A CALIFORNIA GIRL
BY EDWARD ELDRIDGE
The Abbey Press PUBLISHERS
114 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK
London Montreal
Copyright, 1902 by The Abbey Press
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE Prologue 5
I. Clara Lawton 7
II. Ranch Talk 9
III. The Marriage of Charles Herne 21
IV. Julia Hammond 25
V. Ben West 35
VI. Stella Wheelwright 39
VII. Penloe 43
VIII. Ben West's Experience in the Klondike 54
IX. An Arrival 63
X. Mrs. Marston 70
XI. Saunders' Customers 85
XII. Penloe's Sermon 88
XIII. Return of Ben West 104
XIV. Five Years After Marriage 113
XV. A Conversation on the Porch 116
XVI. Tiestan 124
XVII. Penloe's Original Address 143
XVIII. Letters Received by Penloe 163
XIX. Mrs. West Relates Her Dream 170
XX. In the Mountains 174
XXI. A Wedding in Orangeville 184
XXII. The Herne Party 201
XXIII. A Visit from Barker and Brookes 218
XXIV. Out of Bondage 233
Epilogue 248
PROLOGUE.
This book is not written for the specialist, but for that restless, seething multitude known as "the masses." It is written for busy people, for workers, such as the shop-girl, the factory-girl, the clerk, the mechanic, the farmer, the merchant, and the busy housewife; but ministers, lawyers, and doctors may find food for thought within its covers.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A California Girl by Edward Eldridge
- 2: Related by Penloe in his Original Address
- 3: Herne were seated comfortably on the porch
- 4: ' Funson asked him what was the trouble
- 5: ' 'My old plugs broke their harness five times to day
- 6: He had forty starved hogs shut up
- 7: Each man had a bunk to himself in the bunk house
- 8: 'Sometimes the boss seems pleasant enough
- 9: For the word hell is now a spent thunderbolt
- 10: Holbrooke returned from a survey of his orchard
- 11: And thoroughly as they do on the Herne ranch
- 12: Charles Herne has got him a wife
- 13: Amidst deafening noise made by his hungry squeals
- 14: Charles Herne has got hitched up
- 15: I consider her the belle of Orangeville
- 16: Almost any girl in Orangeville would be glad to marry him
- 17: Just previous to Ben West's leaving Orangeville
- 18: Talk about the idolatry of the heathen
- 19: She is the best cook in Orangeville
- 20: Stella was the only daughter of Mr
- 21: Cullom said Did you ever see Penloe or his mother
- 22: Lenair without having to cook much
- 23: Lenair said 'All you have just said
- 24: The fellow looked up at Penloe thunderstruck
- 25: Penloe will leave the Simmons ranch soon
- 26: Lenair many times more I shall be falling in love with her
- 27: Ben west's experience in the klondike
- 28: Could a man be more popular than I was in Orangeville
- 29: And Dickey in the corner of a saloon
- 30: Ben West started out again prospecting
- 31: Bruce arrived in town some time after dark
- 32: She will not care for offspring
- 33: The Jap chore boy carried it to the teamsters
- 34: Herne was sitting with the baby
- 35: The teamsters take up those life giving words
- 36: The leading young men in Roseland
- 37: How beautiful Stella has grown
- 38: So when Stella came in from helping her father
- 39: Marston called Stella in and introduced her to Mrs
- 40: Son of the leading merchant in Roseland
- 41: Ryland and Westbrooke are members of it
- 42: And said no more about ladies' hosiery
- 43: 'but I am not a Paris young lady
- 44: When Penloe and his mother heard about them
- 45: Holingsworth was the Congregational minister in Roseland
- 46: Stella was another irregular attendant at church
- 47: As told to her mother by Stella
- 48: Bless Penloe for helping me to my freedom
- 49: I never thought Penloe was the kind of man he is
- 50: There is one thing I liked about Penloe's sermon
- 51: Trask said that her husband said
- 52: Have you been to Orangeville lately
- 53: You can invite Stella to Roseland
- 54: About two months before Ben West returned to Orangeville
- 55: Brought to Orangeville some of their old sayings
- 56: Who is coming to Orangeville in a week
- 57: Most of the people of Orangeville were great on dances
- 58: About a month after Ben West had returned to the Klondike
- 59: She was in harmony with her neighbors
- 60: As a guest Penloe was not always talkative
- 61: Penloe seemed to be absorbed in thought and made no reply
- 62: Because I know that is your ideal
- 63: Penloe replied All marriages are the best ones
- 64: Penloe replied There are very
- 65: Sometimes I wish I had never seen Penloe
- 66: I told my guide I would go to the Menegam
- 67: So I engaged a room and board at the Eshandam
- 68: After the devotional exercises we had breakfast
- 69: With one of them during my stay in the city of Semhee
- 70: And asked her if she wanted to go to Semhee
- 71: Penloe was in his library writing
- 72: They were called seers or sages
- 73: After thanking Penloe she gave him her hand
- 74: She had realized her power over the opposite sex
- 75: PENLOE DEAR SIR I am shocked and disgusted with you
- 76: Penloe always answered all such communications
- 77: Penloe accepted the invitation to speak
- 78: The Mayor of Roseland and Penloe appeared on the platform
- 79: To set a day for receiving her suitors
- 80: Other suitors made offers to her
- 81: Then spend a little time in prayer and meditation
- 82: We will each day manifest a brighter light
- 83: Is because you are in bondage to your material forms
- 84: When all were dead Indra began to weep and mourn
- 85: I beseech you because I love you
- 86: When Penloe finished his address
- 87: The leading financier in Roseland
- 88: Having left the wash tub for a few minutes
- 89: Marston thought Penloe a very fine
- 90: For he was getting weaker and weaker
- 91: Then along the fence where the road was
- 92: The ladies talked more than Penloe
- 93: And here Penloe took the dear girl to him
- 94: Stella with her face looking so beautiful
- 95: And twenty five miles from Orangeville
- 96: For the way Stella kissed her mother
- 97: A few minutes afterwards Penloe appeared
- 98: Penloe and the minister came half an hour later
- 99: ' or have inserted in the newspapers 'Penloe Lenair
- 100: Stella introduced Penloe to him
- 101: Penloe said Live much in prayer
- 102: All this has helped to make you a healer
- 103: She was so superior in her makeup to all her kind
- 104: When she saw Wavernee coming near her
- 105: Where the person with me had sowed
- 106: I am very glad you saw Wavernee
- 107: For Penloe to them was a dear brother
- 108: Penloe and Stella were in the parlor
- 109: Herne had company but that Mrs
- 110: Did not Penloe or Stella tell you
- 111: Penloe and Stella were with me about an hour
- 112: But his son Shuka was born perfect
- 113: ' When Penloe had finished Mrs
- 114: Though Penloe has made many visits to our house
- 115: But touching two and three keys at a time
- 116: In speaking of the piece Penloe played
- 117: Bakersfield may be a very fast town
- 118: Next week we were going to Roseland to visit aunt
- 119: Penloe said Please excuse me
- 120: Penloe said I will answer you
- 121: Penloe and Stella entered the dining room just as Mrs
- 122: And they could travel with Penloe and Stella
- 123: I now have the honor of introducing to you Penloe and Stella
- 124: After Penloe and Stella had worked in every ward
- 125: And then Idaho wheeled into line
- 126: And other towns in Southern California
- 127: With Barker and Brookes and other workers
- 128: When Penloe and Stella with Barker and Brookes left Chicago
- 129: Penloe and Stella did not consider the work finished yet
- 130: To study thoroughly the habits
- 131: ' and that her shores attracted the great Yogi Penloe