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

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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot Org. The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge by
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  Speaker 1: Margaret Vanderkook, Chapter twenty four, Christmas Eve. It's the most
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  Speaker 1: beautiful one we have ever had, Jim. I'm so glad,
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  Speaker 1: Jack declared happily. Jim beat the snow from his coat
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  Speaker 1: and folded his arms proudly. It took all day to
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  Speaker 1: get at Jack, but it's worth it. Where are the
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  Speaker 1: other girls? Jim, Colter and Jacqueline were standing at the
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  Speaker 1: base of a wonderful pine tree whose top pressed against
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  Speaker 1: the ceiling of the living room at Rainbow Lodge. The
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  Speaker 1: frost still clung to the tree, and the snow and
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  Speaker 1: icicles melted into long chains of diamonds as they fell
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  Speaker 1: in drops of crystal clearness to the floor. The girls
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  Speaker 1: are in cousin Ruth's room at work. Jack answered, Olive
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  Speaker 1: and Frida have promised not to look at the tree
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  Speaker 1: until the evening. We are going to have everything in
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  Speaker 1: pure white, a regular German Christmas tree, in honor of
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  Speaker 1: Frida's birthday and her name. There is a white world
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  Speaker 1: inside and out, and we shall be at peace for
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  Speaker 1: to night at least. Jack ended with a little sigh.
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  Speaker 1: Jim moved nearer to the tree and shook one of
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  Speaker 1: the branches until the bits of frost fell to the
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  Speaker 1: ground with a soft tinkle like the far off music
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  Speaker 1: of sleigh bells. He kept his clotted blue eyes turned
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  Speaker 1: away from Jack's. Jack slipped her arm through his and
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  Speaker 1: pressed it affectionately. Never you mind, Jim, I didn't mean
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  Speaker 1: to be doleful, Jack persisted, I'm not a bit really.
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  Speaker 1: Olive is all right, and you've seen that that wretched
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  Speaker 1: Joseph and Alaska have been sent away so they can't
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  Speaker 1: annoy her any more. And I think it's perfectly great
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  Speaker 1: that we are going to have such a lovely Christmas
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  Speaker 1: to night as we have hardly ever had before. Suppose
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  Speaker 1: it is our last one at the lodge. We will
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  Speaker 1: have it to remember. But mister calder Jack danced away
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  Speaker 1: from Jim and made him a monk curtsy. You may
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  Speaker 1: kindly observe that I haven't begun to back up the
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  Speaker 1: furniture at the lodge just yet. We never say die,
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  Speaker 1: do we, Jim. I think I will have that motto
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  Speaker 1: engraved on a coat of arms for Rainbow Ranch. Jim
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  Speaker 1: nodded approvingly. It's a pretty good sentiment. Jack he agreed
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  Speaker 1: as he started toward the door. I must be off now,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll be back tonight, promptly at seven for the festivities.
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  Speaker 1: But Jack clung to him. See here, Jim, you can't
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  Speaker 1: go so soon. You haven't said hello to cousin Ruth
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  Speaker 1: or showed her the tree. You know you want to
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  Speaker 1: see her. She has had a bad cold ever since
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  Speaker 1: the night we found Olive, and it is only polite
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  Speaker 1: that you should tell her you are glad she is well.
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  Speaker 1: Jack's tones were perfectly serious, and her expression as innocent
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  Speaker 1: as a baby's. Jim flushed a little angrily. No, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to see her, at least not particularly. Why
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  Speaker 1: should I, Jim demanded awkwardly. That is Ruth was standing
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  Speaker 1: at the living room door with her arms full of
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  Speaker 1: mysterious packages. She laughed and came into the room, glad
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  Speaker 1: that Jim looked as awkward as she felt on the
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  Speaker 1: day of her first horseback ride with him. When Ruth
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  Speaker 1: was putting down her packages, Jack winked solemnly at Jim,
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  Speaker 1: and in return for his irritated glance at her, she
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  Speaker 1: slipped quietly out of the room. All the way down
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  Speaker 1: the hall, Jack was smiling to herself. Wouldn't it be
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  Speaker 1: too funny if old Jim should fall in love with
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  Speaker 1: cousin Ruth? She thought, Goodness knows why he is so
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  Speaker 1: touchy about her. She has been awfully nice to him
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  Speaker 1: since he taught her to ride horseback. But the friendlier
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  Speaker 1: she is, the queerer he behaves. O Young Luckinbar has
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  Speaker 1: come out of the west, of all the wide world.
