120 CAROLINE.

 

Livingston and Wallace take a walk. An intended expedition.

 

 

CHAPTER IX.
PLANS FORMED.

At the time that Livingston made his visit to Fran-
conia, Caroline had a beautiful black horse, which she
used for a saddle-horse, and on which she often took
rides alone, on the various roads which led out of the
village of Franconia.

One morning, about nine o’clock, as Livingston and
Wallace, accompanied by Malleville and Phonny, were
coming out through the great gate in front of Mrs.
Henry’s house, to go down to the river for the purpose of
taking a sail, they saw Caroline coming, cantering along
the road upon this horse.

“ Here comes Caroline,’ said Malleville,—‘on Pony
Black. Let us stop and see her.”

“ Yes,” said Phonny, “she is beckoning to us.”

Wallace and Livingston, on looking down the road,
saw that Caroline was really beckoning to them, and that
she seemed to be hastening on, as if she wished to speak
with them. So they stopped where they were to wait
for her.

When she came up, she told them that there was a
gentleman at their house from out of town, who had a
plan of going up on a certain mountain, about five miles
from Franconia, upon a blucberry excursion on the follow-
ing day, and that he wished to have some of the boys and