Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1892-12-29

ana mucn ulSUIeSseu III the result
haven't money enough. What shall l do:
II. C.-Pay fare, anyway.
p. G. C.-The little girl can go for
ward in one of the regular coaches.
Miss Raymond finds enough in her
purse to pay half fare to Buffalo and
hands it to the train conductor.
During this scene Jack has been in-
tently looking out of the window in
, decidedly uncomfortable frame of mind.
His heart is not by any means broken
at the prospect of losing the company of
the little girl, but when he thinks he sees
just suspicion of glisten under Miss
Raymond's downcast lids, with their
heavy, soft lashes, he can stand it no
longer.
Jack producing his one five dollar bill
with the air of a millionaire me,
Miss Raymond. Here, conductor.
The parlor car conductor takes his
money without the slightest scruples, re-
turns Jack $3 and passes on.
Jack devotes the next ten minutes to
assuring Miss Raymond that it isn't of
the slightest consequence; that it will
not Inconvenience him the least bit in
the world, etc.
Miss Raymond says she will send it to
him the next morning and asks his a6-
dress in Buffalo.
When she finds he's going through to
Chicago she is more distressed than ever
and declares she will get that dreadful 50
from her uncle that very night when he
meets her at the depot.
OF course her distress gives Jack an
opportunity to say a great many things
of sort suited to the circumstances and
he feels like hugging-the little girl.
1t is really very interesting CONVEX
sation that is interrupted by the appear
ance of brakeman and sound that re-
sembles ntymintsfreshment."
Jack, thinking be will get his 80 at
Buffalo, asks if he may get some ''fresh-
ments." They decline, with thanks.
He excuses himself, invests in sand
witch, a cup of coffee and a package of
cigarettes-40 cents. He then hunts up
the sleeping car conductor and pays him
So for the berth he had engaged, leaving
y cents in the treasury.
He then draws the parlor car conduc
tor aside.
conductor, L have a berth in the
sleeping car and two young ladies in my
charge have seats in your car as far as
Buffalo. I'd like to sit with them and
see that they get through safely"
"Sorry, sir, but if you sit in the parlor
car you'll have to pay. But it's only
fifty cents"
Jack hands over fifty cents and re-
joins Miss Raymond.
The little girl goes to sleep, also the
passengers.
Time flies with vengeance, and all
too soon the train rumbles into the depot
at Buffalo. They alight to meet Miss
Raymond's uncle.
The uncle kisses Miss Raymond with
Affection but looks inquiringly at Jack.
Miss Raymond introduces Jack.
The uncle is not what one would call
cordial. Miss Raymond is distressed
beyond measure-''rattled.
Jack relieves the tension by taking
formal leave of Miss Raymond, nodding
to the uncle, and seeking his berth in the
sleeper.
Time, 1890 a. M. distance from home,
several hundred miles; cash in the eX-
chequer, % cents.
1t is charity to draw veil over the
next day-15 cents for coffee and a sand
witch for breakfast at Sarnia, 5 cents |
for glass of milk for dinner at Mar
shall, Mich, noted for its fried chickens,
its cold roast beef, it's hot rolls, the |
O'Clock supper at the De Long mansion
| in Chicago that frightened his mother
and astonished his father.
A week later dainty letter post
marked Buffalo," arrives.
Jack opens it and finds 50 bill and
conventionally polite note of thanks,
regrets for any inconvenience, etc. 1t is
signed, Yours sincerely. Isabel Ray
mOnd."
But Jack thinks he can read between
the lines, for below is ''No. 173, Rhodes
av.''
HIrsaS Il hol \ Gov
travelling, but John belong of Chicago
does not look as if he regarded it hard
ship as he gets off the Chicago express
at Buffalo.
And this fragment of conversation has
rather sound of thanksgiving than
otherwise:
''Do you remember Jack, how you
stalked away that night in the depot at
Buffalo? | never expected to see you
again. You looked positively savage. l
fairly hated my dear old Uncle Bob"
'He was trife chilly. And then to
see you waste kiss on him and peek out
of the corner of your eye, as much as to
say: Don't you wish"
81 didn't-and s'pose did,"
"By the way, how much do you sup
pose had in my pocket when L said
goodbye
Il uOu huOW. Ou Puu oL al
enough for millionaire"
'Just twenty-five cents"
"Why, you poor fellow, you must
have starved | served you right. though,
scraping acquaintacen with strange girls
= Oh train. You won't do it any more,
will you, Jack? There! there will
that repay your"
"No; you'll have to take that very
: same trip wi h me to make it square,"
p ''But Jack! Do take more than
twenty-five cents-there'll be two of us.
you know"
Taking a much worn letter from his
= pocket-book, opening it and producing a
4 81 bill, Jack said:
! isabel Raymond, did you ever see
4 that hefore?"
q "Yes-no; | don't know"
4 "Yes, you do. Read what's writer
right under your name in this letter."
a Isabel (reading)-'I hereby dedicate
q this filthy lucre to dinner for one, t.
ha eaten at Marshall Mich. the one 10