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Discipline.
A light step crossed the outer room, with something peculiar in its lightness, as if the heel were not touching the floor, with the effect of the padded fall of the feet of some great cat; there was both softness and the sense of weight.

First the wolf-dog pricked his ears and turned towards the door, the pudgy fist closed convulsively over Vic's thumb, and then his rescuer stood in the entrance.
"Hello, partner," called Vic.

"I got company, you see.

The door blew open and I asked your little girl in." "I told you not to come here," said the other.