The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-04-01

amongst other souveuirs that odd ear.
ring; for it appears the tfagical accident
brought about one good result for her
it cut short an engagement entirely dis
tasteful TO. her, aud Into which she had
been forced-well, I didn't hear exactly
how; at any rate, she never loved the
man--disliked him in fact, my wife says,
end so had no compunction about giving
the earring TO my WIFE,, who was struck
With the auaintness Of the device. You
will readily understaud how This story
instantly associated itself with you In INV
mind. A comparison of dates and other
circumstances left no doubt. L was
bound to come and tell you; aud I hope,
my dear fellow, you will acquit me now
OF. an idle infusion upon your affairs.
assure you / hadn't the faintest idea that
you knew Miss Naughton by nane. I
thought You might have seen her, Us
believe you did ior assuredly her pres.
enee--eitaer in the fesh or in the spirit,
whlsheyer it; was--saved your life.". BY
friend, full of amszemens, held out his
hand, and shaking mine warmly, cyinced
more feeling than / had ever given him
credit for. 80
"Of course, of course, cid man. he
said, II know you didn't mean anything
only was taken by surprise, as we'll
might be, for was tremendously fond OF
Rose Naughton ,onCe--am so still, for the
matter or that-and tho sight of her face
rather took me. shack, Wegwsre half
engaged once, only her old mother broke
1T OH; and | wastangry and hasty, and
land 1 dropped them, and have been
sorry ever since; and then + was too
p-opd. and, in short, have made az ass OF
mysst 40 you know where she is now
Do you know where she isgone pit
No: but /. can find out" ,"I wish
you would for after all you tell me, ]
have e strong inclination to follow her,
and try my luck again--try if Fortune
will turn her wheel for my benefit.n
Most certainly dc. 80 you would be fly-
ing in her face If you did not; for really
this IS the most astounding thing, on the
whole, that ever happened, to 4 fellow.
There must have been some lnysterieus
agency at work when you were thrown so
together that night without either of .yon
knowing, it, Sag. that tho appearalce
was but o vapor OF. the brain, partly due
TO. ili-health and upeasy; Sleep still1its
aspect and nature are clearly trseeable to
Miss Naughton's presence hard by (; and
mere coincidence Is not sufficient To- ac.
count. for all that happened.n e.,-I =,
every marvellous, truly said he /:
"end we can only call it, as The guard
did, the ghost of a chance Still, what
ever it was, it hardly accounts for the
earring being in my compartment; that,
as l originally wrote, was not the ghost
Of an earring; how do we get oye. siiias -
"Ah," answered, t'we are es far oI in
the solution of that as ever. 3 Never
mind; be thankful that things are as
they are. I will ascertain from my wife
Miss Nanghton,s present address, aud do
you go and see if she can explain the
mystery" lse .9ss',5
He followed my advice, and he finally
married Rose Naughton, of course; !. but
still! i was long time before any light
was thrown on the earring side of the
mystery. This eventually came, how
evcr, thuswise: an the COURSE of the
whirligig of society in which my friend
and his wife move, there has turned up
young man, who was one OF the bali
party on that fatal night, and he thus ex.
plains the enigma: He says he was late,
and was hurrying along the platform at
Peterborough when Miss Naughton and
her friends were trying to ind seats.
They were little ahead of him, and in
the confusion she must,have dropped one
of her earrings, for he picked it up; e...st..
fearing to be left behind--for the whistle
was sounding-he made daeh at the
nearest carriage. ls
The window was open, but the door
+ was locked and on precipitately thrust
ing in his head to see if there was room,
his elbow struck against the edge of the
door, and the blow jerked the trinket out
of his hand to the further side of the
carriage, and across the legs of n rccum-
bent passenger half asleep. Thare was
no time to arouse the passenger or call
the guard, the train being sctually Ia
motion !, and it was only hv inmni intn
the next compartment that he managed
70. save himself from being left behind.
OF course he concluded that ha6 should
recover the earring when they stopped at
Grantfam; but then came the accident,
and the loss of the earring was held oi
little acconnt--albeit it was potent fac
tor in saving my friends life.