Has he ?" "Are you speaking of Laddie ?" asked the Mistress, in dismay; as the slower-witted Master, stared and gulped.

"Why should he show any signs of hydrophobia?
He--" "If he hasn't, he will," rapped out the visitor.

"Or he would, if he wasn't put out of the way.

That's what I'm here for.

But I kind of hoped maybe you folks might have done it, yourselves.