Chapter 26

There was a great deal of hurry and excitement after the news became known. I was just turned into my box; the saddle and bridle were taken off, and a cloth thrown over me. Ginger was saddled and sent off in great haste for Lord George, and I soon heard the carriage roll out of the yard. It seemed a long time before Ginger came back, and before we were left alone; and then she told me all that she had seen. “I can't tell much,” she said. “We went a gallop nearly all the way, and got there just as the doctor rode up…