[What Necessity Knows by Lily Dougall]@TWC D-Link bookWhat Necessity Knows CHAPTER VI 2/8
Sissy was not there. Bates went in and found one of her frocks, and, bringing it out, tried to put the animal on the scent of her track.
He stooped, and held the garment under the dog's nose.
The dog sniffed it, laid his nose contentedly on Bates's arm, looked up in his face, and wagged his tail with most annoying cheerfulness. "Where is she ?" jerked Bates.
"Where is she? Seek her, good dog." The dog, all alert, bounded off a little way and returned again with an inconsequent lightness in tail and eye.
One of his ears had been torn in a battle with the strange dogs, but he was more elated by the conflict than depressed by the wound.
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