Connecticut western news., 1888-08-29

station, and I am just recovering from siege of malarial fever. Surely there must be somo one around here who could act as my guidc."
 ''There is no one here but me-" said Miss Barlow, locking tho cash draw and preparing to extinguish tho ono reflector lamp that glowed above the new ar rivars head. But if you choose to go home with mo dare say my mother will givo you somo supper and bed. Our house IS tho nearest to this place. And tomorrow"-with somewhat sig nifcant psusc-"you can bogil a now career"
 ''rm awfully obliged to you," said the gentleman, jumping up with alacrity. But how many careers per week do theso Wcsterncrs count upon 2 I've no objection, for my part, to tho old one continued"
 Miss Barlow's face remained incxora- ply grave. She considered it no part of her duty to couutenance flippancy like this. She locked the station, and hung the key on its hooked nail close within the lattic,d easement outside, whero winds could not Lurl it away nor storms disturb it, before she sail, quietly: "This way, please. The lan- tern will light you sufficiently if you arc little carc:ul; otherwise you will find the way rather steep and narrow down the hill. You arc perhaps una ware that telegram describing your personal appearance has just come in from the White Peak officca'
 "A telegram! By jovo the whole thing is out, thenr'
 He spoke quickly; there was genu- inc disgust and dissatisfaction cx- pressed in every feature of his face.
 "Ycs," responded the tcle graph op orator, 'the whole thing is out. Your conjecture i' quite correct. ,
 'Docs-I beg your pardon, but this is matter of some importance to nc does any ono know it besilcs yourself2'
 "No."
 'I may depend on you7" with i'm ploring emphasis.
 "Yes, you my depend on me-"
 'Thanks, awfullyp declared the stranger, with fervor. You soc, it makes it very unpleasant to have those things talked about"
 ''So should imagine"
 A brief silence ensued. Eunice was won doring how her strange companion could speak so coolly of "theso things" ''Was he utterly dead to all shame9' she thou .5ht. Tn, strange companion, in tn, meantime, was secretly marvel ling at tho case and lightncss with which this extraordinary girl stepped out through tho snowirifts.
 "A perfect Amazon," he sai to him. self, "and Iretty ono, too. Why doesn't she keep talking7 l like the timbre of her voice; it's regular con- tralto."
 '1t seems to me-" observed the young man, after another interval of silence, during which the crunchiug of their feet in the snow and tho persistent bowling of tho win was all that broke the spell, "that they put a great deal of responsi bility on young women in this part o the world."
 "A good deal of it il forced upon them, and good deal they assume them selvcs," said Eunicc Barlow, com. poscdly. 'I am willing to admit tha havo taken a heavy responsibility or myself tonight Understand" added Miss Barlow, ''that if l take you home tonight and shelter you, I must have your omises--"
 ''The new career question again! Pm blessed If know what nll this means, gaspcd tho solitary passenger. "Equivocatioa is entirely useless, said Eunicc, severely. You know er.ectly we'll what I m.an. I hay, given you a chance for freedom; fo what is stil better, fame and character Sec to it that this chance docs not pas unimproved."
 "Madp muttercd tho stranger t, himself; ''very madl Entirely hope less case, I should say. I wonder i there really was a telegram, or if that i merely rart of her brain disordcr7 wonder if I'd better kcop on with her nobody knows whithcr, or cut and TUT for it, snow storm and all7"
 "You havo basely abscond,d witl your employers money" said Eu,ico, with tho freezing stcrnness of idealize justice; Gin othor words, you arc bank defalcator."
 ''Oh, come, now; won't you givo fellow chance9' uttered her compan ion. "As the school books say Strike but hoar,' I've nobody's money but m, cwn, and none too much of that. don't know anything about your bank nor their dcfalcators. Tv, bcca onl, two weeks in your country and I thinl it's the snowi,st climate going. M name is Ernest Tinsalloa, and I was to have been met at tho station by Col Coplcy of the Tooth C,valry."
 Eunice Barlow gave little shriok O amazcment. ''Sir Ernest Tinsallon 1! she cried. "The Englishman who wa coming out hero to hunt buffalo an follow up the line of the Pine river But you have alighted at the wron station; you should have stopped a Pine Barracks, seven miles bcyon