[In a Hollow of the Hills by Bret Harte]@TWC D-Link bookIn a Hollow of the Hills CHAPTER VII 3/23
"Since your miraculous conversion a few moments ago, I have made some friendly inquiries about you, and I find that you lost all trace of your wife in Texas in '52, where a number of her fellow emigrants died of yellow fever.
Is that so ?" "Yes," said Collinson quickly. "Well, it so happens that a friend of mine," continued Chivers slowly, "was in a train which followed that one, and picked up and brought on some of the survivors." "That was the train wot brought the news," said Collinson, relapsing into his old patience.
"That's how I knowed she hadn't come." "Did you ever hear the names of any of its passengers ?" said Chivers, with a keen glance at his companion. "Nary one! I only got to know it was a small train of only two wagons, and it sorter melted into Californy through a southern pass, and kinder petered out, and no one ever heard of it agin, and that was all." "That was NOT all, Collinson," said Chivers lazily.
"I saw the train arrive at South Pass.
I was awaiting a friend and his wife.
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