Anderson glanced at her, then back at the boy.

"At least--" said the boy, with a blurt of confidence which yielded nothing, but implied the recognition of a friend and understander in the man--"at--least I used to make believe I had an elephant when I lived in Hillfield." "Yes ?" said Anderson.

He made a movement to go, and the boy still kept at his side.
"And--" he added, but still with no tone of apology or confession, "I might have had an elephant." "Yes," said Anderson, "you might have." "And they did not know but what I might," said the boy, angrily.
Anderson nodded judicially.

"That's so, I suppose; only elephants are not very common as setter dogs for a boy to have around these parts." "It was a setter dog," said the boy, with a burst of innocence and admiration.

"How did you know ?" "Oh, I guessed." "You must be real smart," said the boy.