Summary

In Chapter 7, when Tiffany called Viv to take her up on the offer to help out at Windy Hill, Viv knew it was a bad idea. On the drive to the stables, Viv asked Tiffany how her father had gotten a gun in New Hampshire. Later, after they finished riding, Tiffany asked Viv if she had seen National Velvet. Tiffany suggested that Mercury could win a competition like that.

Before she left for the night, Viv looped both a brown and a black lead rope around the bars of Mercury’s stall and the door. She took a picture of the ropes so she would be sure they were in the same place the following morning. That night she remembered Rick’s suggestion that she get a gun. In the morning when she returned to Mercury’s stall, the ropes were...