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 much he suffered. The sun touched the western horizon and passed from sight and still they sped on.

About ten o'clock the man stopped the car beside the road, and taking a pail from the automobile, he went to a brook nearby and got some water.

He then took the stick from the dog's mouth and gave him enough slack from the rope so that he could raise his head. Then he held some water under his muzzle.

Silversheene would rather have drunk blood from the man's throat, but he was famishing, and his tongue was badly swollen, so he slowly licked the water, occasionally stopping to growl. The man then ate a lunch and offered the dog a biscuit which he disdainfully refused.

In fifteen minutes they were again on the way. For two days and two nights the car hummed on its way while Silversheene lay upon his side on the floor. He was seasick from the motion and heartsick as well, but he still had plenty of fight left in him. For