Tom, Dick and Harry might attract the notice of strangers by theirpersuasive ways; Jack McMillan compel admiration by his magnificence;Irish and Rover win caresses by their affectionate demonstrations. Butafter all, in storm and stress, with perhaps a life at stake, it was tohim, to Baldy the obscure, to Baldy "formerly of Golconda, now ofNome," that his master had turned inside his hour of greatest need.

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IX

With the Flight of Time