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19 - Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge by Margaret Vandercook · Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge

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  Speaker 1: At LibriVox dot org. The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge
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  Speaker 1: by Margaret vander Cook, chapter nineteen. No news. Weeks passed
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  Speaker 1: and there was no word from Olive. The ranch girls
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  Speaker 1: had almost ceased to talk of her return. They had
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  Speaker 1: begun to lose hope immediately after Frank, Kent and Jack
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  Speaker 1: left him on the day of the round up. Jim
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  Speaker 1: Colter had gone to the Indian village, but he could
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  Speaker 1: find no trace of Olive there. Curiously enough, Alaska had
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  Speaker 1: disappeared from her hut several days before, so she could
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  Speaker 1: scarcely be held responsible for the lost girl. She had
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  Speaker 1: said nothing of where she was going nor when she
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  Speaker 1: expected to return. In Indian fashion, she had departed silently,
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  Speaker 1: carrying only a bundle strapped across her back. Joseph would
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  Speaker 1: give no information. Jim tried him with threats and bribes,
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  Speaker 1: but the boy insisted he knew nothing about He had
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  Speaker 1: not seen her in many weeks. It was useless to
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  Speaker 1: try to make an Indian betray a secret he meant
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  Speaker 1: to keep, and Jim Colter knew better than to waste
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  Speaker 1: his time. The Indian is as suspicious and reticent to
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  Speaker 1: day as he was in the old days when no
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  Speaker 1: kind of torture ever wrung a sound from him. Advertisements
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  Speaker 1: were inserted in the papers in the nearby towns, but
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  Speaker 1: no girl answering to the description of Olive was ever reported.
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  Speaker 1: She had vanished as completely as though she were dead.
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  Speaker 1: By and by Jim Colter gave up the search. He
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  Speaker 1: did not believe that they would ever see the Indian
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  Speaker 1: girl again. Frank Kent kept quietly at work. He was
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  Speaker 1: very rich, and without a word to any one, offered
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  Speaker 1: a reward for Olive's return, so large that had Laska
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  Speaker 1: seen it, and had she had Olive in her possession,
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  Speaker 1: she must surely have given her up. Frank came often
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  Speaker 1: to Rainbow Lodge. The girls no longer thought of him
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  Speaker 1: as the guests and relative of their bitterest enemy, and
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  Speaker 1: the name of the Nortons was never mentioned between them.
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  Speaker 1: He used to take Jean and Frieda and cousin Ruth
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  Speaker 1: off on long excursions to keep them amused, but Jack
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  Speaker 1: would rarely go with him. She seldom left the ranch
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  Speaker 1: and spent the greater part of the time alone, refusing
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  Speaker 1: to talk either of Olive or the prospect of losing
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  Speaker 1: Rainbow Ranch, which loom nearer With each passing day, Jack
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  Speaker 1: was polite to cousin Ruth, but she never expressed any
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  Speaker 1: penitence to her or to Jim for her wilfulness, which
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be responsible for Olive's loss. But daily Jack
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  Speaker 1: grew paler and thinner. She seemed much older and quieter
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  Speaker 1: than the radiant, beautiful girl who had been the ruling
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  Speaker 1: spirit of the entire ranch. Every One who knew her
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  Speaker 1: worried over the change in her, and most law Ruth,
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  Speaker 1: who wondered if she were not somehow to blame for
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  Speaker 1: the whole disaster. If she had not opposed Jack's going
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  Speaker 1: to the round up, Jim would have taken Jack with him,
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  Speaker 1: and Olive would not have left the lodge. Jean and
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  Speaker 1: Frida bore their troubles differently. Sometimes they would talk of
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  Speaker 1: Olive and again of the loss of their home, and
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  Speaker 1: Jean would reap passionately for a few minutes, and Frida
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  Speaker 1: would cry softly, But they would soon cheer up and
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  Speaker 1: be convinced of Al's immediate return and the discovery of
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  Speaker 1: the lost deed to the ranch. Jean even suggested that
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  Speaker 1: they need not perish if the ranch were taken away
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  Speaker 1: from them. She was quite sure she would be able
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  Speaker 1: to work and support herself. I possibly frieda and for
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  Speaker 1: once Jack laughed, for as she explained to her cousin,
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  Speaker 1: she and Jean knew nothing in the world except how
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  Speaker 1: to ride horseback and ranch girls. Though they were, they
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  Speaker 1: could hardly be expected to join a circus. But no
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  Speaker 1: one interfered with Jack. She took her long rides alone
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  Speaker 1: in spite of the cold weather, for they seemed to
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  Speaker 1: be the only things that would quieter her restlessness. When
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  Speaker 1: she was in the house, she was either searching in
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  Speaker 1: every conceivable crack and corner for the lost titled deed,
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  Speaker 1: or else gazing listlessly out of the window. One clear,
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  Speaker 1: frosty morning, Jack came in to an early breakfast, wearing
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  Speaker 1: her riding habit. You won't mind if I am away
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  Speaker 1: from the ranch all day to day, cousin Ruth, she
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  Speaker 1: inquired quietly. I would rather not say where I am going,
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  Speaker 1: but I shall be in no danger and I shall
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  Speaker 1: be home before dark. Jean waved her fork pettishly in
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  Speaker 1: the air. What in the world are you up to,
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  Speaker 1: Jacqueline Ralston, she demanded, freed, then I awfully wanted you
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  Speaker 1: to go over to Aunt Sally's for the day with us.
