Now for the last eight years it has been my greatest pleasure to visit the kennels, where as many as fifty dogs are kept constantly in training.

It was on my last visit that I got Hero.

His leg had been hurt in some accident on the training field.

It was thought that he was too much disabled to ever do good service again, so they allowed me to take him.

Two old cripples, I suppose they thought we were, comrades in misfortune.
"That was nearly a year ago.