“He said he was scared to face the trail of Three-Way Creek with a horse that didn’t know it right.”
Molly’s eyes widened.
“He said that? Lightning?” she asked incredulously.
“Yes. He said that.”
“And you—you believed it?”
“I did—at the moment.”
Molly turned to Jim with disconcerting abruptness.
“Did you believe it, too?” she demanded. Then she looked over at the freckled face of Larry Manford. “And you?”
It was Larry who replied. He shook his fiery head. And his words came with a short laugh.
“I certainly didn’t,” he declared.