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  Speaker 1: You knew she had asked us and cousin Ruth can't
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  Speaker 1: go because she won't learn to ride horseback. I should
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  Speaker 1: think you would be tired of mysteries and secrets by
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  Speaker 1: this time. I am sure, I am. Rainbow Lodge didn't
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  Speaker 1: use to be like this. It is the most changed
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  Speaker 1: place I ever saw. Jean sighed mournfully, but Jack made
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  Speaker 1: her no answer and waited until Ruth agreed to her request.
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  Speaker 1: By ten o'clock, Ruth Drew was alone at the lodge.
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  Speaker 1: The day began early at the ranch, as the winter
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  Speaker 1: twilight soon closed in, and there were no lights but
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  Speaker 1: the stars to guide the wanderers over the prairies. Ruth
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  Speaker 1: had assured the girls she would not be lonely. She
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  Speaker 1: had lots of work to do and letters to be
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  Speaker 1: written to the people at home. But somehow Ruth did
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  Speaker 1: not feel in the mood for any of her tasks.
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  Speaker 1: She was astonished at herself. Already the old village life
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  Speaker 1: in the east seemed far away. Rainbow Lodge and the
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  Speaker 1: vast primitive west went home to her. Now outdoors, the
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  Speaker 1: world looked utterly deserted. There was not a leaf noi
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  Speaker 1: blade of green grass visible. Not a human being nor
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  Speaker 1: an animal in sight except Old Shep, who howled dismally
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  Speaker 1: at having been left at home by the Ranch girls.
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  Speaker 1: Ruth slipped into a heavy old coat and went for
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  Speaker 1: a walk up and down the frozen fields in front
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  Speaker 1: of Rainbow Lodge. Old Shep kept close beside her, with
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  Speaker 1: his warm nose thrust in her hand. There were many
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  Speaker 1: things Ruth wished to think about, and it would be
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  Speaker 1: easier to see clearly and to know what was best
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  Speaker 1: in the open air. Ruth was exceedingly vexed with the
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  Speaker 1: overseer of Rainbow Ranch what was to become Afrida, Jean
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  Speaker 1: and Jack in case they were forced to give up
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  Speaker 1: their home. At the beginning of the new year, Jack
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  Speaker 1: had confided to Ruth that they owned six thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: in bank, beside the stock on their place. But Jack
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  Speaker 1: had no ideas for their future, and mister Jim Colter
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  Speaker 1: had not seen fit to discuss with their chaperone any
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  Speaker 1: plans that he might have for the girls. Of one thing,
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  Speaker 1: Ruth was determined, whatever happened, she would stay with the girls.
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  Speaker 1: She had a little money, and she could earn her
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  Speaker 1: living as a teacher if it were necessary. But the
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  Speaker 1: Ranch girls should not face the world alone. Nevertheless, mister
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  Speaker 1: Colter should explain affairs to her more fully. It was
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  Speaker 1: all very well for him to argue that Rainbow Ranch
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  Speaker 1: could not fall into other hands. He should look at
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  Speaker 1: both sides of the question. Ruth had not seen the
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  Speaker 1: overseer except for a few minutes at a time since
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  Speaker 1: the evening before the round up. He certainly had not
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  Speaker 1: treated her with proper respect. The longer Miss Ruth drew
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  Speaker 1: thought of her grievances, the angrier she grew. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: there was something personal in the matter, but as the
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  Speaker 1: girl's chaperone, she deserved more consideration. Ruth's cheeks were glowing
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  Speaker 1: by this time, partly from the cold air, but quite
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  Speaker 1: as much from timber. She had changed a good deal.
