CHAPTER XIV.
AT MINT SPRING.
When those days at Prescott were over, and Mr.and Mrs.Manning had left for their camp in Granite Basin, Kitty Reid returned to Williamson Valley reluctantly.

She felt that with Phil definitely out of her life the last interest that bound her to the scenes of her girlhood was broken.

Before many weeks the ranch would be sold.

A Prescott agent had opened negotiations for an eastern client who would soon be out to look over the property; and Mr.Reid felt, from all that the agent had said, that the sale was assured.

In the meantime Kitty would wait as patiently as she could.