New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-10-08
IN 4 LEATHER BAG.

EtSlkudtlOus xu0 Lluy VeTIlCTs Will
eyes like shining beads, an inquisitive
nose and black body, with . patch Of
soft velvet brown on breast and paws,
jumped into the outside pocket Of this
travelling mansion, and submitted to
having the strap carefully adjusted
over his prison in such manner as al
lowed breathing space. Bijou was
Struggled on board trains; the maid
was not trusted with the bag in her
third-class seat, and it was q point OF
economy with his mistress not to pay
for q dogs ticket in her own first-class
carriage. Miss Norfolk-Stanley took
the bag herself, thus exciting the inter-
est of keen-eyed birds of prey lowering
about in scent of Jewel cases and bags
carried BY the English lady traveller. At
frontiers the pet was popped under his
mistress mantle, while the maid took
the bag to the Custom House officer for
inspection; then the inmate was sue.
oessfully restored. Bijou remained as
silent as q mouse in the pocket for
hours, and resisted the most tempting
inducements to bark at startling noises.
He knew full well that when the enemy
had deserted the field his mistress would
take him out of the dismal captivity.
Bijou's fur stood on end, ut the APP
proach of guard, by instinct.
Miss Norfolk Stanley and her maid
appeared on the platform of the Turin
depot at nine o'clock in the morning.
Nephew Dick would find the birds
flown when he saw fit to grace the
Piedmontese capital with his presence.
Bijou was invisible to the most pene.
trating eye, curled up in the bag.
"Give me q ladies' carriage, and
alone if possible" said Miss Norfolk
Stanley to smiling official, with q
persuasive exchange of francs from
palm to palm. The smiling official
bowed, and soon the lady was installed
in q vacant carriage.
''You shall come out, pet, if we are
left alone,". she whispered, unfasten-
ing the strap over the pocket of the
bag as it rested on her knee. Biiou
thrust out his little black head, recon-
noiterd the premises, and discreetly
withdrew from sight again.
The Turin depot is one of the most
amusing fields Of observation in Eu-
rope. Miss Norfolk STANLEY gazed out
on the hurrying throng with that sell
fish complacency peculiar to the trav-
eler who has already secured Q good
seat in Continental railway carriage.
She held an old.fashioned theory that,
deprived of the escort OF Nephew Dick,
q ladies' carriage was the safest place
for herself. That she was alone in this
opinion was speedily revealed by the
fact of every other woman in the crowd
bestowing her person in the convey
ances adjacent, rather than submit to
the awful possibility of q troop of chill
dren for hours. Bijou's mistress was
an old traveller; experience had made
her timid and suspicious. Sheread all
the robberies in English and foreign
newspapers, and looked obviously at
mankind Of the tourist species. Who
were these menp Why did they OBJ
serve herP A ladies' carriage for her,
if you please, and not one where each
man in the corner may prove an assas-
sin and q thief if . favorable oppor.
tunity offers. She had learned the
words Helpr' and ..Thieves!' in
six languages, for emergencies.
Two ladies paused at the door of the
carriage. The smiling official, in re-.
membrance of Miss Norfolk Stanley's
bride, resisted their efforts to enter,
and led them elsewhere. They were
both women of medium height, in long
waterproof cloaks, their heads envef.
oped in blue wells, which concealed
their faces. Miss Norfolk Stanley saw
q long, yellow hand, with thin fingers
peculiarly talon-like, stretched forth to
turn the handle of her carriage door.
The hand belonged to the first woman,
and she experienced q strange sense Of
relief when it was again withdrawn,
and the owner passed on. WhyP Be-
cause Bijou could caper about at lib
erty if she retained the carriage alone.
She. assured herself this was the sole
reason for dreading the yellow hand,
and the shiver which crept over her at
sight of it.
This danger surmounted, there re-
manned one more to be overcome be-
fore Bijou and his mistress could breathe
freely. The surly guard jumped on
the step, demanding tickets. The sur
" guard gave and received no quar-
tel. HIS expression of countenance
was saturnine, his gray mustache
curled upward in truly savage man
ner, and his cap was pressed down
over deeply-wrinkled forehead. He
was always in hurry, and his life
was rendered burdensome by the ques-
lions of nervous travellers. He eyed
Miss Norfolk. StanleV sharplY-SOlo Oc.