Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06

she was pleased to call my kindness at
the station.
"Ask him to take a glass of wine,
Louise" said the lady on the sofa,
when 1 saw the color flush in her
daughters cheek, as she said, hastily
81 think, mamma, we have none in
the house."
1 clumsily protested that 1 would
rather not take any wine, and was
backing towards the door, when a sud-
den pain shot through me, for had
detected motion on the part of the
pale girl, and caught sight of shill-
ing in her hand. l suppose showed
what felt, for she paused and colored
deeply, and, as 1 stood outside, she
once more thanked me, passed the
shilling hastily into her left hand, and
held out her right to me.
have some recollection of having
taken it, and pressed it to my culver
ing lips, and then L was laundering
along the streets in a sort of wild
dream, seeing nothing, but apparently
lost.
The days went on till Christmas
Eve. had watched for her next
morning at the station, and, as usual,
seen TO the carriage in which she went.
1 knew that 1 had nothing to hope for,
being only railway servant, and she a
lady; but, for all that, it seemed nv
duty to watch over her, though since
the day when 1 returned the folio her
bows had been a little more distant,
and she hurried into the carriage.
But it was Christmas eve, and all
through the holidays 1 had not seen
her. L tried to be as busy as possible,
to keep myself from thinking that it
would be perhaps a month or six
weeks before / saw her again. But
there was no fear of my not being
busy, for most people know what sort
of Christmas railway servants keep
all hurry, drive and confusion. Dull,
heavy weather it was-yellow fog and
drifting snow. The trains came in
covered with white, which slowly
thawed and dripped off, so that the
terminus was wet, and cold, and mis-.
erably dirty. People didn't seem to
mind it, though, for the station was
throDged with corners and goers-
friends coming to see others off. "By
yer leave" it was all day long, as the
barrows full of goods and luggage
were run here and there along the
platform. The place seemed alive with
! 'h-baskets, oyster barrels, and poultry
while, somehow or another, from the
poorest and shabbiest,, III rd-cIass peo-
pie to the grandee5 OF the frst-class,
everybody looked happy and comfort
able.
So there was at it, helping to get |
rain after train Off-all late, of coarse;
'or do what you would, there was no
inding room enough for the people,
md so it got to be past four, with the |
gas all alight, and the fog and snow
thicker than ever. a train was Just |
starting when there was a bit of con-
fusion at the door. Some one shouts, |
Hold hardP' and then from where 1 |
distance up the PLATFORM
Jaw gentleman hurry Up to a first
lass carriage, almost dragged lady
With him-a lady in black. Before |
my one could stop him he lad opened |
he door, pushed her in. and then fol-
owed, just as the train began gliding
IF.
This happened to be a. carriage just /
ut on, and TIE compartment the gen.
leman entered was locked but he had
ne of She pocket railway keys; for be-
ore thecarriagc reached wheBs stood.
With my heart beating somehow I
trangely, I saw his hand cut of the-l
Window, locking the door again. In
he monentaSy glance caught, as the
amps of the station, flashed into the
arriagG coald see that there was nc.E
ght inside, while two little gloved,I
ands pressed down the window thei
nan tried to draw upS and there, pale
nd hoxDor-sTicken, eyes staring, and
FPS open, as if she were crying "helpi,-
saw the fare of the young gOverness>
The time did not appear long enough
o see all that; but I saw it all, and my
mind seemed to keeDup with my eyss
nd explain it ALL. and 1 knew that
here was some Internal piece Of VIA
Amy on the way.
What to do seemed rushing through
ny mind, as in the agony 1 felt 1 tr.Sn-
d all of a tremble Telegraph to. the
station in front and stop the train,
which was the express, with fifty miles
20 run before pulling upp Send a special
sngine and tender after them? How
could 1 do eithez on my own RESPONSE
Oility, and only ON suspicion? Should |
| go and report ftp should have half |
an hour wasted in questioning, and
then, perhaps be told that it was time
enough to act when there was proved
ground to work upon. And what had
L to advanced Nothing but that one
look for aid from her whom
loved.
Her l lovedl Yes, 1 knew it cow
and knew, too, that to be Of service
l must act-act at the risk of life or
limb. L thought all this, running after
the train, fast gliding along past the
platform.
l had lost too much time already as
1 darted along, for in a few more
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