Halsey laughed and this further nettled the spirited girl.
"What will you ride on?" he asked. "A saw horse? That is all there is left. Every hunter in the stable is gone."
"I am going on Kentucky Babe," said the girl resolutely. "She used to be a famous hunter."
"Oh, I say Sis. You wouldn't do such a thing as that. Why uncle worships that mare and she only foaled a month ago. Why she would be as soft as butter. You might kill her."
The girl laughed and hurried away to the stable, while Halsey looked after her with genuine sympathy as he had been disappointed himself. He thought she had been joking and intending to give them a scare.
His astonishment could well be imagined when a few minutes later he heard a horse's hoofs on the turnpike in front of the Manor House. He ran to the porch with misgivings. Peggy was not like other girls. No one could tell just what she would do next, yet she had a heart of gold. Halsey's aston-
