The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-10-30
When the train had left the sta

had been long rooted to the spot,
with his eyes fixed ia the direction of
the departing carriage. He had no
idea how long he had 50 stood, and it
never occurred to him to think how
odd it must seem to the officials
to see him still there, till he felt him
self touched on the shoulder, and
starting from his revery, turned
round and saw a guard closet to him.
| "Was you look for anything or
anybody, sir ?" said the man civilly.
mo, thank you, stammered Doug
las turning to walk away. saa af ~
When he had gone a few steps he
turned round again, and seeing the
guard still near, and in the most
careless tone he could assume:
"By the by, have you any idea
who that young lady was p o.o
"What young lady was you mean.
in, sir p answered the guard. in
rather an amused tone. o.aujg 81 n
"The lady in the last carriage but
/ one" returned Douglas more eagerly,
az he fanoied from she mans manner
THAT he could give him some infor.
nation. a,sai +.
i "Well, no sir" answered the
guard, grinning. "Ysu see, sir, we
have such o'lot o young ladies here
one time and another, that we don't
take any particular notice on 'em,
SIR" ga sau a.G aa.
Douglas blusbed up to his eyes to
) sea how completely he had let out
: his thoughts by asking this foolish
: question, and thanking the man has,
3 tily. walked briskly out of the station.
) AS soon as he got fairly away, he
? let his quick pace drop into a lazy
4, saunter. and walked slowly home to
his lodgings, his whole mind full OF
9 the vision he had seen. He could
E not understand himself, for he had
always been wonderfully free from
those sentimental feelings that are
f usually so common in youth. He felt
, very bad to think how small chance
: there was of his ever meeting the
owner of that lovely face again and
: yet, if by the slightest exertion of his
t will he could have obliterated that
moment Of his life, he most certainly
t would have done so. His landladv
noticed how dull and sad he looked
!, as he passed her on the stairs, and
put it down to his mothers departure,
and thought what 'Hice proper feeling
yenng man he was. s. 81.
When he reached his sitting room. a
. sensation of utter WEAKNESS took posses
, sion of him. as ss....
The room did certainly in itself look
dull, as all rooms do when one for whom
we care much has left them recently. All
the nicknacks indicating lady's pres
: ence; which had been in :he room while
his mother was with him, mad gone, and
l their loss had made the place look very
bare but 1t was not this that gave him
;, such dull feeling at his hearC--a feeling
as if there were nothing worth living for
now, as if all his ight-heartedness had
gone forever.
4 He threw down his: hat and looked
8 round the room as if wondering what in
the world lie could do next. HIS eyes
r lighted upon heap OF music lying on a
chair, and gong IN mere listlessuess to
turn it over, the name of u song 1T the
/, top struck him iorcibiy He placed il
: almost inyoluntarlly upon the music.
de'k, and sitting down to the piuno be-
gan to sing. His sweet tenor voice had
: got Though the two first lines
] "si "Only a t.c9 at the window.
II Only face, nothing more.'' e.r,
when he stopped suddenly, these lines
seemed so cruelty true; 80 certainly it
could never be anything more for him.
He felt as u mortal would feel If heaven
were to open and show glimpse of it's
glories, and then close again, aud leave