“YES, DADDY!” Sarah spoke loudly enough to rouse the dead. “RIGHT AWAY… DADDY!”
They tumbled through the tack room door, breathless, coming to stand outside Champion’s stall only just in the nick of time. The light brightened and dimmed as Sarah gave way to let their father through the doorway, trailing wide-eyed after him.
“I heard the horse was hurt. But he doesn’t look so bad.” Her father said, looking hard at Champion who was working over a mouthful of hay with a rather placid, even bored, expression.
“No… he wasn’t as hurt as I thought…” Amanda hedged, glancing sidelong at Phillip. “He was just… scared I think.”
Sheriff Addams looked at his daughter closely and then at Phillip who was concentrating on his horse hard enough to drill a hole in the creature with his eyes.
“Uh huh.” The sheriff nodded slowly. “I suppose a lot of screamin’ and thrashin’ would put him off his feed.”
Amanda suddenly couldn’t look at her father. Phillip had gone awfully red-faced. But it might have been the light.
Amanda yelped when her father pulled a handful of alfalfa from her belt. He shook his head. “Just cause you’re not playing games, didn’t mean…” He waved off the rest of his words and dropped the alfalfa for Champion to worry over.
Sarah’s eyes grew round, and her mouth opened to an O.
“Yeah,” her father said over his shoulder to his daughter as he turned and stomped out of the stables. “They did. And Mr. Richman can expect a few words from me about it later. I’ll be expecting a question from him in the near future.”
“Yes, sir!” Phillip called after him. “You can count on it, sir!”
Somehow Amanda held it in until her father was safely outside. Only then could she turn to Sarah and nod happily. For a day that had started out pretty bad, things had worked out fairly well after all.
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