Gilpin, or the sheriff, or anyone else that I was missing a cow, because I’d been the one to take her in the first place. I’d have to find Daisy and bring her home all on my own. I needed to do it fast, too, because I knew she wouldn’t be safe with the Wright brothers. Mr. Wright might have already turned her into hamburger. But my plans to start tracking down Daisy got a wrench thrown into them because of another rehearsal. Mr. Gilpin had wanted to cancel Saturday’s rehearsal, but Hannah said if he did, she’d get out of her hospital bed to run it her own self, so we all went ahead with it, though I was sure I wouldn’t be able to remember a single thing I was supposed to do. Mr. Gilpin wanted to rehearse the Runaway Pond pageant again, so he assembled all of us just below the dam. “Blue, you’ll go downriver and wait in the mill for Raleigh to rescue you,” Mr. Gilpin said. “We’ll start digging. Then the dam will go, Mr. Hazelton will shout, ‘Run, Spencer, run!’ and Raleigh will start running.
