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The next morning about ten o'clock Chance appeared, with his master, who had hard work to keep him from knocking me down. When he first saw me, he sprang upon me with both his paws; then ran round the room in circles and back again to me, licking my hands and face until M. Seguin called him off. Jack now took his attention, for dogs like boys, and the two were rolling over the floor, sometimes with Jack's arms around the dog, and sometimes with Chance's big paws encircling Jack. The noise they made enabled M. Seguin to say a few words to me of the occurrence of the previous night.
"I was so sure of him," he said, "but I would not have gone had I known you were there. I only returned yesterday from Moscow, and heard at once that Ivan was in the city, and also that you were here. Zaidee told me that."