Dorothy on a Ranch

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Raymond Evelyn. Dorothy on a Ranch

CHAPTER I. THE TRIP IN THE ERMINIE

CHAPTER II. A SPILL BY THE WAY

CHAPTER III. THE MIDNIGHT SEARCHING PARTY

CHAPTER IV. THE WATCHERS AT RODERICK’S

CHAPTER V. THE CALL OF THE MOUNTAINS

CHAPTER VI. A MARTINET OF THE ROCKIES

CHAPTER VII. A RIFLE PRACTICE

CHAPTER VIII. A CONCERT IN THE MOONLIGHT

CHAPTER IX. A MODERN HORSE FAIR

CHAPTER X. AN UNEXPECTED DEPARTURE

CHAPTER XI. THE SHEEP HERDER’S CABIN

CHAPTER XII. PLAY THAT WAS WORK AND WORK THAT WAS PLAY

CHAPTER XIII. THE HEN OF WUN SING

CHAPTER XIV. THE GRIZZLY AND THE INDIANS

CHAPTER XV. A TRIP TO BALD EAGLE ROCK

CHAPTER XVI. PROSPERITY AND PARTING

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The “line” remained busy for so long that the loungers in the hotel lobby grew amused at Leslie’s impatience while the two girls became very anxious.

“It was only an hour or so, Mr. Ford said, before Aunt Betty’s train would leave and I shall be too late to see her – to bid her good-by – and it’s for all summer – a whole long summer! I must go, I must find her, I shall – I will!” cried poor Dorothy, her own words increasing her fear of this calamity, and with a sudden burst of tears. For an instant she tried to keep them back, then careless who might see her crying, darted outward to the curbstone and to the hackman waiting there.

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“Melvin’s a poke. The invitation included him, too, but he sets himself up stiff as stiff and said he had no time to waste visiting. He’d got to learn the business soon as he could, for his mother – Oh! a lot of bosh about his mother, and her trusting him. Even my father – ”

“Never mind him, then, but tell me how in the world you happened to come just here and now?”

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