The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-11-23

worn now.
Her unnatural pallor was heightened
oy the blackest eyes and eyelashes that
think ever saw, though on account
of her shyness and timidity, the latter
yelled the former much of the time
from view. She seemed entirely unfit
to be out at that season of the year, be-
Ing seized at one time with a paroxysm
of coughing that quite alarmed me. To
my inquiry If could get her anything
she shook her head, and, remembering
her fathers caution to her, said no
more. Removing the cork from vial
whose peculiar odor remember yet, she
touched 1t to her lips. Whatever 1t was
seemed to have the desired effect. Fold
ing my cloak / placed 1t on the seat
back of her and, leaning her head upon
1t she slept, or seemed to do so.
had not the remotest idea or inten-
tion of going to sleep, but did. How
long slept don't know. only know
that l awoke with sense of suffocation
to which the fresh air that poured In
from the open car door was a welcome
relief The cars had stopped, which
was, perhaps the reason why awoke.--
With confused feeling in my brain
that could not account for, watched
the people going out until the peculiar
odor before alluded to reminded me of
my companion, turned to see how she
was faring. To my astonishment che
was gone.
"Can this be Bolton ?" l thought
sprlnging to my feet, startled ard not
little mortified at my involuntary re-
missness. AS did so, stumbled over
reticule, on which one of my feet had
been resting, and which my fair charge
had left behind her. Catching it up L
sprang from the cars AS gained the
platform l caught glimpse of her huI-
rying along the other side of the depot,
where long train of cars was standing.
To my surprise she glanced back, as ]
called out to her, but did not slacken her
speed. The train for which she was
making now began to move, but spring
ing up the steps with a quickness of mo-
tion for which 1 was entirely unprepar-
ed, she disappeared from view.
'' AS the train thundered past me,
moved by impulse, thrust my hand
into my breast pocket. The package
was gone.
Should live thousand years /
shall never forget the sensation that
came over me; the dismay, the horror
that for while benumbed every faculty.
But 1t was not long before every nerve
of my heart and brain was fully aroused
and at work Like flash of lightning,
by whom and how 1 had been robbed,
all was clear to me.
In the meantime the train which /
had left had gone on, and stood in the
gray dawn alone on the platform. L as
certained that the place was not Bolton,
but Warwick; that the train taken by
the woman went by a more circuitous
route in the same direction whence 1
had started, that 1t was fast train, its
first stopping place being large manu-
featuring town forty miles back. i'm
mediately resolved to take the next
train for that place. On learning that
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this,I turned my next thought to break
fast, contriving, in spite of my anxiety,
to make tolerably substantial meal
from the bountiful spread table of the
hotel opposite, and feeling ten per cent
better in consequence.
Z" AS rose from the tribe, L thought
of the little satchel that the woman had
left behind her, either from her haste to
escape, or because she feared to awake
me if she removed it from beneath my
feet. Its contents surprised and puzzled
me. Not on account of their extent and
value however. They consisted of q
dickey, pair of socks, a black cloth--ol
tie, as it is now call-an odd glove and
handkerchief. Not an article of wo.
mans apparel was in it. There was nc
name or initial on anything with the
exception of the handkerchief,on which
were the letters F. H., worked in red
silk. On shaking the satchel, to make
sure that there was nothing more, O wad
of crumbled paper dropped out. Unroll-
ing it smoothed 1t upon my knee. II
proved to be part of letter, that part
on which the address was written in the
days before envelopes were invented
The lower right hand corner was torn
off, leaving the superscription to read
thus:
FRED'K HAR-
Stock
The last four letters formed the first
syllable of Stockport, the place where