Copyright 1903 by G. Barrie & Sons
PAUL AND THE CROSS IN THE RAVINE
They then saw the owner of the Tower on his knees beside a grassy moundat one side of the road, in the centre of which stood a wooden cross.
NOVELS
BY
Paul de Kock
VOLUME XIV
PAUL AND HIS DOG
VOL. II
THE JEFFERSON PRESS
BOSTON NEW YORK
Copyrighted, 1903-1904, by G. B. & Sons.
PAUL AND HIS DOG
PART II
THE CHAMOUREAUS
CONTENTS
I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII
VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV
I
THE INSTINCT OF DOGS
“You have not told us yet, monsieur le docteur,” said Agathe, “how thelittle fellow fell into the water. I fancy that he was not trying toplay a trick on himself?”
“Oh, no! mademoiselle; but still that accident happened to him as aresult of his evil disposition. In the first place, he did not fall intothe water—he went in himself. My young gentleman was pleased to bathe,although it isn’t warm enough yet for bathing in the river; but he hadbeen forbidden to do it, and that was a sufficient reason for him to doit. He had also been told, when he did bathe, not to go to thatparticular part of the Marne, because, on account of the eddies andcurrents, it was very dangerous