Dorothy on a Ranch

by Evelyn Raymond

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	The Trip in the Erminie	[9]
II.	A Spill by the Way	[25]
III.	The Midnight Searching Party	[45]
IV.	The Watchers at Roderick’s	[62]
V.	The Call of the Mountains	[75]
VI.	A Martinet of the Rockies	[93]
VII.	A Rifle Practice	[110]
VIII.	A Concert in the Moonlight	[127]
IX.	A Modern Horse Fair	[142]
X.	An Unexpected Departure	[157]
XI.	The Sheep Herder’s Cabin	[172]
XII.	Play That Was Work and Work That Was Play	[187]
XIII.	The Hen of Wun Sing	[205]
XIV.	The Grizzly and the Indians	[220]
XV.	A Trip To Bald Eagle Rock	[235]
XVI.	Prosperity and Parting	[250]

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DOROTHY ON A RANCH

CHAPTER I

THE TRIP IN THE ERMINIE

The “Erminie,” private car of “Railway Boss, Dan Ford,” stood side-tracked at Denver, and his guests within it were the happy people whom, some readers may remember, we left keeping a belated Christmas in the old adobe on the mesa, in southern California.

To Dorothy, the trip thus far had been like a wonderful dream.

“Just think, Alfy Babcock, of owning a real car, going and stopping just as you please, same’s riding in a carriage with horses! Even darling Aunt Betty, who’s been ’most everywhere and seen ’most everything, in her long life, never travelled ‘private coaching’ this way before. I hate to think it’s over, that I’ll have to say good-by to her so soon. Seems if I ought not. Seems if she’ll be dreadful lonesome without me all summer. I’m her own folks and I—I believe I shall go home with her after all, ’stead of into the mountains to that ranch with the Gray Lady.”