Judith of Blue Lake Ranch
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Judith Sanford is the sole heiress ofBlue Lake Ranch that is worth a million-dollars but one of her own employees is plotting to swindle her. With the help of Bud Lee, a horse foreman, she is determined to figure out the mystery and put an end to the scheme.However, Bud Lee has his own vested interest in helping Judith! Excerpt: "Bud Lee, horse foreman of the Blue Lake Ranch, sat upon the gate of the home corral, builded a cigarette with slow brown fingers, and stared across the broken fields of the upper valley to the rosy glow above the pine-timbered ridge where the sun was coming up. His customary gravity was unusually pronounced. «If a man's got the hunch an egg is bad,» he mused, «is that a real good and sufficient reason why he should go poking his finger inside the shell? I want to know!» Tommy Burkitt, the youngest wage-earner of the outfit and a profound admirer of all that taciturnity, good-humor, and quick capability which went into the make-up of Bud Lee, approached from the ranch-house on the knoll. «Hi, Bud!» he called. «Trevors wants you. On the jump.» Lee watched Tommy coming on with that wide, rocking gait of a man used to much riding and little walking. The deep gravity in the foreman's eyes was touched with a little twinkle by way of greeting."
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Jackson Gregory. Judith of Blue Lake Ranch
Judith of Blue Lake Ranch
Table of Contents
I. BUD LEE WANTS TO KNOW
II. JUDITH TAKES A HAND
III. AND RIDES AN OUTLAW
IV. JUDITH PUTS IT STRAIGHT
V. THE BIGNESS OF THE VENTURE
VI. YOUNG HAMPTON REGISTERS A PROTEST
VII. THE HAPPENING IN SQUAW CREEK CAÑON
VIII. RIFLE SHOTS FROM THE CLIFFS
IX. THE OLD TRAIL
X. UNDER FIRE
XI. IN THE OLD CABIN
XII. PARDNERS
XIII. THE CAPTURE OF SHORTY
XIV. SPRINGTIME AND A VISION
XV. JUST A GIRL, AFTER ALL
XVI. POKER FACE AND A WHITE PIGEON
XVII "ONCE A FOOL--ALWAYS A FOOL"
XVIII. JUDITH TRIUMPHANT
XIX. BUD LEE SEEKS CROOKED CHRIS QUINNION
XX. THE FIGHT AT THE JAILBIRD
XXI. BURNING MEMORY
XXII. PLAYING THE GAME
XXIII. THE WRATH OF POLLOCK HAMPTON
XXIV. A SIGNAL-FIRE?
XXV. THE TOOLS WHICH TREVORS USED
XXVI. JUDITH'S PERIL
XXVII. ALONE IN THE WILDERNESS
XXVIII. BACON, KISSES, AND A CONFESSION
XXIX. LEE AND OLD MAN CARSON RIDE TOGETHER
XXX. THE FIGHT
XXXI. YES, JUDITH WAS WAITING …
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Jackson Gregory
Western Novel
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Bayne Trevors, his lips tightly compressed, his eyes steady, a faint, angry flush in his cheeks, checked what words were flowing to his tongue and looked keenly at his foreman. Lee met his regard with cool unconcern. Then, just as Trevors was about to speak, there came an interruption.
Lee turned astonished eyes to Judith.
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