Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-12-09
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Romance In Real Life.

From the Sacramento Bee.
An incident came to our knowledge
few days ago, which may strike
our readers as being quite romantic
la its way. When Conductor -,
of one of the Central Pacific passen-
ger trains, took charge of Ills train at
rruckee bound for this city one day
last week, he noticed among his pas
sengers "a very pretty, mndesL ap-
pearing young lady, who seemed to
he travelling alone. AS the cara
climbed the mountain, whirIing
through gorge aud around pfecipice,
she sat ~ one of the windows and
guzed out with an anxious look, n,
though she longed to reach the
shores OF the Pacific, where she
might meet with friends or relatives.
While passing through the car tho
conductor. thought he heard somo
one address him, and on looking
around discovered that il was his
young female passenger, who, with a
bashful air, inquired If be was going
through To Sacramento. On being
answered that he was, she blushed
still deeper and said that she had n
rather queer request to make Of him.
She said that she expected TO meet
at "the junction" gentleman
whom she had never seen but TO
whom sho was about to be married.
and requested the conductor to watch
for him, aud To introduce him to her
IL he should find him. For some
two GEARS they had been in coTres-
pondence with one anOther--hGw it
was first brought about she did not
say--and IL was finally arranged that
she should come to California, nld
that her unknown friend should At
once lead her to the altar. On sped
the train, through tunnels and snow
drifts, and over yawning gulfs, but
the soon to be bride neither thought
Of danger nor of the beauties and
grandeur of the Sierras she sat stils
and gazed wistfally down into the
valley, where the muddy Sacrameu-
To was winding its crooked way
toward the ocean, and where she
hoped soon To meet ner mysterious
lover. Station after staticu was
reached, and finally "tlle Junction
came i'm sight. The conductor sta.
toned himself ON the platform II
the front ear and scanned tile crowd
that ihronged about as the train
ueared the depot. A well dressed.
gentlemanly- looking individual step.
ped forward from the platform. He.
too, wore a somewhat anxious look.
and the conductor concluded thae
he had found his man. A tap on
the shoulder and low inquiry by
him, aud a quick eager response
from the stranger followed; tie con-
ductor was right. The train moved
on and they entered the car. The
meeting of the lovers We shall not at
tempt to describe, but will leave la
each Of our reuders-especially the
| young ladies-tO draw such pictures
as they may think the cirennstan-
ces win warrant From the Junction
to this city we have no account Of
the two fond beings were unmoIest-
ed. A few moments after the train
reached this city, carriage drove
away from the depot containing two
persons, a gentleman and lady.
whom the conductor recognized as
his young lady passenger and the
gentleman who met her at the June
ton. The latter whispered to the
driver to 20 straight to tue house of
Rev. MI. aud they were lost to
view. We read Of such things In
works of fiction, hut 1t Is seldom
that they actually happen.
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