CHAPTER TEN.
A LION IN THE TRAP.
There was something singular in the lion seeking shelter in so unusual a place; but it showed his sagacity.

There was no other cover within convenient distance, and to have reached any bush that would have afforded him concealment, since the passage of the locusts, would have been difficult.

The mounted hunters could easily have overtaken him, had he attempted to run off.

He was aware that the house was uninhabited.

He had been prowling around it all the night--perhaps within it--and therefore knew what sort of place it was.
The brute's instinct was correct.