The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-10-03

! valleys and hills and over the bridges of
that rough region, bound for Nashville
thence to Louisville ; thence to Chicago,
where We arrived, dust-covered and
completely tagged out. At the railway
depot we bade each other good-by.
81 shall expect to see you back in the
army on my return to odd Rosey,''
caid the Captain, shaking my hand.
"Till then take good care of yourself.
old boy"
"Of course" said I "give my love
to that little woman-nu rcroir, Mon
s;eur Captain !" -...
! reported at the editorial rooms as
instructed, and after lingering aimlessly
around Chicago for couple of days, l
took my satchel and boarded a North
western railway train, bound for visit
ng expedition into Wisconsin-in fact,
to visit my sweetheart. Reaching Mil
ton Junction, where We changed cars
for Madison, the first man l saw on
looking from the window was Capt.
Hight.
Halo Capr' I accosted him on
emerging from the car to terra tirma
"where did You come from, and where
going p
"Got here from Milwaukee an hour
ago-am going West on the train how
waiting here. n
Good again = exclaimed l we
shall be travelling companions agan,'
We entered the train, and werespeedily
tranported to Madison, Wisconsin S
beautiful capital city. Getting out of
the train, we again bade each other
good-by, he going to hotel, and to
call on friend. Six hours subse-
! qreatly I took seat III the train for
the village of Baraboo. A few hours
ride brought rs to that town. Stepping
off the train, to my xstonishInent there
was Capt. Hight, standing ON the plat
form, carpet-bag in hand.
How on earth did you get here 2 /
asked. with surprise.
"By. this train" he answered.
"That's mighty queer, reioined {;
81 came on this train, also, but didn t
see YOU"
"Nor you," he said 81 rode in
the rear car and you in the front one
that explains il:
"Going any further" 1 asked quiz
zingly.
"No," he replied. :" / shall put up
at the hotel here for day or two, and
call on some friends residing in the
town. And you-where are you going?"
he questioned.
"No further" said j; ga little wo-
man lives here, Cap, that 1 feel some
interest in, and | am going right straight
to her house"
"Ah. ha ~ he exclaimed @ but isn't
it queer that you and j should have
come all this long distance without find
ing out our objective points, which, it
seems, are very much of sameness.
Who is she, Tarnish p
THAT would be telling, Cap. I'll
let YOU know all about it when we meet
again down in Dixie"
We shook hands, he going to hotel,
and | to a certain charming private resi-
dence a few blocks distant, whore no
human being was more ioyfully wei
coined by at least one other human being
than, | fiatter myself, | was. But no
matter about that little episode of a
lovers meeting, which you can better
imagine than ] can describe
On the evening of that same day, Just
as the dreamy twilight was darkening
into night, my sweetheart, hearing the
front gate open, looked out of the win
dow, and, raising both hands in sur
prise, exclaimed
J "Good gracious ! if there isn't sister
! Sues beau come to see her p and rush
ing out of the room to communicate the
unexpected information to the young
lady referred to, who was an older sister,
left me alone for few minutes. Feel
ing curious to see what sort of looking
man this beau of my sweetheart's sister
was, I looked ont of the window, and
who do you suppose saw there, knock
ing at the front door? As am living
man, it was nobody more or less than
Capt. Hight
As / remarked in the outset of this
story concluded TarmshD, Capt. Hight
and 1 are thers-in-law-our " little
women," whom we married after
the war was over, being sisters. AS the
newspapers say, comment is unneces-
sary."
But wasn't it very remarkable coin
cidence e?-Chicago Illustrated Journal.
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