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  Speaker 1: Her complexion was certainly not sallow. She no longer wore
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  Speaker 1: her glasses except when she wished to read, and her
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  Speaker 1: smooth hair was now blowing becomingly about her face under
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  Speaker 1: an old felt hat of Jean's carelessly put on. But
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  Speaker 1: Ruth was not being altogether honest with herself. She did
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  Speaker 1: have a little private spite against Jim. He had promised
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  Speaker 1: to teach her to ride horseback weeks before, and he
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  Speaker 1: had never referred to the subject again. She dearly wished
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  Speaker 1: to learn. She had wanted to ride over to return
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  Speaker 1: missus Simpson's call, and had only pretended an indifference to
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  Speaker 1: Jean because she did not intend in any way to
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  Speaker 1: remind mister Calder of his forgotten promise. Ruth saw Jim
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  Speaker 1: riding up the road that led to the lodge, and
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  Speaker 1: drawing her up, gave him a stiff little bow. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: she had known all along that a cowboy could not
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  Speaker 1: be a gentleman, but Jim had struck her as being
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  Speaker 1: rather superior in spite of his bad grammar. However, no
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  Speaker 1: man worth the name broke a promise to a woman.
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  Speaker 1: Ruth turned her back on the rider and continued her
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  Speaker 1: walk with her head in the air. Jim ran up
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  Speaker 1: in front of the frosty young woman. Good morning, he said,
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  Speaker 1: in rather an embarrassed fashion. The lady's manner was not encouraging.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, she repeated severely. I suppose you wanted to
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  Speaker 1: see one of the girls, but they are all away
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  Speaker 1: from the ranch. Jim shook his head slowly, staring at
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  Speaker 1: miss Ruth drew with a puzzled frown. He had not
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  Speaker 1: the faintest idea why she was so haughty, and clearing
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  Speaker 1: his throat, continued to stare at her without a word,
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  Speaker 1: until the silence grew more and more embarrassing. Ruth's cheeks
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  Speaker 1: grew redder. She was irritated by Jim's silence and the
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  Speaker 1: expression of his eyes, which were as blue and direct
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  Speaker 1: as a young boy's. Do you want to leave a
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  Speaker 1: message for one of the girls, or to speak to
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  Speaker 1: Aunt Ellen or Zack? Ruth inquired irritably, but still Jim
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  Speaker 1: did not speak. For Heaven's sake, tell me what do
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  Speaker 1: you want, mister colter, Ruth demanded, and suddenly Jim laughed. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I thought I wanted to speak to you, miss Drew,
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  Speaker 1: he drawled in his slow, good humored fashion. But perhaps
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  Speaker 1: I had better not. I kind of thought maybe you
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  Speaker 1: would like me to give you a writing lesson this morning.
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  Speaker 1: But I can see now you wouldn't. I have been
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  Speaker 1: trying to get one of the ranch ponies broke in
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  Speaker 1: for you ever since I heard you wanted to learn
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  Speaker 1: to ride, and now I have got a little bronco
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  Speaker 1: that is just about as gentle as a kitten, but
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  Speaker 1: so long, maybe you'll be feeling more like it another day.
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  Speaker 1: Jim rode calmly away, leaving Ruth looking as young and
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  Speaker 1: foolish as a cross child. She did want a horseback
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  Speaker 1: lesson to day of all days when she was alone
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  Speaker 1: and a little blue. Ruth ran after Jim entirely forgetting
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  Speaker 1: her dignity. Mister Colter, please wait, she called. I do
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  Speaker 1: want to learn to ride dreadfully, and I should be
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  Speaker 1: awfully glad to have you show me how this morning,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't think I would be too much of
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  Speaker 1: a chump chump, Ruth's ears burned. Jean's favorite word, chump
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  Speaker 1: had slipped out of her lips, as unconsciously as though
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  Speaker 1: she had never been a New England schoolmarm with a
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  Speaker 1: perfect horror of slang. She wondered if the ranch overseer
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  Speaker 1: had noticed her break. When Jim turned and smiled down
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  Speaker 1: on Miss Drew, she was no longer the superior person
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  Speaker 1: he had just left. You'll learn to like it better
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  Speaker 1: in Wyoming once you can ride, he answered kindly. Why
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  Speaker 1: when the spring comes, our barren prairies blossom like a rose,
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  Speaker 1: and the birds are about everywhere. The ranch girls want
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  Speaker 1: you to get fond of that out here. There ain't
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  Speaker 1: any feeling much worse than being homesick for the things
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  Speaker 1: you left behind. You now run along and wring yourself
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  Speaker 1: up in some kind of a riding habit of the girls.
