Crowheart

Crowheart, in a distant State, who at the moment was cleaning her white slippers with gasoline, only the Fate Lachesis spinning the thread of human life from Clotho's distaff could foresee.

The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916

He called upon every citizen with a spark of civic pride to turn out and give Andy P. Symes a fitting welcome; to do homage to the man who was to Crowheart what the patron saints are to the cities of the Old World.

The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916

These indigent campers -- gone on the morrow -- could do her no harm in Crowheart where her reputation for blunt kindness and imperturbable good nature was already established.

The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916

The army of laborers who were to be employed upon this enormous ditch would spend their wages in Crowheart.

The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916

The Dago Duke was no inconspicuous figure in Crowheart, for his daily life was punctuated with escapades which constantly furnished fresh topics of conversation to the populace.

The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916

With the singular improvidence which distinguished him he had not provided for this exigency before leaving Crowheart.

The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916

Champagne was the standard by which Crowheart gauged the success of an entertainment and certainly Andy P. Symes was not the man to serve sarsaparilla at his own wedding.

The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916

She missed the woman -- not the woman so much either, as the association -- and there was no one in Crowheart to fill her place, so she was frequently lonely, often bored, with the intensely practical, unsophisticated women whom she attracted strongly.

The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916

And they need not have doubted him, for, since his salary did not begin until his return to Crowheart, and the offerings of night-lunch carts are taxing upon the digestion, it was indeed "good to be home!"

The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916

It was in fact a notable event for the reason that it was the first wedding in Crowheart, and, since the invitation was general, the guests were coming from far and near to show their approval and incidentally perhaps to partake of the champagne which it was rumored was to flow like water.

The Lady Doc Caroline Lockhart 1916