Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-12-15
ESCAPED FROM JUSTICE.

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growled fat old gentleman in the cor
ner seat; "wind and weather don't af-
feet it. No flesh and blood horse could
stand night like this, but the iron
horse keeps straight ahead, whether the
thermometer is at zero or at boiling
water heat -
Just then the conductor entered.
'Tckets, gentlemen, if you please. y
.. It's dreadful night, conductor L
said, feeling with stiffened fingers formy
ticket, in the breast pocket of my coat.
Dreadful, sir, +" feelingly responded
the conductor. "Why, the brabemen
can't live outside, and so I LOOK the
other way when they creep in, poor fell
lows, to get breath of warm air at the
stove. We have not had such night
since a year ago the End of February,
when Tom Blaj.eslee, the baggage mas
ter, froze botls his feet, and woman
who was coming ON from Chicago, got
at Bunn's Four Corners, with baby
her arms, a corpsel !"
'Froze to death Z"
'tAye, frozen to death, and she never
thought, poor thing, but it was asleep.
My baby's cold, says she, 'but we'll
soon warm it, when we get home 1t
was just such a night as this"
And the conductor opened the door,
and plunged across the coupling into
the next car, crying out:
''Hardwick ~
1t was quite considerable city, with
a handsome iron depot, f1aring gass
lamps, and the usual crowd around the
platform, with hands in its pockets, and
its 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 girl, wrapped in
gray blanket-shawl. and wearing neat
little travelling hat of gray straw,
trimmed with stone-colored velvet flow
ers. She seemed to hesitate, like one
unused to travelling, and finally sat
down near the door,
Pardon me, young lady," said /, but
you had better come nearer to the
stove"
She started, hesitated an instant, and
then obeyed-
''Does this train 60 to Bayswater?"
she asked in voice so deliciously soft
and sweet that 1T seemed to thrill
through me.
eyes; can | be of any service to
you2"
''Oh, no-st least not until we reach
Bayswater. | would like a carriage
then"
1--WE shall not be there vet these
three hours"
"Do we stop again ~
"Only at Exmouth."
She drew deep sigh, seemingly of
relief, and settled back in a corner By
the light of the lamp that hung in its
brass fixture opposite, could see her
face, that of a lovely child Apparently
she was no more than sixteen, with
large blue ewes, golden hair. brushed
smoothly back from her face, and a lit
tie rosy mouth, like that of baby.
"Do you expect friends to meet Won
at Bayswater, my child2" L asked Incl
dentally.
"No, sir, 1 am going to school there"
1T viii be an awkward hour for you
to arrive atone in the morning."
"Oh, am not afraid, she said, with
an artless little laugh; 81 shall 90
straight to the seminary"
So the express train thundered on,
with steady ceaseless pulsing at its iron
heart, and constant roar.
Suddenly the signal whistle sounded,
the train began to slacken its speed.
Surely we're not at Exmouth vet, p"
thought, unless L have fallen uncon-
sciously asleep and allowed the progress
of time to escape me-"
| glanced at my watch il was barely
half-past eleven, and Iknew we were not
due at Exmouth until after twelve. J
rubbed the frost from the pane and loo
ed out
We had stopped at lonely little ws.y
station in the midst of dense Zine
woods.
lis this Exmouth9"
1t was the soft voice of the pretty
traveller opposite.
"No-I don't know what place it is;
some way station"
''Does this train stop at way stationsan
"Not generally; they must have been
specially signalled here. You are cold,
my child; your voice trembles."
Z" 1t is cold" she said, in scarcely
audible voice, drawing her shawl around
her. Oh, I wish they would hurry oni i"
eve are moving once more" said.
Conductor for the man of tickets
was passing through the car-"why did
we stop at that backwoods place2"
"Out of water was the reply, as he
hurriedly passed by.
Now 1 knew perfectly well that this
answer was not the true solution of the
matter. Our delay did not exceed half
: a minute, altogether too short time for
replenishing the boilers and where on
earth was the water to come from in that
desolate stretch of barren pine woods.
Five minutes after, the conductor re
entered the car / made room for him
at my side.
"Sit down, conductor; you've moth
ing to do this minute"
He obeyed-
"What do you mean by telling me
such lie just now2'
/ spoke under my breath; he replied
In the same tone:
About what 3"
"Abeut the reason you stopped just
now.n
He smiled.
"To tell yeu the truth, I stopped to
take on single passenger-a gentle
mln who has come down from Bayswa-
teri e5 -
"For the pleasure of travelling once
more over the same route2'
Exactly so-for the purpose of trav-
cling It in certain society Don't be
alarmed for your own safety-it's de-
tective policeman
Twas about to repeat the words in as
tonishment, when he motioned me tc
silence. a ~ te-
"Where is he2" 1LE
"The detective9 He sits by the door
yonder, with ragged fur cap pulled
over his eyes Did you ever see more
perfect specimen Of the dilapidated