The Ranch Girls and the silver arrow

On either side of them arose tall cliffs. Overhead the sky showed a deep warm blue. A stream of water flowed along, ending in a small lake at some distance ahead.

They had been married quietly about six weeks before in the presence of the family. Immediately after, they had left the ranch to spend their honeymoon camping in the Canadian R...

Tired after their long excursion and the finding of the silver arrow, the excitement of meeting her father and the new stepmother, she had expected to fall into a sound slumber...

In fact, Jack distinctly recalled the days when, as one of the original Rainbow Ranch Girls, she had made just such early-morning escapes from her family and the problems that t...

After many years in the community Mr. Colter, who originally had taken slight interest in matters outside his own ranch, had become one of the most influential men in the wester...

As Olivia paused not far away for a moment, she made a charming picture. She was wearing a white dress, and overhead the light filtered on her through the gray-green foliage of...

The next few weeks were curious, puzzling weeks in Jeanette Colter's life experience. Against her stepmother she felt no less prejudice, nevertheless circumstances compelling th...

"I wonder why I am so determined to win?" she asked herself half aloud, dropping back again on her pillow. She hoped to go to sleep for another hour if possible, or if not to sl...

Curiously Jeanette slept peacefully all night, untroubled by dreams. She was tired out and glad the race was over. More than she had imagined, her mind and heart had been set up...

A congressman in Washington during the greater part of the year, Peter Stevens was able to spend only a few summer months at his own place. During this time he declared that he...

On that same evening after dinner Jeanette concluded that she would make her request of her father. Under the circumstances she felt she owed this to herself and to him, not wis...

"Sorry, Jeanette, I cannot do what you ask. Please be patient a few moments. I should regret your going from home just now, and feel it would be a mistake. Yet you know I take y...

The windows of the Rainbow Lodge stood open to the sun and wind. In the bedrooms once occupied by the old Ranch Girls the new Ranch Girls were arranging their possessions. Yet o...

"Why shouldn't I be, Jeanette? You have always been candid with me since the beginning of our acquaintance. I don't see why a boy should not be as frank with a girl as she with...

"Jeanette, if you have nothing else to do to-day suppose we take a ride together. I have scarcely seen you alone for weeks except at night when you are too tired to talk. You ha...

No one uttered a reproach, so perhaps the idea was an imaginary one. Certainly Via had proposed the trip herself and no one had opposed her. However, finding that Via did not re...

The evening before Jeanette finally decided to discuss with her father the subject so near her heart. The summer days were passing swiftly. Already Mr. and Mrs. Barret were begi...

The girls were out of doors. They were not in the vicinity of the big house, nor of the old lodge which was now a burned-out pile of charred logs. They were hovering about the f...

A large group of them surrounded a young girl, dressed in a dark-blue serge traveling costume with a black hat trimmed with a blue bird's wing. Her face was flushed with excitem...