E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Emmy, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 25578-h.htm or 25578-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/5/7/25578/25578-h/25578-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/5/7/25578/25578-h.zip) THE SUNBRIDGE GIRLS AT SIX STAR RANCH by ELEANOR STUART Illustrated by Frank J. Murch [Illustration: "REDDY WAS RIGHT THERE EVERY TIME" (_See page 113_)] [Illustration] Boston L. C. Page & Company Publishers Copyright, 1913 by L. C. Page & Company (Incorporated) All rights reserved First Impression, April, 1913 Second Impression, January, 1914 The Colonial Press C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U. S. A. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. AUNT SOPHRONIA 1 II. PLANS FOR TEXAS 12 III. THE COMING OF GENEVIEVE 28 IV. ON THE WAY 44 V. THE BOYS PREPARE A WELCOME 61 VI. CORDELIA SEES A COWBOY 72 VII. THE RANCH HOUSE 86 VIII. THE MISTRESS OF THE SIX STAR RANCH 99 IX. REDDY AND THE BRONCHO 110 X. CORDELIA GOES TO CHURCH 121 XI. QUENTINA 137 XII. THE OPENING OF A BARREL 157 XIII. THE PRAIRIE--AND MOONLIGHT 171 XIV. A MAN AND A MYSTERY 185 XV. THE ALAMO 201 XVI. TILLY CROSSES BRIDGES 215 XVII. "BERTHA'S ACCIDENT" 225 XVIII. THE GOLDEN HOURS 235 XIX. HERMIT JOE 248 XX. THE NEW BOY 260 XXI. GENEVIEVE LEARNS SOMETHING NOT IN BOOKS 278 XXII. A TEXAS "MISSIONARY" 296 XXIII. GENEVIEVE GOES TO BOSTON 307 XXIV. A BROWN DRESS FOR ELSIE 324 XXV. "WHEN SUNBRIDGE WENT TO TEXAS" 339 XXVI. A GOOD-BY PARTY 349 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE "REDDY WAS RIGHT THERE EVERY TIME" (_See page 113_) _Frontispiece_ "A TALL, SLENDER GIRL ... APPEARED AT A CAR DOOR" 30 "'FOLLOW ME--QUICK!' HE ORDERED" 181 "'THERE, NOW--LOOK!' SHE ADDED" 207