"Maybe you can catch sight of somebody you know," he added to Laura, as the train rounded the curve of a small hill.
"I see a young lady on horseback, and a man!" cried Dave's sister a few minutes later.

"It's Belle, and her father! They came to meet us! Oh, I must signal to them!" And she waved her handkerchief from the car window.

Soon Belle Endicott saw it, and waved her big straw hat in return.
"Welcome to the West!" she cried, merrily, as she dashed up on her pony beside the railroad tracks.

"Oh, I was so afraid you wouldn't come!" "And I was so afraid you'd miss our telegram and wouldn't meet us," returned Laura.
As soon as the train came to a stop the boys hopped down and assisted the girls to alight.

Sid Todd followed, with the hand baggage, and the whole party gathered in a group, while Mr.Endicott and Belle dismounted to greet them.
"Very glad to know you," said the railroad president, with a genial smile overspreading his features.