Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-11-15

feeding stations, and there wasn't
much OF nothing on board besides
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 |
them-and so they got on pretty
well. But there was about five other
children, not babies, but quite little,
and / 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 in some surprise, for with
the words a curious treble had come
into the engineers voice, and a dark
flush into his bronzed face. What
yonagslady was that?
1t was a moment or two before
John answered the questions.
[ don't know what she was called, he
said slowly, | never knew. She
was the only one on the train, SO we
! just called her the young lady. She
was travelling alone but her folks had
| asked the conductor to look after her.
She was going out to some relative
of hers-her brother, l guess, who
| IL y To hot
was how she came to be there.
Were the children under her care?
No, ma am; she was all alone, as
| told you but she took them under
her 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 somehow no one but
the young lady seemed to be able to
do anything with 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 Almost all night, and the
mother didn't seem to have no facul.
ty or no backbone to her; but when
ever the young lady came around that
sick young one all the rest would
stop crying, and seem just as clipper
as if it was summer time outdoors
and the train was full of candy.
/ don't see how she did it, he went
on, meditatively, throwing handful
of coal in at the furnace door. Some
women is made that way, l 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 gen.
tie way with her, too. You'd never
have guessed that she was so plucky.
Pluck BY George. / never saw any
thing like her pluck.
Was she pretty? asked Miss
Vaughn, urged by truly feminine
curiosity.
Well, l don't know if you'd called
her so or not. We didn't think much
how she looked after the first. She
was slender-bult girl, and her face
looked sort O kind and bright both
to me. Her voice was SO soft well,
as soft as voice can be, and it kind
of sang when she felt happy. She
looked you straight in the eye when
she spoke | don't believe the worst
man that ever lived could have told
that girl lie if it had been to save
his life. Her hair was brown. She
was different from girls in general,
somehow.
think we may say she was pretty.
observed Miss Vaughn, with a smile
| amt sure of that. There's plen-
ty of ladies come over the road since
that | suppose folks would say was
I better looking than she was. But
2 never saw any face quite like hers
e 1t was still, like a lake, and yor
: seemed to feel as if there was depths
0 to it. And the farther you went dowr
$ the sweeter it got. She never made
any rustllng when she walked. She
n wasn't that kind.
g Another pause, which Miss Vaughn
o was careful not to break.
y | don't know what the children
n would have done without her. wen
g on the engineer, as if talking to him
self, then with sudden energy:
e don't know what any of us would ;.
q done without her. The only trouble
It was that she couldn't be everywher
J. at once. There was a sick lady il
!. the drawing-room at the end of on
o of the Pulmans. She had veal
7 lungs, and was going out to Califor
II MIA for her health. Well, the coll
1t and the snow brought on hemorrhage
W That was the second day after W
:, had blockaded. There wasn't n
5, doctor on board, and her husband b
q was mighty scared. He come thre
to the front car to find the conductor
e looking as pale as ghost. My wife
II dying, said he. Amt there n
III medical man on the train? And whe
,e we said no, he just gave groan
it Then she must die, he said. Grea
u heavens why did | bring her on thi
lie fatal journey?
i'd Perhaps the young lady'll hav
IN some remedies, suggested one of tn
es porters for we'd all got into th
S. way already of turning to the youn
T. lady whenever things were wrong.
he Well, | went for her, and you nev
tn er see anyone SO level-headed as sh
i'd seemed to be. She knew just wha