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Victory.
The entrance of the puppy, to liken small things to great, was the coming of Blucher in Kate's life, for the battle turned, and all in five minutes she had gone from defeat to victory.

She sat by the fire with Joan sleeping in her arms, and the puppy in turn in the arms of Joan.

It was such a foolish trick of chance that had given her all this, she was almost inclined to laugh, but something of tragedy in the faces of Buck and Lee Haines made her thoroughly serious.

And she readily saw the truth for after all a child's brain is a small affair; it holds so much and no more.