The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-26
THE WAITER GIRL.
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Romance from Real Life vouched For
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She was pretty little girl. and was
at one of the metropolitan stations.
Enter to her, as they say in the play
books. middle-aged gentlemen, very
hot, and in very great hurry. takes .
tumbler of claret and lemonade as be-
lifting the summer season, and precipi-
lately disappears on hearing the ring
ing OF bell, which proclaimed that his
train is due. He disappeared, but in
his hurry he left behind him pocket
book which he had taken out in order
to discharge his reckoning. Now that
pocket-book was very important one.
1t contained some sovereigns and roll
OF bank notes. and also some business
papers even more important than the
bank notes. The merchant retraced
his steps and went to every
place he had visited in tae course
OF the day, and he had been to
great many; but his memory was
an utter blank in regard to the refresh
ment room. He put an advertisement
In the papers; but mattresses do not
read advertisements unless they are
looking for a situation for self or
friends But one day this gentlemen
managed to find himself in this station,
which. by the way, was not in his nor
NAL line; one which he visited very
rarely, and, as it were, only by accident.
Directly he entered the room the pretty
girl at the counter recognized him, and
came up to the little table where he
was sitting--it now being late in the
autumn-drinking cup of tea.
II think, sir" she said, ''that you
left a pocket-book here some months
ago."
'Indeed did; and shall be particu-
larly glad to hear of it again"
The girl had her wits about he. It
would not do to give the pocket-book to
the first stranger that claimed it after
she had mentioned her find. Att he
same time she had a recollection of the
person to whom she spoke, which had
caused her to address him.
what sort of pocket-book was it?"
she asked. "And what did it contain?"
ut had three sovereigns in it and
papers, bills of exchange"
ut is all right. 1 have got your
pocket-book, she said: and she went
to little desk and produced it.
It was all right to the minutest de-
tail. There were the gold and notes,
and the other precious papers, little
silver besides, and half dozen postage
| stamps.
Young lady," he said. II am very
much obliged. Do you know that have
offered a reward in the newspapers for
the discovery Of this pocket-book?"
II did not know it. l am very glad
that kept it for you. do not want
reward"
She said this; but, being only hui
man waitress, dare say the vision of
bonnet, or dress flashed on her i'm
sgination.
"Now. will you write down your name
and where your mother lives in this
pocket-book of mine?"
81 have no mother; but I have an
aunt and lot of little cousins"
And she gave an address in Walbrook
Some time after this gentleman called
upon the aunt and said that he would
be very pleased to send the girl to
school for few years, defray all posi-
BILE expenses, and make himself respon-
sible for securing her livelihood after.
| ward.
The girl herself was not so pleased.
She thought that school was only meant
for little girls, and being a mature
young woman of seventeen, she thought
that she was much too old for it. But
being assured that there were girls
even older than that at the good and
small finishing school where he pro-
posed to send her, she was wise enough
to accept the offer, and cleverly availed
herself of all the advantages which
were set before her.
The merchant provided for her fut-
ure by persuading her to marry him.
She made him a good wife, and they
s1ive happy forever afterward," as if
they belonged to story book.-All the
Year Round.