The Lion Sleeps Tonight - A Short Story

Meet Colonel Quentin James Abernathy (Ret.), former member of Her Majesty's Armed Forces. Colonel Abernathy retired some years ago as a bachelor, and now lives off his pension and his family's fortune. He is quite old, and belongs to a stately London gentleman's club. In The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Colonel Abernathy tells a tale to a club acquaintance - a tale of 1950s British Guyana in South America, and the Colonel's encounter with a lion. But this is no ordinary lion. This lion has been extinct