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At the same time he tucked the wriggling dog under his right arm, holding him thus momentarily safe, and pressed the self-starter button. There was a subdued whir. A move of Halding's foot and a release of the brake, and the car started forward. "Stand clear!" he ordered. "I'm going." The jolt of the sudden start was too much for the Mistress's balance on the running-board. Back she toppled.
Half stunned by the blow, and with the breath knocked out of him, Bruce none the less gathered himself together with lightning speed and launched his bulk once more for Halding's throat. This time he missed his mark for several things happened all at once. At the dog's first onslaught, Halding's foot had swung forward, along with his fist, in an instinctive kick. The kick did not reach Bruce.
Halding's motorcar the dog had found a soul and the rest had followed as a natural course of growth. At the autumn dog-show, in Hampton, a "dark-sable-and-white" collie of unwonted size and beauty walked proudly into the ring close to the Mistress's side, when the puppy class was called a class that includes all dogs under twelve months old.
Halding's name, against the Mistress, as a "contributory cause" of his client's accident. The suit never came to trial. It was dropped, indeed, with much haste. Not from any change of heart on the plaintiff's behalf; but because, at that juncture, Dr. Halding chanced to be arrested and interned as a dangerous Enemy Alien.
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