The Ranch Girls and Their Great Adventure

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Vandercook Margaret. The Ranch Girls and Their Great Adventure

CHAPTER I. KENT HOUSE

CHAPTER II. FRIEDA'S RIFT

CHAPTER III. THE VOICE

CHAPTER IV. A LATE ARRIVAL

CHAPTER V. AN APPARITION

CHAPTER VI. THE CLOUD

CHAPTER VII. SO AS BY FIRE

CHAPTER VIII. SEVERAL MONTHS LATER

CHAPTER IX. CHURCH AND STATE

CHAPTER X. THE LETTER

CHAPTER XI. A SURPRISE

CHAPTER XII. NO QUARTER

CHAPTER XIII. THE BREAK

CHAPTER XIV. PROFESSOR AND PROFESSORESS

CHAPTER XV. THE OLD RANCH

CHAPTER XVI. VIVE

CHAPTER XVII. FAREWELL

CHAPTER XVIII "UNDER TWO FLAGS"

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"DID Frieda say on what ship she would sail? It is odd she does not cable."

The two friends were coming down from the third floor of Kent House where the babies' nurseries were. Jack and Frank had two children – the oldest a small boy, something over three years old, and called Jimmie, in honor of Jim Colter, the Ranch Girls' guardian and the one-time overseer and now part owner of the Rainbow Ranch. The baby, who was only a year old, had been named for Olive Van Mater, who had never seen her until her present visit. But there would be no confusion of names, for almost immediately the small brother had rechristened his tiny sister with the charming little name "Vive," which was used for her always. And since Vive was the gayest and liveliest of babies, this name with its translated meaning, "Life" was supposed to be particularly appropriate.

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"I hope you won't feel dull, Olive! As soon as Parliament closes, if you and Frieda like, we will have some people come to stay with us. I don't like the responsibility of visitors if Frank is not here. I have never learned to take guests so simply and easily as an English hostess does. It is one of the ways in which I am a social failure."

"Nonsense," Olive announced, without paying much attention to what Jack had said. She had picked up a magazine and was reading.

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