106 BRUNO 



coaxing could move him. Noble creature! His 

 ideas of chivalry were not to be tampered with, 

 even by those who were his gods, his all! 



The next morning at breakfast I said to 

 Julius, 



"I am afraid Bruno will be ill staying in- 

 doors so closely. Can't you take him for a 

 little run before you go to the office?' 



"Yes," answered Julius, "I'll take him if 

 he'll go." 



" Oh, he '11 go fast enough. Dinah is here, 

 and he will think it safe to leave me." 



Bruno was delighted at the invitation, and 

 went tearing around the square four times 

 while Julius walked it once ; then came in, hot 

 and happy, to tell Catsie and me all about it. 



There was something so peculiarly tender 

 about our feelings for Bruno and his for us. 

 He was at once our protector and our depend- 

 ent. It is not strange that we never failed to 

 be thoroughly enraged when dog-lovers tried, 

 as they sometimes did, to coax us to sell him. 

 Sell our Bruno! True, we had tried to give 

 him away, but that was for his own good. 

 But to take money for him! To sell him!! 

 Unspeakable ! ! ! 



Three times we had nursed him through tiy- 



