Because of Stephen — Grace Livingston Hill

This story centered around Margaret Halstead and her half brother - Stephen. She travelled all the way from her Eastern home to Stephen's place, with only one mission in mind......

MARGARET Halstead stood alone on the narrow board platform that seemed to float like a tiny raft in a sea of plains and darkness. The train on which she had come her long and interesting journey had discharged her trunks, and taken up some freight, and wound its snakelike way out into the darkness, until now even the last glimmer of its red lights had faded from the mist that lay around. The night winds swept about her, touching hair and cheek and gown, and peering solicitously into her face as if to inquire who this strange, sweet thing might be that had dropped, alien, among them, and then, deciding in her favor, softly kissed her on the cheek and ran away to tell the river of her coming.