Won't he be pleased ?" said Betty, so in earnest that she tried to lift the big brute in spite of his protesting yelps.
"You are a little trump to find him out in spite of all the horrid things that have been done to him.

We must have a rope to lead him, for he's got no collar and no muzzle.

He has got friends though, and I'd like to see any one touch him now.

Out of the way, there, boy!" Looking as commanding as a drum-major, Thorny cleared a passage, and with one arm about his neck, Betty proudly led her treasure magnanimously ignoring his late foes, and keeping his eye fixed on the faithful friend whose tender little heart had known him in spite of all disguises.
"I found him, sir," and the lad who had been most eager for the shooting, stepped forward to claim any reward that might be offered for the now valuable victim.
"I kept him safe till she came," added the jailer Jimmy, speaking for himself.
"I said he wasn't mad," cried a third, feeling that his discrimination deserved approval.
"Jud ain't my brother," said the fourth, eager to clear his skirts from all offence.
"But all of you chased and stoned him, I suppose?
You'd better look out or you'll get reported to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals." With this awful and mysterious threat, Thorny slammed the doctor's gate in the faces of the mercenary youths, nipping their hopes in the bud, and teaching them a good lesson.
After one astonished stare, Lita accepted Sancho without demur, and they greeted one another cordially, nose to nose, instead of shaking hands.
Then the dog nestled into his old place under the linen duster with a grunt of intense content, and soon fell fast asleep, quite worn out with fatigue.

No Roman conqueror bearing untold treasures with him, ever approached the Eternal City feeling richer or prouder than did Miss Betty as she rolled rapidly toward the little brown house with the captive won by her own arms.