"He was leading the dog and the leash slipped out of his hands," gasped the affrighted girl. "Before I'd a notion what he was going to do he was off after the puppy. I'm weak as a rag. If anything had happened to him——"
"But it didn't," smiled Hal.
"No, thanks to you, and to the good Lord!"
Then, seizing the child in her arms, she said:
"There, Billie, you see what comes of running out of the yard after Midget. You might have been killed but for this kind gentleman."
"Indeed he might! He would have been. I saw the whole thing myself," broke in a policeman who had joined the group.
"I'm glad he's all right," reiterated Hal, as he gave the child into the maid's care.
A man approached leading Midget and interest being for the moment diverted from himself Hal made his escape.
In a doorway he spied Louise and Carl.
"Oh, it was wonderful of you, Hal!" his sister murmured.