“I’m going too,” declared Shirley.
“And I,” said Ashton.
“I’d like to have a look myself,” said Leonard. “I haven’t had a chance to get out and look about since I have been here.”
“But who will stay with Gabriel?” asked Mr. Willing.
“I’ll stay,” Mabel volunteered.
Mr. Willing hesitated for a moment, then consented.
“I think it will be all right for a few minutes,” he said.
“Mabel, don’t go too near Gabriel,” said Shirley. “He might not like it.”
“Don’t worry,” was the laughing rejoinder. “I won’t go in his stall. I know as well as you do that he wouldn’t permit any one but you and Jimmy in there.”
Mabel sat down in a chair to await the return of the others, who now went out the door.