The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1872-02-22
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when homeless wanderers on The moN
might have sunb down aud ftoze g death.
aud the very marrow seemed G cengcal
iu ono bones.
There's onc advantage Ia steam,
growled i fa, old gentleman IN the corn
cr seat, windand weather don't affect IT,
[ 10 flesh and blood horse could stand a
night like this, bpt iho iron horsc keeps
straight ahead whether tbe thermometer
Is at zero or boiling heat
Just then the conductor entered.
Tickets, gentlemen, ifyou please.
H. dreadful night, conductor, | said
feeling with stiiicned fingers for my tick
ct, in the breast pocket Of my coat
Dreadful, sir, feclingly responded The
conductor. Why, the brakemen can't
/ live outside, aud 50 look tie other way
when they creep ii poor fellows TO get
breath Of warm air az the stove, We
have not had such bad night since
year ago the second Of February, when
Tom Blakesec the baggage master, froze
both his feet, aud a woman who was
coming on from Chicago, got of at Bunn's
Four Corners, with her baby IN her arms
a corpsol
Froze to DEATH
/ Aye, frozen to death, aud she never
thought poor thing but II was asleep.
My babys cold, says She, but Wen soon
warm It when we get home. II was Just
such night as this.
Aud the conductor opened the door,
and plunged across the opening into the
next car, crying out
uardwick
II was quite a considerable city, with a
handsome iron depot, Aaring gas lamps,
and the usual crowd around the platform
with hands in ther pockets, and cigar
ends flaming through the night
Our ear 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 a neat little
travelling hat of gray straw, trimmed
with stone colorcd velvet flowers. She
seemed 10 hesitate, like one unused to
travelling, and finally sat down near the
door.
, Pardon me, young lady, said !, but you
had better come near to the stove.
She started, hesitated an instant, and
then obeyed.
Does this train 20 TO Bayswater? she
asked in voice so deliciously soft and
sweet that it seemed to thrill through me.
Yes; can be of any service to your
Oh, no-at least not till we reach Bays
water would like to have carriage
then.
We shall not be there these three hours.
DO we stop again2
Only Rt Exmouth.
She drew a deep sigh, seemingly of re-
lief, and settled back in corner. By
the light of the lamp, that hung in its
brass fixture opposite, could see her
face, that ofa lovely child. Apparently
she was no more than sixteen, with large
I blue eyes, golden hair, brushed smoothly
back from her face, and little rosy
) mouth, like that Of baby.
|, Do you expect friends to meet you at
Bayswater, my child? asked inciden-
/ tally.
? No, sir, / am going to school there.
: 1t will be an awkward hour for you to
9 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
ceaseloss pulsing at its iron heart and
j constant roar. Suddenly the signal whis-
!, tie sounded, and the train began to slack
e en- its speed.
I'll Surely we are not at Exmouth yet,
d thought, unless have fallen unconscious.
{ ly asleep, aud allowed the progress Of
= time TO escape me,
! | glanced at my watch; It was barely
h half past eleven, aud knew we were not
i due at Exmouth until after twelve.
!. rubbed the frost from the pane and looked
!, out. We had stopped at lonely little
s way station in the midst Of a dense pine
il woods.
n Is this Exmouth?
i 1t was the soft voice Of the pretty tray
n eler opposite.
No-I don't know what place it is
some way station.
Does this train stop at way statiopsF
, Not generally; they must have beeI
D specially signaled here You are cold my
II child. Inotloe your voice trembles.
&C II Is cold, she said, IN a scarcely audible
}. voice, drawing her shawl around her.
+ wish they would hurry on!
2 We are moving once more, said. Con
IS ductor-for the man of tickets was pass
+: Ing through the car-why did we stop q
Ie this backwoods place.
d Out Of water, was the reply, as the maj
hurhedly passed on
rs Now knew very well that this answe
D. was not the true solution Of the matter
G. Our delay did not exceed half minute
II altogether TOO short for replenishing th
e boilers and where on earth was the wa
70 ter 10 come from Ia that desoate stretc
'J OF barren pine woodsf
re Five minutes aiter the conductor re-cn
of tered the car made room for bin q
le my side.