The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-08-29

only one they nuu, uuue'"e"h''
"rhnt IN SO, sir" said one OF the
racing men, putting his head out OF
the window, "and dirty enough it Is,
too; but here we are, and here we
mean to stay, ind we'll be glad to
be be moving toward F., If con-
venient."
I thought the station-mnster look
ed inquringly from me to the man
who spoke, and back again to me.
His fiice was pale. and he seemed
about to speak, but looking ut his
watch, only signalled with his hands
to the gunrd, and then stood appar-
emily in much perplexity as the train
slowly left the station. Then no
glanced at me.
"Youlook cold, sir, he said; "come
and have Gun OF coffee in my room.
! suppose you will go on by the next
train?"
] followed him, convinced that he
would ask about that open door in
the old railway carriage. was not
sorry to sift the matter a little, for
l felt bol,ler now, surrounded by the
everyday details OF the small country
station. It's dreary refreshment
room, it's deserted bookstall, its one
porter-his day enlivened only by the
event of the passing trains-all this
was ordinary, well known, and any
thing but supernatural. When the
porter brought me the stereotyped
hun, fiat, limp, and Guarantees, scarce
~ recovered from obvious compress
sion in the box that conveyed it to the
station, | felt almost treasured. /
had been asleep, kneT, what more
satisfactory thnn to suppose had
been dreaming? But the station
master. having made some coffee. and
handed me N steuming cup, would
not let me rest.
would you mind telling me, sir"
he asked, in the whisper SO well re-
memberej my small brother adopt
ing in the dead of night when we were
boys, and which always made me
feel Creepy" chow that door came
open?"
'"That's just what I don't know"
l said. in the would-be reassuring
tone / always used to that small
brother, and with the old result,
namely, of blending our fears togeth-
er and doubling their intensity.
81 was asleep--I mean l had been
asleep. and perhaps kicked it,"
"Ah!" breathed the station-mas-
ter.
"Why?" l ventured to ask, after q
silence.
Only that four years ago, on the
first day of F. races, that same
carriage ran into our station with
its door open, rs it did to-day, and
inside was n woman in n dead faint;
she cs.,D 20 herself in an hour, ard
talked Of n murder"
But that carriage-how do you
know"
"This is how l know, SIR" and the
man got up and shut the door,
which opened on to the platform,
and pulled his chair nenr mine when
he came back. "Some seven or
eight years ago / was master here.
md waiting for the TRAN passing
through to the rnces us it might be
to-day, and as she came in saw q
door open, and going forward found
the compartment I'm disorder, N knife
on the floor, blood on it and ON the
eeat md carpet, and u slit in the
stutfing of the cushion at the lack
ust at the height-weIl, at the height
Y on saw it, sir, If iu's M think.
back aloasg the line. nsd
SOON found a girls body stabbed
md 1larOwn on the METALS"
"Thrown on the linef"
Yes So they snidi. 1t was nN
found out quickly enough when her
old father came to identity her, he.I
said she'd been robbed, COO. for she.
had Gb00 IN notes on her when she
was murdered"
'Arsei tine mamie did not escnpe?"
"No. the police guessea what he
had been wp to, md traerd him to
the races, where they mssde out he
1ad lostevers note he stols- He had
Deen beSting largely on one horse"
"Johp mol Gaunt." cried eagerly,
Dut witk,some Of the recens terror on
ne agnin,.
"Yes, THEFT wss it, sir; yo'1rve heard
The storvbefmee"
/ shook my kead and he vent on
"Well. Jliny followed him pyetty well
Ill over the country, pubic feeling
was so hlrd against him TINT every
one kne Mhe could not hide'lnDg, and
1t last they came upon Xim half |
starved i'm ~ barn; he faced shem and
shot himself, ssnd escaped Ranging"
l did not speak, was gazing over
my recent experience in the-train.
"The queer part OF it. sir,.is this"
,nid the. station master. after the
,oroner'$ Jury had BEEN here and
seen the sarriage-left untSUehed for
them you'll UNDERSTANDINGS never
used it; somehow the mSn did not |
ike it, anil ono market-daI they sent
It back to the station you come
rom, sir, and for years it was not
nsed. Then four years aga, asI said,
they lns0ke1 it on for the races, ev-
sry bit Of it rolling stock being want
ID, and then it came in here with it's
door swinging, and aswsoning wom-
an inside. who told a strange story
when d could be got ous Of her. The
men liked it less after that, and senA
It back again, and now that fool
down the line drags it out on race
day Of all days in the year, and pats
you in It, sir, and in my idea it ought