The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-12-03
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"a night when wanderers on the moor
might have sunk down and frozen to
death, and the very marrow seemed to
CONCEAL in ones bones.
There's one advantage in steam, +"
said fat old gentleman in the corner;
"wind and weather don't affect it. No
flesh and blood horse could stand night
like this, but the iron horse keeps
straight ahead, whether the thermome-
ter is at zero or boiling hot"
| Just then the conductor entered.
Tickets, gentlemen, if you please"
Its dreadful night, conductor"
said, feeling with stiffened fingers for
my ticket In the pocket of my coat
dreadful sir" feelingly respond ed
the conductor. "Why, the brakemen
can't hardly live outside. We h.vn't
had such night since year ago the
second of February, when Tom Blake
the baggage master, froze both his feet
and woman who was coming from Do
yer, got off at Blinn's Four Corners,
with baby in her arms dead corpse"
"Frozen to death:'
"Ay, frozen to death, and she never
thought, poor thing, but that it was
asleep. My poor baby is cid said she
but we'll soon warm it when we get
home 1t was just such uight as this"
and the conductor opened the door and
plunged across the coupling crying
out:
"Hardwick."
1t is quite a considerable city, with a
handsome depot, fiariug gas lamps, and
the usual crowd around the platform,
with their hands in their pockets, and
their cigar ends flaming through the
night.
Our car was nearly the last of the long
train, and but one passenger entered it
"a slender young lady, wrapped in q
cloak with little hat of gray straw,
trimmed with stone colored velvet
flower. She seemed to hesitate like one
unused to travelling, and finally sat
down by the stove.
Pardon me, young lady" I said,
''but you had better come near the
door"
She started an instant, and then
o5eyed.
"Does this train so to Bryswater?:'
she asked in a voice so deliciously sweet
thai it seemed to thrill through me.
"Ies. Can l be of any service, to
you?"
80, no,-at least not until we reach
Bayswater. l should like to have car
riage then"
1--WE will be there in three hours.'
"Do we stop again?'
"Oniy az Exmouth."
She drew a long sigh, seemingly Of re-
lief, and settled back in the corner. BY
the light OF the lamp that hung in its
brass fixtures, opposite, could see her
face-that of a lovely child. Apparent
| ~ she was not more than sixteen, with
large blue eyes, a wealth of golden hair,
drawn straight from her face, and rosy
mouth like that Of a child.
"Do you expect friends to meet you at
Bayswater, my child?' / asked.
'No, sir; am going to school there"
ut will be an awkw hour for you
to arrive by yourseif-one O'Clock in the
morning"
80, am not afraid she said with an
artlcss little laugh; Il shall go straight
to the seminary.'
fl,a fro, fh,,,I,raI
with steady, ceasless pulsings at its iron
heart, and constant roar.
Suddenly the signal whistle sounded
the trains speed began to slacken.
"Surely we are not at Exmouth yet,
unless have fallen asleep and allowed
the time to escape me.
1--WE had stopped at lonely little
way station in the midst of dense pine
| wood.
| "Is this Exmouth."
It was the voice Of the pretty traveller
opposite.
"No. don't know what it is-some
way station"
"Do express trains stop at way sta
tions?" she asked.
"Never, generally; They must have
been especially signaled here, you are
cold, child; your voice trembles.
at is cold' she said in scarcely aud
ible tone, drawing her shawl about
her.
"Oh, wish they would hurry on"
ave are now moving once more" I
said "coE ductor," for the man Of tickets
was now passing through the car, ,why
did we stop at this back woods place."
"Out of water" was the reply as he
passed quickly on.
Now I knew very well that this was
not the real solution of the matter
Our delay did not exceed half minute,
although too short time for replenish.
ing the boilers; and where on earth was
the water to come from in that desolate
stretch of woods.
Five minutes afterwards the conduct.
or entered the car; made room for him
at my side.
"Sit down conductor; you've nothing
to do just now."