The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-04-09

shaggy suit of clothes some six feet high
ana was grim, not to say irate, visage
Change cars, niss!" said the person
| gruff1y. 81 told you so twice beforel'
I'm to sit still, replied meekly
I'm going through" I thought Thu
was the right thing to say, becaus,
Charlie had said it; but it didn't have tn,
right effect.
/ Change cars then-there's the Bos
ton train over there. This car runs bacl
/ to New York.
simply stared at the person, in {
I logged way that he seemed to take i'll.
Gomez he exclaimed, waxing impa
tlent. " You can't sit there all day, yor
know. Where do you want to go? ''
"I-I-don't know" / stammered
Il was told TO sit still, and II must
wait till the person comes back"
The man stared back at me now with
interest. where's your ticket ?" sale
he, extending dirty hand.
haven't got it," answered in 6
meek and coneiiating tone. "My-
| Char-at least, the gentleman who is
with me has got them both"
The gentleman Pretty fellow he
must be Told you to sit still, did he ?'
made no reply to this unwarrantable
lack of respect in referring to my absent
lord, but drew myself up and looked Sc
verely out of the window.
Well, you can't go back to New
York, observed my tormentor, sum-
marty. "The best thing you can do is
to get out and look for your gentleman.
miss. Saying which he ierked my bag
dOJr10 from ho roaly 81 H.
seat, which Charlie had inverted, back
into Its place and, by species of moral
suaslon, caused me topick up my shawls,
parasols, etc., and follow him in abject
submission to the door.
Now where did the gentleman go?''
he demanded, as he handed me out on
the platform.
He went IN to get me some lunch, "
l replied, almost ready at this crisis, to
disgrace my bridehood and cry.
and told you to sit still, did he
Well, you stand right here and keep a
lookout for him. There's the Boston
train over there, goes IN fifteen minutes,
and he can't get into it without you see
ing him, if he amt inside already; and
my advice is, stick fast to him if you find
him, for he must need looking after %
With which remarkable words the
man set down my bag, and winked at a
bystander.
What's the ROW." asked the person
thus invited to participate in the enjoy
ment OF my woes. Then they whisper
ed-about me, [ suppose-and every
body stood and stared at me.
Poor little bride! There 1 stood. hold
ing fast my parasol, with a shawl on one
arm, my own small satchel on the other,
end Charles bigger one at my feet, feel
ing ike very clone lorn critter'' in
deed. There stood three men in knot.
contemplating me, and any quantity of
the same species coming and going, who
all looked at me as they passed, and then
turned round and stared again-and
there was no Charlie visible in all the
range of surrounding country. Dire
thoughts began to be borne within me.
and to turn me cold and damp with ex-
IRENE terror; the nightmare of my in
fancy" being lost"-came back upon
me, and crushed my seventeen years and
the new dignity of Mrs. Charles Vail,
Jr., with fell swoop. What was to be-
come Of me? Suppose there had been
an accident, and Charlie knocked down
and fearIuLly mangled, or that he had
just vanished away, as one occasionally
hears of respectable gentlemen having
done, and never would appear again, or
be heard of at ALL supposing I were Just
to stand there waiting, the trains Shrek
ing away In the distance, and night COM
ing on, and all these strange men staring
and whispering? Pretty soon l should
begin to cry, for | couldn't stand it
much longer; and here [ began to feel
for my pocket-handkerchief, and that re-
minded me of my pocket book as a slight
resource. I Owed to the utmost cor
ners Of lay pockets before remembered
that | had confided it to Charlie, with
wifely duty, at the very outset of our
wedding trip.
At this alarming discovery a cold
moisture broke out upon my entire
frame. A night passed under the lee of
the depot, crouched among my little
possessions, now loomed before me-un-
less [ could deposit the same possessions
or pawn my diamond ring and my gold
bracelets for a nights lodging and
ticket back to New York. Isuppose the
horror depicted on my countenance was
sufficient challenge for inquiry |
don't know what an extreme it must
have reached, but somebody appeared to
find it moving, for a benevolent voice
presently saluted my ears:
care you waiting for anybody, miss?"
[ turned around with a gasp of alarm,
which subsidized little, however, when |
met an elderly face, specialized and be-
nign III the extreme.
- cold +lo olI
tleman, in a sympathizing tone, care
you waiting for anyone?'
.'I-I-yes, sir-Im waiting for"
[ came to dead stop. "For Charlie,
should | say. my husband was a
step beyond utterance just now. | only
turned scarlet, choked, and twisted the
handle of my bag in silence
els there anything can do for you ?"
''I-don't know--where to go!'' I
burst out involuntarily. They told me
change cars, and l didn't expect to, and
| don't know what to do"
My new friend looked bewildered,
and came a step nearer, as he inquired,
in a solemnly lowered voice: "Are you
alone?"
"No, nc" said very quickly under
my breath.
"Who is with you?" said he, with
kind of confidential compassion that
little confused me. | did not under
stand it.
"My-a-a-gentleman," l faltered
out. "He went out to get something,
and he 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-J-