Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: HER FACE SHONE AS SHE CALLED OUT: "WELL, HOW DO YOU STACK UP THIS MORNING?" (See page 31)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- THE FORESTER'S DAUGHTER A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range By HAMLIN GARLAND Author of "The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop" "Main-Travelled Roads" Etc. Illustrated HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS New York and London MCMXIV ---------------------------------------------------------------------- COPYRIGHT. 1914. BY HAMLIN GARLAND Printed in the United States of America Published February, 1914 A-O ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I The Happy Girl 1 II A Ride In The Rain 19 III Wayland Receives a Warning 46 IV The Supervisor of the Forest 68 V The Golden Pathway 82 VI Storm-Bound 110 VII The Walk in the Rain 123 VIII The Other Girl 142 IX Further Perplexities 159 X The Camp on the Pass 173 XI The Death-Grapple 195 XII Berrie's Vigil 204 XIII The Gossips Awake 223 XIV The Summons 247 XV A Matter of Millinery 260 XVI The Private Car 274 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE HER FACE SHONE AS SHE CALLED OUT: "WELL, HOW DO YOU STACK UP THIS MORNING?" Frontispiece THE GIRL BEHIND HIM WAS A WONDROUS PART OF THIS WILD AND UNACCOUNTABLE COUNTRY 6 SHE FOUND HERSELF CONFRONTED BY AN ENDLESS MAZE OF BLACKENED TREE-TRUNKS 140 THE SLENDER YOUTH WENT DOWN BEFORE THE BIG RANCHER AS THOUGH STRUCK BY A CATAPULT 195 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AUTHOR'S FOREWORD This little story is the outcome of two trips (neither of which was in the Bear Tooth Forest) during the years 1909 and 1910. Its main claim on the reader's interest will lie, no doubt, in the character of Berea McFarlane; but I find myself re-living with keen pleasure the splendid drama of wind and cloud and swaying forest which made the expeditions memorable.