Compelling Chords 



unutterable written all over her ex- 

 pressive countenance steal silently and 

 with dignity away not to return that 

 evening. It always seemed to me that 

 she departed rather in sorrow than in 

 anger, but just what it was that so 

 harrowed her unquestionably fine feel- 

 ings for she was an exceptionally 

 well-bred dog we were never able to 

 fathom. 



However, I did not set out to write 

 of dogs, fond as I am of good ones. We 

 can all make friends among them, and 

 nowhere may fidelity sublimated be so 

 frequently developed as in the case of 

 the dog you have cared for, nursed and 

 sheltered. The point is that if you are 

 so fortunate as to meet the one or the 

 two or the three individuals, as the case 

 may be, who possess that which is 

 perfectly keyed to your own spirit, 

 you will know it just as unerringly as 

 Fido realizes when his nerves are 

 played upon by the singing of some 

 one certain wire or string. And, on 



