The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-11-19

plete darkness; the one lamp, the highest
luxury in the way of illumination, to which
even 6, st-class passengers In an English
express are treated, was burning very dim
": but it needed little light to see that
there was a fifth figure in the carriage-the
figure of a man. There he was assuredly;
q tail, slender man, stopping because OF
the lowness OF the roof, and apparently
about to take his seat, which was vacant,
opposite to that on which the young lady
was seated. She had started up with
hall scream on hearing her servants alarm;
but the back of the mysterious intruder
was turned to her, and she, perhaps, saw
nothing surprising in his presence.
Both the young lawyers, however, saw
something very surprising in it An Eng
lish railway train cannot possibly be enter
ed by any one after it has moved from the
station. Nor has it any outer platform, Or
means of communication, by which pass
engers can go from one carriage into ano-
ther. The carriages open at the sides, and
each 1rst-class coach is a room closed up
and complete in itself. Nobody had enter
ed this compartment when 1t stopped at
the station; nobody could have entered it
since then; yet, here was fifth occupant
where only four were present before.
Halo who are you r exclaimed Sar-
gent.
Chow did you get in-where the devil
did you come from p hercely demanded
Rossmore.
'It's ghost y sebbed the Cumberland
girl, faithful to her original hypothesis.
Don't be alarmed, gentlemen, the in
truder very calmly observed. "You have
remained under cover little longer, it is
quite possible you might have had ghost
in the carriage before the end of your
Journey"
But the sound of his voice created a new
agitation. The young lady sprang from
her sat and cried out: ooh, Aarold my
| dear, dear Haroldp' and threw herself upon
mis- neck, and sobbed and laughed, and
sobbed again. and committed other extraya-
ganees. to which the intruder lent himself
with great apparent cordially, giving back
embrace for embrace, and with compound
in crest.
The Cumberland girls said, "God be
guild to us--it's Master Harold himself y
The two barristers resumed their seats,
and looked on much amazed, but with that
outward calmness which distinguishes your
true Briton under almost all conceivable
circumstances. The intruder, whoever he
might be, was clearly neither ghost nor
robber.
'Oh, Harold p exclaimed the young Ia
dy; ''how did you come here2 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, L believe, when they saw the train
fairly off, but they were little mistaken
Wen surprise them a little more yet,
Alice p
But how did you come here, Harold ?"
''Do satisfy our curiosity, sir, Sargent
interposed. 1T really is quite legitimate
on our part, seeing that your sudden ap-
pearance looks very like fraud upon the
railway company, of which, for aught you
know, my friend and 1 may be leading d.
rectors-and then you are positively accus.
ed OF being ghost"
The young man laughed Gentlemen, -
he said, ''you shall have full explana-
ton. | have been for years engaged to
this young lady. Lately her mother, who
WIS widow, thought fit to marry again,
and her new husband, this lady's step
father-yoo saw hilc at the station to- day
-detests NE, mas poisoned his wifes mind
against me, and has persuaded her to re-
iuse her consent to our marriage, of which
she quite approved two years ago-per-
heps because We were then too Young to
marry. l am going to the West Indies,
and may be absent, Heaven knows how
long; and they had set their hearts upon
preventing me from seeing Alice before |
go. Now | had, very naturally set my
heart Oh seeing her; and yet didn't care
to ask her to do anything directly in oppo-
sitlon to her mothers commands"
Quite right, sir, said Rossmore, with
a look of infinite solemnity.
Every commendable indeed" added SAT-
gent, paternaily.
49," Harold continued, II found that
she was being sent back to the country to-
day, in order to get her quickly out of my
way-and my course was clear"
Don't see 1t vet, nurmured Sargent
Don't you see it q? l came to Euston
Station, took ticket to Liverpool-so you
perceive there is no question of fraud On
the company-u audacious efforts in
the way OF bribery. and thus induced the
guard, first to allow me to hide under the
seat, and next to manage SO that the Young
lady, whose photograph l showed him
should be conducted into this particular
carriage. Gentlemen, this was done-and,
III short, here lam"
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 suffer-
ed, Alice whispered. He pressed her hand
tenderly.
why did you not come ont before"
she asked.
Harold smiled. "Blame these gentle.
men for that" he said. '.They will not be
offended if / say that l thought them lust
a little de trop; and l fancied, from some
thing they said, they were about to get out
At the station we have just passed, and SC
[ waited. But when l found they were
coming the whole way, 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 NAV
interest you 10 know that l am the very
protoundest sleeper who ever travelled In q
train, and that l feel terribly sleepy al
ready"
land l." said Rossmore, "can hardly
keep my eyes open.
So the discreet barristers at once turned
round in their seats, coiled themselves up,
closed their eyes, and were apparently
buried in slumber deep enough for the
Emperor Barbarossa or the Sleeping Beau
ty in her immortal wood.
Then Harold sat beside Alice and took
her hand in his; and the eervant, Polly.
seemed to follow the example of her lseal
travelling companions, and sank into sleep.
So Alice and Harold talked and talked,
and We're happy. About to part, apparent
ly, for years, yet they were happy in the
present Surely that is one of the most
excellent and exquisite properties of love
Exquisite in its delight and in its pain