Something might be said in extenuation of the station agent's and the Double R manager's sins of omission, but without doubt the country was what she had termed it--an unfeatured wilderness. Her first sensation upon getting a view of the country had been one of deep disappointment. There was plenty of it, she had decided,--enough to make one shrink from its very bigness; yet because it was different from the land she had been accustomed to she felt that somehow it was inferior. Her father had assured her of its beauty, and she had come prepared to fall in love with it, but within the last half hour--when she had begun to realize that she had lost the trail--she had grown to hate it.