He gave a short deep bark of pleasure, and then began leaping and tugging at his chain to reach his acquaintance.

Archie came close to him now.

Hector reared on his hind legs, and placed his great paws on his shoulders, and licked his face with whines of joy.
"He knows you, sure enough," the man said; "and maybe we shall get on better now.

At any rate there may be some chance of sleep, for the brute's howls every night since he has been brought here have kept the whole camp awake." "No wonder!" Archie said, "when he has been accustomed to be petted and cared for; he resents being chained up." "Would you unchain him ?" the man asked.
"That would I," Archie replied; "and I doubt not that he will stay with me." "It may be so," the man replied; "but you had best not unchain him without leave from the earl, for were he to take it into his head to run away, I would not give a groat for your life.

But I will go and acquaint the earl that the dog knows you, and ask his orders as to his being unchained." In two or three minutes he returned.
"The earl says that on no account is he to be let free.