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Bobby waved her fur piece and shouted encouragement too . But Ida Bellethorne ran into the house to attend the injured Hunchie and did not watch Betty and the black mare out of sight as the others did . When Betty Gordon and her young friends had set out from Mountain Camp on their snowshoe hike the sun shone brilliantly and every ice-covered branch and fence-rail sparkled as though bedewed with diamond dust . Now that it was drawing toward noon the sky was overcast again and the wind , had Betty stopped to listen to it , might be heard mourning in the tops of the pines . But Ida Bellethorne , the black mare , gave Betty no opportunity of stopping to listen to the wind mourn . No , indeed ! The girl had all she could do for the first mile or two to keep her saddle and cling to the reins .