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Ellen could not discover a fence post on the ranch, nor a piece of salt for the horses and cattle, nor a wagon, nor any sign of a sheep-shearing outfit She had never seen any sheep sheared Ellen could never keep track of theloose and hobbled round the ranch There were droves of horses in the woods, and so-established understanding, her father and her uncles were keen on horse trading and buying

Then the rew to have a fascination for Ellen; and the time came when she rode out on thes, supposed to be only a few es, down in Bear Canyon, never materialized at all for Ellen This circumstance so interested her that she went up to see her friend Sprague and got him to direct her to Bear Canyon, so that she would be sure not to miss it And she rode from the narrow, th She found no ranch, no cabin, not even a corral in Bear Canyon Sprague said there was only one canyon by that nas had assured her of the exact location on his place, and so had her father Had they lied? Were theyup near the Rih the wooded mountain, and vastly different froes that cut into the Riated the canyons within six or eight miles of her home, both to east and to west All she discovered was a couple of old log cabins, long deserted Still, she did not follow out all the trails to their ends Several of thee and thicket that she had seen No cattle or sheep had ever been driven over these trails

This riding around of Ellen's at length got to her father's ears Ellen expected that a bitter quarrel would ensue, for she certainly would refuse to be confined to the ca to the ot all about it In fact, his abstraction oneand fiercer harangues with the ed his further deterioration and the ever-present evil of the growing feud