New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-21

YOU see those fellows over oe'o' NV -
toward the street. l looked ana sa" io"' "
young men leaning against the ieh'e'
hoo, ,,o-e over since came down. heard en-
talking Two OF em have bet she won W. -
.,a 90 ,or, have bet she will. They've put up
81 80 apiece. You see, cant XIII e''' w o.
80 10, .em live | don't know how many more
,,,u no here by Q o'clock. Now. what's gong 10
be done? H.,
feeby.
Albert laughed with great scorn.
pack door be dumbedv' he responded. "rhat
ola man with the twig broom knows 1t. he 'oio
mo ton minutes ago that he understood iva II
o aftcr all that was going TO use Charley
Smiths saddle
where's your Japanese dirk?" inquired
The boy invountary put his hand to his peit'
.,Taint any joke" he said. Il won't stand IL
~ Won go to taking 1t as joke. Something got
to be thought Of"
Ibegan myself to think that something must be
thought of. proposed that we eat our breakfast
and meantime that we keep our minds IN ii receP-
tive state.
Inst as we were finishing our meal Amapei
came in She greeted US as II we were grea''!
pleased with her She made an excellent iepas''
She took occasion to inform me mat TWO nuns
,vor, vvould finish the suit In response l asked
bar 70 look through the window. There were now
seven or eight men grouped at the fence
"rhevre waiting to see you start" said.
They've got bets laid
Amabel grew red. l was afraid that ought
not 10 have spoken thus. II her compatNeheS'
should be reused matters would be still worse
She said nothing. AMI hurried her up stairs
Let us circumvent them" l suggested.
.verv we'll" she answered. Il will not give up
q rrinciple like a divided skirt, but don't want
TO be obstinate.
Whoreupon hurriedly proposed that wheh she
had finished her sewing she should take the Hrs'
train to Barnstable; Albert and WOULD rue
there. We would lead Ar'ahels horse win 'he
mans saddle on it. We would express the dis
carded saddle home. In Barnstapie we "ouiu
moot and in some secluded part of that town
she should begin her journey with her weight
equally divided bore down upon nv friend with
this proposition in such way that she assented
did not wait a moment after receiving this as
Gent In half m hour Albert and l were riding
| AWAY from Sandwich We mounted in front or
tho hotel before a rather large congregation
which had gathered as If by magic as soon as
Amabels horse. with Charley oihi'h sf'uuie
upon IT, had been brought round
Albert was on his wheel A rope was attached
IN the bits of Amabel's horse and held the other
end Of the rome To my inexpressible relief The
| Itane made no objection to this arrangement
Perhaps he thought that in some way it was de-
| rcgatory to the other horse. and so liked it.
The Thane kindly consented. also. to allow
chair to be brought close the stirrup, and from
this chair got into my saddle in view of the as
sembage.
When we were we'll away Albert raised his
| voice and asked the circumambient air II II
thought it would ever SEA him in Sandwich again
IF you ever catch me there I'll BELL be
| He suddenly stopped and glanced at me as II
my presence were restraint upon him.
It was extremely good to be on the road again
| If seemed as if we had been shut up many days
| in Sandwich.
The weather had changed. A mist was rising
| in the east and swift wind was blowing In
| from the sea We rode brskly. We could taste
| the salt on our lips. At East Sandwich we were
afraid II was going to rain; but a half-hour later
! the wind had died away and the SOFT SOUTH
| Wester had begun again. Sometimes from an
elevation in the road we could see the waters Of
| Cape Cod Bay; sometimes In the far offng' we
saw the trail Of smoke which we were pleased TO
| believe came from the stacks of some European
| lirer.
|
| ing steamer; the sight of it suggests dreams of
| ports we have longed to and never shall see.
| 4 thousand fancies-but one cannot very well in
| du,qe in fances in the company of a boy Of four
| teen who is nathe,natically inclined. When l
| smoke i'm rather a romantic way OF that steamer
| which we saw when we were about mile and
three-ouarters this side of Barnstahle Albert i'm
| mediately began to wonder how many tons OF
coal they had put aboard before starting. and at
| what rate they were burning 1t. He said there
| was quite a difference in the rate. and-here 1
succeeded in disengaging my mind from what he
was saying and so cannot report
The roads on Cape Cod not a rule, the
kind a wheelman would choose to ride upon, ex-
| cent those near where the cottagers have clus-
| tered in greater numbers. In such vicinities the
summer residents have made good highways for
| themselves to riie upon, and others proht by
their deed
was rather sorry for my companion when
saw him pedalling so laboriously. but when ex-
pressed this sorrow he said he guessed needn't
strain myself plying him.
The Thane behaved nobly; his manner ex-
pressed something OF a disdan toward Amabels
steed as being merely led horse, but this dis
dain was confined to manner entirely, and did not
develop into any overt act. the time passed
calmly.
We had neglected to look at a railway time
table before started so did not know wher
q train would arrive from Boston, for 1t must be
a Boston train that Amabel would take. We only
knew that there were two trains day each way
excepting on Saturdays when there three
and this wasn't Saturday.
1t seemed to us a long fifteen miles from Sand
witch to Barnstable, and it was not made shorter
by my anxiety concerning Amabel. And ought
have remained at the hotel so that she could try
on TO me? This question came with startling
force to nv mind Just as the towers and turret
and battlements Of Barnstabe doomed upon thu
horizon.
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