The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1881-03-09
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my bag in silence.
is there anyt.aing ! can do foI
you?"
"I-don't know-where to 90 P
II burst out quite nvoluntarily
"They told me to change cars, and
didn't expect to, and j don't know
what TO do
/ My new friend looked bewildered
and came a stepnearer, as he inquir-
ed, in solemnly lowered voice
Are you alone?'
NO, ro,' said quickly under my
breath.
"Who is with you ?' said he. with
a kind of confidential compassion
that little confused me. / did not
understand it.
gentleman, ] falter-
cd out. "He went out to get me
something, and told me to sit still
and not move; and man came and
made me change cars-and | don't
know what cars we were to take
and and -I-I-don't see him
anywhere.
Here | choked and fell to biting
my lips and winking my two eyes
hard, to wink the tears down.
"a gentlemanv' repeated my
friend, suddenly. By this time two
more men had drawn near to listen.
Your father?'
No"
Brother, then" very mysteri-
ousiy.
"N-no."
l began to get very red and un-
comfortable, and to wish that they
wouldn't stare so.
"Where are you going, my dear ?"
asked the first Samaritan, after. q
solemn pause.
II don't know" | answered faint
ly. "He didn't tell me; he just
said, when he went to get me some
lunch, that | wasn't to move if the
man said to change cars, for we
were going through and told the
man so, but he made me change
"That trains a-going back to New
York." said one of the last arrivals,
grinning. "Going through to Boston,
was you ?"
Il don'tknow where / was going"
| answered, very shortly
Let me see your ticket" said
the old gentleman. feelingly.
He had compassionate way of
looking at me over his spcctacles;
and he looked queerer still when |
answered faintly-"He's got it-and
my money-oh, why don't he
GOMEZ"
Here l east loose all ceremony,
and burst into tears.
''Oh, don't cry now," said the old
gentleman, soothingly. "Don't
know! It'll he all right--you'll be
taken care OF. Where did the
your friend-whcre did he go?-I
which way?"
II don't know" / sobbed from be-
hind my handkerchief.
"Went to get some lunch, did he
say? Well, now, can't you tell me
what sort of a looking person he
was, and perhaps we can find him ?
Was he younger old?
Young" | murmured, still be-
hind a barrier of cambria. W-with |
q yellow mustache, and ggray
and straw hat.
Pretty bad businessw one of the
men muttered to another. "Sharp
fellow" !" responded second. And |
then there were some antistrophies
Of whats the matter ?" ats a
shame!' from q small crowd that |
had by this time started up around
me.
"Well, now, just come in here and |
sit down." said my old gentleman,
paternally gathering up my bag f;
''and compose yourself my dear,
and we'll see what can be done.
Don't cry, it'll only furry you, and
won't do any good, you know. There,
that's right" For l wiped my eyes
with a remnant of a sob, pulled my
veil down, and was turning to fol-
low him, when, behold as | swept |
the landscape over with one last
look of desperation, there appeared
Charlie-gray clothes, and straw
hat, and yellow mustache, and all,
coming from the dim distance, with
4 brown paper parcel under each |
arm.
There he isI' | shrieked, drop
ping bag and parisol in my ecstacy,
and rushing down the platform with |
extended arms. There he is ! Oh,
call him, somebody-tell him | am !
herel Make him look this wayw
"Whare ? which ? where is he ?"
cried half dozen men, quite ex-
citedly.
"Him in the straw hat, with the
bundles? Halloa, sir! Halloa
Stop him p and three small boys
and one man started in pursuit.
Poor Charliel There he came,
hurrying along in our direction,
rather swiftly it is true, when my
four companions gave chase. And
just as they uplifted their voices,
and Just as Charles eyes, sweeping
the surrounding scene appeared to
light upon them-just then did the
locomotive behind which we had
been sitting fifteen minutes before
and which had been backing and |
snorting, and advancing and back |
ing again; after the manner of trains,
choose its time to set up a shrek |
and violent ringing of the bell
and to 60 putting off on its way
back to New York. And Charlie
first stared wild, and then turned
and chased the locomotive; and the
three small boys and the man chas-
ed him, reading the air with shouts
of stop him!"
But Charlie couldn't keep up
with the train very long, and the
of his efforts seemed to
break upon him suddenly, after he
had run himselfvery hot and damp,
and shed all the hot buns from hisa
brown paper parcel for about 20
yards along the track. He turned
and faced his pursuers like a man at
bav. and figurativcly speaking. they