With Lad, it fared otherwise.
The great dog had braced himself, with all his might, for the muscle-wrenching heave.

Wherefore, he had no chance to spring clear, in time to avoid the car.

This, no doubt, he had realized, when he sprang to his adored mate's rescue.

For Lad's brain was uncanny in its cleverness.

That same cleverness, more likely than mere chance,--now came to his own aid.
The left front wheel struck him and struck him fair.