The Mysterious Rider

Zane Grey

• Publisher: Perlego
• Year: 2004
• eBook ISBN: 9700000013937
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

A September sun, losing some of its heat if not its brilliance, was dropping low in the west over the black Colorado range. Purple haze began to thicken in the timbered notches. Gray foothills, round and billowy, rolled down from the higher country. They were smooth, sweeping, with long velvety slopes and isolated patches of aspens that blazed in autumn gold. Splotches of red vine colored the soft gray of sage. Old White Slides, a mountain scarred by avalanche, towered with bleak rocky peak above the valley, sheltering it from the north.A girl rode along the slope, with gaze on the sweep and range and color of the mountain fastness that was her home. She followed an old trail which led to a bluff overlooking an arm of the valley. Richard now schemes to woo "the Lady Anne" - Anne Neville, widow of the Lancastrian Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales. He confides to the audience