The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-06-07

can be done with rather fine effect
Look here, Sargent take q note of thil
idea, apd make something OF it for on,
Of the magazines. The people are trav
cling along in a railway, the express
and have just passed one of the onl,
stopping places. Behold, rs the trair
is rushing at fullspeed across the oper
country, fifty miles an hour, and In,
evening is growing dark, like this, they
suddenly perceive that one of the seat
has an occupant, whose presence was no
observed before-'"
Seeds sake don't We go on in thai
way" broke in the Cumberland girl
unable to contain herself any longer
Don't We SO on, gentlemen it's enough
to raise a ghost right in the midst Of
US all I"
The young men laughed at frs t, but
the superstitious fears of the poor girl
were so obviously genuine and profound
that Rossmore discontinued his goblin
invention, and they treasured her and
talke for few moments of something
else. The train stopped for five minutes
at the only station where it was to make
any halt during the long journey. No
one got out of the compartment in
which our friends were, and no one got
into it; and when the train had fairly
moved of, and our two friends felt secure
against further disturbances, they set.
tied themselves for sleep. The young
lady appeared to be already asleep.
Both young men slept. Suddenly a
loud shrek caused both to start and rub
their eyes. 1t was the Cumberland girl
who had given the alarm.
(" It's gh@stl it's axghost! I" she
cried. "That is what becomes of your
deviltry and your talk-you've brought
a ghost among u.s."
The evening had sunk into almost
complete darkness; the one lamp, the
highest luxury in the way of illumina.
ton to which even the first class passen.
gers in an English express are treated.
was burning very dimly; but it needed
little light to see there was the figure of
man. There he was assuredly; tall,
slender man, STOPPING because of the
lowness of the roof, and apparently
about to take the seat, which was va.
can't, opposite to that OH which the
young lady was seated. She had started
up with scream on hearing her ser.
wants 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,
Jaw something very surprising in it. An
English railway train cannot possibly be
entered by any one after it has moved
rom the station. Nor has it any outer
platform or means of communication,
by which passengers can 90 from one
,ar to al other. The carriages open at
he sides, and each frst.class coach is a |
DOM closed up and complete in itself.
Nobody had entered this compartment
when it stopped at the station; no.
'ody could have entered since then
'et there was a fifth occupant where
My four were present before.
Halo! who are your exclaimed
argent.
How did you get in-where the
evil did you come from?" fiercely de.
landed Rossmore.
I" It's a ghost ~ sobbed the Cumber.
Ind girl, faithful to her original by.
othesis.
" Don't be alarmed, gentlemen" the
1truder very calmly observed. "You
ave not ghost among you; although
had remained under cover a little
niger, it is quite possible that you
hight have had ghost in the carriage
efore the end of the journey"
But the sound of his voice created a
ew agitation. The young lady sprang
'om her seat, and cried out, "Oh,
larold my dear, dear Harold r. and
,rew herself upon his neck, and sob.
ed and laughed, and sobbed again, and
other extravagances, to
hich the intruder lent himself with
reat apparent cordiality, giving en-
race for embrace, and with compound.
1 interest.
The Cumberland girl said, "God be
aid to us--it is Master Harold him.
lf!n
The two barristers resumed their seats.
ID looked on much amazed, but with ,
eoutward calmness which distinguish.
your true Briton under almost any !
circumstances. The in {
uder, whoever he may be, wss clearly ]
either ghost or robber. .
".Oh, Harold" exclaimed the young I
dy, "How did you come here? Where I
d you get in, and what did you come 9
r?''
"Come for? Why, to see you, love,
course. They thought they were =
lite safe. | believe, when they saw the u
hin fairly off; but they were little n
staken. Well surprise them little h
ore yet, Alice .
:" But, how came you here, Harold 2"
. TO satisfy our curiosity, SIR" Sar- /
mt interposed. ut is really quite h
Ultimate on our part, seeing that your e
dden appearance looks very like. d
'ud on a railroad company, of which, L