The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-09-06

your last chance. Telegraph me at"
She looked inquiringly at the guard.
who promptly answered: "Next stop
Creve. We reach there at 1.35.
She gave the guard n handful OF
money to pay for the extra wording Of
this dispatch. That good man was
rapidly becoming rich. He sighed as
he remembered that the next stop was
the last before reaching Liverpool.
He wished that he was on train for
Scotland with such passenger aboard.
"Here is your tea, my dear, said
George, as he came gingerly along
with it in his hand. The girl drank it
with many expressions of gratitude
toward her lover.
"Well, the next stop is Creve, and
after that Liverpool" lie said, rs he
handed back the empty cup to news
paper boy to take back to the refresh.
ment room.
$50 the guard tells me-" replied
Tillie, sweetly.
At Cteve the guard came to her with
the final telegram. Its wording was
terse and to the point. 1t ran: 81
love you. Will you he my wife?'
"Lend me another of those blanks, ]"
she said to George.
II haven't another but you can get
one at the telegraph Office.
The train was moving OF, SO she
said.
Never mini. | can send the tele.
gram from Liverpool.
They reached the terminus in mn
hour Turning TO the guard, Tillie
said:
"Would YOU mind taking my things
10 the telegraph office for me;' And
to- George she added "You wait here
until | send for you.
When they reached the telegraph
Office Tillie turned and said quickly
to the guard:
"When is the next train back to
Loudon?'
"On this line there is not one un.
til 40, but you can get one ON the
Midland at 3. >
Tillie took last telegraph blank
and wrote:
Certainly. Why couldn't you
have said so at first aud saved me all
this telegraphing? ! return to Lon
don Immediately. Call and see me
tomorrow.
This being sent of she turned to the
man who had been her friend all the
way through.
Now she said. take me to the
Midland train" As the guard hest.
tnted, she added al am going to
give you ten pounds" -"
The guard personally conducted her
to an empty compar rtment OF the Lon.
don train. She scribbled note to
Webley on the back of II telegraph
form. The note read:
"DEAn GEpRaE-I hav, concluded not 10
go TO America this trip. our proposal
rlopsment was very foolish affair and
hope you never thought | was In earnest
about II. Take my advice aud go TO Ameri-
81. am told that tho girls over there are
much prettier than yours truly.
"TuLIE MARKHAM
There" said Tillie, giving the note
to the guard with the parting tip,
stake that to the ye"r~ nj n who IL
guarding his luggage= / tell him
where have gone, nor give him any
information. He will offer you much
m9vey, of course, because he has plen-
~. Take the money, and tell him |
have gone to the country. Tell him
anything you like, only not where |
have really gone.
All of which went to show that Til
lie had no conscience.
The guard touched his cap and de.
parted. After the London train had
steamed away from its station the
guard handed George tine note. He
did not get the money he expected
A look of relief passed over the young
fellows face. Then he whistled, aud
said to himself more than to the ex-
pectant guard:
''!Sensible girl was getting little
tired of it myself. detroit Free
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