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Updated: June 30, 2025
The child was trapped. Here there was no earthly chance for escape. Here, too, thanks to the closed door, Laddie could not come to her aid. In palsied dread, she stood shaking and sobbing; as the man walked silently toward her. Ruloff's flat face widened in a grin of anticipation. He had a big score to pay. And he was there to pay it.
He was well out of sight of the house. The superintendent and the two other men were working on the far side of the hill. It seemed an eminently safe time to exercise his parental authority. And, hand uplifted, he took a threatening step toward the little girl. Sonya cowered back in mortal dread. There was no mistaking the import of Ruloff's tone or gesture.
As soon as she was out of Ruloff's sight, she set down her basket, and flung both puny arms about the dog's neck in an agony of gratitude. Her squeeze almost strangled the weak old collie. But there was love in it. And because of that, he reveled in the hurt. "You won't let him thump me!" she whispered in the dog's ear. "You won't let him. I'd never be afraid of him, if you were there.
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