By this time Nickie had inflicted no little grievous bodily harm upon the unhappy Ivo, and he allowed Thunder and the Living Skeleton to drag him off, and thrust him back into the cage.
Ivo arose in great wrath.
"This is unprovoked assault and battery," he cried, shaking his fist at the Missing Link.

"I'll have the law on you." "But, my dear sir," protested the Professor, "you must have provoked the poor animal." "Animal be blowed.

You can't jolly me.

Think I don't know a fake when I see one, I'll have him run in in half a tick." Professor Thunder endeavoured to argue with Ivo, and hinted at compensation, but the injured man fled from the tent in a state of blind anger.
"Let him go." said the Missing Link, vindictively.

"He won't come back, He's had all the damages he wants." But he did come back.