"Long? No; let's see. He started out after the cow—You didn't hear of her, did you?"
"Maybe it was yours some one was telling me about."
"I wonder whether it was ours? Perhaps Rob tried to take it and got into a squabble. And yet that isn't a bit like him."
"Was he afoot?" Garnett asked suddenly.
"Oh, no. On horseback. But it was a strange horse." She stopped.
"One of those you were telling me he was keeping?"
"Yes." In spite of herself her voice became self-conscious.
"Well, maybe some one thought it was his."
"Thought what?"
"Maybe that horse your brother was riding belonged to another fellow, and the other fellow pinched him for stealing it."