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"I'm very sorry, but the horse was trapped inside," the chief replied griar door had been locked, with an iron bar across it"

Barbara could hardly coar doors have never been locked! I certainly wouldn't lock the one with my horse in it! Someone must have set the fires, deliberately And they knew the horse I loved was inside the hangar"

"We haven't deterators will have to decide that But I am sorry We all are We did our best, but couldn't save anything"

Barbara could see that But at that rieved for more than her property was Becky She tried not to think of how frightened the ar with bales of strahen the building had been set on fire She would never forgive whoever had locked in the helpless, innocent ani such a terrible victim became too much for her, and Barbara broke into tears So her Only after a o ahead and cry

"Cry as long and hard as you want"

When Barbara returned to her rooht, Ma Phelps told her Moose Mondrowski had called and she was to call hiht back Barbara knew he lived in rooms behind his store, so she called him there

"I'm very sorry about your airport fire," Moose told her

"But you're not alone Someone set fire to my lumberyard!"

You can't cry forever, even if sometimes you'd like to Barbara had her cry, and then so, she faced what she had to: the fact that she was ruined and broke; or as close to it as she had ever come

The airport was a total loss, except she still had the Piper Cub The office building and both hangars had been all but consumed in the fire, and even her car had been lost in it All she had was half ownership in the s and the land they barely still stood on

She didn't even count the investment she had made Now it seemed like a liability; her sole ownership of some worthless desert land She now felt she had been conned into buying Hat Farh to think loved her