Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-11-06
UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

The voice Of the young man had q
tremulous, vibrant quality, and a glow
IKE that OF Il June sunset spread over
his face as he took the vacant seat bv
the side of the young woman and
greeted her joyfully
This Is an unexpected pleasure,
Miss Beane," he said. IT did not
know you were on the train. lam
not presuming too much, l hope, in
rejoicing In the anticipation of a de-
hghtful trip instead of the long, tire
some journey of half day that had
resigned myself to suffer when I came
aboard"
Certainly not, Mr.. Winterbettom, -
she replied, and the observant young
man noted an increasing quickness in
the fiuttering movements of the
feathers and fummadiddles on the
travelling hat of his fair companion
not due altogether to the jar of the
train.
For months Cyrus Winterbottom
mad carried In his heart tha 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.
The train Numbered along over.
rocky gorges, around the base OF pre-
cipitous cliffs, and down into spacious,
valleys upon which the promise Of q
glorious spring was already showing
itself In a landscape that glowed and
smiled beneath the ardent rays of the
sun; but the young man needed not
the panorama OF surprising loveliness
that was unfolding itself ON either
hand. He had something better 10
look at.
Miss Vanilla" he said. with beat
Ing heart, as he braced himself with a
superhuman effort. t'Shis may seem an
tnopportune moment for the confess
| sion am about to make, but am i'm
PEELED by a-teeling can no longer re-
sist My heart hungers for"
"Ticketsr'
It was the conductor who spoke.
A 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 q few
moments resumed:
81 was about to say that I have car
ried In my breast a burden can bear
no longer. 1t is for you to say whether
1 must suffer a still heavier ono OF
whether life shall have a new meaning
for me henceforth. Vanilla Beane, I
love"
"Caramels, peanuts, figs, gump" in
CURED the t:ainboy.
''NoH' said Cyrus, shortly. "Hnve
you ever felt that the time must come,
sooner or later. Vanilla. when
"Life Of Jesse JamesP' suggested
the train-boy, returning to the attack;
''magazines, latest railway guide,
Robert LIS"
IL tell you don't want any thing!'>
exclaimed the exasperated young man.
MAY tell you what is in my heart,
VanillaP mo, sir; / don't know
what the next station Is, sir, and
don tcarel-I have looked forward to
the time, my own Vanilla. when I
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 sudden crash. A bro
ken rail had thrown the train from the
track. The car rolled down the en-
bankment. At the first wild lunge OF
the coach Vanilla Beane had seized
the young man about the neck with a
convulsivo clasp, and though the pas-
sengers were cavorting 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 self-possession.
Cyrus Winterbottom, q" she shouted
into his ear, with the resolute, fenr-
less, let-no-guilty-man-escape voice OF
young woman attending strictly to
business, "I-"
Bangl
will" -. -
Thudl fSfH "a.