The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1886-05-26

by the time 1t come to TINT, and the chill
dren stopped hurrahing"
"Oh, the poor little thingsl What did
they dot Were there many on board
Was there plenty for them to eat7"
That was the worst of it. There
wasn't plenty for any one to eat. We
had stuck just midway of the feeding
stations, and there wasn't great deal of
anything on board beside what the
passengers had in their lunch baskets
One lady she had can of condensed
milk, and they mixed that up for the
babies-there was ten of 'em-and so
they got on pretty we'll. But there was
about five other children, not babies, but
quite little, aud don't know what they
would have done if it hadn't been for the
young lady,"
"The young LADY," said Miss Vaughn,
looking up with some surprise, for with
the words curious tremble had come
into the engineers voice, and a dark
flush into his bronzed face. "What
young lady was that2n
1t was a moment or two before John
Scott answered the question.
II don't know what she was called, :"
he said, slowly. 81 never knew. She
was the only one on the train, so we Just
called her the young lady She was
trave.ing alone, but her folks had asked
the conductor to look after her. She
was going out to some relative of hers
her brother, guess, who was sick down
to Sacramento. That was how she come
to be there"
"Were the children under her care?"
mo, ma'am; she was all alone, as /
care from the very first. They had their
fathers and mothers along--three of
them had, at least, and the other two had
their mother and nurse girl-but some
how no one but the. young lady seemed
to be abe to do any sltgswith them The
poor little things was half starved, you
see, and there wasn't anything to amuse
'em in the dark car, and one of them,
who was sickly, fretted all day and most
all night, and the mother didn't seem to
have no faculty. or no backbone to her;
but whenever the young lady came
round, that sick young one and all the
rest would stop crying, and seem Just as
chipper as if it was summer time out
doors and the whole train full of candy.
II don't see how she did it" he went
on, meditatively, throwing shovclful of
coal in at the furnace door. "Some
women is made that way, suppose. AS
soon as we see how things were going and
how bad they was likely to be, that
girl kind of set herself to keep along.
She had mighty gentleway with her,
too. You'd never Nave guessed that she
was SO plucky. PluckyI BY George, 1
never saw anything like her pluck
"Was she pretty asked Miss Vaughn,
urged by truly feminine curiosity.
''Well, don't know if you'd "a called
her so or not. We didn't think much
how she looked after the first. She was
a slender-built girl, and her face looked
sort of kind and bright both to me. Her
voice was as soft-well, as soft as a voice
can be, and it kind of sang when she felt
happy. She looked you straight in the
eyes when bespoke. don't believe the
worst man that ever lived could have
told that girl lie il. it had been to save
his life. Her hair was brown. She was
different from girls in general, some
how" a. a.
81 thinAee may say that she was
'pretty," observed Miss Vaughn, with
little smile.
al amt SO sure of that. There's
plenty of ladies come over the road
since that / suppose folks would say was
better looking than she was. But l
never see any face quite like hers. 1t
was still, like lake, and you seemed to
'fRl as if there was depths to it. And
DC farther you went down, the sweeter
it got. She never made any rustling
when she wpllsed She wasn't that kind
Another pause, which Miss Vaughn
was careful not to break.
81 donfKnow what them children
would "a done without her." went on
the engineer, as if talking to himself.
Then, with sudden energy: 81 don't
know what any of us would a done
without her. The only trouble was that
she couldn't be everywhere at once.
There was si0A. lady in the drawing
room at the end me of the Pullmans
She had weak lungs, aud was going out
70 California fsg sbealth. Well, the
cold and the snow brought on hemor-
fhage. That wasathe second day after
we was blockadedf1 There wasn't no
doctor on board, and her husband he
was mighty scared. He come through
to the front car to find the conductor,
looking as pale's ghost My wife's
a-dying. said he. Amt there no med
seal man on the trainl' And when we
said no, he just gave a groan. Then
sha n.u t die he said Great heavens
why did l bring her on this fatal jour
neyP
Z" Perhaps the young lady'll have some
remedies, suggested one of the porters;
for we'd all got into the way already of
turning to the young lady whenever things
were wrong.
"Well, went for her, and you never
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