Perro had risen from a slumberous contemplation of the tumbling water and now stood awaiting orders, his near hind leg shaking with eagerness to please, by running anywhere at any pace.

Perro, it seemed, with an intelligence developed at the best and hardest of all schools, where hunger is the usher, awaited, not word, but action from his master; and had not long to wait.

Perro gazed at them sadly from the carriage window remembering perhaps his own dust heap days.

" "And dear old Perro running at the side," exclaimed Juanita, jumping up and putting her head out of the window to encourage Perro with a greeting.

" "And dear old Perro running at the side," exclaimed Juanita, jumping up and putting her head out of the window to encourage Perro with a greeting.

Perro had returned.

Perro would awake Sarrion and Marcos, who must be very tired.

Perro heard her, and in obedience to her whispered injunction stood still, looking up at her and wagging his uncouth tail slowly.

Perro was already out of the gate in the darkness, leading the way.

Perro was no genius, but what he did know, he knew thoroughly, which for practical purposes is almost as good.

She was struggling with Perro.

I have brought Perro to see him.

" Perro, low-born and eager, needed restraint to keep him from the bed where his master lay, and Juanita continued to hold him while she spoke.

"You must remember," she said, "that it is owing to Perro that you are here at all.

She did not want Marcos to know that it was she who had heard Perro; she, who had insisted that something had happened to Marcos.

" Marcos and Sarrion glanced at each other, and possibly Juanita saw the glance as she held Perro back from his master.

" She forcibly ejected Perro from the room, and came back breathless and laughing.

I would go for a walk with Perro if I went with any one.

Half an hour later they reached the pine woods, and heard Perro barking on the terrace.

The house was peculiarly quiet, but she knew that Marcos, if he had been abroad, had now returned; for Perro was lying on the terrace in the sunlight watching the library window.

He turned his head at the sound of a window being opened and Perro who lay at his feet lifted his nose and sniffed gently.

Marcos leant forward and touched Perro who understood and was still.

Perro at Marcos' feet, stirred uneasily and looked up into his master's face.

no que éste ha bajado las escaleras á trompicones, como si le ladrase un perro en la meseta, y con un color de difunto y unas... Vamos, mi señora doña Baltasara, créame usarced, y créame con todas veras...

perro, m., dog.