Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-03-11

Found your pocketbooks ~ the conductor
asked at this moment.
Myra saw her neighbor hand him some
money and receive ticket, which he stuck |
in the back of the seat before her.
81 am already under pecuniary obliga
tions to you, sir" she said MY friends,
who will be very grateful to you, will, of
course not allow me To remain so. Will
you kindly give me your card that may
know where to-
"All i'm good time" the gentleman inter
rupted. Now try to forget your anxiety
Myra made an effort todoso She wiped
her eyes, removed her tear soaked veil and
soon looked herself again. Meanwhile
her neighbor talked on gayly, pointed out
the interesting places on the road, amused
her in thousand ways. New York wap
reached before she dreamed that they were
there And now what was to happens
What happened was this
Her escort left her in the waiting room
for moment, and returning placed
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 a nice little restaurant hard by we
will 20 there"
Poor Myral All that she could do was to
repeat her thanks and think what grand
mamma and the Misses Upset would say
if they knew she had not only talked to n
stranger, but was under obligations to him
and was going to 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 he something gypsylikt
about me" she thought, lin spite of all my
good bringing up. to feel this way"
But she could not help being delighted
with her afternoon. Such IA nice little din
ner, such nice little walk afterward
Then tea in the loveliest place Myra had
ever seen, and then off 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, "and see that she has ali
she wants" There was a CLEAN of silver
between his glove and the black hand SC
readily outstretched Now, goodby," he
said, land thank you for the most pleas
ant experience | have ever had He put
"A parcel into her hands rs he spoke
"Oh, | have enjoyed it very much my
self" said Myra; "but-the pecuniary oh
legation Kindly give me your card my
family will'- 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 situationl But what could
Myra do but 90 to her place where later
she opened the dainty white parcel and
found n novel by the author she best loved
and package of the most delightful con
fectionery.
How oddly she felt-half happy. halt
frightened; how her heart was beatinyl
How words this stranger had uttered.
glances that he had given, returned to her
memoryl What did it all meanY
After she had tried to read awhile she
tucked herself under the snowy linen of
her bed. The soft, pink edged blanket
wrapped her snugly, 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
81 am in love with him." she said. "and
| shall never see him again, and am 20
ing home to marry Ben Cooper, whom
only Ikea little. Oh what shall do?"
Oh, how she cried! But it was only nat
ural, her grandmother thought, that she
should wear Il tear stained face after such
frightful adventures. There had been the
widest excitement over her nonappear-
ance, and Ben having gone away on bust
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 OBJ
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 piece of the
drapery had been so placed that Myra had,
in "a 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 for herself, sorry for Ben, when
in the course of "A week she heard that he
WAS at home.
They will he here to tea" Mrs. Ferris
said, and Myra wished that the floor would
! open and swallow her. Still her resolution
was unchanged, and when at last she had
dressed herself up in her pink cashmere,
trimmed with white lace, pinned II rose
bud in her hair and was fairly on her way
to the parlor 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. 1t was very
hard to send you home alone, but the law
yers needed me and | could not 20 with
you Can you forgive me my foolish
joker"
And Myra was, as you may imagine,
only too happy to forgive. Kyle
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