The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1877-08-23

thesrts would be made to mourn.
Father and daughter looked al
each other in dismay.
SIS there time - said tho cid man
trembling.
"Selim can do it, said Floss
quickly. "If I eau reach Leeds five
minutes before the train--yes, two
minutes-all will be well. Do no,
stop me, father T. as he laid hand
on her arm.
"But you must not 20 II il
dark and dismally lonely No,
Floss Il
II shall go, father | Selim knows
only mo, and you could not ride him
| have ridden darker nights. And
he is the only horse in the stable
Don't you remember the others we're
sent to town yesterday.
Before old Whatcly could stop her
she bad ordered tho hostler to sad
die Selim, and was already button.
ing on her riding habit with rapid,
nervous fingers.
The horse came paving to the
door. Floss sprang into tho saddle,
leaned down aud kissed her father g
forehead.
"Pray heaven 10 speed me I" she
boarsely criod, and touching her
horse with her whip, he bounded
down the sharp declivity.
1t was raining steadily now, and
the gloom was intense, but Selim
was used to the road, and he was
surefooted and bis rider courageous.
Sho urged him on at the top OF bis
speed, up hill and down. through
Pine Valley and over Pulpit Ilill,
and then struck upon tho smooth
road which leads, two miles 40
straight as an arrow.
She could see tho hcad light of
the pay train far down the valley,
distinctly now and to her excited
fancy it seemed but . stones throw
away. She even thought for mo-
ment that she board the grinding Of
tho wheels on the iron track, but,
no. it was only the sougbing Of the
wind In the pines.
On, and still on she won't. Selim
seemed to fly. One might have fan
cisd that he know his mistress was
on an errand OF life and death. Tho
lights Of the station were in view
nay, she oven saw the station-mas-
ters white lantern, as he strolled up
and down the platform--the white
lantern which was to signal the apo
preaching train to tell them to
go ON, for all is we'll. On TO their
doom
She dashed aocross tho railway
track, flung tho rein to an amazed
bystander, and, striking tho white
lantern out Of the hand Of the aston
ished official, she seized tho ominous
red lantern from its hook, and
spripging upon the track, waved it
in tho very teeth Of the coming
train.
Two sharp, short whistles told her
that her signal was seen, and mos
ment later tho train came to a stop.
and tho officers rushed out to see
what it all ment.
Floss told them in few brief
words and Que Of the men ct she
station went forward to confer with
the train from Golosha, which had
not yet been telegraphed from tho
next station beyond.
The man waited fifteen minutes
before Kirke's train slid on the ST.
ding, and IL Was known that but for
the decision Of one young girl, the
two trains must have collied four
miles beyond Deoring's Cut.
When told the story Xirke look.
cd at bis watch.
The man from the station looked
at his.
Kirke's train was ton minutes
behind time
You want to know how it happened.
Certainly you must have guessed.
did il. A man was found
the next day who confessed to hav.
ing seen Jack tampering with the
time piece in the engine-house that
night but he had thought nothing
Of it, he said.
Jack , Oh he left town, and was
last heard Of In Australia. His little
game was not q success.
A few months later Kirke was
married TO Floss Whately, for being
ten minutes behind time.