There were really no accommodations at the ranchhouse for Kate until some could be prepared.
That's the first time I ever heard anybody on this ranch take sides with the men that's robbing it--or carry a threat to this ranchhouse for rustlers.
Then he marched histrionically to the ranchhouse and made a fire in the rusted stove.
The luxury of his yawn was stifled as he saw below him the ranchhouse with some strange kind of a sign above its gate.
For comfort, peace, and a mind at ease, give her the ranchhouse by the river, where she could set her hand to a dish if she wanted to, no one thinking it amiss.
But when Nola was at the ranchhouse on the river the gloom lifted over the post, and the sour leaven in the hearts of unmarried officers became as sweet as manna in the cheer of the unusual social outlet thus provided.
In a little while they rounded the screen of brush which hid them from the ranchhouse and from those who Frances knew would be their pursuers in a moment.
Chadron's ranchhouse was several miles to the westward of him, although it appeared nearer by the trickery of that clear light.
Tears were on her cheeks again as she parted from him, giving him her hand in token of trust and faith, and rode on toward the ranchhouse by the river.
It seemed a question to Macdonald, as he watched him weaving in the saddle as the gloom closed around him and shut him from sight, whether he ever would reach the ranchhouse to recount his story, whatever version of the tragedy he had planned.
She could see the horsemen returning to the ranchhouse by the river in the gray morning light, in the triumph of their successful hunt.
Two of them were carried back to the big ranchhouse in blankets, with bullets through their fleshy parts--not fatal wounds, but effective.
There seemed to be a heart-soreness over the ranchhouse by the river as night fell upon it again.
She shook her head negatively, answering his smile; and watched him as he rode around a corner of the ranchhouse toward the corral where, no doubt, he would find Harlan.
He flattened against the wall of the ranchhouse for an instant, staring wildly around him; then his head sagged forward and he slid down the wall of the ranchhouse into the deep dust that was mounded near it.
From the ranchhouse Barbara also saw the cloud, and she ran upstairs to one of the north windows.
That man was the black-bearded fellow who had escorted Harlan to the ranchhouse on the occasion of his first visit--Lafe Woodward.
He had realized that Morgan had meant to kill him, even before Morgan had revealed his identity, and his backward movement, which had brought him against the wall of the ranchhouse had been made with design.
The distance to the ranchhouseseemed to be interminable.
There was no window in the wall of the ranchhouse on that side; and he backed away, staggering a little, for he had lost much blood.
The men maintained silence as Harlan rode to the ranchhouseand sat in the saddle, awaiting the pleasure of his escort.
His eyes were open; he glanced at the door of the ranchhouse through which Harlan and Morgan had entered.
Purgatory was in the stable--which was farther from the ranchhouse than the corral.
She had sat at the window for, it seemed to her, many hours before she became aware that the moon had risen and was directly overhead, flooding the ground in the vicinity of the ranchhouse with a soft, silver radiance.
His caution had not been wasted, and his vigilance in guarding the ranchhouse must have been irritating to the man who had been watching.
It must be nine or ten miles across to the Philbrook ranch, in the straightest line that a horse could follow, and from that point many miles more to the ranchhouse and release from his stifling ropes.
The ranchhouse appeared big even in that setting of immensities, and perilously near the edge of the crumbling bluff which presented a face almost sheer on the river more than three hundred feet below.
The ranchhouse was in sight, high on its peninsula of prairie, like a lighthouse seen from sea.
The ranchhouse was a structure of logs from which the bark had been stripped, and which had weathered white as bones.
I'm going back to the ranchhouse pretty soon and I'll try to send some one from there.
He looked up at the sheer and mighty fall of rock behind the ranchhouse and his face glowed; he leaned over the rail of a rustic bridge and forgot Marcia, who was with him, as he watched the beauty of the foam-flecked water.
He kept seeing Marion as she sat on the porch, and the spell of her had seized him so firmly that last night, after she had left, the ranchhouse had seemed to be nothing more than four walls out of which all the life had gone.
