The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-08-13
MY QUIET FELLOW.TRAvELER.

One bitterly cold evening last winter
was sitting with my old schoolfellow,
Charlie Foster, in my study-the most
comfortable room in the house, arranged
throughout with a proper regard to
warmth and convenience.
"How jolly this Isl" exclaimed Charlie,
glancing round. Il would rather be in
than out such night as this. Just listen
to the wind, how it bowls and busters,
and yet not breath gets in here.
must say this Is not a bad corner to &C.
cupy in this weather, and envy you not
little. Things always seem to 60
straight with you, Harry. do believe
you never had slice of ill-luck or a
disagreeable adventure in your life."
You are wrong there, my boy" re-
piled l, "for once upon a time-it is q
long while ago now, thought had a
very disagreeable adventure, which
might have ended in my being hanged
by mistake for some one else. You re-
member, no doubt, that sixteen years
ago, instead Of being one of the partners
in the firm of Ross, Haviland & Lau-
renee, was only clerk in their Office. ;"
"Yes, yes, know" nodded Foster.
"Well, one day Mr.. Haviland, not
being well enough to go himself, sent me
to c. on some rather important bust
ness; some valuable documents had fall
en- into the hands of an obstinate, stupid
old fellow who had been guardian to .
client of ours. The client was now OF
age and wished to act for himself and
manage his own affairs, but old Brown,
not considering him fit to do SO, persist
ed in retaining the papers, and my mis-.
sion was to persuade him to give them
so<1 IN f1,n nf
fusing, TO threaten him with legal pro-
ceedings. l had great difficulty in in.
ducing him to listen to reason, but when
at last I succeeded, I telegraphed the
news of my success to London, and a
little later started homeward. I strolled
down to the station, took first-class
ticket, and, after waiting for about ten
minutes, the express came up and took
my seat. As got into the carriage a
tall, good-looking young fellow, fashion.
ably dressed, got out, and, with that feel.
ing of idle curiosity that sometimes
comes over one when one has nothing to
do, put my head out of the window and
looked after him, and, to my surprise, he
got into another carriage little farther
on. l began to wonder why on earth
that fellow got out as got in, and felt
vaguely uncomfortable about it. How.
ever, when I perceived that the only
other occupant of the carriage was an
old gentleman, apparently fast asleep,
concluded that the young man wanted to
smoke, and that the old gentleman, be.
fore addressing himself to slumbers, had
objected.
This satisfied me, and I began to 20
over in my mind the events of the pre-.
vious day. 'Well,' thought l, certainly
have managed the business very well.
l expect shall receive the compliments
of the firm for it. I wonder if they will
give me anything more substantial than
compliments. If they do make me q
present it will be very acceptable just
now said l to myself; for you see
Charlie, about eight weeks before, my
dear Lizzie had presented me with 9
plump, red, pugnacious little sprite.
Well, all the aunts and cousins-to say
nothing of my wife-pronounced it the
prettiest baby in the world, and l dare
say thought they were not far wrong
but one cannot sacrifice to q household
idol of this kind without little extra
outlay, and for this reason and . few
others not worth while mentioning
my thoughts. / amused myself like q
CuAu WIN SpVAuAu6 suO uAVAACy 1 uVpCV
to receive in dozen different ways fol
their benefit.
AT times I glanced at my fellow.trav
eler, who was all this time sound asleeE
in the corner directly opposite to me
His head was thrown back, q bright
yellow bandana handkerchief covered
his face, and q thick railway rug wa,
tucked tightly round him. Now having
started in q great hurry, as Ross
: and Haviland had got hint that Ok
Brown meant to make Q heightened
tour on the Continent, II had forgotten to
take my wrapper with me, 90 I contem
plated my opposite neighbor with rather
curious eyes, thinking how warm and
comfortable he looked and how very colo
felt. tried to forget my discomfort
by reading over my papers; but when d
last got through them I was - cold q
before. or perhaps little colder. How
ever, we were getting near our journey
end, and that was some comfort. ] de
termined to follow my fellow.traveler'
example and take doze. Iwish heartily
that had not done 80.
First of all, had . singularly un
pleasant dream; for dreamed that o.
arriving home found the street doc
open, and, on going in, saw staircases Il
all directions. went up the one I fan
cied led to my rooms, but it seemed - !
should never get there! Flight afte
flight went up, and thought the stair
would never come to an end. Then sud
denly found mvae1f in thu 6ravinO