TwoGun Sue Author:Isabel Ostrander General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: Burt Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select fro... more »m more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER X FROM THE CLOUDS THE huge train shed roared with a score of engines and screeched with a thousand wheels, and a veritable sea of people surged like stampeded cattle about the vast rotunda of the terminal station. Red-capped porters shouldered their way through the throng and the stentorian tones of the train announcers bellowed above the multitudinous hum of voices and the shuffle and clatter of innumerable feet on marble floor. The girl in the plain blue traveling suit with masses of rippling brown hair showing beneath her small hat, who had worked her way to the edge of the incoming crowd from a late train, halted in the first cleared space and placing her huge, shabby bag at her feet stood for a moment watching the hurrying mob with amazed but not dismayed eyes. New York! All these people could not live here, of course. They were just passing through, travelers like herself. During the hot, tedious days of her journey, Susanna had stifled an occasional qualm within her by the reflection that the Empire Citywas only a bigger Dexter after all; bigger even than Kansas City, but with its grades of society as definitely accentuated as in a cattle town. What did the immensity and strangeness of the metropolis matter to her ? She had her mission to accomplish, a wrong to right and mere surroundings were of little moment. She would find Garrison Chanler, compel him to return with her and offer to Sylvia a name to replace the one he had regarded so lightly. If he did not ? Unconsciously she squared her shoulders and the small, firmly-molded chin lifted. She had crosse...« less