Lammie's leg was soon bound up, and Mr. Devering said to Dallas, "Do you know that verse in the Bible—'The sheep follow him for they know his voice, and a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him, for they know not the voice of strangers'?"
"Yes, Captain, Margie has read it to me."
"Well, we're going to start now, so you please stand back a bit. Lammie is eyeing you as if he thought you were another wolf—but why are you hanging your young head?"
"I'm a coward," said the boy brokenly.
"In what way?"
"I ran into the house when I saw the wolf."
"Were you afraid?"
"I was, sir."
"That the wolf would attack you?"
"Yes."