King Charles. Starlight Ranch, and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier
STARLIGHT RANCH
WELL WON; OR FROM THE PLAINS TO "THE POINT"
CHAPTER I. RALPH MCCREA
CHAPTER II. CAVALRY ON THE MARCH
CHAPTER III. DANGER IN THE AIR
CHAPTER IV. CUT OFF
CHAPTER V. AT FARRON'S RANCH
CHAPTER VI. A NIGHT OF PERIL
CHAPTER VII. THE RESCUE
From "the Point" to the Plains
CHAPTER I. A CADET'S SISTER
CHAPTER II. A CADET SCAPEGRACE
CHAPTER III. AMANTIUM IRÆ
CHAPTER IV. THE WOMAN TEMPTED ME
CHAPTER V. A MIDNIGHT INSPECTION
CHAPTER VI. THE LAST DANCE
CHAPTER VII. BLACK CAÑON
CHAPTER VIII. CAPTURED
VAN
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The sun was going down, and a little girl with big, dark eyes who was sitting in the waiting-room of the railway station was beginning to look very tired. Ever since the train came in at one o'clock she had been perched there between the iron arms of the seat, and now it was after six o'clock of the long June day, and high time that some one came for her.
A bonny little mite she was, with a wealth of brown hair tumbling down her shoulders and overhanging her heavy eyebrows. She was prettily dressed, and her tiny feet, cased in stout little buttoned boots, stuck straight out before her most of the time, as she sat well back on the broad bench.
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The doctor's eyes began to dilate again as he silently took account of the number.
"I declare, there are over twenty to the rear of the wagon-train and nearly forty across the ridge! I give it up."
