I shut it up because it kept trying to get upstairs to his room.

It's a queer surly sort of brute, but fond enough of him.

He used to take it out for long walks.'?
"What kind of dog is it ?" "A retriever." "So that's all that happened that night, is it ?" said Barrant, in a meditative voice.

"You have told me all ?" Thalassa nodded.

His brown face remained expressionless, but his little dark eyes glittered warily, like a snake's.
"Think again, Thalassa," urged Barrant, in a voice of the softest insistence.