Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-12-14


down, and pouring the contents of her
purse out into her lap /; "Tm rs hungry
MS can be-.
suppose that when she looked up at
me from the silver she was counting she
saw my utter bewllcrmont q didn't try
now to make her hear, for knew it to be
hopeless), for she raised her voice to
shrill pitch of peevishness, and pointed
with one shaking hand to the wall of the
carriage.
'Look there Doesn't it say Small
Luncheon-baskets. Pull down the Cord /?
| want small luncheon basket, 80 pull
ed down the cord. Make haste and get
mo it, or I'll report you to the man.
ager !"
Seeing now that she was almost as blind
ms she was deaf, began to understand
what she meant. On the spot to which
she pointed, above the seat opposite her,
two papers were posted in line-one, the
advertisement of 'Small luncheon-bas-
kets supplied ut Rugby" the other, the
Companys directions fer summoning the
guard and stopping the train in cases of
danger AS they happened to be placed,
the large letters did read rs she had said
SMALL LrNcHroy- BASKETS. Pull DOWN
THE CORD.
While | was gazing from her to the bills,
getting over bit of my establishment,
and she was giving me every now and
| then Il sharp touch on the shoulder to re-
call me to my duty and hasten me with
her relrcshment, we We're joined by one of
the directors, who happened to be going
| up to town by the express. But his Just
| Il n,
moved the hungry old laly-no, not in
| word of it, and only mildly insisted III
the mids. of it that she was almost tired
of waiting for her small luucheon-bas-
ket.
With fierce parting shot, the director
! tried to make her understand that she
had incurred penalty of five pounds
but he couldn't, though he bawled it at
her until The poor old thing-perhaps
mortified at having takon so much trouble
for neutrality-suspicious. overcome by her
hungcr-pcgAeps frightened ut the com
motion she .;saw, bat didn't hear-sank
back in her seat in a strong fit Of hyster-
les. aud let Tie ahillings and sixpences
roll ont of her lap and settle under the
seats.
1t seemed to Inc long time before We
started on ocoin. but I suppoge it was
onlv six ar seven minutes delay after all.
expect should have waited to explain
the stonnorc 70 The nrettv vounp girl of
whom / considered myself n sort Of pro.
toctor Int ne | said she was Mt the very
onnositc end Of the train. and | was in
haste now. There must have been good
lougb in several of The carriages when the
couse of our stonpape cot whispered
obort As for me- when I sbut myself
mn ornin INTO NV van. | chuckled over il
rrtiI wc stonnni ot Chalk Farm to take
tictats
| II seemed to me that the train was taken
htn cnyfo5y es s,on os If hos stonncj
Ihcro
"Of conrso Won have tho corriooe.doors
lou lacked AMI ri "a down With Won
wbiln Won omen thor, one bv one. Nv
men nrc in nossession Of thc nlatform. ~
TL;s ros eo;J I, mo hv nv thn 10.
tootivo ,aicny whom, Jkrew nrottv vol
Nv il,;s t;na ov;ng had n God1 iii 70 dl
With him obont this Worwicl;shirc rob
horv '
lit is mo usc.rI said "before W,
stortel no twain wac soorchoI nc vo,
nav saw ut Rneby Every nassenre,
has pr1sronnn a ,.lose SCRUTINY con tel
| 70
yotions for ne hore -
"a telegram received fen Minutes mo
he orswercJ an seems thnt two If IN,
thieves we are dogging are in this train il
: lee. d;so,,;sos we Loro ha1 nratt,
fnll particulars thongh the discover,
: wasn,t naJe,rni;l oftar Won jeft tbe ;nnc
t;on Hnve Won nnticed". dronne,
H. -, ;oa i;ttio s., ,a,,ra ,oJ,, r ~
ren,icmor to4a,hcr in any corro~e9, '
fclt - III If M oJJ cetrj,;no !, m,
: bracth os he snaln ''o
l "Vn Vt soiI amt. in - n,,rrv .sn,
, vo,,rr lady md oantlnmon hnlongg;no to
1gothnr. I'M thcrn NAV bn nlonty in III,
) ,roin what if the,n ara tbnugb . Tbnr,
Il was mn vonnr hlr or Gentleman anon,
J the ,,,ors -
\, "Imono tho r,lhars ,eioiuol Davis
l with snnnressc1 cnior,,cnt twas wa
, man vhn'I MAKE hrys1If into onvtlino
and Won ,nnet AVN thnt gentleman VIII
-, dark long heard isn't bad for n lad
u known TO ms pretty we'll by her thick re,
l hair and n emf on her under lin ),
Z "Bnf the voune lady ." 7 asked copi,o
\ tinc'
u "Ab tlo vonup lndvr Trno enonob
i welI What shouI,l Won GOV now IL fol
Il You she grew out Of that boy we're after
-, with the closely-cut dark hair ?"
u remembered the pretty plaits and til
! loosely falling hair; 7 remembered tn
! bewilderment in the eyes which entirel
= hid their natural expression, and / didn
~ answer this at all.
g 81 wish / had rs good a chance Z
G catching the old fellow as have OF catch
!. ing the woman and boy" continued Da
k Wis, as we moved slowly past the locke
n lugeage-van. 81 know they're here, an
II that | shall recognize them under an
Il disguise but we've no clew yet to tn
it older rascal. It's most aggravating tina