The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-06-18

And received from the hands OF o. tCttte
haired gentleman his unkno1Cn bride.
"We used to aim to be on time," the
official observed cheerfully, "but these
here grades are TREMENDOUS heavy, an
the curves sharper n common. The
hind coach jumps the track once in
| while if she amt humored, an it takes a
burned sight longer to hist her back
| with fence rails 'en it does to run keer-
full"
'sThe schedule oughtn't to say one
thing and the road do another" re-
buked Royal Its an imposition on
the public"
'sWell, it don't look considerate," ac
quiesced the conductor, then added, with
the esprit de corps of all railway men,
1--WE do make it most in general. Some
times, like today, we gets bothered. It
don't happen more'n once a fortnight
we lose over fifteen or twenty minutes. !"
He walked away with uplifted
shoulders, which gave to the back of his
coat an expression of protest against in
temperate haste. And Royal, as though
that could expedite matters, established
himself on the platform.
/
lay which threatened shipwreck to his
scheme by depriving him of the time
necessary for explanations and readjust-
ments. His sympathy and interest had
become so involved that he had come to
feel personal pride in carrying the af-
fair through to q successful issue-to
feel that he had heralded himself to en-
ter the lists against caprice and injus-
tice, and was in danger of failure, not
through lack of prowess, but through
extraneous and exasperating circum-
stances. So completely did the matter
absorb and possess him that obstacles
instead of daunting his resolution and
causing him to reconsider the situation
only aroused and concentrated his forces
as though they had been distractions in
the path of his individual hopes an6
fortune.
He was anxious also about the patient
he had been compelled to leave in the
care of an inexperienced young fellow
downy with graduation honors and sell
confidence, whom he had picked up il
, the Office Of the hotel. The case was 81
serious that the least mismanagemen
might precipitate the result.
Held aloof by preoccupation, Roya
failed to appreciate or even note tn
grand uplifting of the country reunt
about, the exquisite tracery of the win
ter forest, the delicate hue of the sky
or the wonderful harmony of tone givel
by the shading of earth and rocks, tire
stems and fading vegetation. Even tn
8 quick leap of a brook escaped him. an,
| the grace of the curve with which, like
queens obeisance to a rival power,
turned aside from the embankment o
the railway and pursued its lovely, mu1
: murous journey down the mountain
Higher up the road ran at the foot O
! cliffs covered with laurel and scrub pin
and cedar, whose gray powders jutte'
up through dark mold and the brown
ness of fallen leaves. relieved and bright
ened here and there by patches of pal
u tridgeberry and teaberry vines, whic
a grew low, and showed vivid scarle
q against dark green, where birds an
5 rabbits had left the fruit ungathered
i, Against the rocks, in sheltered nook;
o where the wind could not despoil them
d were long trails of bramble vines an
e poison oak holding punches of dark pun
s pie berries and tufts of crimson leaves.
Il Through long cutting. whose side
: showed the presence of iron ore, th
" train steamed out into a broad VALLEY
e and drew up at a small station with d,
i ceitful briskness and a self laudator
/, whistle OF accomplished duty. Roys
e lost no time in transferring himself an
his impotence te the station platform
Anybody here for DR.. Royaly'