I gave an exclamation of pleasure, and the dog, encouraged, stood up and laid a caressing paw on my arm.
"You know Leo, of course," said Heliobas, turning to me.

"He went to see Raffaello while you were at Cannes.

He is a wonderful animal--more valuable to me than his weight in gold." Prince Ivan, whose transient moodiness had passed away like a bad devil exorcised by the power of good wine, joined heartily in the praise bestowed on this four-footed friend of the family.
"It was really through Leo," he said, "that you were induced to follow out your experiments in human electricity, Casimir, was it not ?" "Yes," replied Heliobas, calling the dog, who went to him immediately to be fondled.

"I should never have been much encouraged in my researches, had he not been at hand.

I feared to experimentalize much on my sister, she being young at the time--and women are always frail of construction--but Leo was willing and ready to be a victim to science, if necessary.