It never rose again, for now Darrin used the pole as a club, raining down blows upon the dangerous animal until he was sure that there was no life left in it.
"Darrin, that was wonderful nerve of yours!" gasped Fred with admiration wrung from him in spite of himself.

"And you saved my life!" "I wasn't thinking of that," said Dave grimly, as he picked up the lantern.

"Don't you believe I'll ever brag about having saved your life.

Now to the car, and be quick." Fred, stung by the contemptuous answer, felt his resentment raging.
He darted forward so swiftly that he might have been able to leap into the car and get away with it, had not something else happened.
For Towser, though he had run away from a rabid specimen of his own species, had circled about.

Now he leaped into the automobile, growling, just as Fred would have sprung in.
"That's right, Towser.