The girl looked able
to manage it, and as it was absolutely necessary for us to keep on, we
did so."
"I looked back, and I thought I saw the horse stumble with the girl,"
put in Mr. Stone, "but I was not sure, and then the rain came pelting
down, and the road was so bad that it took both of us to manage the
car. We were late, too. But we meant to go back and see if any
accident happened."
"Only when we got to the telegraph office," supplied his friend, "we
were at once called to New York in haste, and so many things have come
up since that we never got the chance. Tell me," he said earnestly,
"you girls live in Deepdale. This happened not far from there. Did you
ever hear of a girl on a white horse being seriously hurt?"
Grace made a motion to her chums to keep silent about the whole
affair, and let her answer. She had her reasons.
"There was no report of any girl being seriously hurt at the time you
mention," she said, a trifle coolly, "but a little child was knocked
down by a horse-- a white horse. It may have been the one you scared."
"But unintentionally-- unintentionally! I hope you believe that!" said
Mr.
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