The Mistress of Bonaventure

The Mistress of Bonaventure
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Bindloss Harold. The Mistress of Bonaventure

CHAPTER I. THE SWEETWATER FORD

CHAPTER II. BONAVENTURE RANCH

CHAPTER III. A MIDNIGHT VISITOR

CHAPTER IV. THE TIGHTENING OF THE NET

CHAPTER V. A SURPRISE PARTY

CHAPTER VI. A HOLOCAUST

CHAPTER VII. A BITTER AWAKENING

CHAPTER VIII. HOW REDMOND CAME HOME

CHAPTER IX. A PRAIRIE STUDY

CHAPTER X. A TEMPTATION

CHAPTER XI. IN PERIL OF THE WATERS

CHAPTER XII. THE SELLING OF GASPARD'S TRAIL

CHAPTER XIII. AN UNFORTUNATE PROMISE

CHAPTER XIV. THE BURNING OF GASPARD'S TRAIL

CHAPTER XV. BEAUTY IN DISGUISE

CHAPTER XVI. THE DEFENSE OF CRANE VALLEY

CHAPTER XVII. THE RAISING OF THE SIEGE

CHAPTER XVIII. THE VIGIL-KEEPER

CHAPTER XIX. THE WORK OF AN ENEMY

CHAPTER XX. LEADEN-FOOTED JUSTICE

CHAPTER XXI. AGAINST TIME

CHAPTER XXII. BAD TIDINGS

CHAPTER XXIII. LIBERTY

CHAPTER XXIV. A SECRET TRIBUNAL

CHAPTER XXV. A CHANGE OF TACTICS

CHAPTER XXVI. THE TURNING OF THE TIDE

CHAPTER XXVII. ILLUMINATION

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE ENEMY CAPITULATES

CHAPTER XXIX. THE EXIT OF LANE

CHAPTER XXX. THE LAST TOAST

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"We are waiting for you," said Haldane, smiling, as he stood in the doorway of the room where, with some misgivings, and by the aid of borrowed sundries, we had made the best toilets we could. "You are not a stranger, Ormesby, and must help to see your comrades made comfortable. Sergeant, my younger daughter is enthusiastic about the prairie, and you will have a busy time if you answer all her questions, though I fear she will be disappointed to discover that nobody has ever scalped you."

Mackay drew himself up stiffly, as if for his inspection parade, and a white streak on his forehead showed the graze a bullet had made. Young Cotton smiled wryly as he glanced at his uniform, for it was probably under very different auspices he had last appeared in the society of ladies; and I was uneasily conscious of the fact that the black leather tunic which a German teamster had given me was much more comfortable than becoming. I might have felt even more dissatisfied had I known that my fall had badly split the tunic up the back. That, however, did not account for the curious mingling of hesitation and expectancy with which I followed our host.

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Beatrice Haldane presently bade me go talk to her sister, and though I did so somewhat reluctantly, the girl interested me. I do not remember all we said, and probably it would not justify the effort to recall it; but she was pleasantly vivacious of speech, and genuinely interested in the answers to her numerous questions. At length, however, she asked, with a half-nervous laugh: "Did you ever feel, Mr. Ormesby, that somebody you could not see was watching you?"

"No," I answered lightly. "In my case it would not be worth while for anybody to do so, you see." And Lucille Haldane first blushed prettily and then shivered, for no apparent reason.

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