The Portland daily press., 1895-09-21

the edge OF line paper wnlcn ne was pre-.
tending to read The same little comedy
was gone through with again, and this
time she smiled slightly, but encouraging
", and Jack smiled back. Nay, do not
frown. What would you have done under
the same circumstances, o stern and NOR
al benedicts Of years standing?
At any rate Jack smiled, and then with
malice aforethought, as he very well knew,
this pretty girl began to struggle inetfec'
tually to raise the car window. Now, this
has been the accepted prelude to car nirta,
tions since the invention of railroads, and
there is good ground for thinking that II
may be the reason why car windows al
ways stick AS soon as Jack saw her at,
tempts he calamity sprang up and offered
to help her. With charming confusion
she accepted, and after q few vicious tugs
the window came up, and Jack sat down
beside the charming young woman. He
was so exhausted he had to.
'sOh thank you SO much, said she.
ut is SO hard to get these windows up.
AS was coming through on the main line
tried SO hard to get one up and no one
offered to help me-.
"Have you ever been out this way be.
fore?' he asked.
"Oh, yes. used to live In Boston OF
about here"
eyes, indeed know--er-that is, IL
do not know any one now. Everybody has
moved away"
CHOW, what the dickens made her blush
like thatp' thought Jack as the young
lady suddenly became intensely interested
in the passing landscape. She turned back
again after tdms, but evidently had great
difficulty In Meeting her companions eyes.
Every reference to Boston or it's vicinity
was discouraged With restrained confn-
sion. Jack made some tactful attempts at
getting her n4r1c, but every one was foiled.
"She's bright girl, u said Jack to him
self, "but what makes her want to giggle
all the timer
The train approached Alton Centre, and
the young Lady made preparations to leave
the train, and while it pulled into the sta
tion Jack dekrisffh er bag to the door and
wished her goodby She turned as If to
speak to him and hen ran down the steps.
"She is q mighty 4rstty girl" unused
Jack as he resn1neH Ills seat. "But what
--wonder If I'd bstter say anything to
Edith abolt 1t. No, won't--no need of
it, And he began to read his paper.
His wife met him at the gate, and her
face wore lock Of dissrn6 d5ment.
"Maude b mot unIaing todsy, Jack, shs
said ''She wrcte me she was going to
stop of to see friend and come on to-
morrow on the afternoon train. Isn't it
mean, after all my preparations toop'
Jack thought 1t was, and the subject
dropped. In tho evening they went over
to the Van Phys to play whist, and Edith
and Mr.. Van Pluys beat Jack and Mrs
Van Pluys, much to Edlth's delight and
Jack 8 chagrin for If there WAS one thingon
which Jack lrided himself it was his whist
and his famous combination play of the
king second humid which had never fiiled
Of IT'S object, but did fail signally that
night.
For some unaccountable reason the next
day did not pass as well for Jack in the
city. Everything seemed to go wrong.
His typewriter spoiled two briefs when
they were almost done, and he dropped his
big inkstand and spilled all Of the ink on
the pretty rug which he and Edith had
selected to mako the Office look more
CHEEKY. When it came time for him to go
to the station, he was glad and sank with
in his accrs+nrned seat with sigh Of re-