The Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine
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Ryan Marah Ellis. The Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine
CHAPTER I. KIT AND THE GIRL OF THE LARK CALL
CHAPTER II. THE RED GOLD LEGEND
CHAPTER III. A VERIFIED PROPHECY OF SEÑORITA BILLIE
CHAPTER IV. IN THE ADOBE OF PEDRO VIJIL
CHAPTER V. AN “ADIOS”–AND AFTER
CHAPTER VI. A DEAD MAN UNDER THE COTTONWOODS
CHAPTER VII. IN THE PROVINCE OF ALTAR
CHAPTER VIII. THE SLAVE TRAIL
CHAPTER IX. A MEETING AT YAQUI WELL
CHAPTER X. A MEXICAN EAGLET
CHAPTER XI. GLOOM OF BILLIE
CHAPTER XII. COVERING THE TRAIL
CHAPTER XIII. A WOMAN OF EMERALD EYES
CHAPTER XIV. THE HAWK OF THE SIERRAS
CHAPTER XV. THE “JUDAS” PRAYER AT MESA BLANCA
CHAPTER XVI. THE SECRET OF SOLEDAD CHAPEL
CHAPTER XVII. THE STORY OF DOÑA JOCASTA
CHAPTER XVIII. RAMON ROTIL DECIDES
CHAPTER XIX. THE RETURN OF TULA
CHAPTER XX. EAGLE AND SERPENT
CHAPTER XXI. EACH TO HIS OWN
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It took less than a week for Kit Rhodes to conclude that the girl behind the bars had a true inspiration regarding his own position on her ranches. There was no open hostility to him, yet it was evident that difficulties were cleverly put in his way.
Not by Philip Singleton, the colorless, kindly disposed gentleman of Pike’s description. But by various intangible methods, he was made to feel an outsider by the manager, Conrad, and his more confidential Mexican assistants. They were punctiliously polite, too polite for a horse-ranch outfit. Yet again and again a group of them fell silent when he joined them, and as his work was with the horse herds of La Partida, that part of the great grant which spread over the border into Sonora, he was often camped fifty miles south of the hacienda of Granados, and saw no more of either the old prospector, or the tantalizing girl of the voice and the whistle.
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The shadows grew long and long under the sun of the old Mexic land, and the high heavens blazed above in yellows and pinks fading into veiled blues and far misty lavenders in the hollows of the hills.
The girl drew a great breath of sheer delight as she waved her hands towards the fire flame in the west where the desert was a trail of golden glory.
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