The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-07-07


she d have to sit ON the track all night"
He had loitered about the place after the
cars left, and, ere long, q telegram came
from the next station. There had been
an accident, several persons were slightly
injured-none killed ; but the baggage
cars were demolished, and others over
turned and off the track.
Now the scene of this accident was not
quite nine miles distant, and in almost
as many minutes the professor was we'll
on the road, with the farmers feetest
horse and carriage. He reached the
place without delay, and, surveying the
whole, shivered at the wonderful escape
from death.
He passed through group after group
OF bewildered men and women, some
stunned or fainting, some rushing hither
and thither. Big drops of rain We're
falling, and the night coming on fast.
The women and children were crowd
ing into the upright cars. and babies
were screaming Justify.
He found Miss Emerson, pale and
trembling, standing, with her hands still
clasped, apart from all the rest. He for
got everything but her escape and her
helplessness, and cried out
"My poor child How you have been
frightepedl You are not hurt Come
and let me take you right home |"
She blushed rose-red through her late
pallor, or flushed with anger, and said,
coolly CT shall do very well here"
"Where 2"
"Why, here-until the cars are
ready"
"They may not be ready for hours. "
4" can wait.
At that blast of wind nearly tore her
shawl from her, and made her stagger to
keep her equilibrium.
"But there is q storm coming you
must not. / have a carriage here"
This well-bred young lady was actually
guilty of saying:
$50 home in it, then !"
CT will when 1 have persuaded you to
go Also"
Once more she refused, while he
urged, and finally entreated. The rain
increased, the cars were already filed,
and yet her slender form swayed in the
wind, and her spirit was as unyielsing
as ever.
The professor hesitated only second
longer then gently, but firmly, as if
she had been little girl, he lifted her il
his arms, fastened to the carriage, and.
springing in beside her, covered her vel
from the rain, and started for home.
Not one word did she speak but he
did. In college life Professor Jim ha6
always been noted for his logical argu
ments, and now he pleaded his own case
we'll, as they drove through the lonesome
woods.
Silence herself could not have remained
more mute than that Boston lady. Whei
they were on the last mile, he though
no ought to have melted stone, ant
opened the lips of the Sphinx herself
AS he helped her from the carriage, h'
grew desperate, and whispered:
"Will you not tell me, by just on'
word, if am forgiven "
The heart of that young lady, wht
could not kill butterfly, relented, ant
she said, eyes"
"Jim was tenderly kissing the LITTLE
right hand that had held the insect whel
Mrs. Wilbor enlightened the scene will
a tallow candle, which blew oct in tn
wind.
The next day, however, he did, a
Dickrn MS fat boy said, "worser no
that :" for Mrs. Wilbor saw him through
crack in the sitting. room door, eud
two. hour interview by kiss, as she toll
her own spouse, "square on Miss Emer
sons lips Think of that, now! !"
CT have thought" said her phlegmati
lord. "That's nothin'. saw from tn
first it would be a go 70