Taylor had actually been a martyr on a small scale in confining himself to the bunkhouse, when he could have enjoyed the comforts and spaciousness of the ranchhouse if it had not been for her own presence.
She came in sight of the Arrow ranchhouse presently, and gazed at it admiringly.
In an instant he was at the long stretch of fence which formed the ranchyard side of the horse corral, and in another instant he was sliding to a halt near the edge of the front porch of the ranchhouse itself.
He did not get up to prepare food for himself; he did not think of eating, for the big, silent ranchhouse and the gloomy, vacant appearance of the other buildings drew the man's attention to the aching emptiness of his own life.
Taylor, on Spotted Tail, was approaching the Arrow ranchhouse at a speed slightly greater than that into which the big horse had fallen shortly after he had left the gorge.
She got her pony, after a while, and rode far and long, coming in to the ranchhouse about noon.
You must have seen them," she added, with a hope that some one at the ranchhouse might have seen him.
She believed that, for the little animal under her had never looked tired when she had ridden him to the ranchhouse at the end of a hard day.
That glimpse he had had of her on the Flying W ranchhouse porch had made him think, but her appearance now caused him to think more deeply.
His teeth clenched tightly, and the muscles of his face corded as they had done in the Flying W ranchhouse the day that Aunt Martha had told him of Pickett's attack on Ruth.
And he went toward the ranchhouse warily, much relieved when he passed the bunkhouse, to find that Randerson was apparently absent.
And Randerson was at the ranchhouse even less frequently than his predecessor; he spent much of his time with the outfit.
That first day at the ranchhouse was the beginning of a new existence for Ruth.
The ranchhouse was a big two-story structure built of heavy timber, with porches in front and rear, and wide cornices, all painted white and set on a solid foundation of stone.
A decision had resulted from those periods, for the day before, when a puncher had come in from the outfit, on an errand, she had told him to send Randerson in to the ranchhouse to her, on the following day.
The ranchhouse burst upon his vision as his horse topped a rise that had obscured his view of the ranchhouse, and he saw it, clearly outlined.
He had seen most of the Double A men return toward the ranchhouse after the trail crew had been selected; he had followed the progress of the herd during the morning.
Carter had sent the cook back to the ranchhouseduring the afternoon to obtain supplies; and now the chuck wagon, with bulging sides, was standing near a fire at which the cook himself was preparing supper.
For there was a light in one of the ranchhouse windows.
Owen introduced him to the other men--who had ridden in to the ranchhouse the previous night, and were getting ready to follow the outfit wagon down the river into the basin to where the Double A herd was grazing.
The thought of what Dale might be doing at the Double A ranchhouse maddened Sanderson, and taking quick sight at a man crouching behind a rock, he pulled the trigger.
Mary heard them--their steps on the boards of the porch; she heard the saddle leather creak as Dale climbed on his horse; she heard the sound of the hoofbeats as the horse clattered out of the ranchhouse yard.
When he reached the bottom of the long, gentle slope that stretched to the Double A ranchhouse he did not spare his horse.
Halfway across the ranchhouse yard, Sanderson saw a shadow cross the light in the window.
Well, at least the big tree there and the ranchhouse will not be very hard to find.
The first trace I caught of him was at a shack of an oldranchhouse where he'd traded his lame hoss in.
The difficulty in the way of this was that the servants in the big ranchhouse were two Chinese boys.
He took a scroll from his breast pocket and unrolled the photograph of the forest and the ranchhouse with the two mountains in the distance.
When he observed that he might be seen from the ranchhouse he moved deep into the cottonwood and there, screened behind some nondescript brush, continued his examination.
He mounted his pony and rode to the far end of the ranchhouse yard.
In short, he felt that he was not the same man who had ridden up to the Lazy Y ranchhouse at twilight the night before--in twelve hours a change had come over him.
