Little returned to London. Passing through London one day he met a dog-fancier. "Buy a nice poodle, sir?"
Something in the animal attracted his attention. "Fido!" he gasped.
The dog yelped.
Little bought him. On taking off his collar a piece of paper rustled to the floor. He knew the handwriting and kissed it. It ran:--"TO THE HON. AUGUSTUS RABY--I cannot marry you. If I marry any one" (sly puss) "it will be the man who has twice saved my life,--Professor Little.
"CAROLINE COVENTRY."
And she did.
