Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-04-20
this hour, and | took almost moth
ing to eat-befOre | started"

this hour, and | took almost moth
ling to eat-before l started"
81 have some nice, homemade
chicken sandwiches IN my bag
suggested the pretty girl. "My
aunt insisted on my taking them.
although | dined heartily before
leaving home, and l have little
alcohol lamp with every conven-
ience for making a cup Of good,
strong tea as we'll. If you will al
low me to prepare it for you"
Mrs. ES'eihall was IA gcuuine
teamanlac. a new brigh tness
came into her eyes at this sugges
ton.
"You are very kind" said she.
'But you Will want it yourselli'
no" smiled the girl. 81 don't
care for tea. But my kind old
aunt would put the things IN .
Now / am glad that she did So"
In five minutes, Mrs. ETterhall
had eaten and drunk. and felt in.
finitely refreshed, she did not
pause to question herself, but she
presently found herself reclining
comfortably, with her head on a
pillow lmprOvised OuIof the folded
blanket shawl that belonged to the
young glrl; and mingled with her
dr0wsy reflections, came the soft,
low murmurs, of the sweet.faced
brunette who had changed her seat
and that other companion to the one
directly back OF Mrs. Esterhall, aud
was talking almost in a whisper.
"No, am net going back: and l
do not intend to communicate my
addr ess TO anyone
"NOt even to him?v
no, not even to him."
"leS; and this is the YeIyreasOu
| am determined to create 10 dis.
senSion between him and his friends
Perhaps he will forget me-"
"He Will never 90 InaT.'
But at least | shah feel that |
have done myduty," said the hazel.
eyed girl, firmly. II shall love
him to the end Of his days, but |
shall not have ruined his future"
"And all this" cried the compan.
ion, "out of Difference to the whlms
OF an old woman whom you have
never seen"
coat OF Difference to his mother
Alice" gently corrected the first
speaker.
what a quixotic notion!'
dreamily mused Mrs. Esterhall.
"But she has an excellent idea of
duty, this darkeyed little girl.'
"That Is you, all over, Ehie~
said the friend. "You are always
ef1acing yourself IN favor of some
one else. Here you are giving all
your tea and sandwiches to a
person you have never heard of,
abandoning your seat to poor
little woman With a crying baby,
because it is a trifle nearer the
stoye, and to cap everything giving
up the man You love and who
loves you, because"
"Decause 1t is my duty" said
Efie. "Please, Alice, don't
let us discuss the matter any Ion
ger. 1t is because | love Guy
that | am willing to sacrifice
everything for his sake"
"GuJ! Bless my soul Guy
thought Mrs. EsterbalI, sitting
suddenly up. But, OF course,
there are other Guys than mine
in the world"
Just then there was tremble
of the frozen ground under them,
a roar and rush of lighted cars
past them.
"The Western express at last!'
shouted the chOleric old gentle
man, bObbing up IN his seat like
an India rubber ball.
"All a6o.o.ard!" bawled the con.
ductor, with a twitch at the bell
rope; and on moved The train at
last, creakihg and grOaning like
some monster serpent in pain.
Mrs. EsterhaIl leaned over the
back OF the seat, toward the hazel
eyed girl.
"My DEAR" said she, between
the throbs of the engine, "is 1t
GuiOn Esterhall that you are speak
ing OFF,
The girl started and coIored.
She could not repress a cry of snr-
prise.
eyes? l thought So" Come over
here and sit by me. ! am bis mother
and | want to talk with you"
1t was two o'clock IN the morn
ing when they reached Esterhall
Station, bat the covered sleigh
was waiting for them, with hot
soap-stOne fOOt-warmers and about