Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-08-06

we reached Richland. When the con-
ductor called out the name of the station
she hastily arose, and, gathering up her
4 packages, which were rather more than
she could conveniently manage, said, inn
peratively:
Let me pass out
q 90 Certainly, young lady, he pleasantly
replied. stop here myself. You seem
to be burdened with packages. Allow
me to take some of them out of the car
for you
''She did not reply in words; but she
threw back her head and looked intensely
disguised that he should offer to touch
her things. He evidently tried to
suppress smile as he turned around
and crossed over to the young ear
penter. On account of your Aunt
i Ruth's lameness we sat quietly in our
seats, waiting for the other passen-
gers to 90 out, before helped her out.
So had nothing to do but observe what
| was going on around me. The young
lady's packages troubled her, and she was
obliged to pause moment to rearrange
them. Before she passed out of her seat
young lady about her age rushed in to
meet her After the accustomed saluta
tions between young ladies, the new
conner dropped down upon the seat and
exclaimed:
"Ohi Claral my breath is nearly gone.
did not get your letter until fifteen
minutes ago, and hurried every step OF
the way here, for fear that | should be
too late to meet you. am delighted
that you decided to enter the seminary
here Where in the world did you fall
in with our Principal, and where is he
now? Has he gone to get a carriage for
you?
al am sure don't know what you
mean, Grace she replied. i haven't
seen the Principal
"Haven't seen himp said Miss Grace,
with an amazed look. 'Of course you
have seen him. When / first caught a
glimpse of you from the car door you
and he were standing together in this
seat and he was speaking TO you
Oh! no, Grace. Your eyes could not
have served you Alright said the selfish
Young lady who had carried herself so
disagreeably and haughtily, with good
deal of agitation and very red face.
1t cannot be possible that the man
whom you saw talking to me was Mr..
Gaylord. You surely must be trying to
play joke on me. | beg of you to tell
me that it was not he
al cannot, my dear; for it certainly
was he replied Miss Grace. Why,
what is the matter, Clara? Didn't you
like him? If you did not, am sure you
will when you become acquainted with
him. He is one of the most refined and
agreeable men in the world, and his wife
is just as agreeable as he is. / thought
that you were one of the most fortunate
of girls when your father told me that
they had consented to take you to board.
| wish that were in your place.
YOU'D wish you were anywhere but
in my place if you knew what
Miss Grace interrupted her in her
sentence by exclaiming:
"'Why, here is Mr. Gaylord now
"'Mr. Gaylord she said as he was
this young lady, whom you were speak.
ing to few minutes ago, is my friend,
Miss Clara Evans, whom we were expect
ing to-day
"He turned, and, stepping into the
seat in front of them, gave his hand to
the young lady with who II he had rode
thirty miles that morning, and smilingly
said:
"'How do you do Miss Evans? II
gives me pleasure to make your ac-
quaintance. When j first saw you, with
your books and packages, ] felt pretty
sure that you were the young lady whom
we expected down from Summerville this
: morning, and as soon as l heard your
fathers voice ] was confirmed i'm my
opinion. Now that you know me, Miss
Evans, and know that ] am not a carpen
ter, you will permit me to take your
things for you and see you into car
riage, will you notY
GAS he stopped and took her packages
from her, he asked, in low tone:
"'Have you ever thought, Miss Evans
that it would be well for the revisers OF
the New Testament to omit to state in
the new revision that Christ was car
penter? You know some people might
feel so much greater reverence for him
if they did not know that humiliating
fact
"She stood like one transfxed and
! neither answered his questions nor OBJ,
jected to his taking all of her bundles
Then she meekly followed him out OF
lhe cars. Her face was so crimson and
she looked so utterly crestfallen that
your tehder-hearted aunt said that she
: could not help plying her, richly as she
merited the lesson. But / could not pity
her, Alice, she had shown such thor
oughly selfish and disagreeable spirit
And / wished that the white headed old
man had remained in the car long enough
: to witness her discontinue. / think
: that he would have said again That is
just what she deserved And ] told
your aunt SO and she said that she hoped
that the poor girl would SO profit by that
days experience that she would never
deserve to be SO Inundated again
"And hope, Uncle john" said Alice
in softened and subdued tone as Mike
came up to the door with the carriage
. "that / never again shall merit the re-
buke conveyed in your story. IN. Y
independent