Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-13
GORnON'S sAGACITY.
EConyrirht. ISNS


 years of ago Ind given to observation be- yond his class.
 George was always polite t0 the people who rode on his train. He never hurried them on. He never thought of hurrying them of. He knew the regular patrons and figured out their environment. Being n wise man these speculations were curi- ousiy aceilrate.
 This mafi was connected with hank; likely its most active han. Not the preSi- dent, or he would have ridden hp the av- eDue in . carriage, but not a common Ae- countant, or he would have quit all thought of banking whuri he quit the bank. This man, on the contrary, was calm, collected always, accustomed to meeting and i'm pressing men. That man was a lawyer; that other an architect; he always studied the lines of the new buildings when he passed them. That young woman was stenographcr. About this, though. George changttl his mind at the end of n week. She might be stcnogrnphcr and typewriter, but she was moro than that. She was a trusted employee of some kind: And he was glad of it. The train seemed lighter all the way from Forty third street, where she got on, down into the city. She was so hand somc so clearly a cultivated woman, so superior.
 One day the architect get on at Forty third street instead of Indiana avenue, as was his wont. He saw the stcnOgrapheT, lifted his hat and sat down by her side.
 Aha" said George Gordon, the guard Che has got acquainted and has moved l down nearer her. Good thing. like to see them together" After that the architect and the stonOg- | rapher often waited on the platform to- gcther for the train.
 Progresses nicely" said George Cor | don.
 They talked of architecturc and of | books, and of music. He knew more about the first and last. She was first in litcra- | ture.
 One night they got on the train at 7:30, | dressed for entertainment. Going to the theater," said George I Gordon.
 Now. he looked upon the architect as a wise man, and so concluded the young wo- | man was not in his employ. He looked OH her as a good woman and was sure of it. | Clearly they had an honest right to go to the theater together. 1 They never went alone after that. They | always rodo together, so that, one day in May, when the architect got on unaccom- panied, George Gordon was troubled. But whom she took the 10 o'clock train down | town, looking more radiant than ever, looking happier than ever, he smiled and felt thankful that loves young dream still waited for the fair of carth's women. After that she usually went down town in tho afternoon, and thcre was a look of sober dignity about her he had never seen l before.
 Married and keeping house." said the guard. 'LuCky man, that arChitCCt!' He saw her only once in June. In July i she appeared half a dozen times and brought back little bundles from tho dry l goods stores. In August he saw her from l the platform, walking placiCily in Forty | third street, and the big honest guard | paid her q bachClor's tribute of honor. She went thCrC nearly every morning, and when | tho architect came along ill the evening | George Gordon was almost rude to the Oth- CTS, letting him off first. Then he didn't see her again till after l Christmas, though the architect carried tho bundles from the dry goods stores and | carried them clumsily. One day in January she got on, carrying | baby, all untitled up with white flannel and lacc<, and he almost committed an as sault and battery on the Clodhoppcr whC wouldn't get up and give her the best seat in the car.
 l WaShington's birthday she and the ar chitcCt rode down together again, but lat | er, us bcfittcd holiday. In the afternoon shc went back with an older woman, who carried tho same baby and carried 1t better | than the stenographcr had done. Still she | was not a nurse. She was the social equal | of this young woman, whose marriage and matrimOny had cnnObled her.
 March tho young woman got on the
 
 day coat on, and George Gordon saw tho architect coming down Forty-third street slowly, looking with resignation for tho | next train.
 "TOo bad," unused the guard. "Too bad she has to go to work again. Sccms to me hc ought to provide for her better than that"
 She went regularly all through March and about tho middle of the month tho architect took to going down in time fol | the thCater almost every evening. And hC | went with another young woman-a young woman whom George Gordon did not ap prove.
 They camc back on his train ono night "a very late train, and little filled with passengers. They sat close together, ant the architect was frightfully attentive | George Gordon had grtxIt mind to throw him out of the window. He resolved he would show that man h' knew him, and that at tho very first Op portunity.
 It came on the following Sunday. The architect got on tho train ht Forty seventh strcct with the strange young woman.
 At Forty third tho strnugrapher, with the matrunly lady, the lahy and Gra! but very vigorous gentleman stepped into the next Car-cv idcntly in hurry.
 "Aha!" said George Gordon "Tracke' to earth"
 At Twenty sixth the architect and hi young woman were at tho door before tn, train stopped.
 Giving his wife the slip" said GcOrg Gordon. And then, to his unspcakabl joy. he saw the stcn"graphcr and her com pani"ns coming tu the same platform.
 "Twcnty-sixth!" shouted the guard.
 ''Oh, arc you on the trainT' cried tin young woman, smiling past him at tn stenographer.
 Yes. Father and mother both said w would be late, but we hurried. Of cours we arc in plenty time if you are" An' they both laughed.
 Tom, why don't you carry your littl brother?" asked the vigorous man, wh seemed in excellent spirits.
 Tho architect put out his hands for tn baby.
 Not on your wedding day." said tn elderly lady.
 Then they all laughcd-all but tn strange young woman. She blushed. "Win you kindly open that gatef' aske' the architect, for the guard was mOtionles with amazement. But he opened the gat and left 1t open all the rest of the wa l down town LEROY ARMSTRONG.