Leaps across train tracks

Then a man in a taxi driver’s hat stumbled across the street, his face ashen. “It—it—there! That way!” he shouted, waving a frantic arm eastward, toward the dark shadow of the elevated tracks. The man’s eyes were wide, and his mouth worked soundlessly before he began to scream, “It jumped! I swear, I seen it! It jumped from that building there, to the El tracks, and from the tracks to the building on the other side! What was it? What—”


Merian C. Cooper's King Kong, Chapter 22