friend's fur, and cry.

"DON'T!" Dorcas was wailing. "Oh, you can't punish me any worse than
I'm--"

Her sob-broken voice scaled high and swelled out into a cry of stark
astonishment. Slowly Chum was lifting his splendid head and blinking
stupidly about him!

The fender had smitten the collie just below the shoulder, in a mass of
fur-armored muscles. In falling into the wayside ditch his skull had
come into sharp contact with a rock. Knocked senseless by the
concussion, he had lain as dead, for the best part of five minutes.
After which he had come slowly to his senses--bewildered, bruised and
sore, but otherwise no worse for the accident.

He came to himself to find a weeping woman clutching him stranglingly
round the neck, while she tried to kiss his dust-smeared head.

Chum did not care at all for this treatment, especially from a
comparative stranger. But he saw his adored master looking so
idiotically happy--over that or something else--that the dog forbore to
protest.

"If you really wanted him put out of the way so bad--" began Link, when
he could trust himself to speak.

He got no further. Dorcas Chatham turned on him in genuine savageness.
The big eyes were no longer grave and patronizing. The air of aloofness
had fallen from the girl like a discarded garment.

"Link!" she blazed. "Link Ferris! If you ever dare speak about getting
rid of--of MY dog,--I'll--I'll never speak to you again, as long as--as
long as we're married!"

THE END

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