convulsively from head to foot; and his desolate gaze continued
to trace the Master's receding figure out of sight. Then, with a
long sigh, he lay down, heavily, his head between his white
forepaws, and resigned himself to whatever of future misery his
deities might have ordained for him.

Ensued a fortnight of mental and bodily anguish, as the inland-
reared dog tasted the horrors of a voyage in a rolling ship,
through heaving seas. Afterward, came the landing at a British
port and the train ride to the camp which was to be his home for
the next three months.

Bruce's sense of smell told him the camp contained more dogs than
ever he had beheld in all his brief life put together. But his
hearing would have led him to believe there were not a dozen
other dogs within a mile of him.

From the encampment arose none of the rackety barking which
betokens the presence of many canines, and which deafens visitors
to a dog-show.

One of the camp's first and most stringent rules forbade barking,
except under special order. These dogs--or the pick of them--were
destined for work at the front. The bark of a dog has a carrying
quality greater than the combined shouting of ten men. It is the
last sound to follow a balloonist, after he has risen above the
reach of all other earth-noises.

Hence, a chance bark, rising through the night to where some
enemy airman soared with engines turned off, might well lead to