Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-03-27
Escape from Justice.

Dut tue iron morse Keeps htFaght ahcau, /
whether the thermometer is at zero or boiling
heat.
lust then the conductor entered.
Tickets, gentlemen, ifyou please
It's dreadful night conductor" | said
feeling with stiffened fingers for my ticket, in
the breast pocket Of my coat.
" Dreadful, sir" feelingly responded the
conductor, Why, the brakemen can't live
outside, and so | look the other way when
they creep in-poor iellows-to get a breath
of warm air at the stove We have not had
such bad night since year ago, the second
Of February, when Tom Blakeslee, the bag
gage-master, froze both his feet, and woman,
who was coming on from Chicago, got off at
Bunns Four Corners, with her baby in her
arms, a corpse !"
" Froze to death ?"
"Aye, frozen to death, and she never
thougbt--poor thng-but it was asleep. My
baby's cold, says She but we'll soon warm
it, when we get home 1t was Just such
night as this"
And the conductor opened the door and
plunged across the opening into the next car,
crying out
" Hardwck !"
II was quite a considerable city, with a
handsome iron depot, faring gas lamps, and
the usual crowd around the platform, with
hands in their pockets and cigar ends flaming
through the night
Our car was nearly the last of the long
train and but one passenger entered it-a
slender young girl, wrapped in gray blanket
shawl, and wearing neat little travelling hat
Of gray straw trimmed with stone-coored
velvet flowers. She seemed to hesitate, like
one unused to travelling, and finally sat down
near the door.
Pardon me- young lady said |, but
you had better come nearer the stove"
She started, hestated an instant, and then
obeyed.
Does this train 60 to Bayswater2" she
asked, in voice so deiciously soft and
sweet it seemed to thrill through me-
Yes; can | be Of any service to your"
"Oh, no-at least not until we reach
Bayswater. would like to have a carriage
then"
1--WE shall not be there yet these three
hours"
Do we stop again ~
"Only at Exmouth.'
She drew a deep sigh, seemingly of relief
and settled back in corner. BY the light
of the lamp that hung in its brass fixture op.
posite, | could see her face, that Of lovely
'chid. Apparently she was no more than
sixteen, with large blue eyes golden hair,
brushed smoothly back from her face, and a
little rosy mouth, like that of baby.
Do you expect friends to meet you at
/ i. \ IL L..
"No, sir, | am going TO school there"
at will be an awkward hour for you to
arrive atone in the morning"
Oh, am not afraid" she said, with an
artless little laugh; shall go straight to
the seminary"
So the express train Numbered on, with
ceaseless pulsing at its iron heart, and con-
slant roar Suddenly the signal whistle
sounded, the train began to slacken its speed.
"Surely, wo are not at Exmouth yet"
thought, unless have fallen unconsciously
asleep, and allowed the progress of time TO
escape me"
| glanced at my watch it was barely half
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 dense pine woods.
Is this Exmouth ?"
Ii was the soft voice Of the pretty traveller
onno,ite
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Does this train stop at way stations?"
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