CONTENTS
CHAPTER III. A LADY IN A TEMPER
CHAPTER VI. MANLEY'S FIRE GUARD
CHAPTER VIII. THE PRAIRIE FIRE
CHAPTER IX. KENT TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XII. A LESSON IN FORGIVENESS
CHAPTER XIII. ARLINE GIVES A DANCE
CHAPTER XIV. A WEDDING PRESENT
CHAPTER XVI. MANLEY'S NEW TACTICS
CHAPTER XVII. VAL BECOMES AN AUTHOR
CHAPTER XVIII. VAL'S DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XIX. KENT'S CONFESSION
CHAPTER XXII. A FRIEND IN NEED
In northern Montana there lies a great, lonely stretch of prairie land, gashed deep where flows the Missouri. Indeed, there are many such—big, impassive, impressive in their very loneliness, in summer given over to the winds and the meadow larks and to the shadows fleeing always over the hilltops. Wild range cattle feed there and grow sleek and fat for the fall shipping of beef. At night the coyotes yap quaveringly and prowl abroad after the long-eared jack rabbits, which bounce away at their hunger-driven approach. In winter it is not good to be there; even the beasts shrink then from the bleak, level reaches, and shun the still bleaker heights.
But men will live anywhere if by so doing there is money to be gained, and so a town snuggled up against the northern rim of the bench land, where the bleakness was softened a bit by the