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Title: Ranching for Sylvia

Author: Harold Bindloss

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Language: English

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RANCHING FOR SYLVIA

(Published in England under the Title, _The Trustee_)

by

HAROLD BINDLOSS

Author of _Vane of the Timberlands_, _Alton of Somasco_,
_Thurston of Orchard Valley_, _Masters of the Wheatlands_, etc.

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers New York

1913

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I A STRONG APPEAL
II HIS FRIENDS' OPINION
III A MATTER OF DUTY
IV GEORGE MAKES FRIENDS
V THE PRAIRIE
VI GEORGE GETS TO WORK
VII A CATTLE DRIVE
VIII CONSTABLE FLETT'S SUSPICIONS
IX GEORGE TURNS REFORMER
X THE LIQUOR-RUNNERS
XI DIPLOMACY
XII GEORGE FACES DISASTER
XIII SYLVIA SEEKS AMUSEMENT
XIV BLAND GETS ENTANGLED
XV HERBERT MAKES A CLAIM
XVI A FORCED RETIREMENT
XVII HERBERT IS PATIENT
XVIII BLAND MAKES A SACRIFICE
XIX AN OPPOSITION MOVE
XX A BLIZZARD
XXI GRANT COMES TO THE RESCUE
XXII THE SPREAD OF DISORDER
XXIII A HARMLESS CONSPIRACY
XXIV GEORGE FEELS GRATEFUL
XXV A COUNTERSTROKE
XXVI THE CLIMAX
XXVII A SIGN FROM FLETT
XXVIII THE LEADING WITNESS
XXIX FLORA'S ENLIGHTENMENT
XXX THE ESCAPE
XXXI THE REACTION
XXXII A REVELATION
XXXIII GEORGE MAKES UP HIS MIND

CHAPTER I

A STRONG APPEAL

It was evening of early summer. George Lansing sat by a window of the
library at Brantholme. The house belonged to his cousin; and George,
having lately reached it after traveling in haste from Norway, awaited
the coming of Mrs. Sylvia Marston in an eagerly expectant mood. It was
characteristic of him that his expression conveyed little hint of his
feelings, for George was a quiet, self-contained man; but he had not
been so troubled by confused emotions since Sylvia married Marston
three years earlier. Marston had taken her to Canada; but now he wa