The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-07-07
STORY OF A m0NGREL-.
Nv Count Heinrich Won sohullcrn.

had his big watch dog he would surely
have hecn robbed "A long time ago, mas
much as everybody knew that he was
quite wealthy and always kept MS
money In tho house.
His house, witch had been butt ac-
cordlng to hts own ideas and plans
wat situated IN n lonely spot near Il
main road on the edge of an immense
forest. And In this he lived quito alone,
except for an old rheumatic and deaf
seTavnt gtrl.
l had often tried to persuade him
to hire q valet, but the very Idea was
enough to make him lily Into a raEe
and declare that ns LONE rs ne nao
his dog to wake him up If burglars
should come, he was we'll aoIe 10 ue-
fend himself,
One day he came to my office in town
and said that his faithful dog had sud
denly died and that he must have an
other, not TO do II fighting, as ne
would attend to that himself. but to CT
as vidette and notify him OF the APP
proach Of the enemy In time FOR him TO
get out of bed and grasp his rifle, Whlch
he always kept loaded. =,
He told me that the dog had died
very suddenly, and l Immediately sus-
pected that it had been poisoned. ad-
Vised him to advertise for u new dog.
but this he did not care TO do, saying
that a mar with a large dog had al
ready been TO see him and tried to
make him buy the animal.
And how long after the death or
your dog did this man come to YOU
| asked.
The very next day" he replied;
1T seems that the news must have
spread very fast, Did You know the
man?"
NO, I had never laid eyes on him
before"
Satisfied that something was wrong
l said;
Now Captain, I should just like to
have q few days rest and II you do not
object, l will go home With you and stay
a week or so, just 50 that your old
serNan Won be scared out of her wits
and that I may see that the owner Of
the dog does not get the best of YOU
The old soldier was delighted at this,
as he always was when n one was
found willing to accept his hospitality,
drink his old Burgundy, smoke his old
HaVanas n listen to his stories OF
the three wars in which he had covered
himself with glory n Won his Iron
Cross.
Having disposed of a good luncheon
In the "POSthOf" we set out on foot for
the Captains bungalow, as l always
called It, which vas about ten miles
distant.
My room was next to that OF the old
warrior. 1t was a roomy den, with
massive furniture ana walls covered
with all kinds of military trophies, and
the first night passed without anything
happening.
The next day the man came around
with the dog, d great hairy, good nat
ured looking beast of no particular
breed.
must say that l liked the dog much
better than the man, who explained
hat its name was Wotan, and that it
burglars. The price was SO low that |
could not help advising the Captain to
buy the dog.
When the man had left we chained
the dog in the spacious hall, but 1t
kept on bowling SC terribly that we
decided to take a walk, hoping that 1t
would quiet down before we returned.
But when We came back Wotan was
still bowling. We went 10 sit down in
the room of the Captain by a dusty
bottle of excellent vintage and com
menCed our memories. but all through
the night the dog kept IN.
In the morning the old servant told
US that it had refused to cat.
The Captain by this time began to
think Of returning the dog, but did not
know where to look for the owner.
Two days passed and stil the dog
had eaten nothing. In the morning
the Captain proposed that l take a
walk alone, as he had some writing to
do. When I returned, he told me that
the former Wnc Of the dog ha1 been
In and told him how to treat the beast.
/ did not Ike the looks OF things,
especially as | heard that the man ha,
been shown all over the house. which
he declared Interested him very much,
aud he'd been alone In the rooms for
about ten minutes, while the Captain
went down in the cellar for 4 bottle Of
wine.
l therefore carefully examined the
place, n to my surprise round that
the rifle hanging near my old friends
Oea was not loaded.
l showed 1t to him, and he was evil
dentIy even more surprised than | was,
ana declared that he did not under
stand this, as he had put in u new shell
the day before.
After that We We're m guard every
night ana without my friend suspect |
ing II mad two scndarmea patrol the
woods back OF the house.
for many nights nothing happened,
ana l had Just thought of returning
nome. But the 1pXt pipht NT,,., -