Separ

The last thing I remember as I lay in my blankets was Jessamine's window still lighted, and the water-tank, clear-lined and black, standing over Separ.

Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899

"She said if I came she would leave Separ," muttered McLean, brooding.

Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899

'You can choose between Tubercle and your tank,' I said; 'but you've got to move one of 'em from Separ if yu' went peace. '

Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899

You will confer a favor and oblidge undersigned by Informing Miss J. Buckner of date (if soon) you fix for returning per stage to Separ as Miss

Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899

"But she'll never have need of your gun in Separ -- only to shoot up peaceful playin'-cyards while she hearkens to your courtin '."

Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899

But when Separ had dwindled to toys behind us in the journeying stage

Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899

The smell of the sage-brush flavored the air; the hush of Wyoming folded distant and near things, and all Separ but those three inside the lighted window were in bed.

Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899

He suggested to the Southerner that caution might be wise; this change at Separ was perhaps some new trick of the company's.

Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899

Many stranded travellers knocked at Jessamine's door, and now, as always, she offered the hospitalities of her neat abode, the only room in Separ fit for a woman.

Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899

And in fifteen minutes after writing you I'd hit the trail for Separ.

Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899