The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-10-08

You VIII ind some papefS III Ia"re
If you care to look at them. | shall see
you again at BarnStaple; l shall have
done my smoke by that time. Au
revOir!'
He NEAR to travel with me from
Barnstaple to Noelcombe,' Helen con
Guided, closing her lips tight and not
looking amiable.
That is precisely what he had meant
and what he also proceeded TO do.
At Barnstaple he entered the ear
riage as though it vas a matter of
purse that he should do so, and,
taking the eat opposite to its occu-
pant, he said
Il hope you don't mind my coming
in here? There was such a lot of men
in the other carriage that they smoked
me out"
She made some inarticulate sound
which suggested her Indifference to his
movements.
A pile of illustrated papers lay where
he had placed them, beside her on the
seat. He pointed at them and asked
whether she had been reading.
1T is too hot to read" h said.
perhaps you are one of those people
who can never read in a train
Il read sometimes"
at makes your head ache, perhaps
"Yes. it does"
Does it make your head ache to
look ut pictures"
No" After a moments pause she
added: But talking makes my head
ache"
I'm sorry; that is particularly I'M
fortunate, for | have Il question or w
which | really must ask you. You see.
| ought to have a full description OF
your watch and purse, a minute ac-
count of your fellow trayelers-every
particular, in fact. of the circumStan-
ces to send up to headquarters as soon
as possible. ! am sorry to trouble YOU;
but | want it down in black and white;
it would not do to trust my memory
in any important business"
He drew out a book-it might have
been a note book-and pencil from his
breast pocket, and began in a business
like way to question Helen and write
down her She was impressed
by his manner and set at ease by this
explanation of his intrusion.
Your name?"
"Helen Milford"
lou CAME IRON AtIltoD, you SdIt-
started about $50? How far do you
live from the statiOn!'
1.-TWO miles"
He entered this important item care
fully.
Merton is a pretty village" he re-
marked. Il have often passed through
it on my way to Dromore."
Helen started and looked at him.
you know DromOre:' he pursued.
YES"
.'The Chilterns are awfully nice peo-
pie"
Lady Chiltern was Helen's cousin
and most intimate friend; but she had
grown frigid again, for what had the
Chilterns to do with the note book or
the theft?
Would you kindly describe your fell
low travellers" he proceeded, with
solemnity, his pencil poised in the air
and his dark eyes watching her eX-
pressiye face.
"A thin, middle-aged mani thought
he was a dissenting miniSter-Sat next
to Inc. There was a wOman-a smart
woman with feathers II dirty hands
opposite to me. The other people
were men; l hardly looked at them. |
could not recognize either of them
poor men, murmured the gentle
man, writing in his book.
This superfuity of the dialogue was
a mistake on his part. A delicate col
or rose to Helen'S cheek; she ayerted
her ely es, and her attentions from her
vis-a-viS and fixed them ON the land
scape. The scenery through which
they We're passing was magnificent.
Great hills, topped with rugged bOuld-
erS Of gray granite, clothed with short
turf OH which droves of horned sheep
were browsing, streaked and belted
with woods of Oak and ash, rose
almost perpendicularly from out the
smiling valleys.
Mr.. Jones was not wanting in pene-
tration. He replaced his notebook with
a smile 1T his WI expense, for he
soon saw that his companions atteli-
ton was absorbed by the scenery at
which she was gazing with rapture in
Der eyes Il pleasant smile ripping her
mouth, and that she had forgotten
him.
He was an admirer OF tine scenery
bimSelf-WoOdS, rs cOyertS, and mOtiI-
tain streams rs harbOrS fof trout, We're
always particularly intert sting to MIN.
but while Miss Milford looked out of
the window, he looked at her, not the
landscape. They were approaching
Noelcombe. where they must separate.
and he had made no way with her. Ii
he allowed her to leave him thus. it
was probable that he should sac her
no more; therefore il was that he must
draw her attention to himself once
more. Hitherto he had found, with
her amiable sex, such a task wonder
fully easy.
He began again. with pencil and
notebook, his examination and cross
examinations on the yell. worn topic