The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-07-31
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ELSA Vernon was going into brand
new life and was curious and excited.
She and her sister were orphans, and
for Ave years Elsa had been living
with her uncle and aunt, the Now.
brays. This home HE was pleasant
enough, but exceedingly dull. When
the word came from Myrtle, who had
been married and gone west with
her husband i've years previous, and
Myrtle thought she needed Elsa. the
latter hailed the prospect as deliv-
erance from q sort OF social and in
tellectual bondage.
Myrtle Weston held out no glowing
picture to her. sister. Very plainly
she indicated that she and her neigh
bors were pioneer sojourners In .
species Of wilderness. "All I have"
she wrote, lis small house and eighty
acres, Just at the edge Of an Indian
reservation, and a few town lots In
settlement that has exactly twenty
three residents to date. Sinceo my
husband died it has been hard work"
Elsa had written at once to her
sister, expressing the intensest de
light at the prospect ahead. Her
dreams were al of grand mountain
ranges and beautiful valleys, where
people iived on horseback. and lovely
flowers and heartsome men and wom-
en- existed Myrtle had sent her some
money, and had instructed Elsa to-
select what she thought would be most
useful from some old household traps
which had been stored In the home Of
her uncle since the death Of their
mother. Myrtle wrote that she lacked
considerable In the way Of household
utilities. Elisa consumed Q week sost-
ing out what could be most useful
Of the great mass Of furniture, cook
Ing utensils and general knicknacks,
and when she finally set forth on the
one long journey OF her life, had TIE
shipment reduced to her little trunk
and four iazge packing cases.
They were directed to Deep Gulch,
from what Myrtle wrote the nearest
railroad town, ten miles over the
mountain from Wycherley, near which
the little farm was located. Myrtle
wrote that she would have some one
meet her sister at the station and In
Imagination Elsa built up pleasing
vision Of q statwart, handsome young
frontiersman mounted on a superb
steed, leading a second one, and con-
veying her over the hills, q real prac-
tical Lochinvar.
This dream came true. When Just
such q border hero met her and in
troduced himself as Boyd Wardell,
ELSA liked him from the start. His
welcome, he expressed it, was that sOf
all the gulch, friendly, heartsome peo-
ple who cherished gladly new neigh
Dor. Besides, there was an organ In
the one meeting house Of the place,
and Myrtle had told about her sisters
musical accomplishments. BY the
time Elsa was placed safely in the
arms Of Myrtle by the new conner
she felt that she had come across a
man she could like very much: War
dell was the sheriff of the district,
everybody's friend, and became a reg
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s,tion His little daughter. whom he
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