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she gets a phone call and leaves
. She stood up and looked out the window. Just as she turned to gaze out at the wide front drive, the diAngelos’ white Mercedes came rolling to a stop. Stevie leaned against the window and watched. In a moment Veronica came hurrying out, once again dressed in her cashmere sweater.
    “They must be having a big sale at the mall,” Stevie said aloud as Veronica got into the backseat of the car. “Or maybe the Horseman’s Haberdashery is having a closeout on everything that fits Veronica’s dummy.”
    She gave a big sigh and turned back to the box of tack. She wished she were with Carole and Lisa at the library. “At least they get to be together,” she grumbled out loud. “And they get to be together miles away from Veronica and her stupid dress dummy.”
    Oh, well
, she thought as she picked up a set of blinders. Tonight she would call both of them. They would probably enjoy getting an earful about creepy Veronica, and giving it to them might make her feel a little better.

“T HANKS FOR THE lift, Dad,” Carole said as her father, Colonel Mitch Hanson, pulled up in front of the library. “Looks like Lisa’s already here.”
    “Where?” Colonel Hanson steered the car close to the curb.
    Carole pointed to a small figure in a red jacket. “Up there. Sitting by the lion.”
    “Oh, I see her.” Colonel Hanson waved at Lisa as Carole unbuckled her seat belt. “Now, tell me again what you two are planning today?”
    “First Lisa and I are going to work on our driving team project all morning, then Mrs. Atwood’s going to take us to the mall.” Carole smiled at her father as shehopped out of the car. “I should be home around suppertime.”
    “Sounds like fun. You guys work hard and I’ll see you later.” He chuckled. “Don’t buy out all the stores.”
    “Right, Dad, like I’ve got thousands of dollars to spend!”
    Carole hurried up the steps of the library, where Lisa was waiting. “Hi,” she said. “Sorry I’m late. My dad wouldn’t leave the house until he’d finished the Sunday comics.”
    Lisa smiled. “Don’t worry. I’ve only been here about five minutes. Let’s go on inside and get started. Two weeks seems like a long time away, but it’s really not.”
    “You’re not kidding,” said Carole. “We’ve really only got today and whatever time we can squeeze out next weekend. Then it’ll be two weeks, and we’ll be standing in front of everybody from Horse Wise and Cross County, too. Thank goodness the library’s open Sundays during school or we’d
really
be in trouble!”
    Lisa gave a little shudder as she opened the door. “I know. If we aren’t prepared, we’ll just stand up there and make fools of ourselves. I think we’d better get a lot done today.”
    Inside, the library was just as warm and cheery as it had been the day before. They looked around the main reading room and saw Mrs. Davidson giving them a friendly wave from behind the checkout desk.
    “I guess we’d better go get all our reserved books,” whispered Lisa.
    “Okay. Let’s take them to that table in the corner,” Carole said as she followed Lisa to Mrs. Davidson.
    “Hi, girls,” chirped Mrs. Davidson. “I see you’re here bright and early today.”
    “We’ve got a lot of work to do.” Lisa glanced at Carole. “We didn’t get quite as much done as we needed to yesterday.”
    Mrs. Davidson smiled. “Well, I’ve got all your titles on reserve. Would you like them now?”
    “Yes, please,” said Carole.
    “I’ll go get them, then.” Mrs. Davidson bustled over to a small area behind the counter where several piles of books lay. She picked up about a third of Lisa and Carole’s stack and lugged them back to the counter. “Here are a few. It’ll take me a moment to get the rest.”
    “Thanks,” said Carole. “We’ll take these over to that table in the corner.”
    It took several trips, but finally Carole and Lisa had carried all forty-two books to the