What can I do? The telephone! They will be
worried when they see Prince come home, cut, and will think I am badly
hurt. I must let them know at once."
Mrs. Carr took her unexpected guest to the telephone, and Grace was
soon talking to her mother.
"Don't worry, Momsey," she said. "Prince ran away with me-- an auto
hit him-- now don't faint, I am all right. I'm at Mollie's Aunt
Kittie's. Poor Dodo is hurt, I'll tell you about that later. But,
listen. Go out to the stable-- I suppose Prince ran there: Get those
papers from the saddle, and send them to papa at once. Grandma's
papers. They are very important. What? Prince has not come home? Oh,
what can have become of him? Those missing papers! Oh, telephone to
papa at once! He must do something," and Grace let the receiver fall
from her nerveless hand as she looked out into the storm. The rain,
after a long dry spell, was coming down furiously.
CHAPTER V
THE GEM
Grace and Mollie were riding home in the carriage that had been sent
to bring Mrs. Billette to the home of her relative, for the anxious
mother, on hearing that Dodo could not be moved, had come to look
after the injured child.
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