The Crowded Hearthstone

The Crowded Hearthstone
By Harold Titus
Doesn't everybody who loves dogs love a good dog story? Here is one—with a high-bred human-hearted little bull-pup for hero, losing and regaining his place at the crowded hearthstone. How he did it makes one of Harold Titus's best stories of this Western forest country which he knows so well.
THE wedding of Lola Mason to Tom Heddon was occasion for the strangest show in which the dog had ever been an entry. There were no others of his kind on display, no ring, no judging; he was forced to compete for notice with cut glass and silver and furniture and such, and although he drew more than his share of attention, it was a stupid sort, he believed, for of all the exclamations his presence brought out he caught not one intelligent comment.
Usually at shows people would stop before him and say—“Oh, here's Beau Bummel!” as if they had been looking for him high and low; and then they would discuss all the fine points which went to make him a clinker among bull-terriers.
Not so at this affair. People spoke to him, but only because he was of such quality that his importance carried to the understanding of those who did not know dogs; consequently what

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