The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-08-22

other, and then the moving track swept
around a curve, and l could see no more.
u hen | sank back into my seat with
s gh of mingled regret and relief the
young man had rejoined his compan-
ION. who, thanks to the drawn shade
aud closed window, had apparently
neither seen nor heard aught of the eX-
citing episode.
Are we safe AIan?" she queried. her
voice a-tremble with trepidation.
Safe as church. Didn't you see
him?'
Il saw nothing, but l thought l heard
some one shouting" Then, with gas
of sudden and d;smayed realization
20, it's my father, and he's hurt-I
know he is! Stop the train, Alan; stop
it, / say; I'm going hackp'
80, sit down; for PHYS sake sit down,
Eleanor, don't you see everybody's
catching onr'-ths in an agonized whis-
per. HE isn't hurt, I tell YOU; not at
all. That was the driver YOU heard,
yelling at his horses"
'Are you sure you're telling me the
truth?'
"Of course / am; didn't see it? The
fellow drove down between the switch
stand and a coal car, and your father
couldn't get either door open. He
wasn't hurt an atom, but he acted as if
lie was a good deal disappointed"
disappointed! You may depend upon
it, he is simply furious I'm awfully
afraid he'll do something desperate yet
Il don't see but what we will have to
if he stops us now. He can't get t.
Layarock ahead of us; and II minutes
after we arrive you'll be Mrs. Roderick."
She went silent at that, as what mod
est young woman would not; but after
little she plucked up courage to ask
about the details. Her companion cX-
planned.
After l left you at the house l went
down town and wired Hardwicke, the
agent at Lavarock, telling him there
would be couple on this train to be
married in the hotel parl0r on arrival.
He is to arrange with the county clerk
to keep his office open so that l can get
the license, and to have the minister
ready. | can drive to the court house
and back in ten minutes, and we can
have it all over with while the pas
sengers are at supper and be ready to
go west on Number Five"
Its very dreadful, Alan she muir
INJURED. $50 pitifuhy different from ones
ideal weddingr'
"That's so''-cheerfuliy-' there isn't
any ideality to spare, for a fact. But we
can't help that L we hadn't made the
dash your father would have packed
you off to Ohio between two days,
wouldn't hep
HE said he would; and I'm afraid he
meant it. And yet he has always been
very good to me, Alan before-before
this, you know"
Il know; but he meant business this
time. And that isn't ALL After | had
my little seance with him this morning
when / asked him outright if we
mightn't be married like other people
he abused he like a sheep thief; said
he'd write to the general manager and
have me discharged, though he didn't
mention upon what grounds he would
demand it."
But how could he do that?"
Il give it up. There is nothing on rec
ord against me, / believe. except that
I've had the audacity to fall in love with
you after he had quarrelled with my
father. But l couldn't help either the
one or the other.
mo, indeed, But l hope you didn't
quarrel with him.
Didn't /? | told him to go ahead and
write his letter, if he wanted to; that I
guess l could stand the publicity if he
could
Allan! You didn't tell me that"
mo; it didn't seem judicioUs.
Perhaps ! mightn't have consented if
you had"
20, yes, you would"
why would I?'