It flashed over me that it must be one of those escaped circus animals, so I just let loose and blazed away at him." The surgeon stood up and looked down at the still form at his feet.

"It's too bad," he said.

"He was a grand old dog, the finest St.Bernard I ever saw.

How that little girl loved him! It will just about break her heart when she finds out what's happened to him." "Don't!" begged the sentry, huskily.

"Don't say anything like that.