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THE GIRL FROM SUNSET RANCH

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BOOKS FOR GIRLS
By AMY BELL MARLOWE
12mo. Cloth. Illustrated.

THE OLDEST OF FOUR
  Or Natalie's Way Out
THE GIRLS OF HILLCREST FARM
  Or The Secret of the Rocks
A LITTLE MISS NOBODY
  Or With the Girls of Pinewood Hall
THE GIRL FROM SUNSET RANCH
  Or Alone in a Great City
WYN'S CAMPING DAYS
  Or The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club
FRANCES OF THE RANGES
  Or The Old Ranchman's Treasure
THE GIRLS OF RIVERCLIFF SCHOOL
  Or Beth Baldwin's Resolve

THE ORIOLE BOOKS

WHEN ORIOLE CAME TO HARBOR LIGHT
WHEN ORIOLE TRAVELED WESTWARD
(Other volumes in preparation)

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS--NEW YORK

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[Illustration: "CAB, MISS? TAKE YOU ANYWHERE YOU SAY."
Frontispiece (Page 67).]

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THE GIRL FROM SUNSET RANCH
OR
ALONE IN A GREAT CITY

BY
AMY BELL MARLOWE

AUTHOR OF
THE OLDEST OF FOUR, THE GIRLS OF HILLCREST
FARM, WYN'S CAMPING DAYS, ETC.

Illustrated

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

Made in the United States of America

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Copyright, 1914, by
GROSSET & DUNLAP

The Girl from Sunset Ranch

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER                                 PAGE
     I.  "Snuggy" and the Rose Pony        1
    II.  Dudley Stone                     14
   III.  The Mistress Of Sunset Ranch     26
    IV.  Headed East                      36
     V.  At Both Ends Of The Route        45
    VI.  Across The Continent             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