The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle; Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run

the girls had hardly had time to give vent to their excitement, had passed, and

d into a velvet-covered seat with a sigh of

seven for Mollie and Amy, and mother and dad are in six

t warning cry of "All aboard" and the train b

them off. The young fellows looked rather gloomy-all except Allen. The latter shouted something that

or the inevitable candy box, "the boys seemed to take our flittin

es on the ever changing view from the window.

the girls, and they were surprised when the port

w passengers. There was the quaint little man in number four who reminded them of Professor Arnold D

l state of "nerves." Once when he bounced one of those implements commonly known as "spit balls" off o

girl behind them in number nine. Grace embarrassed Betty very

t," Grace confided in Betty's unsympathetic ear. "I wonder

ou may be able to fix your hair like hers-though I doubt it-but

d Grace in a huff, adding maliciously, "

, with an unruffled good-nature that

ther long pause, adding generously: "Yo

, with a smile. "I knew

tery. So engrossed were the girls in contemplation of the changing beauty of nature that it seemed almost sacrilege

asking, in his pleasant voice. "It isn't l

y rushed to the dressing room to wash for supper. Though dining on a train was no nove

as the train jerked and jolted over the rails at sixty miles an hour, "to see how

y funny that the girls had all they could do to

le smiled indulgently at their charges, and once Mrs.

et of girls?"

e!" Mr. Nel

" confided Mollie, after dining. She and Amy ha

he Outdoor Girls to feel tired. "We change at Chicago to-morrow afternoon

erly: "Tell me, Betty, shall we be able to choos

of horse each one of you will choose. Amy will like the gentle one, Grace will cho

unperturbed. "She wants to kill

a 'pack' of horses right

ere will be a tan one-all tan, you know,

the corrals at Gold Run, we'll send to the nearest ranch and ha

got off to stretch their cramped limbs. And, as the conductor informed them that the

er their feet once more, they wandered too far, and the warning toot

g, however, and by sprinting for all they were worth they

, panting, through to their own car, where Mr. and Mrs. Nelson w

making up berths and answering the hundred

of healthy youth. It was toward midnight that they were rather rudely jerked o

, sat up and peered out of the grimed window into the gloom. No station lights greet

ed was proved by the subdued sound

eer in prison for stopping li

s a wreck, sure," cam

tty's berth and in another minute the owner of them slid down beside B

is a hold-up, that's what it is! You know what your fath

me one else in the car was proved by a woma

, adding, with what seemed to Betty ridiculous

ff," growled another masculine voic

out in my nightie," she said, and po

pulling her back. "You m

be frightened or amused by the situation. "There isn't anything out

, through chattering teeth. "I don't think it would

ing again through the slit in the c

ption stuck through the curtains, women's, some in boudoir caps, some without, men's heads, either bald or with hair grotesquely ruffled by sleep, and on every face depicted every one

dered amazement. Instead of the masked bandit which they had half expected to see there was a very

with wrath, "you are violating the rules of the com

've told you I don't care a hang for the rules of the company. What I want to find is my daug

" rasped the conductor, as the two made their way, shouting and gesticul

the heads; and as if that were a signal, all the other heads pro

s of the berth

. "All those people with their heads stuck out

to her berth again. Then she said: "I hope if that man's daughter take