At One Of These Places, While We Were Getting Water.
Cagey
happened to be asleep, and a recruit, thinking that Hal was
ill-treated by being kept tied all the time, unfastened the chain from
his collar and led him from the car.
The first thing the dog saw was another dog, and alas! a greyhound
belonging to Ryan, an old soldier. The next thing he saw was the dear,
old, beautiful plains, for which he had pined so long and wearily. The
two dogs had never seen each other before, but hounds are clannish and
never fail to recognize their own kind, so with one or two jumps by
way of introduction, the two were off and out of sight before anyone
at the cars noticed what they were doing. I was sitting by the window
in our car and saw the dogs go over the rolling hill, and saw also
that a dozen or more soldiers were running after them. I told Faye
what had happened, and he started out and over the hill on a hard run.
Time passed, and we in the cars watched, but neither men nor dogs came
back. Finally a long whistle was blown from the engine, and in a short
time the train began to move very slowly. The officers and men came
running back, but the dogs were not with them! My heart was almost
broken; to leave my beautiful dog on the plains to starve to death was
maddening. I wanted to be alone, so to the dressing room I went, and
with face buried in a portiere was sobbing my very breath away when
Mrs. Pierce, wife of Major Pierce, came in and said so sweetly and
sympathetically:
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