[The Girl at the Halfway House by Emerson Hough]@TWC D-Link bookThe Girl at the Halfway House CHAPTER V 10/16
These for the most part resort at the Cottage Hotel, and there is no peace in the Town at this present writing. "For myself I have taken entry upon one hundred and sixty Acres Govt. Land, and live a little way out from the Town.
Here I have my quarters under tent, following example of all men, for as yet there are scarce a dozen houses within fifty Miles.
I find much opportunity for studies to be presented to the London Times, which paper as you know I represent, and I prosecute with great hopes the business of the British American Colonization Society, of which corporation I am resident Agent. "I have Chosen this point because it was the furtherest one yet reached by Rail.
Back of this, clean to the Missouri River, new Towns have grown up in most wonderful fashion.
I have been advised that it is highly desirable to be in at the beginning in this Country if one is to stay in the Hunt, therefore I have come to a Town which has just Begun. Believe me, dear Ned, it is the beginning of a World.
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