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  Speaker 1: His steed is the best. Jack quoted a propos of
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  Speaker 1: nothing as she joined the other girls in Rue's bedroom. Olive, Jean,
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  Speaker 1: and Frieda were working industriously. Over in the corner. There
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  Speaker 1: was a little mound that looked like a pile of snow,
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  Speaker 1: but was only the strings of popcorn for the Christmas tree.
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  Speaker 1: Jean was fashioning an immense silver star. Olive and Frida
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  Speaker 1: were filling boxes of white paper decorated with the initials
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  Speaker 1: r G with homemade taffy, candy and chocolate fudge. The
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  Speaker 1: ranch girls had not invited their neighbors to their Christmas
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  Speaker 1: Eve party, but the cowboys who worked on their ranch
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  Speaker 1: were coming up to the lodge to wish them good luck.
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  Speaker 1: Jack dropped down on the floor and deliberately began devouring
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  Speaker 1: the fudge from a big China dish. Don't work too hard, Olive,
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  Speaker 1: Jack insisted, reaching up to pop a piece of candy
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  Speaker 1: into Olive's mouth. Remember you are not very strong yet,
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  Speaker 1: Olive only laughed. She was a little paler than when
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  Speaker 1: she first came to the ranch in the early autumn,
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  Speaker 1: but her eyes were serene and untroubled, and she looked
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  Speaker 1: far less timid and shy. Since finding her mother's picture
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  Speaker 1: in the possession of Old Alaska, Olah felt that she
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  Speaker 1: was more like the other girls, and the thought that
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  Speaker 1: ol Alaska had any real claim on her no longer
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  Speaker 1: worried her. This isn't very hard work, Jack, Olive replied gaily,
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  Speaker 1: and there is still a lot for us to do
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  Speaker 1: to be ready for to night. Just think this will
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  Speaker 1: be the first real Christmas tree I have ever seen. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we won't have so much work to do, Olive. If
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  Speaker 1: Jack eats all the candy, she remarked severely. And Jack,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps if you would help Frieda and Olive instead of
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  Speaker 1: talking so much, they wouldn't have such a lot to do.
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  Speaker 1: Jack flung a cotton snowballed Jeane. Bear with me, sweet, cause,
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  Speaker 1: she pleaded cheerfully. I don't know just why, girls, but
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  Speaker 1: I feel so kind of happy to day that I
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  Speaker 1: suppose I am silly. I believe all the clouds have
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  Speaker 1: passed over our benighted heads, and the rainbow arc of
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  Speaker 1: promise is just over the lodge. Jean pointed scornfully to
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  Speaker 1: the winter landscape outside the window. It looks rather like
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  Speaker 1: we might have a rainbow after the summer shower. Don't
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  Speaker 1: you think so, Olive, she inquired, But she bent over
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  Speaker 1: and crowned Jack with a wreath of silver tinsel, and
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  Speaker 1: went on with her work, smiling as though she had
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  Speaker 1: more faith in Jack's prediction than she cared to confess.
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  Speaker 1: Ah Jean, Jack went on, don't you know there is
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  Speaker 1: a legend that somewhere there is a wonderful land where
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  Speaker 1: all the rainbows that have ever been, or ever will
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  Speaker 1: be drift to and fro like beautiful colored flowers. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: one of these rainbows will find us to night. In
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  Speaker 1: spite of the weather, Jack's face softened at her own
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  Speaker 1: pretty fancy. All day the girl worked and whispered and laughed.
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  Speaker 1: Ruth and Jean and Jack decorated the Great Christmas Tree.
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  Speaker 1: The gifts were piled up under the tree, for nothing
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  Speaker 1: was to be allowed to mar the perfect whiteness of
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  Speaker 1: its decorations. Only Ruth's presents were to be given just
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  Speaker 1: before supper time. She insisted that this was absolutely necessary,
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  Speaker 1: or else they would lose half their value. When Jack
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  Speaker 1: came into a room at about five o'clock to get
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  Speaker 1: ready for the evening, she saw what Ruth had meant.
