Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-03-18


DO in emergencies like this"
Found your pockctbookg ?" the conductor
asked az this moment
Myra saw her ueighDor hand him some
money and receive u ticket, which he stuck
M the back Of the seat before her.
Il am already under pecuuiary obliga
/ uons TO you, SIR she said My friends.
VINO viii be very grateful to you, will. of
! course, not allow me 10 remain so. WIN
/ you kindly give me your card that may
know where to-
( All in good time" the gentleman inter
rupted, Now try to forget your anxiety"
Myra made an effort tOdoso. She wiped
| her eyes, resnoved her tear soaked veil and
soon looked herself again. Meanwhile
her neighhor talked on gayly, pointed out
/ the interesting places on the road, amused
! her IN a thousand ways. New York was
reached before she dreamed that they were
there. And now what was to happenY
/ What happened was this:
Her escort left her in the waiting room
for moment, and returning placed a
ticket in her hands.
Express TO Chicago" he said but the
/ Chicago express does not leave for several
hours and we must have some dinner. [
know nice little restaurant hard by: we
will 90 there"
Poor Myra! All that she could do was to
repeat her thanks and think what grand
mamma and the Misses Lipsett would say
II they knew She had not only talked TO q
stranger, but was under obligations to him
and was going 10 dine with him. And
moreover, since Of course the gentleman
would be repaid the money he had so
kindly spent in her behalf, she really quite
enjoyed the adventure.
There must be something gypsyiike
about me, D." she thought, in spite of all my
good bringing up, to feel this way"
But she could not help being delighted
with her afternoon Such a nice little din.
ner; such nice little walk afterward
Then tea in the lovelicst place Myra had
ever seen, and then of and away to the de
pot again. She felt AS though she had
known her companion forever
You will take this young lady to her
sleeping compartment" the gentleman
said TO porter, land see that she has all
she wants" There was a CLEAN of silver
between his glove aud the black hand so
readily outstreJched. Now, goodby." he
said, and thank you for the most pleas
ant experience have ever had" lie put
a parcel into her hands uS he spoke.
"Oh, have enjoyed it very much my
self, said Myra; "but-the pecuniary OBJ
legation. Kindly give me your card-my
family wil"- The car began TO move.
Take care, SIR cried the porter The
gentleman stepped briskly out Of the way Of
an approaching engine, only just in time
Her mOmentary fright over, Myra saw him
waving his handkerchief in the distance.
Here was a situation But what could
Myra do but go to her place, where later
she opened the dainty white parcel and
found "a novel by the author she best loved
and a package Of the most delightful con
teCtiOnery.
How oddly she felt-haf happy, halt
frightened; how her heart was beating
How words this stranger had uttered.
gl3Hces that he had given, returned 70 her
memory What did il all meany
After she had tried 20 read awhile she
tucked herself under the snowy linen Of
her bed. The soft, pink edged blanket
wrapped her -nugly, the car moved easily
but she could not sleep.
Suddenly in the night she sat up covered
her face with her hands and began to sob.
Il am i'm love with him, she said, "and
J shall never see him again. and I am 20
ing home To marry Ben Cooper whom
only Ikea little. Oh, what shall dor"
On, how she cried! But IL was only nat
ural, her grandmother thought, that she
should wear a tear stained face after such
frghtful adventures. There had been the
widest excitement over her nonappear-
ance, and Ben having gone away on busi
aess, something about property" Mrs.
Ferris said. IL had not his assistance in
making inquiries. What my feelings were
you will never know"
Poor Myra had enough to do TO think OF
her own feelings
Ben's absence, however, she WAS thank
for, for now that she knew what love was.
she could never, never marry man she
only liked.
Both ladies worried over the pecuniary oh
legation, and the browning touch was given
to Myra's modification when, in shaking
out her travelling dress, she found her
pocketbook, with all its contents safe be
tween the stuff and the lining. There was
neither rip nor hole, but a piece OF the
drapery had been so placed that Myra had
in moment Of abstraction, thrust the
pocketbook under it, and the mysterious
something" which had now and then
struck her ankle was at last discovered
Oh, it was dreadful and yet but for the
supposed loss that happy afternoon would
never have been. Poor Myra! she was
very sorry fyr herself, sorry for Ben when
in TIE course Of a. week she heard that he
was at home
They will be here 10 tea" Mrs. Ferris
said, and Myra wished that the floor would
open and swallow her. Still her resolution
was unchanged, and when ut last she had
dressed herself up in her pink cashmere
trimmed with white lace, pinned rose
bud in her hair and was fairly on her way
10 the Parior she resolved that Ben should
not for moment be deceived Gravely
she entered the room, her cheeks pale, her
eyes cast down. Some one rushed forward
TO greet her-two hands caught hers. She
looked up. Before her stood the stranger
who had won her heart
You did not know me, Myra," he cried.
but | knew you at once. It was very
hard TO send you home alone, hut the law
yers needed me and ! could not 10 with
you Can you forgive me my foolish