Rainsford held his breath. The general's eyes had left the
What logical prediction can be made from this
ground and were traveling inch by inch up the tree.
passage?
Rainsford froze there, every muscle tensed for a spring.
Rainsford will fall asleep and fall out of the tree.
But the sharp eyes of the hunter stopped before they
reached the limb where Rainsford lay; a smile spread
General Zaroff will kill Rainsford in the tree.
over his brown face. Very deliberately he blew a smoke
General Zaroff will return and will keep hunting
ring into the air; then he turned his back on the tree and
Rainsford.
walked carelessly away, back along the trail he had come.
The swish of the underbrush against his hunting boots
Rainsford has beaten General Zaroff and is now
grew fainter and fainter.
safe.
- "The Most Dangerous Game,"
Richard Connell