Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1893-05-05

.tion with the guard.
| broke the glass, pulled out tho
handle. The train slackcned, and, as it
stopped, the guard put his head in at
my carriage window.
Hisicyc glanced round the carriage. /
won't say he was disappointed not to see
corpse or some signs of struggle, but
the M hi was human.
"Why, you're all right he said {.
"Blest if didn't think you was dead
when l heard that bell It's wonder
it's connected. Just my luck, too, and
us ten minutes behind alreadyl What
did yer do it for, eh2" He opened the
door and put his head in with sudden
ferocity.
81 stnpped the train because I'm going
to get out, said firmly.
Nothing wrong2"
"No, but I'm going to get out"
He planted himself firmly in the door
way.
was desperate. We were three hun
dred yards or, moro from the station.
The up-train was siguallcd. Another
minute of this folly would lose me
Clara.
I-took out five pound note, laid it on
the seat and advanced toward him.
A herculean push, calculated, would
hurl the guard from the train, and 1
should flee along the down-linc.
To my astonishment his face had
changed.
"And what about my trouble, sir2"
he asked, politely, gnzing ut the note
stopping the train and liable, sir, to
get into trouble"
| jumped out of the carriage. He
made way for me dcfcrentlally. Our
hands touched. Great is the currency,
and it will prevail. The next minute
was speeding back along the down-lino
toward Ilalstcad Station. The limo is
laid on exceedingly rough gravel, and
my running was not easy. Nor am 1. Mt
any time, practiccd runner. My
breath came fast and with difficulty.
My knees ached furiously, but ran on.
could hear distinctly the rumble of the
train i'll the TUNE behind me-thc up
train. | was, reflected, running race
with the main line up: the prizc-Clara.
If the main line up won, it would bear
her away ON its bosom; ii won, should
IL Ipresscd my falling legs forward
fought for freer breath-got it in rap.
ture Of relief which by experts is called,
believe, the second wind-and the
main line up aud came in neck and
neck But Of course | landed on the
down platform. flew up the steps and
over the pridgc-I reached the up plat
form brcathlcss. hatless. but radiant.
Clara was just getting into iirst-ciass
carriage.
stumbled in after her, and sank
painting in the corner. She, seated at
the far Ig;adow, did not turn her eyes on
ME till the slow throb off tha train be-,
tolsenad dc partsse. Thea $40 loukc &c
her FELLOW tfayeler and hlsn chSs a
@ere aiono iii the garbage, aud fear II
had d ,ssastie air. Then she recda zsay
me, her fntS flushed, and she said VI 8
..0h-youa" with a, delinehtful light
ening of ewes and brow anlA dimpling
ut the corner of the mouth. W.
81 had" exclaimed. pantingly-"to
run-to catch-the train N
al suppose So" she said, leaning back
in her corner and smiling. sIt wasn't
very wise to rive yourself so little time
to do it in. Where have YOU sprung
from? 1lave you friends down here2"
~ nave sprupg," SAID, beginning to
recover myself, "from the main line
down, aud nm subject to a penalty not
exceeding e5 for awaiting myself OF the
electric communication and stopping
that train"
"Do you mean that YOU were in that
train that went through just nowi" said
Clara, looking interested.
"Yes; and stopped it. The guard
was not at first satisfied with my reasons,
though they were of the best"
"Why did you stop it9 What were
your reasons-if one may askl"
"You may ask, Though the guard did
not. stopped the train because have
been looking fo- you for four years, and
| saw you on that platform. would
have stopped tiger, or the march of
civilization, ON The same grounds"
She rave me n hurried riancp and