doggedly.

"Cousin Harry!" and the young girl stood up very straight and tall,
her brown eyes flashing, and one hand pointing at me; "will you let
that pass? That animal has been wronged, it looks to you to right it.
The coward who has maimed it for life should be punished. A
child has a voice to tell its wrong a poor, dumb creature must
suffer in silence; in bitter, bitter silence. And," eagerly, as the
young man tried to interrupt her, "you are doing the man himself
an injustice. If he is bad enough to ill-treat his dog, he will ill-treat
his wife and children. If he is checked and punished now for his
cruelty, he may reform. And even if his wicked heart is not
changed, he will be obliged to treat them with outward kindness,
through fear of punishment."

The young man looked convinced, and almost as ashamed as if he
had been the one to crop my ears. "What do you want me to do?"
he said, slowly, and looking sheepishly at the boys who were
staring open-mouthed at him and the young girl.

The girl pulled a little watch from her belt. "I want you to report
that man immediately. It is now five o'clock. I will go down to the
police station with you, if you like."

"Very well," he said, his face brightening, and together they went
off to the house.

CHAPTER IV THE MORRIS BOYS ADD TO MY NAME

THE boys watched them out of sight, then one of them, whose