The Penn's Grove record., 1883-05-05

my gold bracelets for a nights lodging
and a ticket back to New York. ]
suppose the horror depicted on my
coantenance was a sufficient challenge
for inquiry. l don't know what an
extreme it must have reached, but
somebody appeared to find it moving,
for a benevolent voice presently saluted
my ears.
Are you waiting here for anybody,
miss ?n I turned around with a gasp
OF alarm, which subsidized, however,
when l met an elderly face, specialized
and benign in the extreme.
Excuse me. miss,r said the old
gentleman, in a sympathizing tone.
"are you waiting for anyone
"I-I-yes, sir,-I'm waiting for
l came to a dead stop. Fol. Charlie,
should I say? MY husband was a
step which was beyond utteraace just
now. / only turned very red, choked,
and twisted the handle of my Jag in
silence.
SIS there anything l can do for
you ?v
"I-don't know-where to gol" |
burst out. They told me to change
cars, and I didn't expect to, and ] don't
know what to do"
Ny new friend looked ~bewildered,
] and then came a step nearet, as he in
CURED, in a solemnly lowered voice
" are you alone ?"
"No, no." l said very quickly, under
my breath.
ssWho is with you ?'' said he, with =
kind of confidential Compassion that q
little confused me, not understanding
it.
fsMy-a-a-gentleman, Z ! faltered
out. she went out to get me some
| thing, and he told me to sit still and
not move and a mar came and made
me change cars-and 1 don't know
| which car we were to take-and-l-
don't see him anywhere
Here | choked, bit my lips, and
winked my two eyes hard, to wink the
the tears down.
"A gentleman! y repeated my friend,
solemnly. BY this time two more men
had drawn near to listen. Your
father ~
mo"
"Your brother, then Pn very mystic
%riously.
"N-no." :
| began to get very red and uncom-
fortible and to wish they wouldn't
stare SO.
Where are you going, my dear y
inquired the first Samaritan, after a
solemn pause of some minutes.
81 don't know" | answered family.
He didn't tell me be Just said, when
he went 70 get me some lunch, that ]
wasn't to move if the man said to
change cars, for we were going
through and l told the man so, but he
made me cnange.
THAT train is a-going back to New
York; said one of the last arrivals,
grinning. "Going through to Boston,
was you ~
81 don't know where T was going"
answered very shortly.
s'Let me see your ticket" said the
| old gentleman, feelingly.
He had a compassionate way at look
ing at me over his spectacles and he
looked queerer still when ! answered
family
"He's got it-and-my money-and
oh, why don't he come? ="
Here l cast loose all ceremony, and
burst into tears.
"Oh, don't cry now,'' said the old
gentleman, soothingly. "Don't, newl
TIN be all right-youll be taken care
of. Where did the-your friend-where
did he go?- which way?n
ST don't know | sobbed from be-
hind my handkerchief.
went to get some lunch, did he say?
Well, now, can't you tell me what sort
of a looking person he was, and perhaps
we car find him? Was he old or youngss
"Young," / murmured, still behind a
barrier of cambria. ssW-with a yellow
moustache, and g-grey clothes, and a
straw hat.
Pretty bad business!" n of the men
muttered aside to another. ''Sharp
fellow" dryly responded a second. And
then there were some antistrophes OF
whats the matter?'' ''It's a shamel''
left her, did hep" from a small crowd
that had by this time started up around
me.
'sWell, now, just come in here and
sit down. said my old gentleman
paternally, gathering UP my bag, ''and
compose yourself, my dear, and We'll
see what can be done. Don't cryl it'll
only furry you, and won't do any good,
you know. There, that's right" Foi
/ wiped my eyes, with the remnant of q
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
Charlie-grey clothes, and straw hat
and yellow moustache-coming in th'
distance, with a brown paper parce
under each arm.
"There he isl I shrieked, dropping
bag and parasol in my ecstasy, and rush
ing down the platform with extende'
arms. ''There he is Oh, call him
somebody-tell him I'm here Max
him look this wayl"