90 BRUNO 



here, instead of leaving a shut-up house, where 

 he would have to drop his bag and start out to 

 look for us ! ' 



That moment, when I felt his arms around 

 me and heard his words of joy mingled with 

 Bruno's ecstatic yelps, paid for all of our end- 

 less, lonely hours. I dare say there was not in 

 all the world a happier group of three than sat 

 before our open fire that night. 



Every time Bruno dozed, he would awaken 

 with a start, and go to sniff and paw at Julius 

 to make sure it was n't a dream, that he really 

 had come back to us. 



Julius reported his business successfully con- 

 cluded ; a change in one of the time-tables had 

 enabled him to get back sooner than we had 

 dared to hope. 



The next day I received his letter, telling me 

 to look for him by the train on which he had 

 come the night before! 



In those days our mail not infrequently took 

 an ocean voyage on its way from one Florida 

 town to another quite near by, so we were never 

 surprised at anything in the mail line, except 

 a prompt delivery ! 



