The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-12-13


ton of their tctc-a-tete by this siap-das4'
and supcious looking son of Albion. Con
vcrSatiOn even on its previous lines OF cX-
pressiye silence, broken by gentle signs,
was no longer possible, and when Sybil
was not engaged i'll darling looks of lnuIgna-
ton at ;he interioping traveller. barncaded
rs he was behind his Bradshaw, she was
fam to seek refuge from the ilnpertinent
gances which the man occassion2MJ shot
over at her in the poetical pages of Mr.
Randall Dodd, from which she would now
and then select Il particular passage that
struck her fancy ..rcrest char over, with j."
finger. on the t,I1ov $S0,tU0 ic~.+sin ,nls
Ncxt the, tool the reduction O. ta1es s,,,
tic certainty did NJ al ;;,'s-a.' cream that
the delicate cifusous of his budding genius
would ever thus be used us kind OF rail
way cracker verses.
Thus the time wore away pleasantly
enough till DbcrhauScn was reached. where
our traveller had to branch off for Flushing,
and for that pun pose 10 change carriages.
The train had just stopped, and the captain
with his fair trust had risen to collect their
miscellaneous belongings, when suddenly
there was Il loud crash, sharp shock, aud
the occupants of the coupe We're thrown VIC
lcntly against the "; lis, heir traps and wrap
pings were hurried hgglcdy pigglcdy onto
the seats and hoor Owing to some blundcr
of Judgment nj the signal box, the points
man had switched another incoming train
iision, which, it IS tlue had no fatal re-
suits though it Inflicted bruises and minor
injuries on many Of the passengers. Sybil
gave a sharp sct'sm on being prccipitated
against the back of the coupe. aud sank
down in faint one of the seats
Captain MacCu!loch felt alarmed, and for
the first time in his life almost terrified
Eorgetful OF everything but the condition
Of the charming gil? whom, in so short a
time, be had learned to love he dartcd out
of and rushed along the MIA T.
form to ihc reilCSl mcnt room to fetch q
glass of Watcr-a thing he was some little
time i'll obtaining b. reason of the crowd of
unfortunate travellers beSicging the buffet
On his return he WAS immensely relieved
TO find that SybI had meanwhile revived
and was sitting up not much the worse
apparently Cor her shaking. As a matter of
fact her process Of restoration to c0ncious-
ness had been accelerated by the British
ba@man or journalist, whatever he was.
who, taking out his brandy hesk had moist
enihg the young /; dys lips with Il drop or
TWO Of It's contcn,@ and then excused him
sell from lurthc' samaritan service by say
ing, as he SnatchC.t up his personal nara
phcrnalia. that h had only half a second TO
ten the express for Cologne and Calais.
m lew moments more Captain Mac
Culiofh and his companion had safely
transferred themselves and their effects
to the Flushing express, which soon HaGhed
away on its screaming flight through the
'loWIands o holland;" and rccollnclino
now, what IN the first excitement of the
moment he had altogether forgotten, that
ms valise contained Il bottle of cau-dc-co-
logne which might prove refreshing to
Sybi after her fright. he took down his
bag and produced his keys. But what was
his establishment, his horror, his positive
pctriication. TO find that the bag at which
he was lunbllng was not his own valiSe at
all, but the property of the man who had
become his fellow traveller at Mindcn.
The collision at Obcrhauscn had jun
blcd up on the floor and seats of the car
riage all the contents of the racks and il
the hurry-skurry of leaving to catch the
Cologne express The Mintlen man had mis-
taken the cabinet couror's satchel for his
own; Will" the queens messenger. in the
perturbation of his feelings, had only dis
covered whom it was TOO Iatc-alas! much
too ate-that he brought away with him
bag that did not belong TO him-lille the
two mothers in the tale of solomon who ex-
changed their babies over night
What pen could paint, whq words de-
scribe, the anguish Of the captain on becom-
ing alive to the ghastly binder which the
AIindcn man had made But was it then.
a mistake on the part of this mysterious
parsonage. or was it not rather deliberate
design? Was it not just as likely as not
that The student of Bradshaw had had an
eye from the very first on the captains
dispatch case, and that he had merely
profited by the railway accident to execute
his nefarious purpose:
With 4 shIdder the captain now renlem-
bered the parting words Of Mr.. Bulcy-
| Ciaptrop, the English correspondent of St
| Petersburg. which he had looked upon as
so much mere chaff at The time; but might
| not that cntcrprsing journalist have meant
| it much more seriously than the queens
messenger imagined? And might he not
| have wired the tip to some accomplish of
| his TO waylay the captain on his homeward
way. and see what could be done with his
| papers? The thought was just as dreadful
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