River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-11-18

toned to the way the German con.
ductors hunt up all their passengers.
and see them safely locked in before
they start, that we had begun to feel
that the train would not gowithout us.
My travelling companion emerged
from tho refreshment saloon just in
time TO be too late. Had she not Gov
iced her distressed countenlnce with
both hands, she might have seen my
noble self, like an amateur performer
in a Punch and Judy show, going
through wild pantonline from win
dow of the fast receding train, said
puntomine being intended to convey To
her aworld of comfort, and an assur-
ance hat our parting, though sudden
and unexpected, should not be forever
My friend, who prided herself on being
a Judge of human nature, having con.
ceived the idea that | was most re-
liable and steady-going person, had
entrusted to my charge her money and
railway ticket The conductor was ex-
ceedingly kind, aud advised me 60
right on, assuring me that the guard at
the depot would put her on tho next
rain and send her after me.
My uneaslness increased, however,
as the distance grew between us. To
wait till Ill o'clock at night before
hearing from her seemed impossible
| left the train at Niastat, and tele-
graphed back to Carlsruhe to know If
she was still there. The employee in
that Office was what the English would
call "sharp lad." The moment 1 had
paid him for the message, he expressed
great doubt about her ever getting it,
and stamping ticket for Carlsruhe,
he handed 1t me, saying, There's an
extra just going back. You had better
go after her, and I'll take care Of your
bag and cloak till you return. Had
| been nose of wax | could not have
more passive. Ibid just as that youth
told me, and found, on reaching Carls-
ruhe, that my friend was good
stretch on her way to Strasburg,
and | was now the one left behind.
then telegraphed to her on the
train to meet me at the Hotel La Poste
IN kehl, as the afternoon train, which
| was now obliged to take, would not
reach Strasburg that night As
passed through Rastat on my return, a
young man-not the youth to whom
had entrusted them handed me my
bag and cloak. At the Cos station the
conductor gave me an answer to my
telegram, and or arriving at the Post
hotel, j found my friend watching for
me at the door.
| had just finished my breakfast
next morning, and sat enjoying sea
son OF self-congratulation at the happy
termination of yesterdays unpleasant.
ness "All's well that ends WE'LL" |
remarked, complacently to my com
panion, who was kneeling on the floor,
with the contents of the bag scattered
about her, repacking for fresh start.
"!t's just as we'll to let this little cpl
sode of travel rest in the shade, ell
don't you think so ~
Her reply was little irrelevant. 81
don't see anything of your brooch. What
have you done with it 2"
Isn't it in the baga" | inquired,
feeling degree or two less self salts
fled, as the thought occurred to me,
how careless had been in putting my
pin in an unlocked bag, and allowing
it to pass through 50 many strange
hands.
"No, it's lost or stolen" she re-
piled, decisively. "What shall we
do"
do nothing, hut go on and think
no more about il" i was about to saw,
but the thought OF the return home TO
the dozen or so of brothers and sis
tiers, all but two of whom we're older
than |, and, in their opinion, vast
deal wiser, made me hesitate. Seine
thousands of miles of ocean had not
washed out the remembrance of how
those olive branches were wont to ex-
claim, when, like Father Adam, | was
tempted into some little indiscretion,
" How like her2' Or. if too partial
mother praised the work she had Civ
EN- me, and pronounced it we'll done,
how the whole round dozen, with one
voice would ring ont in concert,
" What wonderi u Could | have re-
turned home with my collar fastened
with carving-fork, or stuck together
with Spaulding's glue, and made them
think that this was the latest foreign
style, would have gone op my way,
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brothers or sisters had as yet commit
ted murder, SO they still passed in So
ciety for people of sound mind; and ii
! sought TO pull the wool too far over
their eyes, they W uld be likely to
"see over the top"
Ny face vas not all sunshine as |
paid my bill that morning. Mine host,
seeing the shadow, inquired the occa
sion Of it, and through his advice and
encouragement, set to work at once
to find the missing brooch. ] tele
graphed to the proprietors OF the Vic
toria Hotel in Cassel, and the West
End Hall in Frankfort, sent my friend
on to Strasburg, aud then took the
train back TO Rastat.
On arriving there, | drove to the po-
lice station. The driver showed me
into large room, where two officials
in simple uniform we're pacing up and
down, probably waiting for somebody