TENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE GYPSY CARAVAN 9

II. THE SPELL OF THE MOON 26

III. CAUGHT IN THE TRAP 37

IV. THE WAY TO ARCADY 46

V. MEETING WITH NEW PEOPLE 61

VI. A CURIOUS RESEMBLANCE 76

VII. "A LITTLE HOUSE ON WHEELS" 87

VIII. ALONG THE ROAD 102

IX. "MINER'S FOLLY" 115

X. BY THE WAYSIDE TENT 130

XI. "WHERE'S JACK?" 141

XII. CARLOS MAKES GOOD 152

XIII. ENTERING WONDERLAND 163

XIV. MR. DRUMMOND AND RALPH CHANGE PLACES 174

XV. ELIZABETH'S STRANGE CONFESSION 182

XVI. "OLD FAITHFUL" 196

XVII. THE LANGUAGE OF THE FLOWERS 205

XVIII. "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN" 216

XIX. THE SUSPENSE AND WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARDS 229

XX. FRANK AND JACK 242

XXI. "MY WAY'S FOR LOVE" 258

XXII. A PARTY AT THE RANCHO 268

XXIII. "THEIR LAST RIDE TOGETHER" 277

XXIV. FAREWELL TO THE RAINBOW RANCH 287

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

THE OLD WOMAN MUMBLED A VERSE OF POETRY _Frontispiece_

PAGE

"I DECLARE, I FEEL LIKE I HADN'T SEEN YOU IN A
HUNDRED YEARS!" 53

"HOW COULD YOU, MISS BRUCE?" RALPH DEMANDED
INDIGNANTLY 144

"THERE IS GOLD IN RAINBOW CREEK, JACK!" 253

The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold

CHAPTER I

THE GYPSY CARAVAN

"A hundred dollars a month--it's a fortune!" Jean Bruce exclaimed gayly,
pirouetting about on her tip-toes in front of a huge Japanese umbrella
fastened upright in the ground in the middle of the orchard at the
Rainbow Ranch.

Jacqueline Ralston gazed half con