The Pulse of Kato Whip: 10
Excerpt:
“Enough!” Kato said. “I don’t want to hear any more bickering for a while.” He gathered the girls about him. “Just stay close, okay? Don’t go out of sight again.” He counted them with a finger that trembled with emotion.
“What happened to your horse?” Vickie asked.
“It’s gone,” he said, counting them again, and still again.
“But we want to ride in it some more,” an in-between said.
“Stand still! I’m trying to count!” he scolded, because the count kept coming out wrong, very wrong, and when he had convinced himself there could be no mistake, he asked, “Why are there eight of you?”
“Eight?” they said. They took turns counting, coming up with eight as well.
“Which of you doesn’t belong?” he asked.
They looked among themselves, then said with a singsong whine, “It’s just us!”
He looked them all over, and for the life of him he could not pin down which was new. “Let’s go,” he said, just wanting to get them to their aunt’s before something else happened. “Hold hands, understand? Don’t let go no matter what.”
The adventure continues…
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