Show BO davi TA t aston Attoun abing ading JIn details in the conspiracy Com piracy to poison poi ion rover FROM ROM every angle and in every sense of the word this is is a dog story built on heroic lines introducing heroic measures to say nothing of great expectations and major plans that came to naught as well as scheming that was frustrated h by v unseen forces beyond tap th control of mortal man ann yes a st story ory in which the unexpected holds the center t of tile the stage nover the hero of this tale Is it a st bernard brought to these choles from ills his home in tile the high alps in the first year of his life hover rov er became the property of a suburbanite whose son Ce orrile orgle a lad of ten took the dog over lock loch stock and I 1 barrel arel as a steady companion had it 1 not been rovers hovers milfort misfortune line to pick up a case of contagious conta gions eczema which in due clue course communicated its eill influence to more than one third of rovers exquisite coat coa making mailing him film not only unsightly but un nn and lis as such an unfit associate for young Ge georgae orgle all would have gone well with boy and dog so affectionately were they disposed one toward the oth other r patient gets worse after a session in the hands of a high priced veterinary rover hover took a turn for the worse and became an object of pity to all save georgl Gc orgle his friend and companion the vet true to form held out promises of I a cure but georgales Georg les father acting entirely for ills his own peace of mind de aided that the hapless rover hover shout should depart this life via the chloroform route and called in a neighbor to administer the lethal vapor and impart to young georgia the sad news that rover nover had died a natural death upon second thought however he came to the conclusion that chloro forming a dog which bulked a hundred odd pounds was on a par with 1 attempting to throw a champion wrestler wrest 1 L r without knowing a single grip in advance if rover acts up we will have our hands full fuli said the neighbor something faster than chloroform Is called for under the circumstances ily suggestion Is that you see your friend fri enil henry the engraver who lives down the street and borrow an ounce or so of cyanide of potassium which he uses for hardell harde hardening nl steel plates A teaspoon of cyanide crystals dropped on rovers lovers wet bongi tongue 11 e will result in almost instantaneous death without a struggle swift painless and merciful my su dugges as tion boy Is messenger of death being a man mail of action georges ather set tile the wheels va heels in motion by hunting up ills his offspring anil and sending him 11 r ot ind to the steel engraver with fill a note explaining the needs of the moment find and requesting tile the necessary cyanide little did george know upon recell receiving ng the cyanide the ta no potential assassins dismissed j borgie to proceed alth ills his play while title they made blade ready to betray rover hover into accepting the death dose for some reason or other however rover resisted oil all offers of cyanide keeping his tongue tightly between be teen his bis teeth georgales Georg les fattier father 0 ra millar with subterfuges for administering unwanted medicines called for a quart of milk in ID which to pass the knockout dose to the victim again georgae was summoned to ulay play the rouster ler ter willingly the lid lad all unconscious of tile the part he was culled called upon to enact hustled to the spring house bouse and was buck back in a jefry with a pan of grade A milli mill rovers wise to cyanide with all the skill of a gangster ad ministering a sleeping potion to a fellow stew Georg georgales les lather spilled tile syn ss inide tilde into the rich lold fluid shook the greenish crystals beneath the surface and placed the mixture on tile the lour floor under rovers kovers nose nise while the cocon co con spI eased georgbe out ot of the barn back to ills his play A dozen flops of his massive to tongue ligue a grateful look in ills his utmost almost buil lall eyes and rover wits was soon outside tile the cream anil and cyanide facing sudden death to tile the besil bewilderment derment of the two wags who hud had plotted the annihilation kover die nor did he show the slightest symptoms of internal distress un on the contrary lie be licked ills his chops turned around three times laid himself down on tile the burn barn floor and went to sleep apparently never more inure composed the grave digger was culled called off air the two plotters left rover hover and went to supper wondering the next morning our hero bero was up with the lark scouting around for breakfast at tile the kitchen door death being the least of ills his concerns for both georgae Lie orgle and ills ilia pal all was as bright and fair hover was never dover in better health and chiki had happened was this cyanide of potassium Is an alkali cream Is a 8 fat in combination they each other the latter serving as an antidote to the former Ther therefore erom tile the elaborate poisoning program blew up 11 more remarkable still the duee dose cured rover of ediema ec ee iema zeina lie he recovered ills luster ter and to the end of ills bis days regarded fattier father nud and the c conspiring oll neighbor as aa friends and georgae never knew aught of tile the plot or why it railed failed C service |