He had turned insane, became so demended and dangerous that noone even tried to get near him. The broken bones and scars on his body and legs had healed, but the damage done to the nerves in his shoulder had rendered him lame. Grace had decided not to ride Pilgrim or any other horse ever again and wanted him to be send back to Kentucky, but before she wanted to see him for the last time. Graces on her crutches was really disappointed because her mother had decorated the tree without her, which she and her dad had always done together, and Annie's mood grew worse, when she noticed Robert feeling pity for Grace. Christmas at the Macleans became a disaster. Grace said she couldn't remember anything from the accident but sliding down the bank and only she knew, this wasn't the truth. She still couldn't really believe that all this had happened, and the news Judith and Gulliver were dead couldn't quite sink in, just like the leg she had lost, she suspended it in her head. After the 11th day of coma, Grace woke up and after another week of physical therapy, even got to go home for Christmas.
It would have been the best to put him down right away but therefore he needed the owner's permission which Annie Graves denied on the phone. Logan injected him a sedative and after a long, tiring struggle they finally got him into an emergency animal clinic. He looked terrible, was under shock and almost bleeding to death, besides the nasal bone, there were several other broken bones. Harry Logan a veterinarian discovered him first when he and 3 other men went out to find Pilgrim. Judith and Gulliver had died, Pilgrim ran away and hadn't been found for hours. While he was waiting for her, the doctors informed him that the truck went over Grace's right leg and they had to take it off, she was in a coma now. In the hospital Robert had called Annie and told her about the accident. Grace on Pilgrim had followed Judith on Gulliver up on a pretty steep slope and when Gulliver which was in front of them had stepped on a sheet of ice and was sliding backwards down the hill, he dragged Pilgrim with him and all four of them slid down back on the path where W.Tanner was now trying to prevent the worst.
He saw them too late, started jumping on the brakes immediately but it seemed like an eternity. He knew he was going too fast and he should have put on his snow chains, because the small path he was going on, was covered with snow and ice.
#Evans the whisperer driver#
Just like every weekend, Robert and Grace had driven out to Chatham while Annie was still working in N.Y., but they would never forget this morning, when truck driver Wane Tanner was on his way through the woods of Chatham.
Besides their fancy apartment in N.Y, where Annie and Robert had their offices and Grace went to school, they also owned a big country house out in Chatham where they spend most of their time. Over the years it became obvious for Annie that Robert and Grace had grown closer than she'd ever been with her daughter and that it was too late pretending she could change the way it was. Robert Maclean was a very loving and caring man, even though he was a lawyer and worked a lot, too, he always took some time off to spend as much time as possible with his daughter. Robert tolerated them patiently and did what he was supposed to do without ever protesting orarguing. It had always been that way, her mother who couldn't have any more children, was used to give orders to Grace and her husband Robert, she had always been in control of everything. She was a workaholic, addicted to success and all she seemed to be concerned about was her job and her reputation. Grace's mother, Annie Graves, who was originally from England, worked as an editor for a well known magazine in New York City. When Judith had finished saddling Gulliver, a softeyed chestnut horse, the two girls made their way through the woods. He was the most beautiful horse she had ever seen and fell in love with him on the first sight, he was the best birthday present her parents could have made her. She got all of her riding clothes, left a note to her dad and ran outside through the fields to the stables.On her way she met Judith a very good friend of hers and together they got their horses ready for a ride.Grace and her parents had flown down to Kentucky to see Pilgrim, a 4 year old Morgan, a couple of days before her birthday. It had snowed for the first time of this winter and so she was really anxious to be out there before waking up everyone in her house. It was on an early winter morning when 13 year old Grace Maclean decided togo riding on her beautiful horse Pilgrim. Nicholas Evans worked for ten years as a writer and producer of films.
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