His Other Wife: A Novel — page 172: what you’re looking at

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164 A DUMB. SCOUT. Leda was standing just where: he had left her.. She seemed stunned or epelinp ane. so absent was. her ex- pression, as he said: | ? “Ts not the dog, Mark, steed up somewhere?” ‘“Ves; they locked him up yesterday to prevent his following Faith, and no one has thought to open his kennel this morning, I suppose. ” ‘‘ Where is his kennel?” _.** Out there toward the stables.” Westen took his way to the spot where the faithful eo ‘was imprisoned, and loudly gtieving for. the fair . little hands that were accustomed to bring his breakfest and release him from his sleeping apartment. _. Drawing the bolts, the young man called the dno to him, and. bidding Mark follow, which he gladly did, being quite used to the presence and kindly attention of Faith’s friend, Warren mounted his horse and rodé away, with the beautiful setter at the heels of his fleet Arabian. It was more expeditious for him to ride across the country to the scene of the previous day’s fez, than to encounter the delay of getting a boat to take him by the water, and, drawing the rein upon his willing steed, he traversed the intervening miles within a wonderful brief space of time. , ..Armived at the spot near the old. fort which Leda had indicated as the one from which Faith had set forth with Vernois, Warren watched the motions of. the. dog with intense anxiety. = ‘ Eomicbooks.¢co