The merest fraction of a note from the horn brought the two free dogs
to their master, and before he could lift Dandy over the fence Charmer
was on the trail. She threw her head high and for the first time
filled the resounding timber with the music of her bay.


["Mr. Chester," murmured Mlle. Chapdelaine, and once more he ceased to
read. Mme. Castanado had laid her hands tightly to her face. Yet now
she smilingly dropped them, saying: "Seraphine--Marcel--please to pazz
around that cake an' wine. Well, I su'pose there are yet in the
worl'--in Afrique--Asia--even Europe--several kin' of cuztom mo' wicked
than that. And still I'm sorry that ever tranzpire. But, Mr. Chezter,
if you'll resume?"

Chester once more resumed.]




XV

Hardy's incitements were no longer whispers.

"Dandy! Dandy!" he cried, with wild elation of voice and still no
emotion in his face. "Niggeh-fellah thah. Dandy! Ah, Dandy! look him
out!"

The music swelled from Dandy's throat. Away went the pair. The
younger couple, in yoke, trembled and moaned to be after them. The two
clerks had swung down three or four rails from the fence, and with