Would you permit me to take cerebral measurements of your so-called Missing Link?
I am interested in this matter, having opposed the Darwinian hypothesis for many years." Here Mahdi's snarling became diabolical, and he leaped about in a terrifying way.
"Certainly," said the Professor, "Certainly, Mahdi is always at the service of science.

But I warn you he is apt to be treacherous with strangers.

He almost tore the arm off Professor Fitzpoof, of Dresden, and he nearly disembowelled a doctor in Dublin in 1895." "Oh," said the gentleman with the notebook, doubtingly, "in that case I had better not, perhaps." Mr.McKnight did not go away for some time.

He lingered, watching Mahdi with great curiosity.

He came back in the evening, too, and hung about the museum for hours.