The Hickman courier., 1882-10-27

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don, III we get back by the four o clock
Tram, we shall see all the best OF fun,
escape the Proctors, who viii not be on
iook-Out until the six O'Clock train, ana
save Charley's gate ),
ali very well for You fellows 10
down" anu
Jon not chance ofyour being sent
down. 1t amt like Won 10 funk. What
caPitaI time we had there last yearl And
my cousin has a horse running and we
can get the tip from him"
you sure that there is four
O'Clock train?"
low.'' 'ii's =
ley. "ln'
anu as no promises are so well kept
a. those which please ourselves, he kept
nus word to the letter. He was too
young 10 md the pleasure turn to dust
anu ashes- He thoroughly enjoyed his
A1rnoon on Watlingbury race-course;
anu Tor once, the tip, wonderful TO re-
iaee' was the straight one, and the affair
went off capitally
My boy, said Gordon, taking him a
l1.le aside about quarter to four, ''you
1
will risk it; but if you are not a fool you
will be Off
lessly. i'''' -
Then you are fool" answered the
otner; take my advice and &C"
II was such rare thing for Gordon to
give advice OF this kind that our hero
took 1t as that of a good angel. who. in
stead OF the suggestive hame-colored
olazon OF yesterday, had assumed with
much appropriateness, fashionable
frock-coat of Quaker-like gray. Quedg-
nngton reached the stayon just in time
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. Aldates, and
came to the conclusion that, il under
graduates at all, they hailed from some
college more than Sabbath dav's Jour
ney from the center of university life
They had Iunched 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 disapproval
that filed the Dean of st. Aldate's when
brought face to face with his (Charley's)
vagaries.
His gaze settled at last on face in the
far corner which, under the circum-
stances, caused him some surprise. 1t
! was so decidedly out of place. 1t was
that of rather pretty girl, with fair
! haired, graceful little head. set off by Il
small gray hat 1t was face formed to
be either gravely sweet or coquettishly
smiling; but now it was frightened,
piteous little face. The sudden irrup-
ton of the noisy and excited crew into
! her carriage was evidently not to her
liking; but as she was sitting at the end
furthest from the platform, it was no
easy matter to extricate herself. .'She's
governesS, and a very pretty one"
thought Charley. "Certainly she is
! travelling first class, so she must be a
Newham or Girton girl. They get lot
of money. She is too plainly dressed to
be swell. wish l had some sisters
who wanted a governess.
1t was not Quedglington only whose
attention she attracted. The young men,
their bets settled, turned toward her
more of their regards than was polite or
pleasant. From this they advanced To
making eulogistic remarks upon her ap-
pearance TO one another, and generally
to talking rather in way that made
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 her cloak, stood prepared to leave
the carriage. Her tormeniors made way
for her not an inch, but satTwith their
knees meeting across the passage.
Would you be kind enough to let me
pass?' she said, bravely, in quite a
steady voice. But they were heated with
excitement and the wine they had taken
at luncheon. Charley had come to the
conclusion by this time that they were
not Varsity men at all, and we will hopo
and trust that he was right. At any rate
they sat still.
liteness, - that the ticket YOU showed at
Watlingbury was for our destination
We do not change here.
.'And we really cannot spare so pretty
face. We are hoping to have the
pleasure of seeing you homen
So the girl was in fact a prisoner; the
noise upon the platform made it impossi-
BILE for her to get help from thence. Her
eyes wandered round the flushed faces
and rested upon Charley's, flushed, too,
but from 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, if
you please.
They all turned upon him, as he rose
and with some roughness pushed two or
three of them aside. The girl Just touched
his hand, stepped lightly past them, and
was out of the carriage in a moment be-
fore they could recover from their sur
prise.
..Confound YOU, What business is it
of yours?' cried one, standing up and
catching hold of his collar. Charley did
not answer him in words; his blood was
up, and as the other maintained his hold,
he struck him between the eyes with all
his strength and some little science.
4 The man fell back among his fellows,
and all rose up and hit out at Charley
rather wildly, who warded Of blow or
two, and then stepped lightly backward
on to the platform to avoid others. He
was only lust in time; before they could
follow him the train began to move; a
porter, who, in the hubbub of the sta
ton, had seen nothing of it, slammed
the door; and the last that Charley,
4 standing upon the platform saw of his
opponents, was group of angry faces
framed in the quickly moving window.
He turned round witha litfle laugh of
triumph. and saw hts eizfnsel. so lately
in distress, standing at his elbow. She
was much the more self possessed of the
two, now.
, THANK you so much, she said, pref
tily; lit was foolish Of me to be afraid;
but they really were rude. were they
not? am afraid now that have caused
you to be left behind it does not matter
! much to me, but it may to you.'
Not bit" answered he, with a
vivacious mendacity which impressed
her greatly. Yet he was not unmindful
that now he could not get back to col
lege until after six O'clock, and would