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The Wild Geese.
Twenty-four hours from Alder to Elkhead, and beyond Elkhead to the Cumberland ranch, is long riding and hard riding, but not far after dark on the following night, Joan lifted her head, where she played with the puppy on the hearth, and listened.

There was no sound audible to the others in the living room; they did not even mark the manner in which she sat up, and then rose to her feet.

But when she whispered "Daddy Dan!" it brought each of the three out of his chair.

Still they heard nothing, and Buck and Lee Haines would have retaken their chairs had not Kate gone to the window and thrown it wide.