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THE MYSTERIOUS RIDERCHAPTER IA September sun, losing some of its heat if not its brilliance, wasdropping low in the west over the black Colorado range. Purple hazebegan to thicken in the … More...

THE MYSTERIOUS RIDERCHAPTER IA September sun, losing some of its heat if not its brilliance, wasdropping low in the west over the black Colorado range. Purple hazebegan to thicken in the timbered notches. Gray foothills, round andbillowy, rolled down from the higher country. They were smooth,sweeping, with long velvety slopes and isolated patches of aspens thatblazed in autumn gold. Splotches of red vine colored the soft gray ofsage. Old White Slides, a mountain scarred by avalanche, towered withbleak rocky peak above the valley, sheltering it from the north.A girl rode along the slope, with gaze on the sweep and range and colorof the mountain fastness that was her home. She followed an old trailwhich led to a bluff overlooking an arm of the valley. Once it had beena familiar lookout for her, but she had not visited the place of late.It was associated with serious hours of her life. Here seven yearsbefore, when she was twelve, she had made a hard choice to please herguardian--the old rancher whom she loved and called father, who hadindeed been a father to her. That choice had been to go to school inDenver. Four years she had lived away from her beloved gray hills andblack mountains. Only once since her return had she climbed to thisheight, and that occasion, too, was memorable as an unhappy hour. Ithad been three years ago. To-day girlish ordeals and griefs seemed backin the past: she was a woman at nineteen and face to face with the firstgreat problem in her life.The trail came up back of the bluff, through a clump of aspens withwhite trunks and yellow fluttering leaves, and led across a level benchof luxuriant grass and wild flowers to the rocky edge.She dismounted and threw the bridle. Her mustang, used to being petted,rubbed his sleek, dark head against her and evidently expected likedemonstration in return, but as none was forthcoming he bent his nose tothe grass and began grazing. The girl's eyes were intent upon somewaving, slender, white-and-blue flowers. They smiled up wanly, like palestars, out of the long grass that had a tinge of gold. Digital Content>E-books>Classics>Coll Classics>Coll Classics, SAP Digital >16<

ISBN: 2940013653092

THE MYSTERIOUS RIDERCHAPTER IA September sun, losing some of its heat if not its brilliance, wasdropping low in the west over the black Colorado range. Purple hazebegan to thicken in the … More...

THE MYSTERIOUS RIDERCHAPTER IA September sun, losing some of its heat if not its brilliance, wasdropping low in the west over the black Colorado range. Purple hazebegan to thicken in the timbered notches. Gray foothills, round andbillowy, rolled down from the higher country. They were smooth,sweeping, with long velvety slopes and isolated patches of aspens thatblazed in autumn gold. Splotches of red vine colored the soft gray ofsage. Old White Slides, a mountain scarred by avalanche, towered withbleak rocky peak above the valley, sheltering it from the north.A girl rode along the slope, with gaze on the sweep and range and colorof the mountain fastness that was her home. She followed an old trailwhich led to a bluff overlooking an arm of the valley. Once it had beena familiar lookout for her, but she had not visited the place of late.It was associated with serious hours of her life. Here seven yearsbefore, when she was twelve, she had made a hard choice to please herguardian--the old rancher whom she loved and called father, who hadindeed been a father to her. That choice had been to go to school inDenver. Four years she had lived away from her beloved gray hills andblack mountains. Only once since her return had she climbed to thisheight, and that occasion, too, was memorable as an unhappy hour. Ithad been three years ago. To-day girlish ordeals and griefs seemed backin the past: she was a woman at nineteen and face to face with the firstgreat problem in her life.The trail came up back of the bluff, through a clump of aspens withwhite trunks and yellow fluttering leaves, and led across a level benchof luxuriant grass and wild flowers to the rocky edge.She dismounted and threw the bridle. Her mustang, used to being petted,rubbed his sleek, dark head against her and evidently expected likedemonstration in return, but as none was forthcoming he bent his nose tothe grass and began grazing. The girl's eyes were intent upon somewaving, slender, white-and-blue flowers. They smiled up wanly, like palestars, out of the long grass that had a tinge of gold. Digital Content>E-books>Literature>Literature>Literature, SAP Digital >16<

ISBN: 2940013653092

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