The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-10-04

! W UhtI OH WHICH the young lady was seated
She had started up with half scream on
hearing her servants alarm; but the back
or the mysterious intruder was turned to hel
and she perhaps, saw nothing surprising in
his presence.
Both the young lawyers however, saw
something very surprising in it. An Egg
lish railway train cannot possibly be enter
ed by any one after it has moved from the
station Nor has it any outer platform OF
other means of communication, by which
passengers can go from one carriage into
another. The carriages open at the sides
and each first-class coach is a room closed
up and complete in ITSELF Nobody had
entered this compartment when it stopped
at the station nobody could have entered
it since then yet here was fifth occupant
where only four Were present before
"Hallo who are you? exclaimed Sar-
gent.
How did you get in-where the devil did
you come fiom?" tiercely demanded Ross
more.
CTS ghost p sobbed the Cumberland
girl, faithful TO her original hypothesis.
Don't be alarmed, gentlemen"' The in
iruder very calmly observed. "You have
not ghost among you although if had
remained under cover a little longer, it is
quite possible you might have had a ghost
in the carriage before The end of the Jour-
ney."
But the sound of his voice created a new
agitation. The young lady sprang from
her seat and cried out, "Oh, Harold nv
dear Harold - and threw herself upon his
neck, and sobbed and laughed and sobbed
again, and committed other such extrava-
gances, to which the intruder lent himself
with great apparent cordiality, giving back
embrace for embrace, and with compound
interest.
The Cumberland girl said, "God be guide
TO us-it's Master Harold himselfp'
The two barristers resumed their seats
and looked on much amazed, but with that
outward calmness which distinguishes vou,,
true Briton under almost all conceivable
circumstances. The intruder, whoever he
might be, was clearly neither ghost nor
robber
CON, Harold p exclaimed the young la
dy; chow did you come here? 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 were a little mis-
taken. Wen surprise them a little more
yet, Alice"
"But how did you come here, Harold v'
"Do satisfy our curiosity, SIR" Sargent
interposed. "It is really quite legitimate
on our part, seeing that your sudden ap-
pearance looks very much like fraud up
on the railway company, of which for
aught you know, my friend and I may be
leading directors-and then you are posi-
lively accused of being ghost.''
The young man laughed. "Gentleman, {"
he said, "You shall have full explana-
tion. have been for years engaged TO this
young lady. Lately her mother who was a
widow thought fit to marry again, and he's
new husband, this young lady's step-father
you saw him at The station to day-de-
tests me, has poisoned his wife's mind
against me, and has persuaded her to re-
fuse her consent 20 our marriage, of which
she quite approved two years ago-per-
haps because we were then too young 10
marry. am going to the West Indies,
and may be absent Heaven knows how long
and they had set their hearts upon pre-
venting me from seeing Alice before l co.
Now had, very naturally, set my heart on
seeing her; and yet / didn't care 10 ask her
10 do any thing directly in opposition TO her
mo;her's commands"
"Quite right, Sir" said Rossmore, with
look of infinite solemnity.
every commendable indeed" added Sar-
gent, paielnally.
"So," Harold continued, "I found that