HOPE
HATHAWAY
HOPE
HATHAWAY
A Story of
Western Ranch Life
BY
FRANCES PARKER
BOSTON, MASS.
C. M. CLARK PUBLISHING CO. (Inc.)
1904
COPYRIGHT, 1904
byC. M. CLARK PUBLISHING CO. (Inc.)BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A.
Entered at Stationers Hall, London
Rights of Translation, Public Reading and
Dramatization Reserved
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
CHAPTER XXIV
CHAPTER XXV
CHAPTER XXVI
CHAPTER XXVII
CHAPTER XXVIII
CHAPTER XXIX
CHAPTER XXX
HOPE HATHAWAY
CHAPTER I
Hathaway's home-ranch spreaditself miles over an open valley on theupper Missouri. As far as the eyereached not a fence could be seen, yet fourbarbed-wires, stretched upon good cotton-woodposts, separated the ranch from the opencountry about.
Jim Hathaway was an old-time cattle-man.He still continued each summer to turn outupon the range great droves of Texas steersdriven north by h