The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-10-26

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''It's all very well for you fellows to
risk it, but I can't afford to be sent
down."
pooh! not a chance of your being sent
down! 1t amt like you to funk. What a
capital time we had there last year! And
my cousin has a horse running and we
can get the tip from him."
"Are you sur that there is q four
o'clock trainP"
Certain. Come, that is a good fell
low"
"Then, by Jove, I willt' cried Char
ley.
And as no promises are so well kept
as those which please ourselves, he kept
his word to the letter, He was too
young to find the pleasure turn to dust
and ashes. He thoroughly enjoyed his
afternoon on Watlingbury race-course;
and for once, the tip, wonderful to re-
late, was the straight one, and the affair
went off capitally.
"My boy" said Gordon, taking him a
little aside about a quarter to four, .'you
have just time to catch your train. We
will risk it; but if you are not a fool you
will be off,"
"rm not going" cried Charley, reck-
lessly.
'eThen you are. a fool" answered the
other; stake my advice and CO."
1t was such a rare thing for Gordon to
| give advice of this kind hat our hero
took it as that of a good angel, who, in.
stead of the suggestive fame-colored
blazon of yesterday, had assumed with
much appropriateness, a fashionable
frock-coat of Q~uaker-like gray. Quedg.
lington reached the station Just in time
to tumble into a hrst-class carriage al.
ready pretty full. Many of its occu.
pants looked as if the tickets in their
pockets might be of any hue save white,
which was, and is, the color of first-class
tickets upon the Watlingbury branch
line. Charley looked them over with
the superciliousness of st. Aldate's, and
came to the conclusion that, il under
graduates at all, they hailed from some
college more than a Sabbath days jour.
ney from the center of university life.
They had lunched well, and were loud
and noisy, as was Charley sometimes
but, somehow, their loudness and noisi
ness were not like the same things at st
Aldate's, and Quedglington regarded
them with much the same disapprova
that filled the Dean of st. Aldate's wher
brought face to face with his (C~harley's,
vagaries.
His gaze settled at last on a face in the
far corner which, under the circum.
stances, caused him some surprise. L
was SO decidedly out of place. 1t wa.
that of a rather pretty girl, with fair.
haired, graceful little head, set off by
small gray hat. 1t was a face formed tt
be either gravely sweet or coquettishll
smiling; but now it was a frightened
piteous little face. The sudden irrup
ton of the noisy and excited crew inte
her carriage was evidently not to he
liking; but a. she vas sitting at the enc
furthest from the platform, it was nc
easy matter to extricate herself. "She'!
a governess, and a very pretty one,'
thought Charley. Certainly she j
travelling first class, SO she must be
NEWMAN or Girton girl. They get a lot
of money. She is too plainly dressed te
be a swell. / wish l had some sister
who wanted a governess."
1t was not Quedglington only who's,
attention she attracted. The young men
their bets settled, turned toward he
more of their regards than was polite o.
pleasant, From this they advanced tt
making eulogistic remarks upon her ap
pearance to n another, and generalll
to talking rather in q way that mad
Quedglington's face hot with anger. By
the time the train stopped at the junction
Charley was on the point of interfering
The young lady rose, however, and, tax
ing up hercloak, stood prepared to leav'
the carriage. Her tormentors made way
for her not an inch, but sat with thei
knees meeting across the passage.
"Would you be kind enough to let M
passP" she said, bravely, in quite i,
steady voice. But they were heated witt
excitement and the wine they had takel
at luncheon. Charley had come to tn
conclusion by this time that they wer,
not Varsity men at all, and we will hop
and trust that he was right. At any rat
they sat still:
al think" said one, with mock pc
likeness, {" that the ticket you showed a
Watlingbury was for our destination
We do not change here"
"And we really cannotspare so prett,
a face. We are hoping to have til
pleasure of seeing you home"
So the girl was in fact a prisoner; tn
noise upon the platform made it impossi
BILE for her TO get help from thence. He
eyes wandered round the flushed face
and rested upon Charley's, flushed, toe
but from a different cause.
She saw that he was not of the others
Don't let us have any of this roti'
he said, quietly. '.Let this lady pass,
you please"
They all turned upon him, as he ros
and with some %roughness pushed two o
three of them aside. The girljust toache'
his hand, stepped lightly past them, an
was out of the carriage in a moment be
fore they could recover from their SUI
prise.
"Confound you! What business is
of yours?" cried one, standing up an
catching hold of his collar. Charley di
not answer him in words; his blood wa
up, and as the other maintained his hole
he struck him between the eyes with a
his strength and some little science
The man fell back among his fellow.
} and all rose up and hit out at Charlie
rather wildly, who warded off a blow {
two, and then stepped lightly backwar
on to the platform to avoid others. II
was only just in time; before they coul
follow him the train began to move;
porter, who, in the hubbub of the st,
ton, had seen nothing of it, slamme
the door; and the last that Charlie,
standing upon the platform, saw of ii
opponents, was a group of angry face
framed in the quickly moving window
He turned round with a little laugh {
triumph, and saw his damsel, so latel
in distress, standing at his elbow. Sh
was much the more self-possessed of tn
two, now.
"Thank you so much,'' she said. pre-
tily; sit was foolish of me to be afrait
but they really were rude, were the
not? I am afraid now that 1 have cause
you to be left behind it does not matte
much to me, but it may to YOU"
, mot a bit," answered he, with
vivacious mendacity which impresse
i her greatly. Yet he was not unmindfl
| that now he could not get back to CO
lege until after six o'clock, and woul
certainly be reported for breaking h
J gate, v if his visit to Watlingbur
escaped detection and he did not, upo
, his arrival at the station, fall into til