The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-11-18
with their heavy, soft
stand II no longer.

Win their neaVy. SOFT laSness ne can
stand it no longer.
Jack producing his one fve-dollar
bill with the air OF millionaire) =
Allow me, Miss Raymond. Here, con-
ductor.
The parlo--car conductor takes his
money without the slightest scruple,
returns Jack three dollars. and passes
on. Jack devotes the next ten min
utes 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 Ray
mond says she Will send it 70 him the
next morning and asks his address in
Buffalo. When she finds he's going
through to Chicago she is more dis
tressed than ever. and declares she viii
get that dreadful two dollars from her
uncle that very night when he meets
| her at the depot. OF course her dis
tress 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 q
very interesting conversation that is
interrupted by the appearance OF a
brakeman and a sound that resembles
Observation-Disclosures"
Jack, thinking he will get MS two
dollars at Buffalo. asks If he may get
them some .'freshmeuts-" They de-
cline, with thanks. He excuses him
self, invests in a sandwich, a cup of
coffee, and 4 package OF cigarettes
forty cents He then hunts up the
sleeping-car conductor and pays him
two dollars fo- the berth he had en-
gagged, leaving seventy-two cents in
the treasury. He then draws the par
lor-car conductor aside
Conductor, I have 4 berth IN the
sleeping-car and two young ladies in
nv charge have seats in your car IS
far as Buffalo. I'd like to sit with
them and see that they get through
safely"
Sorry. sir, but Il you sit in the par
lor-car you'll have to pay. But it's only
fifty cents"
Jack hands over fifty cents and rejoins
Miss Raymond. The little girl goes TO
sleep; also the passengers. Time flies
with Z vengeance, and all too soon the
train rumbles into the depot a: Buffalo
They alight TO meet Miss Raymond 5
uncle. The uncle kisses Miss Raymond
with affection, but looks ingui-ingly at
Jack Miss Raymond introduces Jack.
The uncle IS not what one would call
cordial Miss Raymond IS distressed
beyond measure-''rattled." Jack re-
lieves the tension by taking formal
leave OF Miss Raymond. noddiug 20 the
uncle, and seeking his berth in the
sleeper. Time, 1870 4. m: distance
from home, several hundred miles; cash
in the exchequer. twenty-five cents
II IS charity 10 draw q veil over the
next day-ffteen cents for coffee and
sandwich for breakfast az Sarnia; FIVE
cents for glass Of milk for dinner at
Marshall, Mich, noted for its fried
chicken, its cold roast beef, its hot
rolls; the eight 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 two dollar bill and con-
yentionally polite note Of thanks, re-
grets for any Inconvenience. etc. It is
signed, Yours sincerely, Isabel Ray
mond-" But Jack thinks he can read
between the lines, for below is No. 173
Rhodes avenue"
Thanksgiving day again. A bad day
for travelling, but John De Long, of
Chicago, does not look as if he regarded
it hardship 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? 1 never expected 70 see you