The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-02-21
KuRKxAT TRIUMPH AT LAST !.
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 A stout hlack-whiskered man sat inn medsakely in front of me in the railroad car, and indnlged from time so time in the most strange and unaccountahse manGavres- Every now and then he vould get mp, and huuy away to the uarrog passage which leads to the do E h these dxawing room cars; and when he thoughk himself secure from obser- vatiDn, @sSsS As so laughing in she nest violent manner, and continue the health- fai exercise until he wa& as red in the face s lohsteT.
 As we neared the city these demon strations increased in violence, save that the stranger no longerran away to laugh, but kept in has seat and chuckied to him. self. with his chin down deep in his shirt teaus underwent! He moved them here, there he put them behind him. He vas evidently getting ready to leave, but as we were twenty-five miles from the city, the idea of such early preparation vas ridiculous If we had entered the city then, the mystery would have re- mained unsolved, nut the stranger Ss came 90 excited sss$. he ecald keep his seat no longer. Some one must help him, and as l was the nearest to him, he selected me. Suddenly turning. he said, rocking himself to and fro iR his chair in the meantime, and skipping his legs together. and breathing hard:
 "Been gone three yearsF
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 ttRes, been in Europe. Folks don't expect me for three months yet, but got through and started. selegraphed them at the last staiion-they've get it by this time.5
 AS he said this he rubbed his hands, and changed the portmanteau on his Jeff to the night, and the one on the right to the left again.
 @Got . vie [" said l.
 "Yes, and three children ;" he re- turned.
 He then got up and folded his over coat anew, and hung it over the back Of the seat.
 ter, ain't your l said watching his hdgety movements.
 Well, should think 90" he replied, T aint slept soundly for week. And you don't know," he went on, glancing around at the passengers and speaking in a low tone. "l am almost certain that this train will run o6f the track and break my neck before l get to Boston. Well, the fact is, have had too much good luck for one man lately. The thing can't last, 'tain't natural the thing should, you know. I've watched it. First it rains. then it shines, then 1t rains again. It rains SC hard you think it's never going to stop then it shines % bright you think it's always going to shine and just as you are settled ip either beliei, you are knocked over by change, to show that you know nothing about it
 @Weil, according to your philosophy said, you will continue to have sun. shine, because you are expecting a stom."s
 nit's curious" he returned. "but the only thing which makes me think will get through safe is, because l think won't"
 @Well, this is curious" said l.
 "Yes," he replied. "l am a machinist made a discovery-nobody believed in it-spent ali my money in trying to bring it out-mortgaged ny home-all went. Everybody laughed at me-every- body but my wife-spunky little woman said she'd work her fingers off before l should give it up. Went to England-no better there-came within an ace of jumping of London Fridge. Went into . workshop to earn moaey enough to come home with-there met the man l wanted. To make . long story short, I've brought $500 900 home with me, and here am"
 Good for you,s exclaimed.
 "tYes,S said he, Ssoo 900, and the best of 1t is, she don't know anything about it. I've fooled her 90 often, and disappointed her 90 much, that just con- cluded woaid say nothing About this When 1 got my money, though, you bester believe struck bee line for home-s
 "And nov I suppose, you will make her happy"
 sHappy !" he replied, why, you dont know anything about 1t. She's worked like dog since have been gene, trying to support herself and children decently. They paid her thirteen cents apiece for making vkite shirts, and that is the way she lived half the time. She'll come down there to the depot to meet me in . gineham dress and . shawl hundred years old, and she'll think she's dressed np. On, she won't have no clothes after tkis-oh, nc, guess notp
 And with these words, which implied that his wife's wardrobe would soon rival Queen vicfosia's, the stranger tore down the passage-way again, and getting In his old c0rner, where he thought him. self out of sight, vent through the xfran1esf paatumiusH lau9hfna lnuftin0 his mosth into the drollest shape, and thea ssingiag himself back and iorth in the limited space q if he were walking down BsoadwayS fuil-rigged metro pclitan belle.
 So on we rolled into the depot and placed myself oo the other car. opposite the strangez, who wish postmanteau in his hand, descended and was standing on the lowest step ready to jump to the platform.
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