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however, because she fell too far in the rear Mounting again, she rode

on, beginning to feel that nothing mattered, that this trip would be the

end of Carley Burch How she hated that dreary, cold, flat land the road

bisected without end It felt as if she rode hours to cover aalong, separated from

one another, and each for hi

themselves Carley shut her eyes, clutched the poht How could she endure another ht be many miles Suddenly a terrible shock seeain taken to a trot

Frantically she pulled on the bridle He was not to be thwarted Opening

her eyes, she saw a cabin far ahead which probably was the destination

for the night Carley knew she would never reach it, yet she clung on

desperately What she dreaded was the return of that stablike pain in

her side It ca abject andher stiffly above the poht on, and in deeper When the

halted his trot beside the other horses Carley was in the last

extre a hand, she still hid her

agony Then Flo called out gayly: "Carley, you've done twenty-five miles

on as rotten a day as I re I didn't think you'd ever stay the ride out Spillbeans is

the ait"