Nor had Malcolm seen it just a moment before when he had crossed the ranchhouseyard behind Calumet to go to the bunkhouse, where he was now.
After seeking her room she had heard the rapid beat of hoofs, and, looking out of her window, she had seen Calumet when he had raced from the ranchhouse in search of Taggart.
He watched them until they were well on their way toward the Arrow, and then he returned to the ranchhouse and went to bed.
He had scarcely gone before there was a clatter of hoofs in the ranchhouse yard, a horse dashed up to the edge of the porch, came to a sliding halt and the lank figure of Toban appeared before the door in which Betty was standing.
The moonlight threw a mellow glare upon the porch of the ranchhouse near the kitchen door.
When he drove out of the ranchhouse yard he saw Betty watching him from one of the kitchen windows.
That same night when Dade drove into the ranchhouse yard Calumet had smiled at him, and a little later when Dade had told Betty about it he had added: "When I seen him grin at me that cordial, I come near fallin' off my horse.
The ride to the ranchhouse took long, but by the time Langford arrived there he had regained his composure, saying nothing to anyone concerning his adventure.
Puzzled and raging inwardly over the slight, Duncan did not return to the ranchhouse that day and spent the night at one of the line camps.
The following day he rode in to the ranchhouse to find that Langford had gone out riding with Sheila.
During the next few days he did not see much of Sheila, for he avoided the ranchhouse as much as possible.
She did not revert to the subject of the animal's return during the evening meal, however, nor after it when she and her father and Duncan sat on the gallery of the ranchhouse enjoying the cool of the night breezes.
A month had passed since the afternoon on which she had ridden up to the porch of the Double R ranchhouse to be greeted by Duncan with the information that he had that morning received a telegram from her father announcing her coming.
Several nights on the gallery of the ranchhouse she had seen the two men sitting very close together, and on one or two occasions she had overheard scraps of conversation carried on between them in which Doubler's name was mentioned.
Grayson, the boss, and the boss's daughter were sitting upon the veranda of the ranchhouse when the foreman reverted to the subject.
Behind the ranchhouse three figures crept forward in the shadows.
They themselves were fagged, too, and when a ranchhouse loomed in front of them they decided to halt for much-needed recuperation.
Bridge's mental vision was concentrated upon the veranda of a white-walled ranchhouse to the east.
The ranch foreman called aloud to the four Mexicans that their prisoner was at the ranchhouse and as they looked in that direction they saw him, revolver in hand, coming slowly toward them.
Upon the veranda of the ranchhouse Barbara Harding came to a sudden halt.
The occupants of theranchhouse were gathered at the small windows.
A short distance from the ranchhouse they could see the enemy, consisting of a detachment of some twenty of Pesita's troopers riding at a brisk trot in their direction.
The two men dashed up onto the veranda of the ranchhouse and pounded at the door until a Chinaman opened it and stuck out his head, inquiringly.
An hour later Barbara was strolling up and down before the ranchhouse in the cool and refreshing air of the Chihuahua night.
Daylight had come revealing to the watchers in the ranchhouse the figures of the combatants.
Billy stopped long enough to shake the water out of his carbine, which the girl had carried across, and then forged ahead toward the ranchhouse from which the sounds of battle came now in increased volume.
It was such a ranchhouse as you might find by the scores or hundreds throughout Texas.
The dawn was just showing above the horizon when he rode up to the ranchhouse to find Potter standing on the porch--apparently not having left there during his absence.
Hollis was saddle weary and when Norton proposed another trip during the afternoon he was met with the response that the new owner purposed enjoying the cool of the ranchhouse porch for the remainder of the day.
A little later he was on the wide lower gallery of the ranchhouse washing the stains of travel from his face and hands.
They found him seated on the lower gallery of the ranchhouse talking to Norton and Potter.
Below the broad level that stretched away from the ranchhouse sank the big basin, sweeping away to the mountains.
