But with a difference.

Never once was the blind man impatient, while he spent hours each day in squatting on his hams and petting Jerry.

Yet, had he not done this, Jerry, who ate his food and who was growing accustomed to changing his masters, would have accepted Nalasu for master.

Further, it was fairly definite in Jerry's mind, after the devil devil doctor's tying him and flinging him amongst the other helpless dogs on the killing-ground, that all mastership of Agno had ceased.

And Jerry, who had never been without a master since his first days in the world, felt the imperative need of a master.
So it was, when the day came that the stick was untied from him, that Jerry remained, voluntarily in Nalasu's house.