Then, as the growling continued, she lit a candle, climbed out of bed and crossed the room to where there was a communicating door into the smaller room that adjoined hers where Danny was sleeping.
She opened the door very quietly, but, as she did so, Columbus rushed out almost knocking her down to stand at the other door in her bedroom that led into the outside passage.
Now he was growling again deep in his throat and had even begun to scratch with his front paws as if he would make a hole in the floor.
“What is it, Columbus?” Roberta asked.
She spoke in a low voice so as not to disturb Danny.
Then she thought that the dog must want to go out, although this was not his usual way of asking.
She picked up a light lawn wrap that lay over a chair and put it over her nightgown, then open
