56
VII. The Great City 65
VIII. The Welcome 72
IX. The Ghost Walk 83
X. Morning 92
XI. Living Up To One's Reputation 102
XII. "I Must Learn The Truth" 111
XIII. Sadie Again 128
XIV. A New World 142
XV. "Step--Put; Step--Put" 152
XVI. Forgotten 164
XVII. A Distinct Shock 176
XVIII. Probing For Facts 196
XIX. "Jones" 204
XX. Out Of Step With The Times 216
XXI. Breaking The Ice 227
XXII. In The Saddle 238
XXIII. My Lady Bountiful 252
XXIV. The Hat Shop 262
XXV. The Missing Link 271
XXVI. Their Eyes Are Opened 279
XXVII. The Party 287
XXVIII. A Statement Of Fact 304
XXIX. "The Whip Hand" 311
XXX. Headed West 317

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THE GIRL FROM SUNSET
RANCH

CHAPTER I

"SNUGGY" AND THE ROSE PONY

"Hi, Rose! Up, girl! There's another party making for the View by the far
path. Get a move on, Rosie."

The strawberry roan tossed her cropped mane and her dainty little hoofs
clattered more quickly over the rocky path which led up from the
far-reaching grazing lands of Sunset Ranch to the summit of the rocky
eminence that bounded the valley upon the east.

To the west lay a great, rolling plain, covered with buffalo grass and
sage; and dropping down the arc of the sky was the setting sun,
ruddy-countenanced, whose almost level rays played full upon the face of
the bluff up which the pony climbed so nimbly.

"On, Rosie, girl!" repeated the rider. "Don't let him get to the View
before us. I don't see why anybody would wish to go there," she added,
with a jealous pang, "for it was father's favorite outlook. None of our
boys, I am sure, would come up here at this hour."

Helen Morrell was secure in this final opinion. It was but a short month
since Prince Morrell had gone down under the hoofs of the steers in an
unfortunate stampede that had cost the Sunset Ranch much beside the life
of its well-liked owner.

The View--a flat table of rock on the summit overlooking the valley--had
become almo