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...Story Thus Far: Biff Bundie, University undercoverman disguised as graduate student Kevin Stoddard Health, found himself investigating a bizarre murder in Mallinckrodt from a novel angle: a mysterious phrase--"Ze Bronts Rhinot-across"--spoken hurriedly over the phone by a foreigner. After unsuccessfully trying to convince a Cliffie that it was a coffee shop, Biff decided that The Bronze Rhinoceros must be the nickname of a professor, and he spent an afternoon trailing Karandas Nathasingh, a portly instructor in Indian Studies. Eventually, Bundle learned that The Bronze Rhinoceros was one of a pair of large statue outside the Biology Labs...
With trembling fingers, Biff pulled the sheet of paper from the beast's born and turned it face up. For the moment the forgot Karandas and the angry crowd; for the moment Bundie's attention was riveted only to the message scrawled in a nervous hand. He could almost hear the maker of that desperate writing speak the words: "Fool! Zair iss no time ant much danchur. I could not vait any longer, I vill call you again...
Unfortunately for Biff, his peek-a-boo antics did not go unnoticed. Karandas Nathasingh, instructor in Indian Studies, on his way to the Biology Labs to meet a fellow countryman for lunch, caught a distinct glimpse of the vacant-faced young man lurking behind the statue of John Harvard. Karandas weighed over 350 pounds, and unlike most fat men was of an exceedingly peevish disposition. "Someone," Karandas's mind registered, "is staring at me. This is intolerable. Worse than that, impolite. Has he never seen a fat Indian before?" With that, the Indian increased his speed and flew past Hunt...
Karandas, turning on Kirkland Street, managed to get another look at his pursuer. As he swung onto Divinity Avenue, he contemplated an attack. Words of wrath formed themselves in his overheated brain, and his pace began to slacken. His unusual exertions were catching up with him--and so was Biff Bundie. On the steps of the Biology Building, Karandas finally ground to a halt. Magnificently he turned to face the young policeman. "I do not know who you are, sir," Karandas wheezed in a high-pitched whine quite foreign to his normally well-modulated tones, "but I must tell...
...Rhinoceros?" gasped Biff, looking backwards over his head at the green beast that sheltered him. "Rhinoceros? I though the hippopotamus had the horn." And then his heart missed a beat: for impaled on the horn of the animal, and flapping gently in the breeze, was a large piece of green and white paper...