THE SUPERB MOMENT
She showed a little trepidation, as if she felt herself advancing into deep water. "Because in the first place I didn't believe Bert's story. It sounded like a made-up tale. A wild horse running in the mountains, that he knew about, and Blanche, and even Mr. Rader, and that I had never heard of! He wouldn't tell me a word!" She flashed an unforgiving glance toward where the scholar sat drooping. "But afterward, when I had thought it over, how strange it was that you should have come here—a man like you! And then when you went away again, and said you had gone hunting, and stayed so long, I began to be afraid. Then I sent George out."
He interrupted.
"How did you know where to send him?"
"Bert had told me the place. He told me everything he could think of to make me believe him."
"How could you make George understand?"
She faltered an instant. "George is strange. Places he seems to remember, and that is a place they all knew when they were children. Besides, are you sure he didn't see you start in that direction? It seems to me he must have seen something or I couldn't have made him know what I meant."
Carron mused, and nodded. "Yes, he may have seen something in the way of direction, I remember
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