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Chapter 2 book, two of a study 
in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan 

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Doyle. 
This LibriVox recording is in 

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the public domain. 
Book 2 chapter 2, the flower of 

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Utah. 
This is not the place to 

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commemorate the trials, and 
privations endured by The 

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Immigrant Mormons, before they 
came to their final Haven, from 

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the shores of the Mississippi, 
to the Western slopes of the 

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Rocky Mountains. 
They had struggled on with a 

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constancy almost unparalleled in
history. 

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The Savage man and the Savage 
Beast hunger, thirst fatigue and

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disease. 
Every impediment which nature 

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could place in the way at all. 
Overcome with Anglo-Saxon 

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tenacity yet, the long journey, 
and the accumulated Terrors had 

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shaken. 
The hearts of the stoutest, 

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among them. 
There was not one who did not 

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sink upon his knees in heartfelt
prayer. 

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When they saw the broad Valley 
of Utah, bathed in the sunlight 

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beneath them and learn from the 
lips of their leader, but this 

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was the promised land and at 
these virgin Acres were to be 

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theirs forever. 
More Young speedily proved 

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himself to be a skillful 
administrator as well as a 

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Resolute. 
Chief Maps were drawn and charts

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prepared in which the future 
city was sketched out all around

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Farms were apportioned and 
allotted in proportion to the 

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standing of each individual. 
The Tradesman was put to his 

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trade and The Artisan to his 
calling in the town streets and 

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squares sprang up as if by Magic
in the country there. 

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Is draining and hedging planting
and clearing until the next 

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summer, saw the whole country 
golden with the wheat crop, 

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everything prospered. 
In the strange, settlement above

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all the Great temple, which they
had erected in the center of the

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city. 
Grew ever taller and larger from

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the first blush of dawn until 
the closing of the Twilight. 

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The clatter of the hammer and 
the rasp of the sore was never 

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absent from the monument, which 
the immigrants erected to him, 

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who had led them safe through 
many dangers. 

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The to Castaways John Ferrier, 
and the little girl who had 

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shared his fortunes and had been
adopted as his daughter. 

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Accompany the Mormons to the end
of their great pilgrimage. 

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Little lucy, Ferrier was born 
along pleasantly enough in Elder

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stangerson swaggin, her Retreat,
which she shared with the 

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Mormons three wives and with his
son, a headstrong forward boy of

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twelve having rallied with the 
elasticity of childhood from the

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shock caused by her mother's. 
She soon became a pet with the 

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women and reconciled herself to 
this new life in her moving 

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canvas covered home. 
In the meantime farrier having 

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recovered from his privations, 
distinguished himself as a 

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useful guide and an 
indefatigable Hunter. 

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So rapidly. 
Did he gain the esteem of his 

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new companions that when they 
reach the end of their 

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wanderings. 
It was unanimously agreed. 

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That he should be provided with 
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attractive land as any Of the 
settlers with the exception of 

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young himself. 
And of stangerson, Campbell, 

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Johnston and drebber. 
Who were the four principal 

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elders. 
On the farm, that's a quiet 

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John. 
Ferrier built himself a 

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substantial log house, which 
received so many editions in 

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succeeding years that it grew 
into a roomy. 

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Villa. 
He was a man of a practical Turn

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of Mind, Keen in his dealings 
and skillful with his hands, his

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iron Constitution enabled, him 
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improving and tilling his lands,
hence. 

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It came about that his farm and 
all that belonged to him 

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prospered exceedingly. 
In three years, he was better 

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off than his Neighbours in six. 
He was well-to-do in nine. 

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He was rich and in 12, there 
were not half a dozen men in the

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whole of Salt Lake City who 
could compare with him. 

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From the great Inland Sea to the
distant Wasatch mountains. 

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There was no name better known 
than that of John Ferrier. 

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There was one way and only one 
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The susceptibilities of his 
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No argument or persuasion, could
ever induce him to set up a 

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female establishment after the 
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He never gave reasons for this 
persistent refusal, but 

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contented himself by resolutely 
and inflexibly adhering to his 

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determination. 
There was some who accused him 

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of lukewarmness in his adopted 
religion and others who put it 

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down to Greed of wealth and 
reluctance to incur expense 

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others again, spoke of some 
early love affair and of a 

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fair-haired girl who had pined 
away on the shores of the 

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Atlantic, whatever, the reason 
Faria remain, strictly celibate 

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in every other respect. 
He conform to the religion of 

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the young settlement and gained 
the name of being an orthodox 

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and straight Walking Man. 
Lucy Ferrier grew up with in the

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log house and assisted her 
adopted father, in all his 

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undertakings. 
The Keen air of the mountains 

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and the balsamic odor of the 
pine trees took the place of 

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nurse and mother to the young 
girl as year succeeded to year. 

