South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-04-11
Little Blue Eyes.

'Oau 81 Win you 49,. 'NeIta1uiy, SIR.
'Nice weather
Splendid, indeed.
Crops growing finely
'Yes-couldn't do better.
| was sitting in passenger coach, on
Wisconsin railroad, one day, years ago,
when good looking, pleasant spoken man
coming along, stopped at r1y seat, and the a.
bove conversation took place, the lattor part
of it after | had given bin part of my scat
Now, am regarded as a sociabe man.
| like joke, good hit | ibink sour,
morosc man, who uses his tongue Only
when forced, is bound to die Of some ter.
rible disease, and go to some place of red
hot punishment.
Ga entering a railroad car / always
look about for a talka;ivc man, and then |
get as close to him a | can aud drain him
dry, if the journey is long enough.
AMI want TO state one thug more:
Left an orphan before | could realize The
sad event which made me one, got kick
ed mere and cutfed thore, and "grew IN
between folks, as they say. ought to
have had, at the time Of which [ write,
pretty thorough knowledge Of human ma
ture, and have been enabled To read evil In
a mans face, if be Intended me eyI. -
did not pride myself on being over-kccu
or extra sharp, but the Knocking around
among strangers ought TO have given any
one good experience
Well, the stranger and | fell into m
easy strain of conversations as We rode to-
gether, and in ten minutes / began to en-
joy his company. lla was q well-mair,
tiuely dressed fellow, and he wore "a Gno
watch ond simon pure diamond riug.
never saw man who could talk SO easy
and Pleasantly. 1t seemed that he had
but to open his mouth, and the words fell
right cut.
| had travelled in the South, 80 had be.
have heard the loud roar o! tho Pdcif
he kew ell about | had been up in
balloon, down in mine, been blown up,
smashed and repaired again aud gain ny
new friend had experienced all Of these
things, and was wishing for something OF
a more startling nature. We agreed on
politics, neither had any religion, and I
had never mot such railroad companion.
Did your ever meet man, who, though n
stranger to you ten minutes before, could
wrest from you your secrets which you had
sworn to yourself not to reVealY Well he
was such a man. II was not long before
he commenced asking me questions. he
did not seem trying to quiz or draw me out
but be ask ed me questions in a sly, rounda-
bout way, that before knew it was Civ
Ing him my history,
| was at that time just on the point Of
being admitted to the bar OF Wisconsin as
a student of Law & Inv Of Briefvlle. The
firm were old lawyers with lucrative prac.
tee, aud il had been talked over that in
about month should be the Co. Of the
firm. 4 year before farmer named Pres
ton, down about four uilos from Grafton
had died, and bis matter had been put IN
The hands of law & Law for settlement;
Preston bad died rich. lie had money 10
bank, railroad stock, mortgages, etc. and
everything MAS settled Up to Tie satisflc-
ton Of the rclict and tue fatLcr,sss.
About year before bis death, being
piuchsd for money, aud not wishing to sell
anything at a sacrifice, Preston had given
mortgage on his farm for three Thousand
dollars. While the paper read '9no year
from date there was verbal agrcemou.
that it should be lifted auy day when Pres.
ton desired 4 month after, when, have
ing the funds to clear Of the paper, the Old
money bags holding it, refused to die
charge, wishing to secure lis intorcs, f,r q
year.
was on my way to ascertain tie da'c
OF expiration. A fire among our papers
bad destroyed the memoranda, and mu.t
60 down and got the date from OLD Seip,
who lives South Of Grafton, about Eve nil g.
The stranger had pumped d. this out II
me 40 ten minutes. and yet / never once
suspected that he was receiving any il.
formation
Il am not positive I added, Ju' I am
pretty sure that the time is 'hc thirteenth,
which would be Tuesday next.
and then your folks will send down Ls
money and discharge tho mog:s age, oi
course, be qucried
oh, yes, shall most likely bring F,
down, ] repli,d and 10 never occurred to
me how imprudeut ] was.
He turned the conversation into other
channels, aud lc did not ouo- a.fcmps
pump mo further We got rG at Grafton
at 1880, and 70 my great surprise, be au-
nounced that ho would stop 90 'aw1 ou
business for a few days. / h5d not asked
bis name or bis ayocadou, while be knew
everything about me-
We went TO the hotel, bad dinner. and
then ] secured livery team and drove out,
gciung through my business, go that ives
back to take The $3.50 express east. Nv
friend was on The porch OF tbc hotel. carry
iDg the same honest, digDiGed facc
Wei, did you find out ? he inquired in
his pleasan! way.
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