Kane! Come hyar!" Belllounds tramped around the corral, and finally found the hound in question, asleep in a dusty hole.

Kane was the only beautiful dog in the lot.

If half of him was bloodhound the other half was shepherd, for his black and brown hair was inclined to curl, and his head had the fine thoroughbred contour of the shepherd.

His ears, long and drooping and thin, betrayed the hound in him.

Kane showed no disposition to be friendly.