Knoxville Whig and chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1875-1882, 1875-06-09
COIN SOMEWHERE.
PnIIeIus II. Harrison and wife En-
Rout. for Chicago.
From the Hearth and Home ]

boat, and had brother who had made
the overland trip TO California.
She had been to quitings, funerals, and
a circus or two, and she knew a woman
whose sister thought nothing of setting
out OH railroad journey where she had
to wait fifteen minutes at a junction and
change cars ut depot.
| SO found them--a cosy looking old
couple, sitting up very straight in their
seat, and trying to act like old railroad
| travellers. A shadow of anxiety suddenly
crossed her face, she became uneasy, and
directly asked:
Philetus, act'lly b'leeve we've went
and taken the wrong train -
1t can't be, nohow,' he replied,
seeming a little startled. Didn't | ask
the conductor, and didn't he say we was
right?'
- laas. he did but look out of the win
/ dow and make sure. lie might have been
| "a lyin' to us -
/ The old man looked out of the window
at the fitting fences. the gallopiug tele-
graph poles. and the unfamiliar fields. as
/ if expecting to catch sight OF some old
| landmark aud forgetting for a moment
that he was thousand miles from home.
81 guess were all right, Mary he
said, as he drew in his head.
" Ask somebody-ask that man there.
she whispered.
This is the train for Chicago. hain'r
/ it," inquired the old man of the passen-
/ ger in the next seat behind.
This is the train replied the man..
There . didn't | say so;H chuckled
the old gent.
" 1t may be it may be :" she replied
| obviously; but il we are carried wrong
it won't be my fault. | say that we are
wrong. and when we've been led to some
pirates cave. and butchcred for our
money yen wish you had needed my
words.
lie looked out of the window again.
opened his mouth as if to make some in
quiry OF boy sitting on the fence, and
then leaned back in his seat and sighed
heavily. She shut her teeth together rs
if saying that she could stand it If he
could, and the train sped along for sew
eral miles. lie finally said:
Looks like rain over thar in the west.
hope the boys hay got them oats in"
That makes me think of that um-
breller - she exclaimed. diving her
hands among the parcel, at their feet.
She hunted around for two or three
minutes. growing red in the face. and
then Strengthened mp and hoarseiy whis-
pcrcd
&c It's goae !''
W-what:" he ga,pcd
" That umbreller"
Mo-
Gone. hide and hair :" she went on
- that sky-blue umbrellrr which have
had ever since Martha died"
lie searched around. but it was not &c
be found.
"Waal, that. queer" he missed, as he
Strengthened up.
Queer Not bit. I've talked to We
and talked to ye. but it does no good. sc
come from needless family, and ye'C
. forget to put on yer boots I didn't tel
We to-
None O. the Harrisons was ever il
the poorhousc - lac replied in a cnttin.
tone.
Philrtus-Philctls If. Harrison - sh,
CONTINUED, laying her hand on his arm
d" don't We dare twit me Of that again
! I've lived with We nigh on to forty years
: and waited on We when We had biles ant
p the toothachc and the collie. and when v
fell and broke yer leg, but don't push III
to the wall :"
He looked ont OF the window. feelin
!. that she had the advantage OF him, an
she wiped her eyes. settled her glasses o
, her nose. and used up the next fiftee
: minutes in thinking Of the past. Feelin
THIRSTY, she reached down among tn
bundles, searched around. and her ia"
. was as pale as death a. She stTaightcne
: back and whispered:
!. Ind utGts gone, too =
What nOw:' he asked
q THAT bottle with the cold tea in it .
y " It's been stole - he exclaimed. lOOl
= ing around the car rs ii expecting to It
- some one with the bottle to their lips.
=, "Fust the umbrc!ler-thcn the bottle,
She gaspcd.
Il couldn't have left it. could -
Don't ask me That bottle has bee
in our family twenty years-eyer sin,
- mother died. and now it's gone Lar
D. only knows what III do for a camf
bottle when we get home--if we ey
Ig do"
l. I'm buy one
h Yes, know We are always ready
J. buy. and If it wasn't for me TO restra
II We, the money'd fly like feathers in Il
e, wind
OF WAL. | didn't have to mortgage n
20 farm" he replied. giving her a known
.n look
Is - / NlJlllI again II ISL enough III
C. we've lost a good umbrellcr and a camti
bottle, but We must twit me O this al
a that
n Her nose grew red. and tear, came
~ her eye. buJ l. he was looking og;t of 4
IL window she said nothing further. Ten
N fifteen minutes passed. and, grown
restless he called out 20 a man acros, q
aisle;
- What the sile around here:
"PhiletuS-Philetu- II. Harrison ~
your noise - she whispered. pokiug hi
~ with her elbow.
II II Just asked a question: hc repiic
bit resuming his old position.
or What'd yer brother Joab tell ye t
r. last thing afOrc we left hum = she a,ke
he " Didn't he say somebody'd swindlc
on string game, the confidence can
re- or some other game; Didn't he warn
as. agin Tascals =
ug - / hain't seen no rascals.
m. "Of course We hewitt. cause yer blu
il I know that that man is a yilluu, and
he they don't arrest him for murder afC
en- we leave this train, III miss my gue-
nd can read human natUT' like a book.