Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-11-09
VOL. XII.

Both the young lawyers, however, saw
something very surprising in it An Eng
iish railway train cannot possi bly, be enter
ed by any one after it has m9ved from the
station. Nor has it any outer platform, ,ol
means of communication, by which pass
engers can go from one carriage into ano
ther. The carriages open at the sides, ant
each frst-class coach is room closed ur
and complete in itself. Nobody had enter
ed this compartment when it stopped a
the station; nobody could have entered il
since then; yet here was a fifth occupant
where only four were present before.
"Hallo who are you ?" exclaimed Sar
gent.
"How did you get in-where the devi
did you come from ?" fiercely demanded
| Rossmore.
'Its ghost !" sobbed the Cumberland
girl, faithful to her original hypothesis.
Don't be alarmed, gentlemen, the in
truder very calmly observed. ''You have
not Ghost among you; although, if I hac
E. + d under cover little longer, it is
eui, &c ole you might have had ghost
In the carriage before the ~nd of your
journey"
But the sound of his voice created new
agitation. The young lady sprang from
| her seat and cried .ut: ttOh, Aarold my
dear, dear Haroldr' and threw herself upon
mis- neck, and sobbed and laughed, and
sobbed again. and committed other extrava-
gances. to which the intruder lent himself
with great apparent oordiality, giving back
embrace for embrace, and with compound
in crest.
The Cumberland girls said, "God be
guild to us-it's Master Harold himself !"
| txuo hayp OF al Lo,u ok.,
and looked on much amazed, but with that
outward calmness which distinguishes your
true Briton under almost all conceivable
| circumstances. The intruder, whoever he
might be, was clearly neither ghost nor
| robber.
| "Oh, Harold !" exclaimed the young Ia
! dy; "how did you come here2 Where
did you get in; and what have you come
| for?"
''Come for! Why, to see you, love, OF
course. They thought they were quite
| safe, believe, when they saw the train
fairly of, but they were a little mistaken
Well surprise them little more yet,
Alice T
'.But how did YOU come here, Harold ?"
''Do satisfy cur curiosity, sir, Sargent
interposed. '.It really is quite legitimate
on our part, seeing that your sudden ap-
pearance looks very like a fraud upon the
railway company, of which, for aught you
know. my friend and I may be leading di-
rectors-and then you ere positively accus.
ed OF being ghost"
The young man laughed s'GentIemen, I"
he said, ''you shall have a full explana-
ton. I have been for years engaged to
this young lady. Lately her mother, who
was a widow, thought fit to marry again,
and her new husband, this lady's STEP
father-you saw him at the station to-day
-detests me, has poisoned his wifes mind
against me, and bas persuaded her TO re-
fuse her consent to our marriage, of which
she quite approved two years ago-per
haps because we were then too young to
marry. l am going to the West Indies,
and may be absent, Heaven knows how
long; and they had set their hearts upon
preventing me from seeing Alice before
go. Now I had, very naturally set my
heart on seeing her; and yet l didn't care
20 ask her to do anything directly in oppo-
sition to her mothers commands"
"Quite right, sir" said Rossmore, with
look Of infinite solemnity
''Very commendable indeed" added Sar-
gent, paternally.
49," Harold continued, II found that
she was being sent back to the country to-
day, IN order to get her quickly out of my
way-and my course war CLEAR.
Don't see it yet, murmured Sargent
Don't you see it I came to Euston
Station, took a ticket to Liverpool-so you
perceive there is no question of fraud on
the company-used audacious efforts in
the way of bribery. and thus induced the
guard, first to allow me to hide under the
seat, and next to manage SO that the young
lady, whose photograph l showed him
should be conducted into this particular
carriage. Gentlemen, this Vas done-and,
in short, here Iam."
LUCKY that you were not smothered, u
said Sargent.
ssOr shot as a robber, on emerging from
your hiding-place," said Rossmore.
sDear Harold, how you must have suffer
ed" Alice whispered. He pressed her hand
tenderly.
"Why did you not come out before p
she asked.
Harold smiled. "Blame these gentle
men for that" he said. ''They will not be
offended if I say that thought them just
little de trop; and I fanciea, from some
thing they said, they were about to get out
at the station we have just passed, and so
waited. But when l found they were
coming the whole way, saw it was useless
waiting any longer, and came out, and
nearly frightened poor Polly there" (the
servant) "out of her Senses"
Very sorry we should have been in
your way, SIR" said Sargent. s'But it may
interest you to know that I am the very
profoundest sleeper who ever travelled In 9
train. and that 1 feel terribly sleepy al
| ready"
"And l." said Rossmore, "can hardly
| keep my eyes open"
| So the discreet barristers at once turned
round in their seats, coiled themselves up
closed their eyes, and were apparently
buried in slumber deep enough for the
Emperor Barbarossa or the Sleeping Beau
ty in her immortal wood.
| Then Harold sat beside Alice, and took
her hand in his; and the servant, Polly,
seemed to follow the example of her lsgal
travelling companions, and sank into sleep.
So Alice and Harold talked and talked
and were happy. About to part, apparent
ly, for Years, yet they were happy in the
present Surely that is one of the most
present. Surely that is one of the mos
excellat and exquesite properties of love-
exquisite in its delight and in its pain
that it never looks beyond the present
hour, but finds happiness now in mo-
uentdTy Injecting, though Iuo agony OF
long parting threatens near at hand
agony now in momentary parting, al
though the hope of a speedy reunion may
smile and offer consolation
These two then were happy for the hour
But the whole journey from London t.
Liverpool by express is only some five
hours affair; and two hours had beer
wasted before our Adventurous love
emerged from his concealment. So th'
prospect of Liverpool aud separation be
CANT look very threatening and imminent
and Harold, dreading and detesting th
thought of such parting, began to urge
wild proposal. Why should they no
escape at Liverpool, take the first train il
the morning-only a very few hours t,
wait and go on to Scotland and be marrie'
there Then let the family do it's worst
and Harold would not go to the Yves
Indies, but would push career at home
Or, even if he had to 60, he woult
at least leave behind him
welded wife, whom no ill-conditioned step
father could take from him. ''Be nav Wit
come and be my wife-that first; that a
all hazards !" So rang the refrain Of tn
passionate outpouring which for nearly al
! borrr Hurol1 liant