I can testify to that.

If there is any fine or other penalty in connection with my dog's being here, I'm ready to settle for it.

But if you expect me to believe that Laddie did all this weird damage to your manuscript and your collection and your room,--why, that's absurd! Utterly absurd! Lad, never in his life,--" "The courts will think otherwise!" blazed Garretse, losing a fraction of his hard-held selfmastery.

"And the case shall go through every court in the land, since you persist in this idiotic denial of a proven fact.

I warn you, I shall--Look there!" he broke off, furiously, leveling a shakily vehement forefinger at Lad.