The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-10
A GIRL IN A ROBE DE MUTT.
And How She Startled Young Man
in q Sleeper.
From the DenUer Times.

From the Denuer Times.
A young man, whose home is in Chicago,
and who has been in Denver only a little
more than q week, had al experience in the
Pullman sleeper between Kansas City and
this point which he will not soon forget.
Interesting and novel as it was, he does not
care for a repetition of the adventure. At
about 10 O'clock of the first night out from
Kansas City-the hour when most unc amy
things are wont TO 'happen-the young
man was awakened in his berth
by a pressure on his feet, and he
saw sitting at the foot of his bed
and dressed for the night in spOtless white
garment with insertings and rutfles and
things foreign to the midnight makeup of
male humanity, the form Of a girl or young
woman, whose features he could not distin-
guish in the dim, If not religious light.
While the young man is not susceptible to
shocks so far as the foibles of women are
| Involved, he was somewhat astounded, and
| lay still few minutes wondering what to
| do under the circumstances. Presently he
| found his wits and voice.
Are you comfortablem he asked in his
softest tones.
Pm quite comfortable" was the calm,
| unruffied reply.
The passive assurance of the woman in
| white interfered somewhat with the Young
mans line of thought and conjecture, but
| he was not long i'll formulating a second
| attack
"Wouldn't you prefer seat at the head
of the bedY' he asked
No, l thank you" was the response;
''rm very comfortable here"
Perhaps you would ike a pillow?" he
| suggested, offering her one of the two upon
which his head had been resting
By this time the young man was
thoroughly satisfied that the woman was
young and pretty if not unsophisticated. so
when she adjusted the pillow between her
head and the footboard of the berth the
temporary owner of the premises was mora
| pleased tnan panied. Partly in Difference
to wnat he thought was the Uncomfortable
| lmpudenc9 of his ghostly visitor, partly in
split of fun, and partly on account of
| the proverblal meagerness of thu sleeping
car pillow, the young man held out the
| other feather cushion, saying:
Nv ont you take the other one?"
Yes, she would and did, placing it with
its companion piece and saugly nesting
her head upon the pair All this time the
visitor had sat upon the e1ge Of the berth,
her feet res ing on the floor of the aisle, her
head and shoulders against the footboard.
The conversation which the young man had
| INDUCED in was in pianissimo tones, that be
should disturb no other occupants of the
I
had been less guarded i'll volume In fact,
they might have been heard good many
feet away had there been any wakeful ear
within the distance named
As -theIcrsature in white lay contentedly
back upon the pillows, her hands crossed
and her breath coming and going with
what seemed to ba measured regularity,
| tempus did not fight very fast for her berth
! mate. He hardly knew what to do in the
! face of such indifference under such circum-
stances, but collected his wandering
thoughts and asked her again if she was
comfortable. Perfectly comfortable" she
said. He. sat up in the bunk. She didn't
move. He put his feet in the aisle and sat
on the edge Of the bunk close beside her.
She paid no attention to him, when part
ing OF the curtains let ray of light fall on
her face
SOUND ASLEEP.
The eyes were stonily gazing at nothi ng,
ana not a feature of the countenance be-
! trayed the slightest evidence of conscious
ness. The face was pretty and innocent
that of pure minded girl cetween 16 and
20 years of age. 1t was plain thai size slep;
hat she was somuambulist and that she
had no knowledge of her whereabouts or
of her words or deeds. The young man
would as willingly have kissed a corpse as
that sleeping maidel. He tried by talking
to her to fad out now she had come 10 his
bunk, but could get no Ineligible replies,
other than that her sister and herself were
travelling to Salidas where they intended
visiting some friends, and, moreover, her
tones acre loud.
Worst of all the train came to a and
still while he wa eldeavori K to make her
tell where she belonged. The situation was
| increasingly embari as'ing. Suppose the
girl ha a fnthher or big brother on board
aud that relative should find her in the
strange young mans ber.h Odds POUNDS!
Suppose tho girl should suddenly recover
CONSCIOUSNESS and should scream, as only