She moved into the Red Bluff ranch and started recording her observations of the remarkable new life she'd begun to lead. Usually in the middle of the reading the sound of a horse galloping down the frozen road distracts the attention of the boys. A few moments later, six foot George Schlichting opens the door, a sack of oats in one hand, his lunch tied up in a dishrag in the other. But among those who came by with increasing regularity, despite a difficult eleven hour ride, was a rugged sheep rancher named John Galloway Love. But his voice was most peculiar and characteristic.
Close analysis fails to find the charm of it.
He is full of quaint turns of speech, and unusual expressions. My father was unmarried and he was beginning to make a little money and he wanted a wife. And here was this beautiful school marm and so, of course, he fell in love with her. But she did not fall in love with him. No bells and whistles rang.