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  Speaker 1: I will have the pony waiting by the time you
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  Speaker 1: are ready. Ruth rushed into the house, wondering why she
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  Speaker 1: felt so absurdly young and happy all at once. The
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  Speaker 1: young chaperone did not acquire the art of learning to
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  Speaker 1: ride horseback in a single lesson, but Jim was far
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  Speaker 1: too sweet tempered to let her know that she was
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  Speaker 1: the hardest pupil he had ever tried to teach. Both
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  Speaker 1: the master and pupil were related when Ruth finally managed
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  Speaker 1: to sit straight in her saddle without slipping either side,
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  Speaker 1: and to hold her reins while the pony woke o
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  Speaker 1: sedately up and down with Jim at his head. Late
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  Speaker 1: that afternoon, Ruth was sitting alone by the living room window.
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  Speaker 1: It was growing dark. The day had been a tiring one,
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  Speaker 1: and she was feeling a tiny bit depressed. Jack cantered
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  Speaker 1: up to the house, gave her pony over to their
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  Speaker 1: colored man, and without so much as a glance at Ruth,
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  Speaker 1: strode past the living room into her own room and
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  Speaker 1: closed the door behind her. Ruth sighed, it did seem
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  Speaker 1: to her that Jack might have come in to speak
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  Speaker 1: to her. Thinking that she had been by herself all day,
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  Speaker 1: Ruth was beginning to make up her mind that it
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  Speaker 1: was an utterly hopeless desire that she and Jack should
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  Speaker 1: ever be friends. Jack was so reserved and unapproachable, and
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  Speaker 1: so bent on having her own way. Ruth did not
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  Speaker 1: expect Frida and Jean to return for another hour. Missus
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  Speaker 1: Simpson had promised to send some one over with them
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  Speaker 1: so they could have a longer visit with her. It
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  Speaker 1: was growing spooky in the living room, with only the
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  Speaker 1: dancing shadows of the fire. Aunt Ellen had forgotten to
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  Speaker 1: bring in the lamp, and Ruth started toward the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: Down the wide hall. Outside Jack's door, she heard a
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  Speaker 1: queer noise that startled her. It was a strange, choking sound,
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  Speaker 1: as though some one were in pain. Ruth listened. The
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  Speaker 1: sound was not repeated, but the room was in perfect darkness,
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  Speaker 1: and she became vaguely uneasy. She did not understand Jack's disposition.
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  Speaker 1: The girl had been so quiet and unhappy since Olive's disappearance,
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  Speaker 1: and Ruth wondered what Jack was doing in the dark alone.
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  Speaker 1: A knock on the door brought no answer, and Ruth
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  Speaker 1: tried again, what is it? A stifled voice asked, won't
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  Speaker 1: you let me come in? Jack? Ruth urged, feeling her
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  Speaker 1: uneasiness increase. I would much rather you wouldn't. I prefer
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  Speaker 1: to be alone, Jack replied in her habitual frigid tones,
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  Speaker 1: but Ruth heard a queer little catch at the end
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  Speaker 1: of her sentence that was unfamiliar. Ruth had her hand
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  Speaker 1: on the door knob, and without waiting for permission, she
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  Speaker 1: turned it and walked into Jack's room. I think it
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  Speaker 1: is my duty to come into you, Jack, she explained,
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  Speaker 1: in her self righteous lady governess tones that Jack so
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  Speaker 1: much disliked. The room was an almost total darkness, and
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  Speaker 1: Ruth could catch only a faint outline of Jack's figure
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  Speaker 1: drawn up in its usual proud pose, but to night,
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  Speaker 1: her head was drooping. The fire had burned out in
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  Speaker 1: the grate except for a few colored ashes, but Ruth
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  Speaker 1: found paper and wood and soon brought it to a blaze.
