The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-05-12

! lork," observed my tormentor sum-
marily. The best thing for you to do is
to get out and look for your gentleman,
miss Saying which, he .ierked my bag
down from the rack, turned the opposite
seat. which Charlie had inverted, back
into its place and, by series of moral
suasion, caused me to pick up my shawls,
parasol, ETC., and follow him in ahiect
submission to the door
"NOW where did the gentleman 90 ~
he demanded. as he handed me ont on
the PLATFORM
''IIe went in to get me some lunch,"
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
good lookout for him. There's the Bos-
ton train over there. goes in fifteen min
utes, and he can't get into it without you
seeing him, if he amt inside already /;
and ny advice is, stick fast to him If YOU
find him, for he must need looking after y
With which remarkable words the man
sat down my bag and winked at a by
stander.
'What's the row y inquired the person
thus invited to participate in the enjoy
ment of my Woes. Then they whispered
about me, | suppose and everybody
stood and stared 1T me
Poor little bride. There | stood hold
ing fast my parasol, with a shawl on one
arm, my own little satchel on the other,
and Charles bigger one at my feet feel
ing like a very ''l0ne, lorn critter" indeed.
There stood three men in knot, cOntem-
plating me. and any quantity Of the same
| species coming and going. who all looked
at me as they passed, and then turned
around and stared again-and there was
10 Charlie visible in all the ranges of sur
rounding country. Dire thoughts began
to be born within me, and to turn me
cold and damp with extreme terror; the
nightmare of my infancy being lost --
came back uDon me and crushed my seV-
enteen years and the new dignity of Mrs.
| Charles Vail, ,Jr, with a fell sW0Op. Sup
posing there had been an accident, and
Charlie knocked down and awtully man
| -led, or that he had vanished away, as
one occasionally hears of a respectable
| gentleman having done, and never would
| appear again, or be heard OF at all sup
| posing were Just to stand there waiting,
the trains shlieking away in the distance
and night coming on, and all these
| strange men staring and whispering?
Pretty soon / should begin to cry, for |
couldn't stand it much longer: and here
! began To feel tor my pocket handker-
chlet. and that reminded me of my pock-
et-book as Il slight resource ! dived t.
| the utmost corner of my pocket before
remembered that ! had contided it to
Charlie, with Witely duty. at the very
outset Of cur wedding trip.
At this alarming discovery Il cold
moisture broke out upon my entire frame.
y night passed under the lee Of the depot.
| crouched amongmy little possessions now
loomed ny before me-unless could de
| pcslt the same possessions or pawn my
diamond ring and my gold bracelets for
a nights lodging and ticket back to
New York. suppose the horror depict
| ed Oh my countcnance was Il sufficient
challenge tor an inquiry. | don't know
what an extreme it must have reached
but somebody appeared to find it NOV
ING. for Il benevolent voice presently
saluted my ears Z.
"Are you waiting for anybody, miss ,"
| turned around with a grasp OF ALARM
which subsidized little, however, when |
met an elderly face, spectacled, and be
nlgn in the extreme.
Excuse me, miss" said the Ola gentle
man. in a sympathiZing tone, care You
waiting for any one ''
I-l-yes, siI'-l'm waiting for"
| came to dead stop. For Charlie.
should say ? "My husband" was a step
beyond utterance Just now. only turned
scarlet. and twisted the handle Of my
bag IN silence.
lis there anything can do for YOU :"
'I-dOn't know where to 60" burst
out quite voluntarily. "They told me to
change cars, and | didn't expect to, and
don't know what to do"
My friend now looked bewldered, and
came step nearer, and inquired, in a
| sOemnly lowered voice Are You alone ?"
mo, no. | said very quickly under my
breath.
"Who is with you ," said he, with
kind of confidential compassion that
little confused me- did not understand
it.
Oily gentleman, taltered out.
'lle went out to get something, and he
told me to sit still and not move and a
man came and made me change cars
and don't know what ears We are to
| lakeland - and don't see him any
where"
Here | choked and fell to biting my
! lips and Winklng my eyes hard to wink
| the tears down.
"A gentleman y repeated my friend
suddenly. by this time two more men
| had drawn near to listen. "l our father ~
mo"
"Brother, then ?" very mysteriously
"N-no.'
began to get very red and uncomtort-
able, and to wish they wouldn't stare So
"Where are you going, my dear" asked
the first Samaritan, after solemn pause
of some minutes.
II don't know, | answered family.
ale didn't tel me: he Just said, when
he went to get lne some lunch, that |
wasn't to move ii the man said 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, grin
ming. '.Going through to Boston, was
| you :"
81 don't know where was going" !
answered, very shortly.
'Let me see your ticket said the old
gentleman, teelingy.
He had a compassionate way Of looking
at me over his spectacles; and he looked
queerer still when | answered faintl y
'He's gotit-and my money -and-oh
why don't he come ;"
Here cast loose all ceremony and
burst into tears.
"Oh, don't cry now,' said the old gen
tleman, soothingly. 'Don't know. It'll
be all right you'll be taken care of.
Where did the your friend-where did
he 90 p
Il don't know" sobbed from behind
my handkerchief.
"Went to get some lunch, did he say?
Well, now, can't you tell me what sort of
4 hooking person be WAS and nerhanS we