Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch

At the shrill cry and the clatter of Buster's feet the crawling vehicle came to a standstill, and from under its canvas cover peered the smiling face of a hale, elderly woman, w...

"Did you not hear me say I would not have dismissed him? No, dear. There is something in this I don't understand. How do we know but that all the other 'boys' who left so sudden...

The collision staggered both men and gave Mrs. Trent time to reach the side of her guest and to lay a restraining hand upon his arm. Her voice was tremulous with laughter as she...

While Elsa had been entertaining the stranger within doors Jessica had sought Wolfgang and compelled him, by her coaxing, to admit that Ephraim Marsh had been there and, also, t...

Captain Jess screamed and ran forward, but her outstretched hands could not reach her guest, already borne many rods away. Then she faced the jeering men, with an anger she had...

"Lost! I'm lost! Right here in this great city full of folks. It seemed so easy to find Mr. Hale and it was so hard. There are so many streets--which one is right? There are so...

"Don't speak to me, John Benton. This is no time for fooling. Not till I've got my breath, knocked out of me by the plumb wickedness of this world. That I should have lived to h...

Jessica went back to Ephraim's room, to tell him this wonderful ending of their once almost hopeless search, and for long they discussed the story that was at once so strange, s...

Nothing resembling a legal document was found inside the package; but, instead, were several neatly-arranged rolls of gold and silver money, with the denomination of each roll c...

It was a journey of something more than two hundred miles and they were almost a week on the way; riding for several hours each morning and evening; camping in some well-watered...

For Jessica Trent there followed weeks of a quieter life than she had lived even at isolated Sobrante. "The behavior," which was to be a test of her stay, proved so pleasing to...

When Ninian Sharp sat down to smoke a cigar at the window of his club it was with no idea that he was then and there to begin a bit of detective work which should make him famou...

Jessica drew back, repelled. Why did that man make her so unhappy whenever she saw him nowadays? What did he mean by that speech about old Ephraim Marsh and the safe? Well, he w...

"Oh! I'm glad you've gotten here all safe. How did you do it? It's a long walk for those who aren't used to it. Even for those who are, too. Did you ride your horse? Was he bett...

Shrieking with laughter at the success of their experiment, they rolled and floundered on the ground, till the laughter changed to cries of pain as their restless writhings to a...

"But you don't know yet how to ride a railway carriage. Then let me tell you you'll find it so delightful you'll not want to get out when the journey's done."

When the tension of waiting was becoming intolerable, and Mrs. Trent was already rising to seek her daughter, Jessica reappeared in the doorway. Her white face and frightened ey...

Ever since Jessica could remember, Antonio Bernal had been manager of the Sobrante ranch, and after the death of her father, a few months before, he became practically its maste...

Speech was now easier, for the speed of both animals had slackened, that of Prince to a comfortable trot. While the sidewise lurching motion of the ostrich was enjoyable enough...

The pleasantest task which fell to Jessica's hands, during her hospital life, was the distributing of flowers and fruits, almost daily sent by the charitable for the comfort of...

For an hour and a half they rode swiftly along a comparatively level trail, though to Ninian Sharp's untrained eyes there was no road visible. How Samson managed to pick his way...

The horseman's excited cry was echoed by a startled neigh from his beast, which wheeled about so suddenly that he nearly precipitated both himself and rider into the gulch below.