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  Speaker 1: She said nothing, and Jack neither moved nor spoke but
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  Speaker 1: Ruth caught one glimpse of Jack's face when the firelight
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  Speaker 1: leaped up into the room. She found an old eider
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  Speaker 1: down wrapper in the closet and pushed a low chair
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  Speaker 1: near the fire, putting a warm gray gown over Jack's
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  Speaker 1: rigid shoulders and pushing her softly toward the chair. There, dear,
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  Speaker 1: sit down by the fire, Ruth said gently. I did
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  Speaker 1: not mean to intrude on you, and I will leave
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  Speaker 1: you by yourself. But you must try and not let
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  Speaker 1: yourself get ill because you are miserable. There may be
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  Speaker 1: a lot, you know, that you must do for Frida
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  Speaker 1: and Jean. Ruth could see that Jack had lost her
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  Speaker 1: self control and was trembling with nervousness and cold, and
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  Speaker 1: turned to leave her. But Jack held out a shaking hand.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't go yet, Ruth, she pleaded, as though she
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  Speaker 1: were one girl talking to another. There is something I
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  Speaker 1: want to try to tell you if I can. Ruth
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  Speaker 1: sat quietly down. She realized all at once how much
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  Speaker 1: harder it is for some people to say the things
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  Speaker 1: they feel than it is for others. It's about olive,
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  Speaker 1: Jack declared, after an instant. I have been over to
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  Speaker 1: the Norton ranch. To day, I brought myself to ask
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  Speaker 1: a favor of mister Norton. I asked him to let
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  Speaker 1: me speak to the Indian boy, Joseph, who works on
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  Speaker 1: his ranch. Mister Norton consented if I would allow him
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  Speaker 1: to stay in the room while I talked. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: he thought I wanted to play him some trick about
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  Speaker 1: the ranch. Jack spoke indifferently. I offered Joseph everything I
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  Speaker 1: had in the world, a hundred dollars. Father once gave
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  Speaker 1: me and my share of my mother's jewelry if he
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  Speaker 1: would only tell me what had become of Olive. He
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't tell. Jack shook her head despairingly. I am beginning
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  Speaker 1: to believe Olive is dead. I don't think so, Jack, somehow,
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  Speaker 1: though I don't know, Ruth returned gravely. I suppose there
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  Speaker 1: is something I ought to say to you, cousin, Ruth,
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  Speaker 1: Jack continued quietly. I ought to tell you and Jim
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  Speaker 1: that I am sorry that I went off to the
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  Speaker 1: round up against your wishes. Of course, I'm sorry. It
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  Speaker 1: seems almost foolish for me to speak of it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to ask you to forgive me, because, of
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  Speaker 1: course I shall never think of forgiving myself for losing Olive,
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  Speaker 1: no matter how long I live. Ruth took hold of
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  Speaker 1: Jack's cold fingers. Jack spoke with perfect self control, but
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  Speaker 1: Ruth began dimly to understand something of her disposition. All
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  Speaker 1: at once, Jack's calmness gave way. She began to sob,
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  Speaker 1: as though she were torn in pieces. Oh, cousin, Ruth,
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  Speaker 1: won't Olive come back ever. I used to think that
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  Speaker 1: having to give up our ranch would be the most
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  Speaker 1: dreadful thing that could happen, But now I don't. Olive
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  Speaker 1: was so gentle and so timid. I thought I was
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  Speaker 1: going to protect and take care of her as though
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  Speaker 1: she were freed of But instead of that, it was
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  Speaker 1: I who led her into danger. Ruth and Jack talked
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  Speaker 1: quietly after this, until Jean and Frieda came home. Ruth
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  Speaker 1: had entirely lost her school teacher manner and forgot to
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  Speaker 1: preach Jack's reserve. Having once broken down, she told Ruth
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  Speaker 1: all she had suffered in silence for the past few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Though Ruth and Jack might have many conflicts of their
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  Speaker 1: two strong wills in the future, they would never misunderstand
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  Speaker 1: each other so completely as they had done in the past.
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  Speaker 1: End of Chapter nineteen, read by Nancy Cochran, Gergen Gilbert, Arizona,
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  Speaker 1: October twenty four, two thousand, twenty one.