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  Speaker 1: Lying on the foot of her bed was the prettiest
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  Speaker 1: dress jacket ever owned in her life. It was very simple,
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  Speaker 1: of a soft white material like crape, with a lovely
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  Speaker 1: band of silver embroidery about the low square neck and
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  Speaker 1: around the waist and skirt. Jean was busy in the kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: but Jack saw that her dress was a delicate pink cashmere,
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  Speaker 1: the color Jean most loved. Jack slipped into her costume
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  Speaker 1: very quickly and stole so into the great closed living room,
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  Speaker 1: thinking she would find Ruth there. She had no idea
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  Speaker 1: how beautiful she looked. The room was empty. The pine
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  Speaker 1: trees stood in one corner, lifting its noble green branches,
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  Speaker 1: hung in dim festoons, and covered with myriads of small
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  Speaker 1: white candles. It was quite dark, only the fire that
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  Speaker 1: never went out all winter long at the lodge flickered
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  Speaker 1: and danced and threw fantastic shadows over the girl who
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  Speaker 1: was standing near the Christmas tree. Jack's eyes were misty
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  Speaker 1: as she gazed about her. Her loves were not so
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  Speaker 1: very many, but they were deep and strong. She cared
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  Speaker 1: for the old ranch house more than most girls would
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  Speaker 1: for a fairy palace. Suddenly Jack heard a stamping on
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  Speaker 1: the porch just outside the front door, and shep's quick bark.
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  Speaker 1: She ran swiftly to open it. She supposed Jim had
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  Speaker 1: come up to the house earlier than he had promised,
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  Speaker 1: but it was dark and the glare of the snow
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  Speaker 1: for a moment blinded her. Frank Kent held out his hand.
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  Speaker 1: May I come in, miss Ralston, he asked. I know
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  Speaker 1: it's late, but I have tramped all the way over
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  Speaker 1: here and it's taken a long time. I want to
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  Speaker 1: tell you something, and I want to say good bye.
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  Speaker 1: Jack hurried Frank in near the fire. He had been
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  Speaker 1: to the lodge once since Olive was found, but the
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  Speaker 1: girls had not seen or heard of him in several days.
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  Speaker 1: Jack put the candles on the mantelpiece and then turned
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  Speaker 1: to smile at her guest. Frank stared at her boyishly,
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  Speaker 1: and then, gee, miss Ralston, he exclaimed, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: mind my staying it, you look perfectly ripping. But Jack
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  Speaker 1: was regarding Frank anxiously. He had a deep and rather
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  Speaker 1: unbecoming bruise over one eye, and the other side of
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  Speaker 1: his face was somewhat swollen. Why not, earth is the
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  Speaker 1: matter with you, Frank, mister Kent? I mean, Jack demanded,
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  Speaker 1: you look like you had been in a fight, And
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  Speaker 1: Jack laughed at the thought of so well bred a
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  Speaker 1: fellow as Frank Kent engaging in such a small boy occupation.
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  Speaker 1: I have that is what I came over to tell
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  Speaker 1: you about. Frank replied, that is I didn't come to
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  Speaker 1: tell you about the fight, but of something that led
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  Speaker 1: to it. I shall not go back to the Norton
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  Speaker 1: ranch again. I am through with those people forever. Frank
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  Speaker 1: dropped into a chair, which Jack drew forward. You see,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Ralston, is like this. I have been knowing for
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  Speaker 1: some time that Dan Norton Junior was a cad and
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  Speaker 1: I have had a good many scores to settle with him,
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  Speaker 1: But I didn't know that he and his father were
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  Speaker 1: thieves until to day I happened to be in the
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  Speaker 1: room next to mister Norton's study when I heard Dan
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  Speaker 1: and the old man talking about your ranch. I don't
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  Speaker 1: say I actually hurried away, but I wasn't going to eavesdrop.
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  Speaker 1: Just as I started to clear out, however, I overheard
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  Speaker 1: mister Norton say, well, we've fixed them good and plenty,
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  Speaker 1: haven't we, Dan Junior, Rainbow Ranch is the same as ours.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, min is right in this country, my lad,
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  Speaker 1: I kind of stopped. Then miss Jack Frank added, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't exactly like the sound of what mister Norton said.
