Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1940 — Page 19

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OAET OF CHARACTERS CARRIE LANE—an eastern girl who came into the frontier west to find a home.

MARK DEUEL—a homesteader keeps his business to himself.

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Yesterday: Carrie Lane comes to the frontier town of Sionx Springs to take up & homestead. An orphan, she has come west for her health. But the frontier in 1862 Was ne place for a woman alone. Mark Dewel is interested in the girl, wants to protect her. Carrie is brave, confident, as she talks of the future. Mark knows their lives must be linked,

CHAPTER TWO

CARRIE WAS ready and waiting | when Ashton Oaks drove up to the | » hotel in his rented buggy later for |

her in the morning. She had prepared a lunch. Mis. Parmley had suggested it when Carrie told her the land agent had offered to drive her out to her new homestead. “Rock Creek's morem nine miles north of town,” Mrs. Parmley said. “And say,” she added, her arms |

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it don’t make no difference to you, who is this land agent fellow anyhow?” Carrie explained she had met him on the train out of Chicago, that when he had learned she was coming to Sioux Springs, he had offered to help her get settled. He was buying several town lots in Stoux Springs himself, he had told her, and would clean up with the railroad due to come in soon. Ashton Oaks was patronizingly pleasant Now as he assisted Carrie up into the buggy. “Town look any better to you to= day, Miss Lane?” he inquired. “Oh, yes, ever so much better.” Ashton Oaks, watching her, spoke easily as they jogged past the last

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“THEY ALL start like this, these frontier towns, Miss Lane. I've seen a hundred of them since the homestead law. I could have bought them all—at first. And I did buy a few.” He phrased his words significantly, slapped the reins across the backs of the shiny bavs “But they change, they change pretty fast. The railroad do that here iike it did back east not 50 long ago. You won't know Sioux Springs in a year . ..” * To Carrie, clutching her bright sunbonnet, listening eagerly, this was like wine. This was what people meant about the West and opportunity, she knew now. “But there's so much of this land,” she interrupted. “Will it ever be worth anything, Mr. Oaks?” Fortunes lay out here for the asking, he told her. He was still elaborating on that theme at noon when the buggy splashed into Rock Creek at the head of a pretty little

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valley. Oaks stopped to water the horses and Carrie spread her lunch under a convenient fringe of cotton. | wood trees along the bank. | They ate rather hurriedly, and] started up the valley to her claim. | With the aid of Col. Barrington’s| jnstructions and a mound of rocks] at the section line, they found it | easily. The slew grasses touched | the horses’ bellies as Oaks rove off | the rutted trail and up toward a little kfoll back from the creek. | * This, he suggested, would be an excellent site for Carrie's soddy. Caryie agreed. It commanded a superb view, was out of danger of high | water. Her closest neighbors would | be perhaps a mile distant, Oaks told her. ! They left the buggy and Carrie, | for the first time, stood on her own | land. Looking over the creek below, | the endless prairie beyond, suddenly she was overwhelmed. “But it's—it’s so far from everything,” she said, almost in a whis per. Oaks, noting her sudden soberness, began reassurances., But they were of small comfort “I—I think it is getting late,” Carrie said. “Perhaps we had better start back, Mr. Oaks.” Carrie was silent on the return trip, the buggy jolting her thoughts Like Sioux Springs, Oaks tried to tell her, the claim would look better the next time she saw it. “I--I hope so,” Carrie replied. Oaks pulled up the buggy once on the way back to talk to a man and woman in a wagon on the way out to Rock Creek. Carrie felt better when she learned they were her closest neighbors, ‘lived only a mile up the creek. In those few moments’ visit, Carrie was sure she would like hearty Ed Taylor and his homey little wife. = & @ THEY DROVE down the Sioux Springs main street late In the afternoon and Oaks left Carrie off at Sioux Springs House. Later,

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after washing off the first real coat of prairie dust, she changed her | clothes and went out to Dae | supplies and to make arrangements | for her homestead home, { As she left the store she heard | someone say, “Alone—movin’ out | there without nobody nor nothin’— | alone.” and she felt again that smailness that she had experienced at the claim. All was terribly bewildering. Carrie was returning to her room in the hotel when Ashton Oaks stopped her at the desk, called her asiae, a bit furtively, Carrie thought “You remember, Miss Lane, I told vou only this afternoon the railroad Will make this town. Well, tonight I have information it is due here this fall” He paused, noting Carrie's obvious start. «I can give you the best lots in Sioux Springs—rallway sites—and ight.” ho was incredulous. She started to speak, but a quiet, familiar voice interrupted at her Se ardon, Miss Lane, but if this gentleman is selling you Sioux Springs because the railroad Is coming in, I can tell you it isn't.” Ashton Oaks whirled, his face plue with anger. His first impulse was to lunge at Mark, but he held back. “What—what do you mean?” he stammered. “Miss Lane, I'm sorry, but this gentleman is a liar!” ? Mark's fists shot out in one

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