Lone-Rock

There were only two mail trains a day in Lone-Rock, and at this hour

Mary Ware's Promised Land John Goss 1897

There were only a few white boys of his age in Lone-Rock.

Mary Ware's Promised Land John Goss 1897

For a little space she lay and imagined what it would be like to be back in Lone-Rock, in the new house Pink would build for her.

Mary Ware's Promised Land John Goss 1897

She loved Lone-Rock the moment she laid eyes on it, and made friends with everybody right away.

Mary Ware's Promised Land John Goss 1897

Lloyd's gift, a Persian rug, and the old Colonel's, a large box of carefully selected books, had already been shipped to Lone-Rock, to transform the plain old living-room into a thing of beauty.

Mary Ware's Promised Land John Goss 1897

It took an entire evening to evolve a letter which suited her, and although it was utter foolishness, she managed to give the news and to convey through the cleverly combined titles the fact that she was still struggling to get away from Lone-Rock, that there was no "swain amang the train" to keep her from "going back to Dixie" "in the sweet bye and bye."

Mary Ware's Promised Land John Goss 1897

It was May before another letter found its way from Lone-Rock to the little station up in the mountains of Mexico, to which Phil sent a daily messenger on mule-back for his mail.

Mary Ware's Promised Land John Goss 1897

She felt that she could not endure the deadly monotony of Lone-Rock another day.

Mary Ware's Promised Land John Goss 1897

When the Ware family boarded the train in San Antonio that September morning for their long journey back to Lone-Rock, every passenger on the

Mary Ware's Promised Land John Goss 1897

It was the first one she had received from him, for she had told him on leaving Lone-Rock that she could not correspond with him; that she would be too busy with Mrs. Blythe's letters to write many of her own.

Mary Ware's Promised Land John Goss 1897