I paid no attention at first, but it
grew more persistent, and at length, to stop the faint noise which
excited me more than I could account for, I rose and opened the
door and IT walked in.
"It perched itself upon the corner of my desk beside the loaded
pistol, and sat there bolt upright looking at me; and I, pushing
back my chair, sat looking at it. And there came a letter telling
me that a man of whose name I had never heard had been killed by a
cow in Melbourne, and that under his will a legacy of three
thousand pounds fell into the estate of a distant relative of my
own who had died peacefully and utterly insolvent eighteen months
previously, leaving me his sole heir and representative, and I put
the revolver back into the drawer."
"Do you think Pyramids would come and stop with me for a week?" I
asked, reaching over to stroke the cat as it lay softly purring on
Dick's knee.
"Maybe he will some day," replied Dick in a low voice, but before
the answer came--I know not why--I had regretted the jesting words.
"I came to talk to him as though he were a human creature,"
continued Dick, "and to discuss things with him.
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