The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-05-09
UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
How Cyrus Finterboftom Won the 0bje'
Of His Affectfonss

How Cyrus Winterboftom Won the 0bject
M Of His Affections
The voice OF the young man had
tremulous. vibrant quality, and a glow
like that of Juna sunset spread over
his face is he took the vacant seat by
the side Of the young woman and
greeted her ioyfuIly.
This IL an unexpected pleasure
: Miss Beanie. he said.---..l+-d did not
know you were on the train. / am
not presuining too much, hope, in
rejoicing in the anticipation Of a de-
lightful trip instead of the long, tire
some journey of half day that | had
resigned myself to suffer when / came
aboard.
ssCertainly not, Mr. Winterbottom,
she replied. and the observant young
man noted an increasing quickness in
the fluttering movements OF the
feathers and fiummadiddIes on the.
travelling hat Of his fair companion
not due altogether tos the jar Of the
train.
ssIier heart Is beating faster, he
safd TO himself. but even in the rapture
that thrilled his frame and tingled, to
the ends of his fingers at this discovery
he felt he had taken sneaking adj
vantage of her and iearned something
he had no right as yet to know.
For months Cyrus Winterbottom
had carried in his heart the image of
the lovely girl who now sat by his
side. For months he had hoped that
the time and the opportunity might
come when he-but let us not antici-
pate. s.s----
The train Numbered along over
rocky gorges, around the base Of pre-
cipitous cliffs, and down into spacious
valleys upon which the promise Of a
glorious spring was already showing
itself in a landscape that glowed and
smiled beneath the ardent rays of the
sun; bit the young man needed not
the panorama Of Surprising loneliness
that was unfolding itself on either
hand. He had something better TO
/ look at
Miss Vanilla" he said. with beat
| ing heart, as he braced himself with a
superhuman effort, '.this may seem an
| inopportune moment for the confess
| sion | am about to make, but | am inn
PEELED by a feeling can no longer re-
sist. My heart hungers for
.sTickets!!,' -.
| tt was the conductor who spoke.
IA shade~~of annoyance crossed The
| brow Of the young man at the inter-
ruptlon. He produced his TICKET,
handed it to the official, and in Va few
moments resumed: -
Il was about tossay that ! have car
l5fied]ia 9breasta4 bardenI- eah- bear
no longer. 1t is fortyou to say whether
l must suffer still heavier one or
whether life shall have new meaning
for me henceforth. Vanilla Became, |
| love-
"Caramels, peanuts, figs. gump' in
euired the trainboy z
NOT said Cyrus, shortly Have
you ever felt that the time must come,
sooner or later, Vanilla when"
-. Life Of Jesse Jamesp p suggeste d
the train-boy, returning to the attack;
magazines, latest railway guide,
Robert Els .s--z
:. / tell You T don't want any thing!"
exclaimed the exasperated young man.
!" May l tell you what IS in my heart
Vanilla? mo, sir; | don't know
what the next station is, sir, and l
don't carel-I have-looked forward to
the time, my own Vanilla when /
could summon the courage to tell you
how inexpressibly dear to me you are.
and to ask you if you will be my wife.
Will"
| There was a sudden crash A bro
ken rail had thrown the train from the
track. The car rolled down the en-
bankment AT the first wild hnge OF
the coach Vanilla =Beane=-had seized
the young man about the neck with a
convulsive clasp, and though the pas
sengers were cavdrting and plunging
from floor to ceiling and ceiling to
floor in the careless, unstudied free
dom OF motion and absence Of all cere-
mony that may always be observed in
an affair OF this kind, she did not lose
her selfepossession.
Cyrus Winterbottom, she shouted
into his ear, with the resolute, fear
less, let-no- guitty-man-cscape voice OF
a young woman attprtrtir:,. strictly to
business, "I-"
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