"Seek—find! Which hand?" she exclaimed. Her tiny eyes were blazing with delight.
Henrietta turned from her strumming on the piano to look at her.
"What is the matter with you, Daisy? What are you so excited about?"
"Come up to our bedroom at once," she said. "I have just grand news for you. Come along as fast as ever you like."
Henrietta began to feel really excited. She followed her sister upstairs. They locked themselves into the ugly bedroom, and there Daisy told the story of her great discovery. Henrietta listened in breathless silence.
"Where's the horse now?" she asked.
"Out, of course, with that little brat Maureen. We'll do it to-night, Henny; we'll do it to-night."
Henrietta turned the rat-poison round and round.
"I don't think," she said, after a pause, "he'll eat his mash if some of this horrid stuff is put into it. You said the mumsie had other poisons."