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 for he began walking slowly about the master, sniffing eagerly at his trousers.

Twice he made the circle, and then he looked up into the man's face with a bright relieved expression, and gave two short glad barks.

"You think I will do?" the man asked. Pierre barked twice, which was interpreted as "Why, you will do, perhaps not quite up to my real master, but still a rather good fellow who knows dogs."

Then it was that the man noticed the chain about the dog's neck and the War Cross.

"What have we here?" he inquired. "A decorated knight, or a soldier?"

He reached for the cross to examine it. Pierre backed away, wrinkling his upper lip and looking belligerent.

"I wouldn't steal your War Cross,