[The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail by Ralph Connor]@TWC D-Link bookThe Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail CHAPTER XI 4/31
"In a minute beyond the shoulder there we shall see the Big Horn Valley and the place where our home used to be.
There, wait Allan." The ponies came to a stand.
Exclamations of amazement burst from Cameron and his wife. "Why, Allan? What? Is this the trail ?" "It is the trail all right," said her husband in a low voice, "but what in thunder does this mean ?" "It is a house, Allan, a new house." "It looks like it--but--" "And there are people all about!" For some breathless moments they gazed upon the scene.
A wide valley, flanked by hills and threaded by a gleaming river, lay before them and in a bend of the river against the gold and yellow of a poplar bluff stood a log house of comfortable size gleaming in all its newness fresh from the ax and saw. "What does it all mean, Allan ?" inquired his wife. "Blest if I know!" "Look at the people.
I know now, Allan.
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