Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1888-08-31


a siege Of malaria fever. Surely there
must be some one around here who
could act asm guide"
There is no one here but me-" said
Miss Barlow, locking the cash draw and
preparing to exiinguish the one reflector
lamp that glowed above tho new ar
rivals head. But if you choose to 90
home with me | dare say my mother
will give you some supper and bed
Our house IS tho nearest to this place.
And tomorrow with a somewhat sig
nidcant peuse--"you can bogil new
careefn
Pm awfully Obliged to you, said
the gentleman, jumping up with
alacrity. But how many creers per
week do these Wcstcrners count upon2
I've no Objection, for my part, to the
cd one continued.
Miss Barlow's face remained inexora-
bly, grave. She considered it no part Of
her duty to couatenancc fippancy like
this, She locked tho station, and hung
the key on its hooked nail close within
the atticcd easement outside, where
winds could not Lurl it away nor
storms disturb it, before she said,
quietly: "Ihi3 way, please. The Ian
tern will light you sufficiently if you
are a little careful; otherwise you will
find the way rather steep and narrow
down tho hill. You are perhaps una
ware that telegram describing your
personal appearance has just como in
from the White Peak officer
"a tclegrami BY jovo The whole
ting is out, thenp
lie spoke quickly; there was genu-
inc disgust and di satisfaction cx-
pressed in every feature of his face.
Eyes" responded the telegraph op
orator, 'the whole thing is out. Your
conjecture is quite correct
"Docs-I beg your pardon, but this
is matter OF some importance to me
does any one know it besides yourself2"
No.
81 may depend on you1" with i'm
ploring emphasis.
Yes, you m y depend on me-"
"Thanks, awfu.Iyp declared tho
stranger, with fcrvor. "You see, it
makes it very unpleasant to have those
things talked about.
80 should imagine"
A brief silence ensucd. Eunice was
wondering how her strange companion
could speak so coolly of 'theso things" /"
-A~ utterly dead to all shame2'
she thou ght. Th3 strange mpanion,
in th3 meantime, was secretly marvel
ling at tho case and lightness with
which this extraordinary girl stepped
out through tho snowdrifts.
"a perfect Amazon" he sal to him
self "and a Iretty one, too. Why
doesn't she keep talking2 l like tho
timbre Of her voice; it s a regular con-
trato.
"It seems to me-" observed the young
man, after another interval of silence,
during which the crunching of their feet
in tho snow and the persistent bowling
of the win was all that broke the spell,
'that they put great deal of response
bility on young women in this part of
the world"
"A good deal of it i, forced upon
them, and good deal they assume
themselves" said Eunico Barlow, com
posedly. II am willing to admit that
have taken heavy possibility on
myself tonight. Understand, added
Miss Barlow, 'that il l take you home
tonight and shelter you l must have
your promises--"
''The new career question again! I'm
blessed if know what all this means, "
gasped the solitary passenger.
'Equivocatioa is entirely useless, !"
said Eunice, severely. You know
perfectly well what l mean. l have
given you chance for freedom; for
what is still better, fame and character.
See to it that this chance does not pass
unimproved."
"Madp muttered the stranger to
himself; very mad! Entirely a hope
less case, should say. l wonder il
there really was a telegram, or if that Is
merely part of her brain disorderl
wonder if I'd better keep on with her,
nobody knows whittier, or cut and run
for it, snow storm and all2'
''You have basely abscondod with
your employers money" said Euaice,
with the freezing stornness of idealize
justice; 'in other words, you are a
bank defalcator
''oh, come, now; won't you givo a
fellow chancc2' uttered her compau-
ion. ''As the school books say Strike,
but hear | We nobody's money but my
own, and none too much of that.
don't know anything about your banks
nor their dcfalcators. I've been only
two weeks in your country and l think
its the snowiest climate going. My
name is Ernest Tinsallon, and was to
have been met at the station bJ Col.
CopIey of the 4OOth Clvalry."
Eunice Barlow gave a little shrek OF
amazement. "Sir Ernest Tinsallonl
she cried. 1.-The Englishman who was
coming out here to hunt buffalo and
follow up tho line of the Pine riveri
But you have alighted at the wrong
station; you should have stopped al
Pine Barracks, seven miles beyond
here.
81 heard the conductor bawl out
something about pine of one sort OIL
another" said the young Briton. g