If I did the boss would find I was puttin' on flesh, an' I'd be doin' a
bunk."

"But I suppose a drop of Chinese brandy wouldn't entirely spoil your
figure, my boy."

The Chinese delicacies did find their way into the cage of the Missing
Link, quite a fine assortment of them, also the bottle of Celestial
spirits. Ammonia witnessed the process of transference that night, and
nearly went mad in his cage, springing about wildly, clinging to the
bars, squealing and certainly blaspheming in his peculiar monkey
gibberish, and Nicholas Crips sat in his cage, impishly eager to goad his
enemy to fury, and ate luscious figs and fine preserves, while the
gorilla strained at the intervening bars and shrilled his anguish.

After this there were other casual visits to the shop of Kit See, and
Ammonia's curiosity concerning the mysterious place from which the
Missing Link drew such delectable supplies kept him at the back of his
cage for hours together, peering at the wall, scratching it, and whining
impotently.

Evidently Kit See was troubled in his mind, too, for he came into the
show to examine the door in the wall, and finding the cage of the Missing
Link right up against it, and the formidable monster sleeping in the
straw, was satisfied that the petty larcenist found access to his goods
in some other way.

On the Sunday, Nickie and the Living Skeleton walked abroad, seeing the
sights of Wangaroo, including a waterfall; a hanging rock, and a
cemetery, the latter the favourite resort of the elite and fashion of