Chapter 10
THE STRANGER’S LOVE STORY.’Tana sat alone in her room a few hours later, and from the
window watched the form of Ora Harrison disappear along the street.
The latter had been sent by her father with some medicine for the
paralyzed stranger, and the girls had chatted of the school ’Tana
was to attend, and of the schools Ora had gone to and all the
friends she remembered there, who now sent her such kind letters.
Ora told ’Tana of the lovely time she expected to have when the
steamers would come up from Bonner’s Ferry to the Kootenai Lake
region, for then her friends were to come in the summers, and the
warm months were to be like holidays.
All this girlish frankness, all the cheery friendship of the
doctor’s family filled ’Tana with a wild unrest against
herself—again
