Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-12-06

Fly. Ino best thing You can 90 Is
get out and look for your gentleman
miss Saying which he ierked my baI
down from the rack, turned the oppo
sitel seat, which Charlie had inverte'
back, to its place, and, by q species Q
moral suasi0n. caused me to pick up m.
shawls, parasols, ETC., and follow hin
In shject submission to the door.
Nov, where did the gentleman 60 p
he demanded, as he handed me out OF
the platform.
| He went to get me some lunch, !" re-
piled, almost ready at this crisis to dis
grace my bridehood and cry.
"And told you to cit still, did he
Well, you stand right hero and keep [
lookout for him. There's the Bostol
train over there, goes In fifteen min
utes, and he can't get Into 1t withou
Iyour seeing him, II he ain't insid
already; and my advice 10, stick fast =
him If you find him, for he must neet
looking after"
With which remarkable words tn
man set down my bag, and winked at I
bystander.
"What's the row ?n asked the persol
ment of my woes. Then they whis
|
body stood and stared at me.
Pretty soon should begin to cry, fol
couldn't stand 1t much longer; anl
here began to feel for my pOck etb0Oh
as . slight resource. dived to the ut
most corners Of my pockets before
remembered that had confided 1t 4
Charlie, with wifely duty, at the very
outaet OF our wedding trip
| At this alarming discovery q cOlt
moisture broke upon my frame. A
night passed under the lee Of the depot
crouched among my little possessions
now lOOmed before me-unless cOulC
deposit the same possessions or pawT
my diamond ring and my gold bracelets
for a nights lodging and . ticket bach
to New York. suppose the horror
depicted on my countenance was a
lsuficient knowledge for my inquiry
don't know Whist an extreme 1t niusl
have reached. but somebody appeared tt
find 1t moving, for benevolent voice
presently saluted my ears.
Are you waiting for anybody,
miss ?"
turned around with gasp of alarm
which subsided q little, however. when
I met an elderly face, spectacled and
benign in the extreme.
Excuse me, miss, said the old gen.
tleman. in sympathetic tone. 'Are
you waiting for any one?"
Ill yes. sir-I'm waiting for"
came to dead stop For Charlie
should I say? my busband" was 9
step beyond utterance just now. IOnly
turned scarlet, choked and twisted the
handle of my bag in silence.
us there anything l can do for you p
I-don.t know-where to gO?"
burst out involuntarily "They told
me to change cars and / didn't expect
to, and don't know what to do"
"Who is with you ?" asked he, with
kind Of confidential compassion that
little confused me. did not under
stand 1t.
"My-a-a- gentleman I faltered
out He went out to get something
and he told NE to sit still and not move
and man came and made me change
were to take-and-I-Id don't see him
anywhere
Here choked and fell to biting my
lips-and winking my eyes hard tC
keep the tears down.
"That trains going back to New
| York, said one of the last arrivals grin
ming "Going through to Boston waf
you?'
II don't know where l was going"
answered, very shortly,
| Let me see your ticket ?" said the
old gentleman, feelingiy.
! He had compassionate way of look.
Ing at me over his spectacles; and ht
looked queerer still when / answered
family :-"He's got it-and my money
-and-oh, why don't he come?'
Here cast loose all ceremony and
burst into tears.
"Went to get some lunch, did he say
Well, now, can't you tell me what sort
of looking person he was, and per
haps we can find him? Was heyoune
or old ?"
Young" murmured, still behind q
barrier Of cambria. "W-with q yell
low moustache, and & gray clothes and
q straw hat"
"Pretty bad business!W one of the
men muttered aside to another. 'Sharp
fellow !" responded the second.
swell, now, just come here and sit
down." said the old gentleman pater
nally gathering up my bag and COM
pose yourself, my dear, and we'll see
what can be done. Don't cry. it'll only
furry you, aud won't do you any good,
you know. There, that's right
For wiped my eyes with the rem
nant of a sob, ,ullei my veil down, anGi
was turning to follow him, when be-
hold rs swept the Landscape DER with
one look of desperation there appeared
Chartie-gray clothes and straw hat and
yellow moustache and all, coming from
the dim distance, with a brown paper
parcel under each arm.
10 oh 3<A al
bag and parasol in my ecstacy and
ed arms. There he is! Oh, Call him
somebody-tell him I'm here! Make
him lock this way"
Where? which! where is he? cried
half q dozen men quite excitedly.
Him in the straw hat, with the bun
dies! Halloa, sir! Halloa! Stop him!"
and the small boys and one man started
IN pursuit.
Poor Charlie! There he came hurry
ing along In our direction rather swift-
ly. II is true when my four companions
gave chase. And just as they uplifted
their voices aud just Charities eyes,
swe ping the surrounding scene, ap
pesred 10 light upon them just then
did the locomotive behind In which he
had been sitting fifteen minutes before.
and which in the manner of trains chose
its time to set up shriek.an violent
ringing of the bell, and go putting off
on its wav back to New York. And
Charlie first started wild and he then
turned and chased the locomotive, and
the three small boys and the man
chased him, rending the air with shouts
of "Stop HIM ~
But Charlie couldn't keep up with the
train very long. and the impotency of
his efforts seemed to break upon him
suddenly after he had run himself very
hot and damp, and shed all the hot buns
from his brown paper parcel for twenty
yards along the track. He turned and
faced his pursuers like man at bay,
and, figuratively speaking, they all fell
upon him.
rs op there! where are you going p
Come back after your lady, you scamp!
Amt you ashamed of yourself?n shout
ed the small boy in ecstacy. "Wanted
to run away, did you? Didn't do it that
time, old fellow !"
/ will draw q decorous veil over the
embrace that followed and the compli-
ments exchanged by the populace who
evinced the widest joy at what was
supposed to be the discontinue of vii
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