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She grew taller and stronger. 
Her cheek more Ruddy and her 

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step more elastic. 
Many, a Wayfarer upon the high 

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road, which ran by farriers Farm
felt long-forgotten. 

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Thoughts revolved. 
Live in their mind as they 

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watched her little girlish 
figure tripping through the 

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wheat fields, or met her mounted
upon her father's Mustang, and 

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managing it with all the ease 
and Grace of a true child of the

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West. 
So the bud blossomed into a 

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flower and the year which saw 
her father, the richest of the 

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farmers left her as Fair. 
A specimen of American girlhood 

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as could be found in the whole 
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It was not the father. 
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that the child had developed 
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It seldom is in such cases that 
mysterious change is too subtle 

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and to gradual to be measured by
dates least of all does the 

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maiden herself? 
No it until the tone of a voice 

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or the touch of a hand sets, her
heart thrilling within her. 

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And she learns with a mixture of
Pride and a fear that her new 

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and a larger Nature has awoken 
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There are few who cannot recall 
that day. 

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And remember the one little 
incident, which heralded the 

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dawn of a new life. 
In the case of Lucy, Ferrier. 

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The occasion was serious enough 
in itself, apart from its future

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influence on her Destiny. 
And that of many Sides, it was a

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warm June morning and the Latter
Day Saints were as busy as the 

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bees whose high. 
They have chosen for their 

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emblem in the fields. 
And in the streets, Rose the 

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same hum of human industry. 
Down the dusty, highroads 

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defiled along streams of heavily
Laden mules, all heading to the 

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West for the Gold Fever, had 
broken out in California and the

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Overland route lay through the 
city of the elect. 

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That's who what droves of sheep 
and Bullock's coming in from the

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outlying, pasture lands and 
trains of tired immigrants, men 

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and horses equally weary of 
their interminable Journey. 

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Through all this Motley 
assemblage threading, her way 

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with the skill of an 
accomplished Rider. 

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There galloped Lucy. 
Ferrier, her Fair face flushed 

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with the exercise and her long 
chestnut, hair floating out 

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behind her. 
She had a commission from her 

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father in the city and was 
dashing in as she had done many 

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a time before with all the 
fearlessness of Youth thinking 

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only of her task and how it was 
to be performed. 

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The travel-stained adventurers 
gazed after him. 

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In astonishment and even the 
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in with their Pelt, he's 
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There are Customs stoicism as 
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the pale-faced maiden. 
She had reached the outskirts of

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the city when she found the road
blocked by a great drove of 

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cattle, driven by a half-dozen 
wild-looking herdsman from the 

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plains in her impatience. 
She endeavoured to pass this 

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obstacle by pushing a horse into
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Scarcely had she got fairly into
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However before the beasts closed
in behind her and she found 

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herself completely embedded in 
the moving stream of fear. 

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Side long-horned Bullock's, a 
custom that she was to deal with

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cattle. 
She was not alarmed her 

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situation, but took advantage of
every opportunity to urge her 

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horse on in the hopes of pushing
her way through the cavalcade. 

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Unfortunately, the horns of one 
of the creatures, either, by 

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accident or design came in 
violent contact, with the flank 

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of the Mustang and excited it to
Madness in an instant. 

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It reared up upon its hind legs 
with a snort of rage and 

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pronounced and tossed in a way 
that would have unseated any 

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butter. 
Most skillful Rider. 

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The situation was full of peril.
Every plunge of the excited 

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horse. 
Brought it against the horns 

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again, and go did it to Fresh 
Madness. 

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Was all that the girl could do 
to keep herself in the saddle 

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yet? 
A slip would mean a terrible 

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death under the Hooves of the 
unwieldy and terrified animals. 

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Unaccustomed to sudden 
emergencies her head began to 

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swim and her grip upon the 
Bridle to relax, choked by the 

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rising cloud of dust. 
And by the steam from the 

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struggling creatures, she might 
have abandoned her efforts in 

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despair, but for a kindly voice 
at her elbow, which he assured 

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her of assistance. 
At the same moment, a sinewy 

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brown hand, caught the 
frightened Horse, by the curb 

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and forcing away through the 
drove soon. 

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Brought her to the outskirts. 
You're not heard. 

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I hope Miss said her preserver. 
Respectfully. 

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She looked up at his dark Fierce
face and laughed Source Early 

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ham. 
Awful. 

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Frightened. 
She said, naively, whoever would

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have thought that Poncho would 
have been so scared by a lot of 

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cows. 
Thank God. 

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You keep your seat. 
The other said earnestly. 

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He was at all Savage, looking 
young. 

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Fellow mounted on a powerful 
Rowan horse and clad in the 

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rough dress of a hunter with a 
long rifle slung over. 

