The Woman from Outside [on Swan River]

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. On a January afternoon, as darkness was beginning to gather, the «gang» sat around the stove in the Company store at Fort Enterprise discussing that inexhaustible question, the probable arrival of the mail. The big lofty store, with its glass front, its electric lights, its stock of expensive goods set forth on varnished shelves, suggested a city emporium rather than the Company's most north-westerly post,