Part 7 (2/2)

Of course, this was Mr Mabie, the ranchgage car, to be seized by a couple of cowboys and hustled on to the back of a long buckboard wagon, drawn by a couple of skittish horses

Then they were off, not five minutes after the train had pulled out

”Here, Reddy,” said Mr Mabie to the young driver, ”let ood fellows about your own age,” and he introduced them one after another

Frank saw that the coell named, for he had quite a fiery thatch; but his freckled face seemed one of the sort that invited confidence, and Frank believed he would like the other right well Of course, Reddy was attired as all well-ordered cowboys should be Will was secretly wild for a chance to introduce hi variety to our book of views, for we haven't got a single cowboy in between the covers,” he said in an aside to Frank

They followed up the valley for over an hour The ranch was miles removed from the railway, and surrounded by the wildest scenery the boys could reood deal, after such a journey

Martin Mabie was a ithout any family Still, he had a nu house for him, with a Chinese cook to attend to the kitchen part of the establishment

”Ain't this immense?” remarked Bluff, as he waited i trunk indoors, so that he could satisfy his soul about the one object that had been worrying hi Centerville

So this The horses had to be attended to first of all Then there seehborhood of the corral, for the boys noticed aup and ju hard, as if fro was of daily occurrence on the big ranch, which took in the whole valley forthe sides of the mountains on either hand

”What ails the felloonder?” observed Jerry, who, it seems, had also noticed the rush of the newcomer

”From the way he bolted into the office where Mr Mabie went, I iht important news of some sort,” re M Ranch is going to be in a whirl of excitement, fellows I've noticed that soo; not that we s happen, but they just pick out such a tihly convinced

”Here co to forget his other anxiety for the tioes the cowboy back to the horse corral He's shouting so to get a horse handy between his legs Look at the saddles on! Why, they'll be off like the wind! Boys, so is up! I know it!”

Frank and his chu, and waving their hats in a reckless ns on the cattle of the ranch

”Whatever can it ine,” returned Frank, sorely puzzled

”But we'll soon know, fellows, for here coh just as excited as the balance of the crowd

Whatever it is, hewith the nerve-racking anxiety

CHAPTER VII

THE GRIZZLY AT BAY

”Boys, do you want to see some fun?” called the ranch, sir What's going on?” asked Frank

”An old friend of ours, e call 'Mountain Charlie,' has broken bounds at last, and is even now trying to drag one of s off to the mountain canyon where he has his den,” replied the other