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HOW DID THAT BRUTE GET IN HEKE, MISS (.1 ENMOR] 



" How did that brute get in here, 

 Miss Glenmore ? It's shut up now, 

 don't be frightened." He took her 

 hand and led her to a chair, while 

 the other people secured the prize 

 and explained all about the alarm 

 with the utmost ignorance and with 

 great volubility. 



" Why," she said, " It isn't a brute, 

 it's a nice grey kitty; it's perfectly 

 tame. It came in on the branches 

 of the tree, over the porch roof and 

 has stayed there the last two nights. 

 I supposed it was some one's pet 

 and that I should have to give it up; 

 but I should like it to keep." 



11 My dear Miss Glenmore," cried 



Ralph, " it is a cat, but a cat of some 

 strange Asiatic kind! It is a fi 

 beast. I cannot think- — why y< 

 Miss Glenmore, it is the animalthat 

 escaped from the show '" _. _^, 



And it was. "The lion " " the 

 tiger" — "the puma*' "tin- moun- 

 tain lion " the source of all the 

 citement and the center oi th 

 sensation, had slepl for two nights 

 in Fido's basket in Mary Glenmoi 

 room. 



Fido has his basket again, but 

 has never regained sole | ion 



of his mistre This adventure 