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  Speaker 1: Jack had come close to Frank, but her hands were
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  Speaker 1: clasped behind her to hide her impatience. Do go on, please,
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  Speaker 1: she urged breathlessly. Then Dan answered, you are sure right, father.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to prove that Rainbow Ranch belongs to
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  Speaker 1: us a whole lot easier than if it really did.
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  Speaker 1: I heard just exactly those words, Miss Ralston, Frank remarked quietly,
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  Speaker 1: and I am ready to swear to them in any
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  Speaker 1: court of law. Oh Jack bit her lips to hide
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  Speaker 1: their trembling, and a hot color flooded her face. What
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  Speaker 1: did you hear? Next? She pleaded? Do go on? I
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear anything more. Frank answered, I marched into their
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  Speaker 1: study and told mister Norton and Dan exactly what I
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  Speaker 1: thought of them. Then Dan and I got to use
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  Speaker 1: in some language, and we rather broke up the furniture
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  Speaker 1: for a while. Of course, I can't stay in the
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  Speaker 1: house of a man whom I know to be a rogue.
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  Speaker 1: But will you tell your overseer, mister Colter, that I
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  Speaker 1: won't get too far out of this neighborhood to appear
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  Speaker 1: when your suit about the ownership of Rainbow Ranch comes
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  Speaker 1: into court. Frank looked around for his hat. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you will have a very happy Christmas, he said. He
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  Speaker 1: held himself so erect, with a dignity of grace and
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  Speaker 1: breathing such as Jack had rarely seen. Before Jack realized
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  Speaker 1: what was happening, Frank was out of the room for
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  Speaker 1: the second time in their acquaintance. She ran after him.
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  Speaker 1: This time she put her hand on his and fairly
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  Speaker 1: dragged him back with her. Oh please, please don't go.
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  Speaker 1: You must stay and have Christmas at the lodge with us.
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  Speaker 1: Jack entreated, we have plenty of room and we would
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  Speaker 1: so love to have you. Do wait here until I
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  Speaker 1: go and find Cousin Ruth. I know she will be
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  Speaker 1: more apt to persuade you to stay. Needless to say,
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  Speaker 1: Cousin Ruth was successful, and at eight o'clock the ranch girls,
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  Speaker 1: Cousin Ruth, Frank Kent, Jim, Colter, Aunt Ellen, Uncle Zach,
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  Speaker 1: and six bashful cowboys were gathered about the man of
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  Speaker 1: Christmas tree. Frida was to light the candles. She looked
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  Speaker 1: like a plump little German fairy in her new white frock,
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  Speaker 1: with her long braids of flaxen hair. But Frida could
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  Speaker 1: not reach up to the tall candles on the big tree,
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  Speaker 1: and she would not allow either Jim or Frank to
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  Speaker 1: lift her up. On the largest chair in the room,
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  Speaker 1: Frida could tiptoe up to almost the tallest row of candles,
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  Speaker 1: but just under a little wax figure of the Virgin
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  Speaker 1: and the Christ Child she had set seven in a circle.
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  Speaker 1: These were the topmost glory of the tree and Frida's
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  Speaker 1: crowning ambition, and were the only candles she could not
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  Speaker 1: possibly reach from her chair. The little Christmas Eve girl
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  Speaker 1: slipped onto the floor, and before any of the men
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  Speaker 1: in the room guessed what she was after dragged out
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  Speaker 1: from the book shelves an immense old law book bound
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  Speaker 1: in worn brown leather. Frida started gallantly across the room
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  Speaker 1: with it, but it dropped from her small hands and
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  Speaker 1: scattered yellow parchment leaves over the floor. The back of
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  Speaker 1: the book ripped off, and Frida held only the leather cover.
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  Speaker 1: Out of this from a kind of inner pocket, a
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  Speaker 1: folded sheet of paper fluttered and fell at Frida's feet.
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  Speaker 1: The company crowded to the rescue. Blond heads and brown
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  Speaker 1: heads bumped into each other and picking up the leaves.
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  Speaker 1: Frida started to the with the old book cover and
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  Speaker 1: the folded paper. She gave them both a toss toward
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  Speaker 1: the flames, but the paper fluttered back to her feet.
