The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-09-27

| entered the last car with his grip and
his paper. In the middle of the week
the train was seldom crowded, and
often Jack found himself entirely alone
for most of the journey. This hap
pened to be one of the days, and Jack
stretched himself out comfortably and
began to read the paper. The main
| line pulled out in a slow and dignlhed
manner. Jack saw fash of white ny
| by the window, and the next moment
ii charming young woman with dark
brown hair, laughing brown eyes and
jaunty blue and white shirt waist
and a red necktie stood in the door,
vision of summer personified. She was
| SO extremely pretty that Jack could
| not help looking at her again as she
came down the aisle She caught his
eve, half-surprisede expression flashed
| over her face, she paused uncertainty
and then deliberately sat down dl-
rectly opposite Jack. She arranged
her blue skirt daintily, looked out OF
the window and then at Jack, who
found himself stealing surreptitious
glance at her from the edge of the
paper, which he was pretending to
road The same little comedy was gone
through with again, and this time she
smiled slightly but encouragingly, and
Jack smiled back Nay, do not frown.
What would you have done under the
same Giro umstances, oh. stern and
moral 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 Intellectually to raise the car
window. Now, this has been the ac-
cepted prelude to car fiirtations since
the inven lion of railroads, and there is
good ground for thinking that it may
be the reason why car windows al
ways stick AS soon as Jack saw her
attempts he gallantly sprang up and
offered to help her. With a charming
confusion she accepted, and after a
few vicious tugs the window came up
and Jack sat down beside the charming
young woman. He was so exhausted
he had to.
'Oh, thank you so much" said she.
ut is so hard to get these windows up.
AS / was coming through on the main
line l tried SO hard to get one up and
no one offered to help me-"
Have you ever been out this way |
before?" he asked.
"Oh, yes. used to live in Boston or
about here"
81 suppose you have many friends
here%'
Eyes, indeed, know-er, that is, L
do not know anyone now Every
body has moved away"
Now what the dickens made her
blush like that?" thought Jack, as the
young lady suddenly became interest
I'd in the passing landscape. She
turned back after time, but evident
ly had great difficulty in meeting her
eyes. Every reference to
Boston or it's vicinity was discouraged
with restrained confusion. Jack made
.actful attempts at getting her name,
but every one was foiled.
''Shes a bright girl said Jack to
1imself, but what makes her want to
yiggle all the time?"
The train approached Alton Center
and the young lady made preparations
% leave the train, and while it pulled
INTO the station Jack carried her bag
20 the door and wished her good-by.
She turned as if to speak to him and
hen ran down the steps.
''She is mighty pretty girl" unused
Jack as he resumed his seat. But
if I'd better say any
hing to Edith about it. No, won't
10 need of it." and he began to read
lis paper.
His wife met him at the gate and her
ace wore a look of disappointment.
"Maude is not coming to-day, jack"
he said 'She wrote me she was GO
ng to stop off TO see friend and come
IN tomorrow on the afternoon train.
sn't it mean, after all my prepare
ions, too?"
Jack thought it was, and the subject
lropped. In the evening they went
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