Show T uw da VI A astounding Attoun ding details in the conspiracy to poison rover 1 FROM ROM every angle and in every sense of the word this is a dog story built on heroic lines introducing heroic measures to say nothing of r great expectations andi and maor major plans that came to naught as well as scheming that was frustrated by unseen forces beyond the control or of mortal man yes a story in which the unexpected holds the center of the stage rover the liero hero of this tale Is a st bernard ernard IS brought to these shores from ills his home in the high alps in the first year of hla his life rover became the property of a suburbanite whose son georgio georgic a lad of ten took the dog over lock stock and barrel as a steady companion had it not been rovers hovers misfortune to pick up a case of contagious eczema al which in due course communicated its evil el influence to more than one of rovers exquisite coat making him not only insl unsightly fitly but unsanitary and na as such an unfit associate e for young georgae Ge Ce orgle all would have gone well ell with boy oy rind and dog so were they disposed ono one toward the other patient gets worse after a session in the hands of 0 a high priced veterinary rover took a turn for the worse and became art an object of pity to all save georgie ills his friend and compan companion loo the vet true to form held beld out promises of 0 a cure but georgales Georg les father af acting ting entirely for his own pence peace of mind de cidad that the hapless rover should depart this life via the chloroform route ind and called in a neighbor to administer the lethal vapor and impart to young georgae the sad news that rover had bad died a natural death upon second thought however he came to the conc conclusion lusSon that chloro forming a dog which bulked a hundred odd pounds was on a par with attempting to throw a champion wrestler without knowing a single grip in a ad vance if rover acts up tip we will have our lia hands n d s full said the neighbor something faster than chloroform Is called for under the circumstances my suggestion Is ia that you see your friend henry the lie engraver who to lives down dovin the and borrow an all ounce or so of cyanide of potassium which lie he uses for har hardening gardenin denin steel plates A teaspoon of cyanide crystals dropped on rovers wet tongue will result in almost instantaneous death without a struggle swift painless rind and merciful my suggestion boy is messenger of death being a man of action georges rather father set the wheels in motion by hunting up his offspring and sending him around to the steel engraver with a note explaining the needs of the moment and requesting the necessary yi cyanide little did geor georgae le know upon receiving the cyanide the two potential assassins dismissed georgae to proceed with his play chile they made ready to betray rover into accepting the death dose for sume some reason or other however rover resisted all offers of 0 cyanide keeping his tongue tightly between his teeth georgales Georg les fattier father familiar with subterfuges for administering unwanted medicines called for a quart of milli in which to pass tile the knockout dose to the victim again beor le was summoned to play the courier willingly the lad all unconscious of the part he was called upon to enact hustled to the spring house housa and was back in a jiffy aldy with u pan of 0 grade A milk rovers wise to cyanide with all the skill of a gangster administering a sleeping potion to a fellow stew georgales Georg les fattier father spilled the tha syll cyanide inide into the rich fluid shook the greenish er crystals beneath the surface and placed the mixture on the floor under rovers nose while the cocon co con spi eased cased georgia out of the barn brick back to ills his play A dozen hops flops of his massive tongue a grateful look in his almost human eyes and rover was soon outside the cream arid and cyanide facing sudden death to the bewilderment of the two to who had plotted the tha annihilation rover die nor did he be show the slightest symptoms of internal distress un on the contrary he be licked ills his chops turned around three times laid himself down ou the barn floor and went to sleep apparently e D fly n never ever to more ore composed the grave digger was culled called off the two plotters left alto boier roier er and went to supper wondering the next morning our hero was nas up with will tile the lark scouting around for at the tha kitchen door death being the tha least of 0 lila ills concerns for both georgae and ills pal fill all was bright and fair rover was never in better health und and what had happened was this flits cyanide of 0 potassium Is an alkali cream Is a fat in combination they neutralize each other oilier the latter serving as an aa antidote to the former therefore the cla elaborate borate poisoning program blew up wore more remarkable still the dose cured rover of ee eczema zenia ue lie recovered his luster and to the lie end of his days regarded georgales Georg les fattier father and the conspiring stil ring neighbor as friends arid and Ge never duew ought ot tile hie plot or why it failed 0 S taloo |