The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1868-09-25

dibIc voice, drawing her shawl around
her. "Oh, how wish they would hur-
\ " on!"
"Cunductor"- for the man of tickets
wa4 passing through the cir--"why did
We stop at the backwoods place ?"
"Out of water" was the reply, az he
hurriedly passed by.
Now | knew perfectly we'll that this
answer was not the true solution of the
matter. Our delay had not exceeded
half minute, altogether too short a
time for replenishing the boiler; and
where on earth was the water to come
from in that desolnte stretch of barren
pine woOds?"
Five minutes after the conductor re.
entered the car, and made room for
him at my side.
"Sit down, conductor you've nothing
to do this minute"
He obeyed.
"What did you mean by telling me
such a lie just now "
Ispoke under my breath he replied
| IN the same ZONE
| about what?''
about the reason you stopped Just
now"
He smiled.
"To tell you the trd'h, stopped %
take ON ~ single passenger---a gen
tlclnan who has come down from Bays
water"
"For the pleasure of travelling oDco
more over the same route? ,"
"ENactly sir for the pleasure OF trav-
cling it in certain society. Don't be
alarmed for your own safety--it'sa - de
tective police.
A."
was about to repeat the words in AS
constituent. when he mentioned me 10
silence.
"And who is the oiiender?"
III don't know myself yet. He doesn't
want scene until the moment of arrest;
we are safe enough until we reach Bays.
water
"Whpre Il he?"
"Thn detective? He sits by tn" door
ynri-r, with ragged FUR cap pulled
ovei A. eyt~ DID you ever sce a more
perfect specimen ofthe dilapidattd cnun
tryman ?"
l smiled; / could hardly help it.
''What is the case.
"a murder--s man and hs wife and
two children their throat cut hast
night and the house set fire after
wards."
"Great Heavens? what a monster =
We had continued the conversation
in !, whisper, scarcely above our breath
aud now the conductor rose and left nj
to study the faces Of my fellow pas
: scrgers, with curious dread and hor
i rur.
somehow, oltcn as | revolvpd thu
matter in my mind, my fancy woult
settle on coarse, sross-uohing man op
pusite, with a bushy beard and II .hagg,
wool coat, with the collar turned uI
, round his errs. felt convinced tha
this man, with the brutal eyes, and thu
- heavy hanging jaws, was the Cain ant
. as looked furtively across, ! caugh
the wide open blue orbs of the fair littl
girl.
Obeying the instantaneous impuls
of my heart, rose and went over L
= her.
>, "You heard what we were saying m.
little one?"
- "Yes--a murder--oh, how horrible =
> "Do not hn fright"ned--no one shal
n hurt you
= She smiled up in my face with swee
:. contiding innocence.
, Our stsy at Exmouth was bu. brief
n but during the delay could see tha
- the detective had changed his seat
one nearer the british man in the shay
7. gy coat,
"a "Sce," ialtered the young girl; "the
locked the car doors at Exmouth the
Il are unlocking them nov"
She was right.
~ "Prnhshly they were fearful that Il
6, criminal would escape" remarked
n MI undcrtOuc.
evil you-may ] trouble you
tn bring me glass Of water'"
I rose and made way towards the
.h cooler by the door, but with difficult
yo for the train was again under rapid IN
tion. TO my disappointment the l
az. goblet was chained to the shelf.
"No matter" aid she, with Wi
ming smile, ~ " III come myself"
| drew the water and held the Gu
-, but instead OF taking 1t as she spproac
,v ed, she brushed suddenly past II
-, openeG the door ard rushed out ur
20. the platform.
ha "Stop her! stop her" shouted /
,,a detective springing to his feet, "S
-, will be killed conductor brakeman
sv hold up.'
- There was rush tumult--a bust
-, was first upon the platform but
,n was empty and deserted, save by h
" frozen looking brakeman, who seem
,o, horror.stricken.
"She went past me like shadow, IA
jumped of ~ We crossed Csirn turnpl
So road" he stamnertd.
dumped OF the express traini "
t.. she must have been killed instantly
-, What mad folly." It's Age hundi
- dollars out of my pocket, said the
-, tective, ruefully. 81 did pot wan
i,' row before We got to Bayswater, bu
va, conmunded fool. 4 woman
,1. n,.cd will do anything, l believe ~
"Wha' - calculated, "you sur
4, - do not mean that child T."
on ~ meaii" said the detective cain
ess that chIlu ~ you eaii her' u Az
Burton, married woman twenty
ely yeas age, who last night murde
ere four persons in cold blood, and WIS
lin ing to escape to Canada. That's VIII