The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-03

lishman in the seat, staring his aston
ishment.
.'You see I've been IN Abyssinia''
"Hi dare say, sir, the hold ways
hare there"
Yes, said !; for ] thought it would
i be easier to say / had been 10 years on
my travels; / recollected / must give
some explanation. told him to drive
/ me to the club / had left 10 years-or
4 the night. my night-before. Silently
we wendell our way among the vehi-
Icles. The thing seemed odd az first;
| but / saw it was all noiseless cleo
/ trio motor. The coachmen at LEAST
were changeless, and sat their boxes
| with the same imperturbable faces.
| But the horses had vanished: no longer
need ones sympathies stir at the abus-
| ed cab horse: no longer cry out at the
1 over laden truck. We passed an art
dealers window where was displayed a
great canvas with the inscription.
Fifth Avenue in 1896" There saw in
feeting glimpse the street / had
known; the old parade under the old
conditions. curious crowd were linz
ed in front of the window making the
same comments that one iii 1896 might
have made of a picture of Broadway
in the gone day Of numbering stages.
4 Yes, that drive was very curious to
me then. I'll confess / had not become
quite accustomed to the many changes
But when we reached the club door.
| tried to act as if / took all as a matter
OF course. Some men we're about the
room as | entered my acquaintance
10 years older.
.sBy Jove, Forsythe,' they cried
Yes just back from-hum, yes.
| Abyssinia
| "You seem to have found the secret
lof perpetual youth said one.
oh, | have had very restful time,
I said truly; and then / proceeded to
timproyise about my travels. Suddenly
i / remembered that Wednesday was
Mrs. Van Brule's afternoon. / still
thought Of little Mildred. The same
man was waiting for me outside, and
at my order he started his hanson
when presently we drew up at the Van
Brule door.
A young lady was there; young
! lady | knew, and yet did not know.
'Mr. Forsythe!" she cried, II never
shall forget you. You are backY'
Pack from Abyssinia, II said again
, thinking that a likely land for the ex
simply delightful, and there was nov
: no space of years between us; girl o.
"a is anybody's age,--who is not Me
, thuselah. / was still 30, although II
years had passed since my last birth
day. Yet ] believe / found my tunC
, Of small talk rather exhausted; fol
j small tafl< is made up the resent day
: of trivialties. / saw | should soon mas
! ter the new fashioned small talk, hav
) ing had an aptitude for the old fashion
''Do you wheel, Miss Mildred?' / ask
ed inadvertently.
She stared at me a moment
"Oh, that's all gone out. OF cours
they may in Abyssinia."
9 yes" / said somewhat phased
J. "they still do in Abyssinia"
/ What else could / say indeed?
II do ride a bicycle carriage. IT.
taken the place Of the saddle, and o
! the old bicycles, you know" Mildret
: explained kindly. "But it isn't s
/. much fun. 1t just carries you +
I places
7 II hope sports haven't died out i
. New York" | said, weakly
"Oh, no, / golf, aud walk for eXeI
: else. You know walking has becom
quite a fad now. In fact people dc
pend on horses and their own mu;
L cles for active sports Yet there's
lot Of skill in driving a horseless cal
Q riage. Horseless carriage racing track
q exist everywhere, you know"
"Of course" said i Il know, {
course"
n | became more and more intereste
= no, I think infatuated; nor did he
$ eyes deny me.
It From that day / fell easily into I'll
Il new ways. had, you know, the bias
mans manner or expressing surpris
only at the proper surprises. The tow
j. had become horseless. Only at u
,g circus at Madison Square Garden q
TO the crowd see horses as If they we
j the most unusual creatures in II
world One day I remember ! wei