Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-07-26

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She might at least have her own be-
longings, the poor little thing.
took up in one arnful her three
bags and her rugs, nnd, throwing
them at a baggage man who hap
pened TO be standing on the track
next the train.
TO that lady over there" | cried.
The baggage man took the things
and started of toward the lady at
the bookstand.
AT the same instant in the other
end OF the carriage, the side next the
Platform, the door opened and my
fellow traveller appeard-frightened
and hustled along by cross con-
ductor, threw herself into the seat.
and the train departed. Horrorsl |
had mistaken the woman The Indy |
Of the bookstand was not she. after
all--same cloak, same hat, same way
OF holding her head-but it was not |
she.
1t was IA Traveller who was not
travelling. How absurd that two
women should look SO much alike.
had made fine mess OF it.
She hardly entered the carriage he
4 fore she uttered a cry-''My bags
Z my bags have been stolen. And for
the first time she looked at me. but.
good heavens. with what "a look I'll
never forget that look, you may be
sure.
No, madame" stammered,
your bags nre not stolen--they are
they are left at Tonnerre!"
Eat Tonnerre? How"
Ie1plained il all 10 her. Lordl !
won't attempt to describe the second
look she gave me, but | think shall
remember that longer than the first.
Il am in despair, madame!' ] eX-
claimed, absolutely in despair, but
my motive was IA good one, ] assure
sou. ! thought you were going To
miss the train, that you would
catch cold, and ! did not want
you to catch cold. In fact. ii
you will pardon my saying
so. YOU need not worry about your
! bags. they ARE IN safe hands--a hng-
gngeman-at the next station YOU
will telegrnph--we will telegraph
: they win he sent on Immediately.
OH you will surely have them,
/ swear. II have TO return TO Ton
neere myselfto recover them"
, Enough, sir, she said Il know
perfectly what TODD" And she sunk
. into her corner again, angrily twist
Ing her gloves.
But alas, poor little woman, she
g had not thought OF the cold. and she
: no longer had her good, warm rugs
: Before ten minutes were out she be
! gan 10 SILVER. In vain she changed
Z her position and drew her cloak clos.
y or about her pretty figure; she was
J. positively rhnttering.
o Madame. | said, II beg you OF
I my knees take my rug. You vii
J. catch cold. which will he my fault
. and ] shall never forgive myself n
g long as live.
y II wish 10 have nothing TO say I,
? you. sir. she said, dryly.
a was nervous aud much excited
In the first place ! thought her per
e fectly charming. In the next place
y was furious at my idiotic mistake
>, In short was ready for the mos
y desperate steps.
N Madame" | said. take my ru
p or swear will throw myself on
r. on the track. and castingI the ru
letwecn us lifted the window AM
% took hold OF the outside handle {
al the door
/ Was really inearnest? Entrenoui
not really. suppose, but il seems
IN must have looked so for she erie
Z. out:
ID But you nre crazy, monsieur, yo
nre craEyr'
os The rug or ! jump" She too
n. the rug and in soitened tone:
But you, monsieur, you will die
If cold. /"
10 Don't disturb yourself about m
=. madame. am not delicate-an
,s even If do take cold it will only
* the just reward OF my unpardonab
On stupidity.
SAY. rather, your haste. for
" course. as you say, your motive w;
,f' rooi-hut how could you have tn
TO on that other woman for me"
ty Because she was SO pretty" -
OF Rmilpu. the ice WIS hIbhth -AilN iNN
1t, conversation, | mean, for otherwis'
was chnttering with the cold. 81
MT how soon forgot the cold, the iou
ho ney-everything She was deliciou
"a. exquisite. adorable, a clever min
nd bright, gay, original. She was fol
4 n Of travelling like myseli-lilSe mys
bic She had been in Italy, in Spain. 5
by dreamed oi going TO Egypt Just as
did. In literature, music, in ever
no thing. in fact, the same tastes
on. mine. And then, only think, n no
~. of mutual friends. She wns intima
~. with the Saint Chames, with t
~, Sayonys. particularly with the MOI
" ynzins. And so think that | mig
IA have seen her twenty times at the
~, houses. and that had not motto
~ her. Where were my eyes-l shot
~, like to know-where We're my eyes,
- She spoke freely, pleasantly. WI
.nd that distinguished simplicity whiel
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