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

Gay, III order to get her quickly out of my
way-and my course was clear.''
1" Don't see it yet" muimured Sargent.
"Don't you see it? 1 came to Euston
Station, took 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 neiit to manage so that the young
lady, whose photograph / showed him.
should be conducted into this particular
carriage. Gentlemen, this was done, and,
in short, here I am."
Lucky that you were not smothered, -
said Sargent.
"Or shot as robber, on emerging from
your hiding place, " said Rossmore.
Dear Harold, how you must have suf-
fered," Alice whispered. He pressed her
hand tenderly
"Why did you not come out befol e ?'
she asked.
Harold smiled. "Blame these gentle
men for that" he said "They will not
be offended if say that I thought them
just little de tropj and I fancied, from
something they said, they were about to
get out at the station we have just passed,
and so / waited. But when l found tbev
were coming the whole way, I 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. "But it may in
terest you to know that am the very pro-
foundest sleeper who ever travelled in a
train, and that l feel terribly sleepy al
ready"
"And said Rossmore can hardly keen
my eyes OPEN"
So the discreet banisters at once turned
round in their seats, coiled themselves up.
and closed their eyes, and were apparently
buried in slumber deep enough for the EN-
peror Barbarossa or the Sleeping Beauty 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 legal
travelling companions, and sink into sleep.
So Alice and Harold talked and talked, and
were happy. About to part, apparently
for years, yet they were happy in the pres
ent. Surely that is one of the most excel
lent and exquisite properties of love-ex
quisite in its delight and in it's pain-that
it never looks beyond the present hour, but
finds happiness now in a momentary meet
ing, though the agony of long parting
threatens near at hand-agony now in a
momentary parting, although the hope of a
speedy reunion may smile and offer conso-
lation.
These two then were happy for the hour.
But after all, the whole journey from Lon
don to Liverpool by express is only some
five hours affair aud two hours had been
wasted before our adventurous lover eme,g-
ed from his concealment. So The prospect
of Liverpool and separation began TO look
very Threatening and imminent and Har-
old, dreading and detesiing the thought of
such parting, began TO urge wild plopo-
sal. Why should they not escape at Liver
pool take the first train in the morning
only very few hours to wait-and 90 on to
Scotland and be married there? Then let
the family do its worst and Harold would
not go to the West Indies, but would push
a career at home. Or even if they had TO
go, he would at least leave behind him a
welded wife, whom no ill-conditioned step
father could take from him. "Be my wife
come and be my wifc--that first that of
al hazards r. So rang the refrain of the
passionate outpouring which for nearly an
hour Harold kept whispering into Alice's
ear.
The girl had spirit enough, and was not
unwilling TO yield. Indeed, there were few
risks life could offer which she was not
ready to encounter rather than to go back
to the dreary and odious home life, with
Harold far away. Now she was being sent,