possibilities. Indeed, it seemed as if these
possibilities might promptly become actualities, for the diplomat
turned his stimulated wrath upon the girl, and was addressing her
in tones too emphatic to be mistaken when a large angular form
interposed itself, landing with a flying leap on the seat between
them.
"Move!" the newly arrived one briefly bade Herr von Plaanden.
Herr von Plaanden, feeling the pressure of a shoulder formed upon
the generous lines of a gorilla's, and noting the approach of the
policia on the other side, was fain to obey.
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