Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1892-03-24
MYRAS ADVENTURES.

1t was with real sorrow that Myra Ferris
babe adieu to a school that had really been
n home to her, to teachers who had been
friends, schoolnates who had been like
sisters. The eldest Miss Lipsett went TO
the depot with her in the cab, and on the
WAv began course OF advice to unpro
tected females that lasted until the depot
was reached The main point OF the advice
was to speak to nobody. OF all things cal
culatcd to bring an unprotected young,
single female traveller 10 grief, speaking to
nn unknown person was the most danger
Gus
"Remember." cried Miss Lipsett from
the station platform, and she put her fin
yer to her lips. Away went the cars, and
Myra sat wrapped in her veil and saw the
familiar landscape vanish, and thought
how the girls would miss her and how She
would miss them, until by slow degrees
future hopes replaced past memories
"And / am on my way to be married."
she said to herself what a queer girl !
am to have forgotten all about it,"
1t was odd, but then Myra's engagement
was an odd one
She had been brought up by her grand
mother. a sentimental lady of the old
school who was very fond Of her How
ever. her graudfather-who was afflicted
with the govt and bad temper-nlade his
house no home for child, and the girl
WAS soon sent to school. She spent the
summer vacations at home, however, and
ut times she met Ben Cooper, who lived on
the next place and whose mother had been
her graudnother's schoolmate, though
Mrs Ferris had married at sixteen and
Mrs Cooper at forty. Ben was the only
child OF the more mature couple the idol
of their hearts.
At first he was OF course. a big boy, al
ways ready to amUse the pretty little girl
next door, but By the time Myra was six
teen, he was young man, a very pretty
fellow, with blue eyes, curly hair and II
Gilnple in his chin. And he fell in love
with Myra and told his mother So and his
mother told Myrn's grandmother, and
Myras grandmother asked Myra to coniide
in her. and the girl said, with bushes,
that she did like Ben"
Then the elderly ladies resolved to make
the young people happy, and they were en-
gagged to each other, and Ben set to work
to make his fortune nnd Myra went back
10 school.
IL the course of making his fortune Ben
WAS obliged to 20 to California, ana there
he had now remained five years, and Myra
had been kept at school pcrfecting herself
in many accomplishments until she was
onc-and-tWeuty. And now the poor old
grandfather, no longer driven mad by his
aches and pains, lay at rest in his grave,
and when ,iyra reached home the wedding
day would he set, and Ben would go into
business for himself near his old home.
They had written constantly; she had
always thought Of him fondly. He wrote
that he would he the happiest man alive
when once be held her hand in his again.
II shall be very happy, | know" Myrn
said TO herself, ''and | suppose all the talk
in plays and novels must be exaggerated
that in real life people never 20 wild about
each other, but just feel nicely, as | do tc
Ben"
She had come to this conclusion, when
the word junction" reached her ears. She
was to change at Croydon junction, and
springing TO her feet she ran to the door
and was helped to the platform by an ener
getic brakeman. A moment after she rec
osnized the fact that she had made a mis-.
take. This was not the place at which she
should have alighted. She must return tc
her car But sometimes at the junction
cars do very erratic things.
While Myra had been gazing about her
and realizing the fact that at Croydon
junction there was a grocery and not q
hotel at the corner of the one long street
that the station was on the other side, and
that the church there visible had steeple
whereas the one in sight had Il tower, bel
car had glided away and another taken it,
place. 1t was a New York train from
which people had alightcd to take lunch
con, and rs it flew upon its way without
making pause, Myra soon began to fee
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