Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-12-18


side of the world. When she comes
back in two year, she won't know
Frank or no one else in the Glen. and
the chances is q thousand ter one that
she'll be engaged to some dandy dude
or eastern tendcrfoot.
This il what Sam Britton. the min
ing boss, said TO his friends after Ella
had gone with her father and Frank to
Denver, and that Is what all the min
ers believed.
Time flies fast with the aged and tho
busy. II was Christmas eve, 1885, and
Lanston's Glen was in . state of great
excitement. The ''ssgebrush belle"
was coming over on the stage that
evening from Salt Lake City, and one
and all agreed to have ball 1t the
Grand Occidental hotel in honor of her
arrival
During Elias absence Frank Hobart
had visited Denver once, but the camp
gossips were quite sure that he and tho
young lady corresponded. But I'll
bet" Sam Britton would say. ''that
Frank amt never had the spunk to set
down in black and white the four
words, Ella, love you" And Sam
was quite right.
Capt Lanston went to Denver 70
bring his daughter home. and 1t was
understood before he left that Howard
Ford, the son of the president Of the
mine, who lived in Colorado City and
at whose home Ella had been q visitor,
would come back with them. Frank
Hobart brought, at his own expense. a
band from Salt Lake, TO play at the
ball; and the day before Christmas eve
he drove into the mountains with his
Chinese servant and cut evergreens to
decorate the dining and ball rooms.
+, When the stage drove up with Ella.
her father and young Howard Ford, II
was greeted with a grand salute from
every gun and pistol in the gen. All
the miners were dressed in their best,
though this did not prevent a prepon-
derance OF red shirts; and, following
sam Britton's lead, they gave three
cheers and tiger for the ''sagebrush
belief
Ella had grown taller and more come
ly. II that were possible. Two years
of careful culture and intellectual ssso-
citation had destroyed the somewhat
hoydenish expression of her face, and
so rather repealed her old admirers.
with whom heartiness and q bolster.
Gus recognition went hand In hand.
Il wouldn't give shucks for Frank
Hobart "a lover growied Sam Brit
ton. after Frank had lifted Ella from
the stage. why. he didn't even kiss
her, after these years and oil he's
done: and now she comes back this
lest as I SAID she would. two year ago. '
As compared with the rough miners
in and about the hotel at the glen Mr..
How ard Ford wac fashionable exqui.
site Although under medium height,
and FIVE years Frank Hobsrt's junior.
be was not bad looking. and being the
mine presidents son, he was at this
moment the most important man al
Lanston's Glen
There were tall, wholesome. bright
eyed girls by the score from the Glen
and the surrounding mountain settle
Iaents ne the Grand Occidental hotel
this Christmas eve. and altho ugh the
bal. and banquet in Elias honor might
be lacking in some Of the refinemsnts
essential in the fashionable world. thew
were distinguished for hearsineSs and
freshness of enjoyment that put ev-
sryoue ~ ease.
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with Ellaf' said san Brltton 80 the
Young superintendent after The dance
had been going on for some time.
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hi>seif ever since the trois began
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