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148<br />
Chapter Seventeen<br />
The Other Horse<br />
<strong>Anza</strong> is riding 'Runs like the Wind' in the meadow as<br />
<strong>Qi</strong>ngling races up riding bareback. They join up and stop to<br />
talk.<br />
"Where'd ya get the horse?" <strong>Anza</strong> asks, "He's beautiful."<br />
"I found him on your farm way over there," she points.<br />
"Who does he belong to?"<br />
"You, I s'pose ... I mean ... he's on your farm ... maybe he<br />
could be from ... na-a-h ---"<br />
"What should we call him?"<br />
"How about calling him Lightning?"<br />
"Why?"<br />
"Well, it was raining and lightning and thundering when I<br />
found him. I went under the old lean-to so's I wouldn't get<br />
wet, and there he was.<br />
"Lightning and Thundering. Thunder, I like Thunder."<br />
"Me too; me too! Let's go!"<br />
<strong>Anza</strong> and <strong>Qi</strong>ngling race toward a distant meadow.<br />
Gray Wolf and the four bad guys spot the kids, and give<br />
chase. <strong>Anza</strong> and <strong>Qi</strong>ngling see them and urge their horses<br />
into a gallop, but it is too late. The bad guys cut them off<br />
on a diagonal path.