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For the benefit of a public easily gulled and enamored of grandiloquent terms, it was advertised as the "Denver Fast Express"; sometimes, with strange unfitness, as the "Lightning Express"; "elegant" and "palatial" cars were declared to be included therein; and its departure was one of the great events of the twenty-four hours in the country round about.
His coming all the way from New York to Denver to accompany her home for the business at Kansas City was, of course, only a pleasant fiction was proof of his keen interest in the girl. And what a disappointment awaited him! He had come after her, only to find that she had drifted away from him. What perhaps made matters worse, he could not in the least object to the manner of her going.
The cattle-men some from Cheyenne, some from Denver, and a few from New York and Chicago agreed to finance a sort of Vigilante Corps composed of men from the outside, on the understanding that this policing body should be commanded by one of their own number.
When we were within a mile of the mouth of Cherry creek I looked ahead, and for the first time I saw Denver, there being then as I supposed about fifty tents and campers' houses in the place. We stopped to take a look around and saw people coming in, every hour of the day, over the Platte and Arkansas river routes, and could see all kind of conveyances from a hand cart to a six-horse team.
He's ahead by two inches and more." There was a celebration that day which warmed Denver's heart and sent Slogger Meacham cursing out of the camp, but as soon as it was over and he had his prize money in his hand Denver remembered his unguarded claim.
"He's likely to find out before we get through," Neddy Haines, of Denver, jerked out nasally and they laughed as if at a secret known together. So Johnny pursued his way through the two or three days before commencement, absorbed in meeting friends, embarrassed at times by their manner, but taking obstinately the modest place in the class which he had filled in college.
And I don't want to leave White Slides." "But, lass, you're goin' to be married!" expostulated Belllounds. "Didn't it occur to Jack to take me to Kremmling? I can't make new dresses out of old ones." "Wal, I reckon neither of us thought of thet. But you can buy what you like in Denver." Columbine resigned herself. After all, what did it matter to her?
It isn't everyone in your fix that would be asking for work." Ashton laughed a trifle unsteadily. "It's very kind of you to say that, Mr. Knowles. I I wish a steady position, winter as well as summer." "How about Denver?" asked Knowles. "That can wait," replied Ashton. He met the girl's smile of approval, and rallied fully. "Yes, that can wait and so can I."
As a matter of fact, the corrupt politicians and the equally corrupt heads of corporations who had long held Denver in bondage regard the Public Service League in mingled dread and detestation. Equally as a matter of fact politicians of a better class are anxious to enlist the good will of the League.
They were all anticipating great fun in exploring "the roof of the world," which extends from Colombia to Argentina, north and south, through Equator, Peru, and Bolivia, more than 2,000 miles, or as far as from New York City to Denver. In many directions from this "roof" may be seen villages, cattle, sheep, llamas, and evidences of mining.
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