I turned triumphantly to the professor.

"You are the very man I want," he muttered; "the very man--the very

man."

I looked at Daisy Holroyd. She returned my glance with a defiant little

smile.

"Waal," said Captain McPeek, driving up, "here we be! Git out, Frisby."

Frisby, fat, nervous, and sentimental, hopped out of the cart.

"Come!" said the professor, impatiently moving across the dunes. I

walked with Daisy Holroyd. McPeek and Frisby followed. The yellow dog

walked by himself.

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