Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-01-26

shook his head as If il was was utterly
useless for me to dispute his assertion, L
tell you if you was TO see Der guess you'd
think she was'
Hal bal Well, I'd like to see her; but
how can End the place p
wen, come along and / will show
you.'
4 am very much obliged to you, Walter.
but / haven't time just now. Don't YOU
want to get up here and see the en-
| gine?'
Yes
Very well, come here And l lifted
him up on the runboard and let him look
at the machinery until be was tired, as
everything was cold and he could not hurt
himself. After that be used to come around
| quite often, aod as he was pleasant and in
telligent we soon became fast friends
| Sometimes when l was not buey / would
take him up and explain to him the differ
| ent parts OF the locomotive, and once in
while would let him ride from the round
house to the depot, where my train was,
and he in turn never ceased importubing
me to visit his sister, was sure she
would be glad to see such nice Teller rs /
was.
But although appreciated his kind in
tentlous, could not consent to crafty him
without some better excuse than merely
his invitation.
AT last, however, the necessary excuse
presented itself, for met Walter and his
mother in the street.
Mother p exclaimed the little chap. this
is the engineer; this it Mr.. Lindsay and
with this introduction of course mother and
myself shook hands, and expressed our
selves mutually pleased with the opportun-
ity OF seeing the other Of which each had
heard 80 much.
'Yon must come up and call on US at
No. W Street, Mr.. Lindsay said
Mrs. Lynde. Our residence 10 not very
snowy; but we shall be happy to welcome
you there for all that
i shall most assuredly call at my earli-
est convenience replied. and if / find
fault with your residence shall expect
you to regard me as very uDgentlemanly
young man,
Yes broke in Walter, and guess
Carrie II be glad to see you, too, for she
said so.'
Why. Walter, what are YOU talking
about p said his mother, in a cbidine
tone, and of course Walter had to exe
plain.
We'll, mother, she said she didn'tDelieye
he was good looking at all; but she'd like
to see him any how
Further developments wire not permit
table. and go Walters parent thought it
best to start
! Wei, in few days, with Master Lyude
for pilot, l mado the promised visit, and
was ushered into small but tolerablv
well>furnished room, on the sTs floor of
two story fraGv mouse, where sat Mrs.
Lynde and her daughter sewing. The first
introduction was gone through With again;
This IS the engineer, Carrie and mother !;
this Is Mr.. Lindsay had not pictured
Carrie in my mind as a paragon of beauty,
and therefore was not disa ppointed but
still she.waS handsome girl. She had
the sweetest red cheeks and the sunniest
Skinner on her hair imaginable; but in
her eyes, so clear and sparkling, a good
| physiognomist could read any amount of
energy and determination.
Wei we were old friends almost imme-
diately, and between Carries wit and her
mothers wisdom, and Walters laundering
eandor, the hour Of my visit passed quite
! pleasantly.
1t seemed that Mrs. Lynde's husband
had also been a railroad man, and at the
time of his death-which was about two
| years before-was conductor on the same
road that was then running on but as ]
had only been there little over a year, !
was not acquainted with him. Unlike the
majority OF conductors, however, he had
not succeeded in laying up much treasure
against day which is 9;pularly regarded
as decidedly wet, and 30 when he died,
Mrs. Lynde leased and furnished the two
rooms they at present lived IN, and put out
the rest OF her money, about four hundred
| dollars, at intrest, from which, and what
herself and Carrie earned in various WAYS,
the little family succeeded in deriving q
tolerably cOnfOrts BILE subsistence.
After this you may be sure that was
not slow in calling upon Mrs. Lynde-or
Miss Lynde, just as you will-whenever
had the opportunity, and somehow the
the olteuer l went the ofteuer l wanted to
go, like little boy who take little boy
who takes up going to the circus. And
by aud by / gat so infatuated that one eve
ming just slipped over in my greasy
clothes to see If they were all well, because
| couldn't hardly stay to change, and Car
RE said / looked just as well 10 them as in
any others, and was SO blind that l
! couldn't see the joke, and took it for
compliment and an encouragement, and 90
after that ! used 20 call around every eve.
MIG as soon as could Ket the engine
takkSSu care OF, and Carrie would watch for
nae through the window, and pretty soon,
because she knew / couldn't help myself,
she would take leave of me outside the
door. Rn6-Tell the fact of it was I must
have been over head and ears in love, for
l remember making up my mind that this
ho h.nk
and fleeing show il could not 90 aud
her good night at the door, And she was
about as bad as was teu, for 6noe didn't
come when Rhe expected me and ehe didn't
eat bit of supper, and in the morring
when she arose her eyes were red with
crying, because she thought the train had
run OF the track and Tom Lindsay was xii.
led. Her brother Walter told me of it.
the little scamp, and when got out Of
sight guess my boots didn't.dauce any
nothing to speak Of; and expressed the
hope that if Carrie Lynde ever became
Carrie Lindsay and Tom Lindsay evel
treated her unkindly, that Tom Lindsay
might die.
Well, tbinge went on thus for nearly 6
year, and although we were looked upor
by every one as engaged, and even tacitly
regarded ourselves as such, yet no forma
engagement had taken place but was tt
be advanced to the post of conductor in
few weeks and then I thought I wouIC
put the final question: question which
gave me no uneasiness in the meanwhile
as had no doubt about the result.
1t was the month Of June again. Every
thing was clothed in the most lovely sum
mer garb, and nature was reveling in tn,
. elimination Of her beauty. II was th,
twentieth, and the whole Lynde famil,
were going down to s. on visit to
relative. They bad never travelled over To,
I road before since / had been acquaintet
with them. and of courseI felt hnnnd h