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His shoulders I guess you are 
the daughter of John. 

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Ferrier. 
He remarked. 

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I saw you ride down from his 
house when you see him ask him 

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if he remembers the Jefferson 
hopes of st. 

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Louis. 
If he's the same farrier, my 

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father and he were pretty thick.
And she better come and ask 

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yourself. 
She asked to merely the young 

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fellow. 
Seemed pleased at the suggestion

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and his dark eyes sparkled with 
pleasure. 

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I'll do so, he said we've been 
in the mountains for two months 

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and are not over and above in 
visiting condition. 

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He must take as he finds us. 
He has a good deal to thank you 

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for and so have I, she answered,
he's awful. 

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Fun of me. 
If those cows are jumped on me. 

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He done never got over it. 
Neither what I said her 

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companion you? 
Well, I don't see that. 

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It wouldn't make much matter to 
you. 

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Anyhow, you ain't even a friend 
of ours. 

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The young Hunters, dark, face 
grew. 

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So, gloomy over this remark 
that. 

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Lucy Ferrier laughed aloud 
there. 

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I didn't mean that she said, of 
course, you're a friend. 

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Now. 
You must come and see us. 

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And now, I must push along or 
father, won't trust me with his 

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business anymore. 
Goodbye. 

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Goodbye, he answered raising his
broad sombrero and bending over 

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her little hand. 
She wheeled her Mustang round, 

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gave it a cut with a riding whip
and darted away down the broad 

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Road in a rolling cloud of dust.
Young Jefferson Hope Road on 

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with his companions. 
Gloomy and taciturn he and they 

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had been among the Nevada 
mountains, prospecting for 

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silver and were returning to 
Salt Lake City in the hope of 

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raising Capital enough to work 
some loads, which they had 

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discovered. 
He'd been as Keen as any of them

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upon the business until this 
sudden incident had drawn, his 

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thoughts into another Channel. 
The site of the fair, young girl

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as Frank and wholesome as the 
Sierra breezes had stirred, his 

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volcanic Untamed Heart to. 
It's very depths when she'd 

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vanished from his sight. 
He realized that a crisis had 

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come in his life and that 
neither silver speculations nor 

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any other questions could ever 
be of such importance to him as 

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this new and all-absorbing. 
One. 

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The love which had sprung up in 
his heart was not the sudden 

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change of all fancy of a boy, 
but rather the wild Fierce 

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passion of a man of strong will 
and imperious temper. 

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He had been accustomed to 
succeed in all that. 

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He undertook he swore in his 
heart that he would not fail in 

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this if human effort and human 
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successful. 
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night and many times again until
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The Farmhouse, John cooped up in
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work, had had little chance of 
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outside world during the last 12
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All this Jefferson Hope was able
to tell him and in a style, 

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which interested Lucy, as well 
as her father. 

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He had been a Pioneer in 
California and could narrate 

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many a strange tale of Fortunes 
made. 

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And fortunes lost in those wild 
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He'd been asked out to and a 
Trapper, a silver Explorer and a

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ranchman wherever stirring 
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Jefferson. 
Hope had been there in search of

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them. 
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the old farmer who spoke 
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such occasions. 
Lucy was silent, but her 

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blushing cheek and her bright. 
Happy Eyes showed only too 

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clearly. 
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longer her own her honest. 
Father may not have observed 

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these symptoms, but they were 
assured Lee. 

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Not thrown away upon the man who
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It was a summer evening when he 
came Galloping down the road and

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pulled up at the gate. 
She was at the doorway and came 

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down to meet him. 
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fence and Strode up the pathway.
I am off Lucy. 

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He said taking her two hands in 
his and gazing, tenderly, down 

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into her face. 
I won't ask you to come with me 

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now, but will you be ready to 
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And when will that be? 
She asked blushing and laughing 

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a couple of months at the 
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I'll come and claim you. 
Then my darling, there's no one 

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who can stand between us and how
about father. 

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She asked he is given his 
consent. 

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Provided we get these mines. 
What can? 

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All right. 
I have no fear on that head. 

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Oh, well, of course if you and 
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no more to be said she whispered
with her cheek against his broad

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breast. 
Thank God. 

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He said hoarsely, stooping and 
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It is settled. 
The longer. 

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I stay the harder. 
It will be to go. 

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There waiting for me at the 
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Goodbye, my own darling. 
Goodbye in two months. 

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You shall see me. 
He tore himself from her as he 

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spoke and flinging himself upon 
his horse, galloped furiously 

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away. 
Never even looking around as 

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though afraid that his 
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If he took one glance at what he
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gate gazing after him until he 
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Then she walked back into the 
house, the happiest girl in all,

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Utah. 
End of chapter 2 book, 2.