When Hollis reached the Circle Bar ranchhouse there was no one about.
He stopped at the ranchhouse and communicated the news to his wife and Potter and then rode on up the river to a point about ten miles from the ranchhouse--where the outfit was working.
Together they made a round of the basin, returning to the ranchhouse for dinner.
Two or three of the other buildings were on fire; and the windows of the ranchhouse were illuminated by a dull red glare.
The distance from the Circle L ranchhouse to the big plain near the line cabin was about fifteen miles, and the trail led upward in a long, tiresome rise.
He twisted her until she faced the door, and then shoved her before him across the porch and down upon the level on the ranchhouse yard, toward the stable and the corral.
A temporary cabin--to be used afterward by Blackburn--had been erected near the site of the bunkhouses, and into this Lawler and his mother moved while the ranchhouse and the other buildings were being rebuilt.
Over at the Circle L ranchhouse were other anxious watchers--men whose steady eyes held a haunting gleam of worry, and whose rugged faces grew grim and long as the days passed and the storm did not abate.
Warden raged insanely, stalking back and forth through the stable; and finally to the ranchhouse again, where he bitterly arraigned Aunt Hannah.
Lawler mounted, and the big bay whistled as he pranced across the ranchhouse yard to the big corral where the cattle were confined.
He saw the door of the ranchhouseopen and the woman enter.
For when he emerged from the ranchhouse this morning he saw a dark cloud bank far in the north, moving southward on the chill wind.
He did not appear in town; though Willets heard that the new Circle L ranchhouse had at last been completed, and that Lawler was living in it.
Supper was served at the ranchhouse and after the meal, in the soft twilight of the summer evening, they piled into the bus that was to take them back to Hollywood.
When Janet regained her senses she was lying on a bed in the ranchhouse with Helen, her face expressing her anxiety, bending over her.
Y'u see, our house is under our hat, and like as not that's twenty miles from the ranchhouse when night falls.
The dream was bothering him now, as he rode away from the ranchhouse toward the gully where he had found the dead Two Diamond cow.
His ranchhouse boasted a sloped roof and paved galleries.
Half an hour later he rode up to the ranchhouse and met Stafford at the door of the office.
After the meal was finished he went out, caught up Mustard, swung into the saddle, and rode down to the ranchhouse door.
There came a flurry of movement at the ranchhouse door and three men ran to their saddled horses.
At last he came to the top of the last hill hiding the ranchhouse and drew rein as he looked down into the north branch of the SV valley.
In the foreground a white ranchhouse and its flanking red buildings, framed by the gray of corral walls, nestles on the southern slope of a rise and basks in the sunlight.
When the scene was finally shut off by their own descent into another valley, the fire was almost to the ranchhouse and Janet felt sick at heart as she thought of the destruction which was inevitable for the friendly, rambling old structure.
At dinner that night they introduced the girls to all of the members of the company who ate at the ranchhouse and Janet noted that Cora could hardly keep her eyes off tall, handsome Curt Newsom.
They went back to the ranchhousefor lunch and Billy Fenstow beamed.
The valley they had just left was plainly visible and topping the ridge above the ranchhouse were the first racing tongues of flame.
It was too dark to see the outlines of the ranchhouse but Janet could discern several large, glowing piles of embers and she knew that even the buildings at the ranch had been destroyed by the fire.
After dinner in the ranchhouse that night, Janet and Helen retired to the room they shared and studied the scripts which had been handed out.
Not until the varying undulations of the land hid her from view of the Bar B ranchhousedid she lose the malicious smile.
Twice she lost her way and rode miles before she recovered her sense of direction, and when she finally pulled the beast to a halt at the edge of the Diamond K ranchhouse gallery, midnight was not far away.
She saw his lips form her name, and then she waited demurely until she saw him coming out of the ranchhousedoor toward her.
On a night when she sat on the porch of the Bar B ranchhouse she had looked toward Manti, thrilled over a pretty mental fancy.
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