The Girl from Montana

The Girl from Montana

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Title: The Girl from Montana
Author: Grace Livingston Hill
Release Date: March 7, 2005 [eBook #15274]
Language: English
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THE GIRL FROM MONTANA
by
GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL
GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
1922

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Books By
GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL
April Gold Happiness Hill The Beloved Stranger The Honor Girl
Bright Arrows Kerry Christmas Bride Marigold Crimson Roses
Miranda Duskin The Mystery of Mary Found Treasure Partners A Girl

to Come Home To Rainbow Cottage The Red Signal White Orchids
Silver Wings The Tryst The Strange Proposal Through These Fires The
Street of the City All Through the Night The Gold Shoe Astra Homing
Blue Ruin Job's Niece Challengers The Man of the Desert Coming
Through the Rye More Than Conqueror Daphne Deane A New Name
The Enchanted Barn The Patch of Blue Girl from Montana The
Ransom Rose Galbraith The Witness Sound of the Trumpet Sunrise
Tomorrow About This Time Amorelle Head of the House Ariel Custer
In Tune with Wedding Bells Chance of a Lifetime Maris Crimson
Mountain Out of the Storm Exit Betty Mystery Flowers The Prodigal
Girl Girl of the Woods Re-Creations The White Flower Matched Pearls
Time of the Singing of Birds Ladybird The Substitute Guest Beauty for
Ashes Stranger Within the Gate The Best Man Spice Box By Way of
the Silverthorns The Seventh Hour Dawn of the Morning The Search
Brentwood Cloudy Jewel The Voice in the Wilderness
Books By
RUTH LIVINGSTON HILL
Mary Arden (_with Grace Livingston Hill_) Morning Is for Joy John
Nielson Had a Daughter Bright Conquest

Dedicated to
MISS VIRGINIA COWAN
OF COWAN, MONTANA, WHOSE BRIGHT, BREEZY LETTERS
AIDED ME IN WRITING OF ELIZABETH'S EXPERIENCES IN
THE WEST

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE GIRL, AND A GREAT PERIL
II. THE FLIGHT
III. THE PURSUIT
IV. THE TWO FUGITIVES

V. A NIGHT RIDE
VI. A CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR MEETING IN THE WILDERNESS
VII. BAD NEWS
VIII. THE PARTING
IX. IN A TRAP
X. PHILADELPHIA AT LAST
XI. IN FLIGHT AGAIN
XII. ELIZABETH'S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
XIII. ANOTHER GRANDMOTHER
XIV. IN A NEW WORLD
XV. AN EVENTFUL PICNIC
XVI. ALONE AGAIN
XVII. A FINAL FLIGHT AND PURSUIT

CHAPTER I
THE GIRL, AND A GREAT PERIL
The late afternoon sun was streaming in across the cabin floor as the
girl stole around the corner and looked cautiously in at the door.
There was a kind of tremulous courage in her face. She had a duty to
perform, and she was resolved to do it without delay. She shaded her
eyes with her hand from the glare of the sun, set a firm foot upon the
threshold, and, with one wild glance around to see whether all was as

she had left it, entered her home and stood for a moment shuddering in
the middle of the floor.
A long procession of funerals seemed to come out of the past and meet
her eye as she looked about upon the signs of the primitive, unhallowed
one which had just gone out from there a little while before.
The girl closed her eyes, and pressed their hot, dry lids hard with her
cold fingers; but the vision was clearer even than with her eyes open.
She could see the tiny baby sister lying there in the middle of the room,
so little and white and pitiful; and her handsome, careless father sitting
at the head of the rude home-made coffin, sober for the moment; and
her tired, disheartened mother, faded before her time, dry-eyed and
haggard, beside him. But that was long ago, almost at the beginning of
things for the girl.
There had been other funerals, the little brother who had been drowned
while playing in a forbidden stream, and the older brother who had
gone off in search of gold or his own way, and had crawled back
parched with fever to die in his mother's arms. But those, too, seemed
long ago to the girl as she stood in the empty cabin and looked fearfully
about her. They seemed almost blotted out by the last three that had
crowded so close within the year. The father, who even at his worst had
a kind word for her and her mother, had