I love a dumb brute too well to let it suffer, but in this case I'd give two hundred dollars more if I could make them live and have Barron know it." They left the room, and Miss Laura sat turning the sheet of paper over and over, with a kind of horror in her face.

It was a very dirty piece of paper, but by-and-by she made a discovery.

She took it in her hand and went out-doors.

I am sure that the poor horse lying on the grass knew her.

He lifted his head, and what a different expression he had now that his hunger had been partly satisfied.