Red is a Bloodhound. Red's story details the beginning of police work using trailing hounds to search out for lost people, etc. In this story Red is intrumental in finding a little boy lost in the woods by his house.
Sterner St. Paul Meek was a US military chemist, early science fiction author, and children's author. He published much of his work first as Capt. S.P. Meek, then, briefly, as Major S.P. Meek and, after 1933, as Col. S.P. Meek. He also published one story as Sterner St. Paul.