The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-11-05
ESCAPED FROM JUSTICE.


: TO death, and the very marrow SCENE
|, to CONCEAL in ones bones.
There's one advantage in steam,
, growled a fat old gentleman in tn
corner seat wind and weather don
effect it. No flesh and blood hore
could stand night like this, but tn
iron horse keeps straight ahead, wheth
er the thermometer is at zero or at boi
ing water heat"
Just then the conductor entered.
Tickets, gentlemen, if you please"
Its dreadful night, conductor"
said, feeling with stiffened fingers 70
my ticket, in the breast pocket of m,
coat.
Dreadful. sir" feelingly responded
the conductor why, the brakemel
cant live outside and so / look tn,
other way when they creep in, poor fel
lows, to get breath of warm air at tn,
stove, We have not had such nigh
since year ago the I'd of February
when Tom Blakeslee, the baggage
master, froze both his feet, and woman
who was coming on from Chicago, go
OF at Bunn's Four Corners, with hel
baby in her arms, corpse!
"Froze to death p
Ave, frozen TO death, and she never
thought, poor thing, but it was asleep.
Ny baby's cold, says she, but we'll
soon warm it, when We get home II
was just such a night as this.
And the conductor opened the door
and plunged across the coupling into the
next car, crying ont
"Hardwick
1t was quite a consideral le CITY,
with a handsome iron depot, f1aring gas
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 en-
tered it,-a slender young girl, wrapped
in a gray blanket-shawl, and wearing a
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 l, but
YOU had better come nearer to the
stove.
She started, aesitated an instant. and
then obeyed
Does this train 90 to Bayswater ?"
she asked in voice 80 delicously soft
and sweetthat it seemed to thrill through
ME
"Yes; can be OF any service to
you?
"Oh. no--at least not until We reach
Bayswater | would like carriage
then
I'VE shall not be there yet these three
hours.
do wc stop again?
Only at Exmouth.
She drew a 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 lovely child. APP
parently she was TO more than sixteen,
with large blue eyes, golden hair,
brushed smoothly back from her face,
and a little rosy mouth, like that of a
baby.
DO you expect friends to meet you at
Bayswater, my child?" asked incl
dentally.
NO, sir, | am going to school there.
1t will be an awkward hour for you
10 arrive-at one in the morning.
"Oh, am not afraid" she said, with
an artless little laugh; 81 shall go
straight to the seminary"
So the express train Numbered 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 were not at Exmouth yet" |
thought, unless | have fallen uncon-
ciously asleep and allowed the progress
of time to escape me"
! | glanced at my watch it was bare
" hall.past eleven, and knew We were
not due at Exmouth until after twelve.
| rubbed the frost from the pane and
looked out.
We had stopped at a lonely little way
station in the midst OF a dense pine
woods.
as this Exmouth?'
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 any way sta
tons 2
Not generally; they must have been
specially signalled here. You are cold
my child; your voice trembles,
at is cold, she said, in scarcely
audible voice, drawing her shawl around
her. Oh, wish they would hurry
on p
I'VE are moving once more / said
Conductor for the man Of tickets wa:
passing through the car-"why did We
Stop at that backwoods place 2
Cut off water" was the reply, as hi
hurriedly passed by.
Now | knew perfectly well that this
answer was not the true solution Of thu
matter Our delay did not exceed hal
a minute, altogether, too short time fol
replenishing the boilers; and WHERE
on earth was the water to'come from IL
that desolate stretch Of barren pine
woods.
Five minutes after, the conductor re
entered the car. made room for hin
at my side.
sit down, conductor you We nothing
to do this minute
He obeyed
What do you mean 10y telling M
such a lie just now?
81 spoke under my breath he re
piled in the same tone.
about what p 'ol
About the reason You stopped jus
now