Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-10-07

| WlluDB TO ylelu. lnQoeO, bnere Wero loW
risks life could offer which che was moi
ready to encounter rather than go back to
the dreary and odious home life, with Har'
| old far away. Now she was being sent, az
/ she perfectly well knew, to the custody
the mere custody, of an uncle and aunt
in Liverpool, in order that she might be
kept out of the way until Harold should
have left London and gone out to the
West Indies, where he had relatives, and
where he hoped to make a fortune.
"But, Harold dear" the girl whispered
| "the thing is impossible. My uncle will
be at the station waiting for me with the
carriage. Do you think he would be like
| ly to fall into oJfr plans"
"No, Alice | have thought of that. II
you have courage and l know you have
and are very, very quick, we can escape
and defy him. Now listen, and don't be
afraid. just before we get to Liverpool
| the train enters tunnel, and inside the
| mouth of the tunnel we stop for minute
"a bare moment--to make sure that all
Is clear. will have the door open, and
will take you in my arms and get out; II
will be perfectly easy and safe; and Polly
shall follow without one instant Of delay.
Then we hold our bresths, and stand in
the darkness close up TO the tunnel wall
for only moment, until the train rushes
by; and then we get quietly out take to
the road, get Q carriage at the nearest inn,
and drive 10 any station on the line, where
we can wait for the Scottish mail. Your
uncle will only suppose that you haveput
off coming for day; he will grumble
and wait for tomorrow without doing or
even suspecting anything, and then 1t
will be too late"
"If we are killed"
dearest, do you think would expose
you to any dangerf
"No, Harold, it was not that. l was
only going to say that if we are killed-1
mean even If we are killed-we shall be
killed togetherl'
Harold embraced his intrepid and
desperate Jfa'acee, and the plan was re.
solved on. A few whispered words con-
veyed the whole to stout hearted Polly,
who had q romantic heart, and would have
gone with these lovers anywhere-leaped
with them out of an express train flying
at full speed rather than desert them. The
moments went by; the tunnel was near !;
the two young bsyristers had long since
been fast asleep in good reality; Harold
softly opened the door, and stood close to
it with Alice in his arms; the faithful
Polly loaded herself with such of her mis-
tresss cloaks and things as she could at
tempt to carry the train began already
to slacken its speed; they were at the
mouth of the tunnel Harold said, in a
whisper. "Noo, lover And Alice shut
her eyes, and pressed her face against
his shoulder. .sIt.,,rvit.,a rti5yFa
The train ratified and crashed through
the echoing tunnel. The hollow, hideous
reverberations aroused our sleeping bar
risters. Sargent started up, and rubbed
"Hallo Rossmore, this is the Edgehill
Tunneli We shall be in Liverpool in
moment. Shake yourself up, old boyp
"All right,"Ieplied Rossmore, yawn-
ing. "Glad we're in. But ] say, Sar-
gent, look here-why-dId we stop any
where?"
"Of course not. Why do you ask 2'
"Then where are our fellow,travelers ~
"Good Heavens To. be sure, where
are they? forgot all about them. But
they were here-that's certain and we
stopped at no station, and now they are
gonel"
"Confound it, never knew anything
like that That man, Harold, whoever
he was, came in mysteriously, and now
he has goHe out even more mysteriously,
and spirited away the two women along
with himp
al say, Rossmore, how if your sugges.
ton of this evening should have turned
out apredicion.2 Have we had ghosts
in our railway trainf"s
Both laughed both were incredulous;
and the train rushed into the crowded,
bustling, blazing station at Liverpool
Our friends spoke to the guard Of the
train, who was much amazed at first to
hear of the disappearance of the three
passengers; but he seemed to think that,
in the case Of so audacious q lover as
Harold Rivers, anything was possible
and then, there DGs momentary stoppsge
in the tunnel. y n
So the barristers made no further in
quiries, but took. it for granted that all
was right somehow, and went to their
hotel.
They heard the end of the story, how
ever, even before they returned to Lon
don, for they met Harold Rivers and his
young wife in Liverpool ten days after.
The pair had just returned from Scotland,
where they were married. They had, of
course, written off at once TO Alice's
mother, announcing their marriage, and
they were in good hope that she would
soon accept the situation. They could
afford to wait little, for they were mar
ried and happy, and Harold had made up
his mind that he would not go to the
West Indies.-Hdrper's Weekly.