Then he turned and stumbled back towards the house.
Instantly, Barry began to work at expanding and depressing the lungs of the huge animal as he might have worked to bring a man back to life.
"Watch him!" whispered the doctor to Kate Cumberland.

"He is closer to that dog--that wolf, it looks like--than he has ever been to any human being!" She would not answer, but she turned her head quickly away from the man and his beast.
"Are you afraid to watch ?" challenged Byrne, for his anger at Barry's blunt refusals still made his blood hot.

"When your father lay at death's door was he half so anxious as he is now?
Did he work so hard, by half?
See how his eyes are fixed on the muzzle of the beast as if he were studying a human face!" "No, no!" breathed the girl.
"I fell you, look!" commanded the doctor.

"For there's the solution of the mystery.

No mystery at all.