Book-bot.com - read famous books online for free

The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake - Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem by Laura Lee Hope
page 175 of 187 (93%)

"Girls! Fellows!" he cried. "Come here!" They all hastened to his
side. He pointed to some marks in the sandy soil.

"What are they?" he asked, excitedly.

"Hoof marks!" cried Allen, dramatically.

"That's right!" agreed Will. "They are the marks of a horse! Girls,
that's what your ghost is-- a white horse, and-- and---- "

He ceased abruptly, looked at Grace strangely, and then brother and
sister gasped together:

"Prince!"

"What?" demanded Allen.

"I'll wager almost anything that this ghost is my white horse, Prince,
that has been missing so long!" went on Will. "But how in the world he
could have gotten on this island, so far from the mainland, is a
mystery!"

"Couldn't he swim?" asked Frank.

"Of course!" cried Will. "I forgot about that. And Prince was once a
circus horse, or at least in some show where he had to jump into a
tank of water. Prince is a regular hippopotamus when it comes to
water. Strange I never thought of that before!

DigitalOcean Referral Badge