The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-11-11

over, and be quito comfy, So when !
found | couldn't crawl out, why, l just
squalted down there and made the best
OF It, as YOU might say. It's rather q
nasty place, thought 10, reallyW
"You don't say aoP We'll well And
you sat Just there and lot the bride
hang slack till lmogen camo and nib
hlei at IN II was a case Of the fisher
man ut both ends lof tho lIne--we
thought we were angling for you, and
you were angling Tor ns. You were sure
we'd como after you, supposeY
"Oh, thought I'd be sure to got out
somehow," replied tho young follow,
with tho inCorrigible confidence Of six
and,twenty, "lhO flood would have
gone down after bit, you 500; and then
thora'd have been some one crossing
tho ford, and 80 on, say, though" he
added, ingenuouly, it's n bit queer,
don't you think, that lmogen should
have known whore was? Because |
hadn'ttold her, you knows aud, in fact,
| didn't know myself till ! got there.
You Yankee girls are clever" sighed
no, with glanc0 Of complacent adml'
ration at his beloved. "she tells mo
sho had q preseRtiment or something"
he wont on, with u laughi "but sup
poOe II was Just u sort OF accident
Funny, though, wasn't TT
zone OF those accidents that Will
sometimes ocCur in tho best regulated
love affairs. But tell me, Tom, now did
you happen TO got into this acrapoP
Why didn't you 90 TO meet lmogen In
tho usual way, instead Of coming round
hare and giving US all this work. II
was something Of a risk, after all; and
next timo tho accident theory might
not connect"
"Oh, that was only that wanted to
ride ayor to Juno Pen, to look at como
cattle that wcro offered mo therei md
llisnred it out on the map that ] could
take a bride path from here through
tho woods that would bring me to tho
iour-corners in time to meet lmoyen Ut
haIi.past eight. And 40 II would, II 1t
hadn't boon for that Conloundod river
being down, you know. I'd mover
thought OF that. OF course, was
bound to got across, II | could, sooner
than 10 back. but my horse wAs swim,
nlng tho first thing ! know, and then |
know wal in for It. fancy ia have
boon late, though" no added, looking
at Inogcn; "pd have had a good ak
miles TO 70 after getting across, and |
hadn't boon in that hole long when
you two got hore,"
This statement aroused my curiosity
airo,h.
"What do you call mot loug7" lin
Quircd. "a couple OF hours"
"Oh, bless mo, II was nothing like
thatl Nupposo It seemed longer to
me than it really was; but 1t couldn't
have boon over fifteen or twonty minutes
at the outside"
"WOIl, lmogon," said l, lyon certain
" arc smart, oven for q Yankee glrl.
Almost any OF them, | suppose, could
have soon the unexpected and extraor'
binary peril in which nor lover lay in
tho neart OF tracHlesa iorCs: dozen
miles away; that is a very ordinary ac'
Complishment. But It must be, think,
comparatively sxceptionRble to be able
TO see all the details OF an event good
two hours before they have taken place,
and to get there blipdfOldcd in the nick
Of time 10 prevent the victim from got
ting borod. Are you in the habit OF do
lug such things. my dear, and would
you mind telling how 1t ls dono|
Imogens-who, you will observe, had
not spoken n vorl since she came np,
but had sat ieaIting hUr ewes IL ineiia'
bic felicity upon her heroic Thomas,
shook hef head, smiled family, aud re-
piled: II don't know, 1t seems Iiks
dream now. No, never had anything
like 1t before. | hope never shall
again. And no has promised me MAYER
to cross river again except on a bridge.
Would,you mind letting him ride homo
on Your horso2 He's so tired I'm suro
IL will hurt him to walk.
There was in this request something
40 convincing OF tho realty OF human
love between tho sexes, that am sure
| should have accedOd to It without n
murmur mad Tom permitted mo 10 do
so. But hc loudly and acorniully de.
clarod that no was as frosh as daisy,
aud walk was Just what lie needed to
prevent catching cold; besides. nothing
would induce him, no was kind enough
to say, to permit "an old man" like me
to 20 aiool while no was in tho saddle.
So 1t was arranged that should rido
on In advance and givn warning to
Imogcn's father OF the approach OF the