The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold
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Vandercook Margaret. The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold
CHAPTER I. THE GYPSY CARAVAN
CHAPTER II. THE SPELL OF THE MOON
CHAPTER III. CAUGHT IN THE TRAP
CHAPTER IV. THE WAY TO ARCADY
CHAPTER V. MEETING WITH NEW PEOPLE
CHAPTER VI. A CURIOUS RESEMBLANCE
CHAPTER VII "A LITTLE HOUSE ON WHEELS"
CHAPTER VIII. ALONG THE ROAD
CHAPTER IX "MINER'S FOLLY"
CHAPTER X. BY THE WAYSIDE TENT
CHAPTER XI "WHERE'S JACK?"
CHAPTER XII. CARLOS MAKES GOOD
CHAPTER XIII. ENTERING WONDERLAND
CHAPTER XIV. MR. DRUMMOND AND RALPH CHANGE PLACES
CHAPTER XV. ELIZABETH'S STRANGE CONFESSION
CHAPTER XVI "OLD FAITHFUL"
CHAPTER XVII. THE LANGUAGE OF THE FLOWERS
CHAPTER XVIII "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN"
CHAPTER XIX. THE SUSPENSE AND WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARDS
CHAPTER XX. FRANK AND JACK
CHAPTER XXI "MY WAY'S FOR LOVE"
CHAPTER XXII. A PARTY AT THE RANCHO
CHAPTER XXIII "THEIR LAST RIDE TOGETHER"
CHAPTER XXIV. FAREWELL TO THE RAINBOW RANCH
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THE moon rose early and before dinner was over its pale crescent appeared overhead.
The ranch girls were unusually restless. Jean especially was like a will-o'-the-wisp, never still for an instant. "Do let's go out for a walk; I feel as if I should stifle indoors," she begged.
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At the Lodge door Jack slipped away from the others. Jim saw her start and made a step toward her, but before he could speak she had vanished, with Olive following her. Neither Ruth nor Jean would ask Jim to be seated, and Frieda was too sleepy to think, yet Jim lingered calmly on the porch. "Don't you think we had better go indoors? It's fairly cool," he said at length.
Ruth drew her coat closer about her and sank into a chair. "No, I don't care to go in," she replied coldly. Jean took Frieda's hand and faced Jim boldly. "Jim Colter, there is something the matter with you to-night," she said. "I don't know what it is, but you were rude to Cousin Ruth and horrid to Jack, and if I were in their places I wouldn't speak to you."
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