The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-02-17
A SLIGHT MISTAKE.

One cool afternoon in the early fall, L.
Chester F. LIE Roy, gentleman-stood on
the platform of the Albany depot watching
the procession of passengers just arrived in
the Hudson River boat, who defled past me
on their way to the cars. The Boston train
by which / had come, waited patiently as
steam and fire might, for their leisure, with
only occasional and faint snorts of remon-
STRANGE at the delay; yet still the jestling
crowd hurried past, into the cars, and fitted
through them in search of seats their in
creasng number at last warned me that /
might find it difficult to regain my own, and
| followed them.
beg your pardon, sir ?"
1 turned, in obedience to touch on my
arm, and saw respectable looking negro
man before me, who bore the travelling bag
and shawl, and was evidently the attendant
of slender and stylish girl behind him.
"Do speak," be said, bowing respect
fully, and glancing at the portmanteau 1
carried, on which my surname was quite
legible, do 1 address, sir, Mr.. LIE Roy?"
"That is my name-at your service
what can do for you?"
:" The young lady, Miss Florence Dun.
dard, who was to join you at Albany at six
o'clock this EVENING" have charge of her."
He turned to the young lady behind him.
"This is Mr.. LIE Roy, Miss"
The young lady, whose dark blue eyes
had been scanning me- as could perceive,
through her blue silk vail, now lifted it
with an exquisitely gloved little hand, and
extended the other to me, with charming
mixture of frankness and timidity.
g am vorv Cr1o6 fO moot vou Mr. q
Roy" said she. "I thought / should know
you in moment; Jenny described you
accurately. How kind it was of you to
take charge of me- I hope shan't trouble
you"
In the midst of my bewilderment, at thus
being addressed by the sweetest voice in the
world, managed to see that must make
proper reply, and proceeded to stammer
out what 1 thought an appropriate speech,
when the servant, who had left us for a
moment, returned, and abandoned it, un.
finished.
did you see my baggage, Edward ?''
asked his mistress.
Yes, Miss it is all on"
"Then you had better hurry to reach the
seven o'clock boat. Good by, tell them you
saw me off"
stood like one in dream, while the
man handed me two checks for the trunks
and indued me with the light baggage he
had carried but was aroused by the
young ladys asking me if we had not better
secure our seats in the cars, and answered
by offering her my arm. In ten minutes
we were seated side by side, and truddling
out of Albany at a rate that grew faster and
faster.
l had no time to reflect, with that lovely
face opposite me, bat what was the use.
Some strange mistake had undoubtedly
happened, and had evidently been taken
for another person of the same name; but
how to remedy this now, without alarming
the innocent young lady in my care-how
to find the right man, with the right name
among several hundred people, and how to
transfer her, without an unpleasant scene
and explanation, to the care of some one
whose person was no less strange to her than
mine! While these thoughts whirled
through my head, 1 happened to encounter
those smiling eyes fixed upon me, and their
open, unsuspicious gaze decided me. I will
not trouble or distress her by any knowl.