p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; line-height: 32px;" align="center"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;"Chapter 30/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; line-height: 32px;" align="center"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;"Lovers Quarrel /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;""Why didn't you bring up what Peg told you," asked Tramp again./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "All right! I wasn't sure if I was comfortable with that. Dog hamit, do you have to chase after me like a pack of hyenas!" growled Lady./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Alright," said Tramp in a startled manner. "I only asked twice … and why are you bringing up hyenas?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Because they are the biggest, nastiest canines I could think of," snapped Lady./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Hyenas aren't canines," corrected Tramp./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Says who," shouted Lady. "They sure look like they are."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Says the hyena in the zoo," answered Tramp. "Now, why are you actually angry?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Why don't we start with why you asked that loose bitch to talk to me about all that instinctual spit," snarled Lady. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Because I didn't want…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Why did you think she was the best dog to talk to me about this?" interrupted Lady as she stormed off. Tramp tried to follow her so he could explain, but as soon as she noticed him, she told him to, "pug off."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;""Jock! Peg!" cried Tramp as he caught up with them./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "What's the matter," asked Peg as she noted the concern in Tramp's voice./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Lady, refusing to talk to me, angry about, me asking, peg to talk to her, about some, instinctual things," panted Tramp./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Why the glen did you do that, "reprimanded Jock. Peg then whispered into his ear for a while. "Never mind. Let me talk to her," asked Jock. He then turned toward Peg and asked her, "Tell me everything you told Lady."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;"Lady was sitting in the front yard in front of the doghouse. She was looking at the horizon, still thinking about her earlier conversation with Peg./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Lassie?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" Lady turned her head only to see Jock. "Oh it's you," said Lady. Jock nodded and walked over to her and sat down next to her, and asked her what she was looking at./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "The horizon" she answered./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;"Changing the subject, Jock asked, "Why are you so angry about your husband asking Peg to talk to you about this?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "How is that your concern," defended Lady./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "As I said before, you are like a little sister to me, and it upsets me to see you upset."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" Lady, realizing the sincerity of his words took a breath and began. "I just really didn't expect it."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Is that it," probed Jock./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "why did he have to send her to talk to me about this, why couldn't he do it himself," blurted out Lady./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Would you really have preferred to have had a male talk to you about this," asked Jock. "Tramp was just trying to avoid any of unpleasantness for you cropping up toward the end of your term."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" Lady pondered his words for a second./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Because he really cares about you," he added./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Believe me, you mean the world to me, Pige."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" Lady turned her head back upon hearing this only to see her mate just behind her. He then walked over to her side and sat down next to her./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "I'm sorry for springing that on you," he apologized./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" Lady didn't say anything, but Tramp could recognize her unspoken acceptance of his apology./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Lady, do you remember the morning after our evening in the park, asked Tramp./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Of course, how could I not?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "When we were looking out on a horizon, much like this one, I told you that what really mattered was that great big world beyond the horizon. Never in my life was I more happy to find I was wrong. You were the one who showed me what really mattered," explained Tramp./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Thank you," said lady in a choked whisper./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "That day when I proposed that we run off together, I made that offer because I wanted to stay with you, and in the end, I did," continued Tramp./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;"Upon hearing this Lady began to get a little choked up, and Tramp immediately noticed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "What's the matter pigeon," asked Tramp out of sincere concern./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "I'm nervous, will I be okay after they, our puppies, are born, will they be okay, will we be good parents," asked the anxious spaniel./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" Tramp then looked into her eyes and whispered, "We will cross that bridge when we get there, and no matter what happens, I will be there with you," reassured the mutt./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" As she had many times before, Lady buried her face in Tramp's chest, and he wrapped his forelimb around her, stroking her./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "Tomorrow, let's go see Trusty, and ask him what we can expect to see in the near future," suggested Tramp./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;"Lady nodded, wondering if her husband had ever figured out that she had only asked Trusty that review to see if the hound actually knew what he was talking about. "Oh well, he did anyway," thought Lady to herself./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;"Then, Tramp looked over at Jock and advised, "It might be best for you and Peg to come too. Trusty apparently knows more about this than you'd think about this."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;" "I'd like that."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;"Everyone looked around to see Peg./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;""What? I think it's obvious I need to be more informed on the subject," commented Peg./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: 32px;"span style="font-family: 'American Typewriter', serif;""What is with all these characters suddenly showing up behind me," wondered Lady./span/p