# The girl at Silver Thistle Author: Hale, Max Genre: Friendship -- Fiction Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77180 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+girl+at+Silver+Thistle+Hale&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary Though it was only five-thirty, supper was over in the yellow station-house at Silver Thistle. Nevada Buckley, singing as merrily as the nightingale, had put away the broom and the floor mop, in the regular task of helping her mother keep the little house tidy. Through the open window of the kitchen, came the staccato firing of a motor exhaust. Without looking at the clock on the shelf, the girl knew it was exactly twenty-eight minutes to six. Also and without looking toward the railroad, she knew that her father, Robert Buckley, had shut down the gas engine that pumped water into the big red tank. He was hauling out the “speeder” to make his regular evening run over the line to place the... ## Chapters - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girl-at-silver-thistle-77180/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girl-at-silver-thistle-77180/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-girl-at-silver-thistle-77180/chapters/3/index.md)