Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-05-17

crowd or took the uptown elevated
road
Invent through my duties that day
in an entirely mechanical manner. and
was somewhat surprised when the city
editor said: What the dickens is this
you have been writing about . gray
dress?'" / fastened to his desk, and
looking over my copy. said: 81 meant
it for great distress.'" and with .
grim look he said: why didn't yon
write it SOP and I went away sore At
heart, for I. am rather proud OF my
copy" and know that the typos like
to set it. as it is 50 clear.
l did not know that I had been
thinking of q gray dress. but it seems
that l had. and Is I crossed the bridge
that nightrit was nearly midnight
l looked in a vague way for . gray
dress. which did not appear. and l let
myself in my home with q feeling
that / had missed something. After
that night seemed to live in . gray
atmosphere. The hazy days of In
dian summer had come, to be followed
by the misty ones of the close-follow-
ing winter. 1t grew to he q habit of
mine to time my bridge trip as nearly
as could to the time when first saw
her. Iscanned tho faces on the plat
form before entered the cars l in
variably secured . seat in the hope
that might give it up to her. At
length had my reward. It was over
q month since had seen her. but
finally she entered full car where 1
was seated. at once arose and said:
please accept my seat before we get
over, THIS time" She smiled, bowed
and blushed as though she also re-
membered our first meeting. and not
word was said until we reached the
New York side. when. as we left the
car said to her: Il do not wish you
to think me rude, but I have been
looking for you for over . month to
apologize to you for my seemingly
rude conduct to you the first time I
met you. Do you remember it?" She
said, with a smile: Very we'll in
deed did not at the time, think
you intended any rudeness; but /
imagined you were thinking of some
thing and had only walked up to the
fact that you were on tho bridge when
we were nearly over it."
said that 1 had often thought of
the day, and had hoped the day would
come when 1 could see her and tell
her that I only intended to act as =
gentleman. and not to cal attention
to her. as he might have thought. and
as l had seen others do, who kindly
offer their seats to ladies after finish
ing their own journey in the street
cars. She said: 81 did zct look at it
at all in that light, for really do not
believe you knew where you were when
you spoke to me-"
''How long ago it seems" I said
"Have you any idea when it WASP"
"Oh! yes. perfectly. 1t was on the
the 25th of October. wrote it in my
diary; and beside it was my birthday"
All this while had been walking be-
side her, and then I said, Twill you
be offended if walk with you as far
as you are going?"
mot at ALL" she said. IT am only
going on the next block. where 1 work
in book-bindery."
She looked up at me with honest
eyes. and they were gray. too. like
the dress she wore. the first one saw
her in, and when we reached the door
of the tall factory. tore sheet from
my memorandum book and wrote my
name upon it with my address l
asked her if she would feel offended if
l waited to see her ON the other side
of the river the next morning. and she
told me: "Not at all" Then said:
"Who will l meet?" She gave me
another of her wholly sweet and half
sad smiles, and handed me a neatly
written card. evidently done by her
own hand which road.