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oppressed with care and manifesting by doleful 

 barks some deep grief, people followed it into the 

 forest, watched its actions, and saw that it stopped 

 on a mound of freshly turned earth, where its lamen- 

 tations became still more plaintive. ' ' 



"No doubt they dug and the crime was disco v- 

 eredl" 



"Struck with the fresh mound of earth and the 

 dog's howls -at this spot, they dug and found the 

 dead man, to whom a more honorable burial was 

 then given ; but there was nothing to make them sus- 

 pect the author of the murder." 



"And what became of the dog?" asked Emile. 



"After having thus apprized Aubry's friends and 

 relatives that its master had been miserably assas- 

 sinated, there remained a more difficult task for it to 

 accomplish ; namely, to expose the murderer. A rel- 

 ative of the dead man had adopted the dog and was 

 in the habit of taking the animal out with him when 

 he w r ent to walk. One day the dog chanced to spy 

 the assassin, Macaire, in company with other gentle- 

 men. To leap at his throat for the purpose of biting 

 and strangling him, was the affair of an instant. ' ' 



"Bravo! Good dog! Strangle the rascal!" 

 cried Emile in great excitement. 



"You are going too fast, my friend," his uncle 

 remonstrated. "No one as yet suspected that Ma- 

 caire was the author of the horrible crime. They 

 draw off the dog, beat it, and drive it away. The 

 animal keeps returning in a rage, and as it is not 

 allowed to come near it struggles, barks from a 



