CHAPTER XI.
GWEN'S CHALLENGE Gwen was undoubtedly wild and, as The Sky Pilot said, wilful and wicked.
Even Bronco Bill and Hi Kendal would say so, without, of course, abating one jot of their admiration for her.

For fourteen years she had lived chiefly with wild things.

The cattle on the range, wild as deer, the coyotes, the jack-rabbits and the timber wolves were her mates and her instructors.

From these she learned her wild ways.

The rolling prairie of the Foothill country was her home.