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lined up to do the same.
    Stevie and Carole arrived as the chief electrician was touching the horseshoe. They waved wildly at Lisa and both started talking at once.
    “Are you wearing
lipstick
?” Stevie asked.
    “Why’s everyone touching the horseshoe?” Carole asked.
    “Yes I am, and I thought everybody was going to come to blows about the lights, so I wanted to try to change the mood,” answered Lisa.
    “Well, everybody’s laughing now,” Carole said. “So you must be some sort of genius.”
    “Oh, she is,” Skye chimed in, fresh from the good-luck horseshoe himself. “Why didn’t you tell me she could spell everything? She showed the rest of us up in aspelling bee!” He gave Lisa a little hug around her shoulders.
    “We want to hear it all,” Stevie said seriously.
    “You will. I promise,” Lisa said.
    “How long until you can leave so we can go to the mall?” Stevie asked. “We’re going to go to TD’s first.”
    Lisa looked at her watch again. It was three-thirty. She wanted to go to the ice-cream parlor and the mall with her friends, but the crew was going to reshoot everything they had done in the morning. It would take at least a couple of hours. She’d been looking forward to an impromptu Saddle Club meeting, but she wasn’t going to have it today.
    “I can’t,” she said. “The goof they made is going to keep me here until dark. Can we do it tomorrow?”
    “No, because I’ve already made a deal with Dad to meet us at the mall at six,” Carole said. “I can’t reach him to change that, so we have to go now.”
    “Oh, I’m sorry,” Lisa said. She felt awful about it. She’d been looking forward to spending time with her friends, planning the colonel’s party.
    “Look, what you’re doing now is once in a lifetime, and never for most people. Don’t worry. We can get lots done by ourselves,” Carole reassured her.
    “Talk to you later, okay?” Stevie said.
    “Deal,” Lisa said.
    “Places!” Oliver announced. It was time to get back to work.
    Stevie and Carole headed for the stable, where they were going to muck out stalls. Lisa returned to her place on the movie set.

“W HERE DO WE go first when we get to the mall?” Carole asked Stevie after they had settled into a booth at TD’s and placed their orders.
    Stevie’s mind was on something else. She was thinking about Lisa and the movie set. Stevie and Carole had taken a few minutes from mucking out stables to watch the filming. “Wasn’t Lisa just wonderful?” Stevie asked. “I mean, the way she did just what the director told her to do and Pepper looked so great. It was fabulous, wasn’t it?”
    “Yeah, it was,” Carole agreed. “Although I didn’t like the fact that Pepper had been working such long hours. He’s not young anymore, you know.” It was just like Carole to think about the long hours that Pepper was workingand not think about the long hours that Lisa and Skye were working.
    “He was just walking back and forth coming out the door of the stable,” Stevie reminded her.
    “But all those times Skye mounted him. That can be quite difficult on a horse.”
    “To say nothing of how difficult that can be on Skye,” Stevie said pointedly.
    “I guess so,” Carole admitted, “but a horse doesn’t get paid a lot of money, and he can’t complain when something bothers him.”
    “Maybe,” Stevie agreed. “Except that it seems to me that over the years horses have developed pretty good ways of complaining when they think they’ve worked enough. Like when they race for the stable the minute they decide their ride is over?”
    Carole smiled. It was true. Horses did usually move faster going back to the barn than away from it.
    “And, uh, speaking of going places, where are we going at the mall?” Carole asked, bringing the conversation back to the main topic of the afternoon.
    “I saw in this week’s paper that there’s a sale at Marie’s,” Stevie told her.
    “Marie’s is a dress