The Readjustment

A black-and-tan bull is loose in the prune trees, and the college boy the Judge has just scolded for picking apricots too green volunteers to catch him. Then Eleanor arrives—and Bertram Chester’s attention shifts from the runaway bull to the girl behind the parasol.

It is early summer on a California fruit ranch, where apricot picking keeps the workers moving and Judge Tiffany and his wife watch over the harvest. Eleanor Gray has come back from the city to manage her own ranch, a choice her aunt quietly wonders whether she will keep making. But Eleanor guards her feelings, and Bertram, a bold young university worker, seems ready to test that reserve even as he takes the reins to pursue a loose bull. With a bull among the trees and an awkward new acquaintance at her side, how will Eleanor handle this unexpected return to ranch life?

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