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  Speaker 1: Frida laughed and picked it up again. This paper won't
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  Speaker 1: be burned up, Jack, she exclaimed. Let's light it in
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas candles. Jack caught Frida's hand. May I look
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  Speaker 1: at it, dear, she asked gently. Frida consented to have
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  Speaker 1: Frank lift her to the row of lights on top
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  Speaker 1: of their Christmas tree. Jim was talking to cousin Ruth.
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  Speaker 1: Jean was distributing boxes of candy, and it was Olive
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  Speaker 1: who put her arm around Jack. What is it dear,
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  Speaker 1: what has happened? She whispered, Are you glad or sorry?
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  Speaker 1: Over something? It was? No wonder, Olive asked. Jack's eyes
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  Speaker 1: were streaming in tears, but under them shone a kind
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  Speaker 1: of radiance. Her face was white one minute and then
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  Speaker 1: glowed with a beautiful rose color. Oh I am so happy, happy, Olive,
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  Speaker 1: she cried, throwing her arms around Olive and forgetting the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the company. See, we have the most wonderful
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  Speaker 1: Christmas gift. Frida has found our deed to rainbow ranch.
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  Speaker 1: I believe somehow that father senetas to night. But Jim
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  Speaker 1: and cousin Ruth and everybody in the room had heard Jack.
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  Speaker 1: Jim lift to Jack up in the chair which Frida
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  Speaker 1: had given up. She waved her wonderful paper before her friends.
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  Speaker 1: The cowboys broke into a prolonged cheer. The girls cried
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  Speaker 1: a little because they couldn't help it. Jim suddenly looked
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  Speaker 1: ten years younger, and what he whispered to cousin Ruth
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  Speaker 1: no one ever knew. But she blushed and shook her head.
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  Speaker 1: Do let's dance or do something quick, Jean exclaimed, or
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  Speaker 1: I simply can't bear it. She ran over to the piano.
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  Speaker 1: But at this moment sleigh bell sounded outside, and a
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  Speaker 1: pair of horses could be heard stamping on the frozen ground.
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  Speaker 1: Then another sleigh followed, and the white hall of Rainbow
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  Speaker 1: Lodge was quickly crowded with mister and Missus Simpson, Harry Pryor, Laura,
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  Speaker 1: who for once looked friendly, and all the neighbors of
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  Speaker 1: the ranch girls for miles around, villagers all this frosty tide.
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  Speaker 1: Let your doors swing open wide, though wind may follow
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  Speaker 1: and snow beside, Yet draw usin by your fire to bide.
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  Speaker 1: Harry Pryor sang the first verse of the Old Christmas
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  Speaker 1: Carol alone. Before he had finished, Jean was playing near
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  Speaker 1: softly on the piano, and all the guests joined in
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  Speaker 1: the second verse. Here we stand in the snow, in
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  Speaker 1: the sleet, blowing fingers and stamping feet. Come from far
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  Speaker 1: away you to greet you by the fire, and we
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  Speaker 1: in the street, bidding you joy in the morning. How
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  Speaker 1: did you know, Aunt Sally? How could you have come
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  Speaker 1: to congratulate us at just the right moment? Jack inquired
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  Speaker 1: with a puzzled frown, as she helped Missus Simpson out
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  Speaker 1: of her wraps. We only found it about a minute
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  Speaker 1: before found what missus Simpson demanded curiously, but the next
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  Speaker 1: instant she put her comfortable arms around Jack and hugged
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  Speaker 1: her with all her might. Of course, we didn't know
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  Speaker 1: you had found your need to ring a ranch child.
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  Speaker 1: Aunt Sally exclaimed. We came over because we were afraid
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  Speaker 1: you might not be happy this Christmas. We wanted you
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  Speaker 1: to know that we all meant to stand by you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there is anything in this state that
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  Speaker 1: we have a better right to be proud of than
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  Speaker 1: our ranch girls. And Aunt Sally choked a little with
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  Speaker 1: mixed emotions. Jack laughed, gaily, you are a dear Aunt Sally,
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  Speaker 1: She answered gratefully. I don't know why you should be
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  Speaker 1: proud of us, but anyhow, it is lots of fun
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  Speaker 1: to be a ranch girl. End of Chapter twenty four
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  Speaker 1: read by Nancy Cochrane, Gergon, Gilbert, Arizona, October thirty, two thousand,
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  Speaker 1: twenty one. End of the Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge
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  Speaker 1: by Margaret Vandercook