The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-08-08
THE NOT IMPOSSIBLE SHE.

the time was 8. 80 A. NJ. the train was late ;
the young man was annoyed and impatient.
1t was a delicious morning, warm, but
in the air, that lifted the leaves and
whispered that comfort dwelt out-of-doors
under the trees, and not within in the pro-
lection of darkened rooms. The little park
about the station was trim and fresh. TO
the east lay the broad Hudson, winding
down, not to Camelot, but place infinitely
more interesting to the impatient GROWER
at the station, who eagerly scanned the
bulletin each time he passed it as if hoping
to see some change in the announcement,
''Train from the west late two hours and
thirty-five minutes Toward the north
there were glimpses of clean white houses,
and one or two church spires, and beyond
them larger and pretentious country houses
suggested wealth and luxurious summer
retirement. The little station, much to the
disgust of the Appleton people, had been
placed. not at the VILLAGE. but where in
the judgement of the railroad the village
ought to have been. and would be some
day.
Presently something happened. There
was little hustle of expectancy among the
two or three men who were in charge at the
station. The telegraph agent dropped his
paper, shut himself up in his private coop,
and after some click, click, clicking, called
out an unintelligible phrase, which, in its
turn, reused a sleepy official, who strolled
out on the platform and began gazing
vacantly toward the north. Then a low
line of smoke and then whistle announced
what the official proclaimed in stentorian
tones to be the accommodation for Welby."
From the "Commodation for Welby"
there alighted one passenger at the Apple
ton station This was a graceful young
girl, an old-fashioned sort of a pretty girl,
with gentle blue eyes, dressed all in a
bridish gray The young man of the Gagged
hyena prance, preoecupied with his scorn
for "Commodation for Welby," did not
even glance at her. She walked through
the station, looked helplessly about with
the distressed air of untravelled woman
kind, deposited her satchel ON seat, and
approached the window of the telegraph
office, now closed and deserted. Calamity
at length asserted itself, and Mr.. Fred
Rylance, the impatient, begged to know If
he could be of any service.
"Yes, thank you" (blushingly and tiInor-
ously); II want very much to send a
message
ooh, very well the man will be back
directly. If you will write your message
on this blank, I'll give it to him when he
returns He handed her blank as he
spoke, and delightfully."- sharpened pencil
from his pocket.
She hesitated a moment. then, with much
embarrassment, asked, ''Will you be so
kind as to write it for me? lean not
write. -
With great self-possession Mr.. Ryance
restrained movement of surprise, and
dashing down the date. waited for the mes
sage
III y 10 VII, EuWdItt tIIlS.
want only to say that / came safely, and
that I'll let him hear from me rs soon as |
reach Riverview.'
'sMr. Edacard Ferris, L0eeU:
Reached here safely on time. VIII
communicate from Rivervew."
Communicate is stroke of genius,
thought Mr.. Rylance.) bH
''Do you wish to Sign it =
.'Oh yes. Dolly Ferris. lsh
BY this time the operator made his APP
pearance. and after the message had been
intrusted to him, Mr.. Rylance followed
Miss Ferris to her seat, and said, with an
amused smile Ifyou're going to River
Ferris. The young ladies at Riverview
are my nearest and dearest neighbors. May
| introduce myself? My name is Rylance
Fred Rylance."
Miss Ferris explained very gracefully
that the young ladies at Riverview We're
her cousins, whom she was visiting for the
first time, and that she had expected them
to meet her, and preferred to wait rather
than have Mr.. Rylance telephone to Apple
ton for the solitary village hack. And so
they got on very eheerfully until the
arrival of the carriage from Rverview,
which contained the dashing Misses Ferris
Kate and Milly. fa
''You darling, how did you get here?''
''They telephoned us from the station
that the train was two hours late"
''And hon did you come to know Fred? ?"
''And where's your trunk ~
To this bewildering attack Dolly found,
after while, chance to reply that the
express was so late that her father had
advised the way-train as possible means
of saving her cousins unnecessary waiting.
Mr.. Rylance further explained that he had
been fortunate enough to be of some little
service to Miss Ferris, and that he had
introduced himself
The trunk was found. the young ladies
were all volubly and tlutteringly put into
the carriage, when the whistle of the long
delayed train was heard. A hasty good-by,
and he found himself just in time to have
the train tagged. He flung himself into a
-. ,,to llo scat an1 haStilx, taarin.r taa