Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-08-05

dogged way that he seemed to take very ill.
 "Come !" he exclaimed, waxing inn patient. "Ycu can't sit here all day, you know. Where do you want to go?'
 "I-I-don't know" I stammered. "I was told to sit still, and IT must wait till the person comes back"
 The man stared back at me now with interest Where's your ticket ?" said he, extending dirty hand.
 ''I haven't got it." I answered in meek and concluding 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?"
 l made no reply to this unwarrantable lack of respe in referring to my absent lord, but drew myself up and looked severely out of the window.
 ''Wen, you can't go back to New York;" observed my tormentor, sum- marily. "The best thing for you to do is to get ont and look for your gentle. mau, niss." Saying which, she jerked my bag down from the rack, turned the opposite seat, which Charlie had in- verted, back into its place, and, by species of moral su..sion, caused me to pick up my shawis, parasols, etc., and follow him in abject submission to the door.
 "Now, where dil the gentleman go?" he demanded, as he han Jed me out on tine platfrom.
 |" He went to get me some lunch,"T Iepied, almost ready, at th-s crisis, to disgrace my bridehood and cry.
 "And told you to sit still, did he? We'll, you stand right here and keep lookont for him. There's the Boston train over there, goes in fifteen minutes, and he can't get into it without your see ing him, if he ain't inside already; and my advice is, stick fast to him if you find him, for he must need looking after. D
 With which remarkable words the man set down my bag, and winlled at q by stander.
 Whats the row ?" inquired tue per son thus invited to participate Ill the enjoyment of my woes. Then they whispered-about me, I supposa-and everybody burned anI stared at me.
 Poor little b idei There I stood, holding fast my para ol. with shawl oa one am, my own smati sachel on the other, aAd Charles bigger one at my feet, feeling like very lone, lorn crit ter" inde d. There stood three men in knot, contemplating me, aud any | quantity of the sane species coming and going, who all looked at me ss they passed, an ! thon tuned round and stared agail.-and there was no Charlie visible in ali tue range of surrounding country. Dire thoughts began to bs bern within me, and to turn me cold and damp with ex rcme terror the nightmare of my f.,., l. upon ne and crushed my 17 wears and the new dignity of Mrs. Charles Vail, Jr., with fell swoop. What was to be- come of me? Supposing there had heen an accident, and Charlie knocked down and awfully manglel, or that he had just vanished away, as one occa
 sionally hears of respectable gentlemen
 having done, and never would appear
 again, or be heard of at all gupposiag
 I were just to stand there waiting, the
 trains shrieking away in the distance,
 and night coming on, and all these
 strange men staring and whispering !?
 Pretty soon should begin to cry, for I
 couldn't stand it much longer and here
 l began to feel for my pocket-handker-
 chief, and that reminded me of my
 pocket-book as a slight resource.
 dived to the utmost corner of my pocket
 before remembered that had confided
 1t 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 looIned before me-un-
 less I could deposit the same posses
 sions, or pawn my diamond ring and my
 gold bracelets for nights lodging and
 ticket back to New York. I suppose
 the horror depicted on my countenance
 was a sufficient challenge for inquiry. l don't know to what extent 1t must have
 reached, but somebody appeared to find it
 moving, for benevolent voice presently , saluted my ears.
 , Are you waiting for anybody, Miss
 1 turned around with Q gasp of alarm, , which subsided little, however, when l met an elderly face, spectacied and be nlgn in the extreme.
 !. Excuse me, Miss, ,'' said the old gen. [ tleman In a sympathizng tone, "a are you waiting for any one :"
 "I-I-yes, sir-Pm waiting for-" a came to dead stop For Charlie
 should say? My husband" was { 1 step beyond utteranee just now. only
 turned scarlet, choked and twisted tn, 2 handle of my bag in silence. ? '' Is there anything 1 can do for you ? i "I-don't know where to go!'
 burst out, quite involuntarily. "They y told me to change cars, and 1 didn't ex pect to, and dou't know what to do." My new friend looked bewildered, ant , came step nearer, as he inquired, in r solcmenly lowered voice Are yol | alone p
 ! ! "No, no," said very quickly, unde my breath.
 . kind of confidential compassion that r little confused me. I did not under | stand 1t.
 2 "My-a-a gentleman" I falterec v out. "He went out to get me some 7 thing, and he told me to st sti.l and no a move; and man came and made m . change cars-and I don't know wha q cars we were to take-and-I-I don '- see him anywhere.
 Here I choked, and fell to biting m Ia lips and winking my two eyes hard 1 V wink the tears down.
 'tt "A gentleman p repented my friend
 solemnly. By this time two more me bad drawn near to listen. "You i father?"
 .o "No."
 o .o Brother, then?" very mysteriously 11o "N-no."
 ,' began to get very red and uncom p a fortable, and to wish that they wouldn .t stare so.
 70 70 Where are you going. my dear x, asked the first Samaritan, after d solelll " pause of some minutes. y 1T don't know," I answered, faintl, f "He didn't tell me; he just said, whe 1, he went to get mo some lunch, that = wasn't tomoye fl the man said to chang ,n cars, for we were going through; an m m | told the man so, bat he made Il