I have just heard of it from Mr.Turner.' "'Your dog ?' repeated Mary, raising her pretty blue eyes to his face in bewilderment.
"'Yes,' he said, 'he ran off to the Grange--his old home, you know--oh, I beg your pardon! I am forgetting to tell you that I am Walter H----,--in the night, and must have tried to find his way into my room in the way he used to do.

I always left the door unlatched for him.' "Instead of replying, Mary turned round and flew straight off into the room where I was.
"'Oh, Laura,' she exclaimed, 'it _was_ a dog; Mr.Walter H---- has just come to tell us.

Are you not delighted?
Now we can fix for the Grange at once, and it will all be right.

Come quick, and hear about it.' "I jumped up, and, without even waiting to smooth my hair, hurried back into the sitting-room with Mary.

Our visitor, very much amused at our excitement, explained the whole, and sent downstairs for 'Captain,' a magnificent retriever, who, on being told to beg our pardon, looked up with his dear pathetic brown eyes in Mary's face in a way that won her heart at once.