Jump
into the car, and we'll take your collie there in ten minutes.
He'll be well treated. And you and your wife can go to see him,
every day you're here. Come along. I--I hate to seem inhospitable
about this thing. But you see for yourself how it is. We--"
"Certainly," assented the Master. "I'll go in and get him and
explain to my wife. Don't let it make you feel uncomfortable. We
both understand."
Which accounts for the fact that Lad, within the next half hour,
was preparing to spend his first night away from home and from
the two people who were his gods. He was not at all happy. It had
been an interesting day. But its conclusion did not please
Laddie, in any manner.
And, when things did not please Lad, he had a very determined
fashion of trying to avoid them;--unless perchance the Mistress
or the Master had decreed otherwise.
The Master had brought him to this obnoxious strange place. But
he had not bidden Lad stay there. And the collie merely waited
his chance to get out. At ten o'clock, one of the kennelmen made
the night rounds. He swung open the door of the little stall in
which Lad had been locked for the night.
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