Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-09-09
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"fmpossibie, madam 9, we have no car
riages here. You can only get one at
Lyons"
AT Lyons-at what timer
"At five forty-fye, madame
"All day. then. But can't stay In
this carriage until that time. Il is inn
possible. don't wish to-
Take care, madame, the train is leav-
ingf'
And of the train went
She buried herself in her corner again,
In perfect rage, and did not deign 10
cast the smallest glance at me-
AS for rae set myself to reading as
siduousiy my tenth newspaper.
Shall confess it? 1t took me longer
! to read that tenth paper than it had to
read the nine others. read the same
/ line over twenty times. | believe that
half the time / held the paper upside
down. But then. after all, a French
mans FrenchInan, and you can't ex-
pect man to take long journey with
distractingiy pretty woman and not
| feel some kind Of interest in her. | was
| dying to talk to her, but could not find
or invent any pretext to begin CONVEX
sation.
/ On account Of the cold the old time
expedient of raising or lowering the
/ window was of no avail What was TO
be dones Make some idiotic remark.
apropos OF nothing No, hundred
times rather keep still. | had ininedi-
ately discovered, with the instinct Of the
old Partisan, that my companion was a
woman Of position. To suddenly address
her, without an introduction, in any
such fashion would have set me down in
her eyes as the most contemplate Of
commercial travellers.
The only way to manage it was to find
something magnifcently original to say
to her. But what? WHAT ! searched
in vain.
/ was still searching when the train
suddenly stopped with that new patented
brake so good for accidents and so bad
for passengers.
''Tonnere. twenty-five minutes foi
refreshments" sang out the conductor as
he opened the door.
| My neighbor got up. freed herself from
her rugs. which she left in the carriage
with her three little bags. and got out.
1t was noon. She was beginning to get
hungry, She took her way to the buffet
at the left ON the other side Of the track
| followed her. ad1niring at my ease
her charming figure, well set off in long
/ oil h fa1 frN
noticed also the pretty little dark curlt
under the knot of hair at the back, a hat
of gray felt. and pair of very little feet
The proprietor of the restaurant, ar.
rayed in velvet cap. and who bore a
wonderful resemblance to Napoleon Ill
stood at the door and pointed out with
much dignity and wave of his napkin
the long table which the travellers were
to take by assault.
4 was hustled along with throng OF
disheveled and bundled up passengers
the typical crowd of fast express, es-
sentially grotesque and utterly impossi-
bic from the standpoint of beauty-rush-
ing to be fed.
l. | sat down and hastily deyoured the
succession of courses which were put be
fore me. AS for my fellow traveller she
took a cup of bouillon at table by her
self.
i | was one of the first to finish, and
went out to smoke a cigarette on tbs
platform. The twenty-five minutes, re
duced to twenty as usual, would soon be
up. The travellers in groups were leav
ing the restaurant and taking their place:
in the train. | had resettled myself il
mine. My little traveller had not ap
peare1. could see her at the little book
stand, on the other side of the track
looking at the books spread out in row
Her hair seemed little lighter to ms
than before, but that was doubtless tbs
effect of the distance. Everybody wa
on board; the guards were slamming tbs
doors.
lis she going to stay here!" thought
'she is mad"
Madame! Madame!" l called out O
the door. A shrek of whistle-the trai1
was goingl
What was to be done? A though
, struck my brain like fash of lightning
. She was going to be left behind in thil
frightfully cold weather, without he.
baggage or her wraps. She might a
least have her own belongings, the poo
little thing.
took up in one armful her three bag
| and her rugs, and, throwing them at ;
baggage man who happened to be stand
, ing on the track next the train
ITO that lady over there" cried.
The baggage man took the things ant
started off toward the lady at the bool
stand
At the same instant in the other enc
of the carriage, the side next the plat
form, the door opened and my fellow