"What's the matter?" Cindy asked hurriedly.
"Look!" Mindy pointed.
A big brown beetle was crawling up her shirt, Cindy plucked it off and threw it away.
"It was nothing," she assured Mindy. "Just a beetle."
"Shall we start back now?" Alec asked.
"I think we'd better," Cindy and Mindy said in the same voice. Mindy added, to Cindy, "May I sit in the saddle and hold the reins?"
"Why, of course," Cindy said.
Mindy climbed into the saddle and took Sparkle's reins. Cindy climbed on behind and put two loving arms around her twin's waist. "We're ready," Cindy called.
"Let's go," said Alec.
He grinned as he followed his sisters. He did not realize exactly what had taken place. But it seemed to Alec that, from now on, each of his sisters would be a pleasing mixture of lady and tomboy.