He would not give Betty the satisfaction of seeing that he had been hurt.
"Lonesome," explained Betty, frigidly, "was a dog--he was Bob's dog.
Bob loved him.

I suppose you didn't know that--you couldn't have known.

We believed him to be part wolf.

Bob found him on the Lazette trail, where he had evidently been left behind, probably forgotten, by some traveler who had camped there.

Bob brought him home and raised him.