The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1903-01-01
T0Sra'S Futile Quest.
By LOUISE ].

By LOUISE ]. STEPHENS.
Copyright. 1902, by Daily Story Pub. Cos
When u friends learned that lae!,
had accepted the position Of station
agent in a comparatively new Dakota
town they were all duly Mortified and
received the n0ws with many exp0sta
l%ations. "Ycu will die of loneliags
and honesichness"; You never e.
endure life there without a SOU
your kind to speak to-; What. bus
yourself and your beautiful voice il q
contemplate little western ~village!'
But had Jack and we had not been
married so long but that we felt we
were more to each other than all the
world besides.
Jack already knows pretty nearly
every one in the county, it seems, for
the railway company's elevator, of
which he has charge, makes this quite
a market for grain. He is such a
sympathetic, generous fellow, so kind
hearted naturally, that he always ex-
tends what help he can to every ner-
son he sees in trouble, and so brings
to US many odd, interesting and some
times amusing, often pathetic expert
encas.
One day after the regular train
had passed Jack came over to the
house with a very sober face: 1--WE
a case out there fer you, Dolly: a
youns Swedish girl who can speak
scarcely a word of English. She
showed me a card with Ole Larson,
Fargo, n. D., written on it, and say
ing vahomently, "Him-no dar,"
turled the other side on which some
ono had written the name of our sta
ticn. So | suppose the man she is
looking for has come here or here
abcNts from Fargo sometime or other,
but there's no one of that name here
now. What shall we do with her?"
Owing her here" | replied prompt
ly, until we can find Ole. Good Mrs.
Peterson will act as interpreter and
we can soo make her comfortable"
So he called at her door and asked
Mrs. Patterson to come in, and then
brought the girl over. She was a
scareG-looking but rather pretty
Swedish girl of perhaps twenty years
dressed in the odd fashion of all the
newcomers from her land, with a ker-
chief instead Of a bonnet tied under
her chin, soiied and travel stained,
and as is the custom of emigrants,
with all her worldly belongings done
UP in q package by means Of a square
cloth tied together by the four cor
ners. She dropped me a most hum
Bile little courtesy, and when Mrs. Pc
terson spoke to her in her W tongue
she turned to her with such pleasure
in her face that I knew her answer
was but a Swedish exclamation oil
joy. After some minutes converse
ton, Mrs. Peterson explained: "Hel
name Christine Olson, most cal
Teena; she come from Gottenborg;
: she vas marry Ole Larson, but ht
= = CO.. a5ay to Ameriky an she sta,
5 Wit asr gra> sooder, who mas no Cd
! Ger but Teena. Her granmooder di,
les winter, den she tink she CONF
+ Amerify an FIN Ole Larson, den de.
viii marry. He write by Fargo, an
e SO dar, but postmaster say Ole La,
o son come by dis blaze; den she come
r But dar is nc Ole Larson in dis blaze
f | know, an iff he hass not gone b.
some odder blaze, den he work b.
some farms"
= Further inquiry drew out the fac
$ that the girl rad not heard from he
: lover for nearly a year, and that h
did not, of course, know that she ha
" come over.
She hass plenty money" intel
f preted Mrs. Peterson; mos hoonde
q 9 dollar by her granmooder."
We then and there decide tina
d Teena shall stay with us while we tt
to locate her Ole. And after niue
explanation and more p~ersuaeio
from Mrs. Peterson, Teena consent
is to take her %.'hoonder dollar" from on
of the leg Of her stocking and deposi
- it i the village bank, whittier she
at once escorted by Jack, accompanie
@ also by Mrs. Peterson.
e Teena proves a jewel about tn
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