it. He's HERE! You don't
dare touch me! You won't ever dare touch me! He--"

She choked, in her shout of weird exultation. The man, ridden by his
racial superstition, stared open-mouthed at the tiny demon who
screeched defiance at him.

And, there, in the dim shadows of the barn, his overwrought fancy
seemed to make out a grim formless Thing, close at the child's side;
crouching in silent menace.

The heat of the day--the shock of seeing Lad appear from nowhere and
stand thus, by the veranda, a few minutes earlier--these and the
once-timid Sonya's confident belief in Lad's presence,--all wrought on
the stupid, easily-thrilled mind of the Slav.

"The werewolf!" he babbled; throwing down the belt, and bolting out
into the friendly sunlight.

"The werewolf! I--I saw it! I--at least--God of Russia, what DID I see?
What did SHE see?"

Over a magnificent lifeless body on the veranda bent the two who had
loved Lad best and whom he had served so worshipfully for sixteen
years. The Mistress's face was wet with tears she did not try to check.
In the Master's throat was a lump that made speech painful. For the
tenth time he leaned down and laid his fingers above the still heart of
the dog; seeking vainly for sign of fluttering.

"No use!" he said, thickly, harking back by instinct to a
half-remembered phrase. "The engine has broken down."

"No," quoted the sobbing Mistress, wiser than he. "'The engineer has
left it.'"

THE END

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