Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1882-10-06
NO. l5.

and l told the man so, but he made me
change"
THAT trains going back to New York,
said one of the last arrivals, grinniny.
Going through to Boston, was you?'
u don't know where | was going" l
answered, very shortly
Let me see your ticket" said the old
gentleman, feellngly.
be had compassionate way of look
ing at me over his spectacles and he
looked queerer still when | answered
faintly-"Hes got it and -and-my
money and-oh, why don't he Gomez
Here cast loose all ceremony and
burst into tears.
"Oh, don't cry, now, said the old
gentleman, soothingly. Don't now
It!l he all right-you'll be taken care
Of Where did the-your friend-go?
which way?"
II don't know" l sobbed from behind
my handkerchief
went to get some lunch, did he saw
Well, now, can't you tell me what sort
OF looking person he was. and then
perhaps we can find him? Was he
young or old?"
Young, / murmured, still behind a
barrier of cambria. "W-with yellow
mustache, and gray clothes and
straw hat"
Pretty bad buslnessl' one OF the men
muttered aside to another. "Sharp
fellowl' responded second. And then
there were some antistrophes of Whats
the natter "Its shamel' Left
her, did hep from small crowd that
had by this time started up around me
We'll, now, just come in here and
sit down, said my old gentleman, pa
ternslly gathering up my bag; and
compose yourself my dear, and we'll
see wi at can be done Don't cryl it'll
only furry you, and won't do any good,
you know. There, that's right" For
| wiped my eyes with the remnant of
sob pulled my veil down, and was turn
ing to follow him, when, behold as
swept the landscape DER with one last
look Of desperation, there appeared
Charley gray clothes, and straw hat
and yellow mustache, and all, coming
from the dim distance, with brown
"There he isl" / shrieked dropping
bag and parasol in my ecstacy, and
rushing down the platform with ex-
tended arms. "There he isl Oh, call
him, somebody dy-tell him I'm here
Make him look this wayl"
"Where which where is hep" cried
half dozen men quite e1citedly
~ o. L,N Al
bundles? Halloa, sirl Halloa Stop
HIM !" and three small boys and one
man started in pursuit.
Poor Chailey There he came
hurrying along in our direction, rather
swiftly, it is true, but quite at his ease,
and with a smiling face, when my four
champions gave chase And Just as
they had upliited their voices, and Just
as Charles eyes, sweeping the surround
ing scene, appeared to lightupon them
! just then did the locomotive behind
which We had been sitting fifteen min
utes before, and which had been back.
ing and snortlng, and advancing and
backing again, after the manner of
trains, chose its time te set up a shrek
ard violent ringing of the bell, and to
o pulling off on its way back to New
York. And Charlie first started wildly,
and then turned around and chased the
locomotive, and the three small bows
and the man chased him, rending the
air with shouts of Stop him !"
But Charlie coudnt Keep up with
the train very long, aud the impotency
of his efforts seemed to break upon him
suddenly; after he had run himself very
hot and damp, and shed all the hot buns
from his brown paper parcel for twenty
yards along the track, he turned and
faced his pursuers like man az bay,
and fgurately speaking, they all fell
upon him.
stop therel where are you going ?"
Come back after your lady, you
scamp CANT You ashamed OF your
self? p shouted the small boy IN ecstacy
Wanted to run away, did you? Didn,
do it that time, old feler"
"What the do you waut?' said
Charlie, fercely "Where's Sarah ?
Where's my wife?'
"There she is !" roared a dozen voices,
with appropriate action If as many
unwashed hands. "Aint got rid of her
SC easy yet"
will draw decorons veil over the
embrace that followed, and the profau-
tiles with which Charlie punctuated it,
and the compliments exchanged by the
populace, who eyinced the widest Joy
at what was supposed to be the discom-
fiture of villany. Imerely will observe
that the whistle OF the Boston train cut
short our little scene, and tha was
hauled up on the last car amid the
cheers of the bystanders, greatly multi
piled since Charles appearance on the
scene, and speeded on my way by
parting roar from one benevolent per,
sonage to keep a tight eye on my
young man, for he warnt to be trusted
as far as you can see him !" Also that
Charlie shed bank notes as we'll as buns
in the exctment Of the chase, and that
my point d Alencon paraso, with an
agate handle, the wedding gift Of my
beloved Arabella, IS probably marching
round Blankville at this very hour,
poised in the Lisle thread hand of some
village belle,