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`` Yes ; I am _ sure _ , '' Ann would reply . She began to feel rather uncomfortable over it . She feared people would think she had been napping and dreaming although Red Robin _ was _ untied . That night the family were all in bed at nine o'clock , as usual ; but Ann up in her snug feather-bed in her little western chamber , could not sleep . She kept thinking about the horse-thief , and grew more and more nervous . Finally she thought of some fine linen cloth she and Mrs. Polly had left out in the snowy field south of the house to bleach , and she worried about that . A web of linen cloth and a horse were very dissimilar booty ; but a thief was a thief .