The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-08

Josephine Gordon was spinning
along the famous Kings county road
| the next day, as charming a picture
of glowing health and physically per-
! feet womanhood as one could find in a
days journey.
But, for once, her reflections were
not of her usual happy and optimistic
| turn. All the life and beauty and ex-
| qusite serene repose of the day were
| borne in upon her and reacted upon
| her physical sense with their never
| failing charm, but mentally she felt
a strange depression. Something
haunted the undercurrent of her
thoughts that she could not shake Off.
and as she rode she involuntarily re-
| called the strange dream she had had
| the nignt before. Gu her return to her
| home she had picked up one of the
| popular magazines, and the first article
| that met her eye was a long and in
teresting one on the RAPIDLY disappear
| ing forms of life in Australia and those
already extinct. With an exclamation
of surprise, and an unuttered wonder
| whether everyone were suddenly in
| terested in Australia, she began to
read. The article was fascinating, and
|
and prepared to retire. Her last wax
ing thoughts were still hxel on this
curious and comparatively unknown
| continent with its weird life forms,
and when at last her speculation
| ceased, and she fell asleep, she dream
ed, and in her dreams she searched
| with all the ardor of a savaut for an
animal, curious and extinct, with a
| ffn a 1Nln
strange and srotesque forests on her
| wheel, nor thought it odd that II was
an improved pattern that rode easily
over the trunks of gigantic trees fall
en- in her path. She heard the long lost
al imal crashing through the growth
in the forest just ahead of her. and felt
that soon she would discover the form
that had for centuries been lost to
the world. Il will lock all over Aus
tralia," she said, firmly, but I'll find
it," At that moment she rode into a
clearing in the forest, and the prehis-
toric animal in all its primeval UNI
couthness of outline dawned upon her
sight Il have found it," she cried in
joy, and then Nelson Scott was stand
ing beside her and saying: And yet
You said you would never come to
Australia"
And J wouldn't, either" she con-
cluded, with an increased speed. par
is, London, Berlin, anywhere but Au-
stralia. Thank goodness, here's Ionia,
at last"
The green, handsome house stood
well back from the road in a stately
lawn surrounded by a thick, luXuriant
hedge that was particular pride OF
the master of the place. Not another
house was i'm sight. The place seemed
deserted; not even a servant was to be
seen. Josephine dismounted JUST inside
the hedge and paused in admiration N
the beautiful landscape gardening OF
the grounds. Then, noting the auiet
aspect of the place, she quietly put hel
wheel safely inside the hedge in 6
corner and went up to the house.
And that's why 13 is a lucky mum.
ber for me-" concluded Harbeson. II
was an hour later, and Josephine stood
in the drawing with her courtI,
host, a gentleman of the old school
who in his latter days never failed L
let the play of his humor tighten tn,
path of those who still had all the way
before them.
Il am pleased to know that you rid,
a wheel" lie continued. TT is the fin
est invention Of the century for botl
men and women, and 1t Is giving vi
better roads, better people and bettc
laws all the time. notice that IN,
growth OF cycling in foreign countries
Il. a.