Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1897-12-25
The Old SILVER TRAIL.
BY MARY {. SHcMEY.
tcopuighs 1895. by J. D. Lipplnesti Cal
CHAPTER III.-CoNTIHUEp.

at him. II am sure you did not guess
that night how grateful we were. We
were SO tongue-tied with excitement
90 wholly upset. But afterward-l
would have been SO glad Of an opportu-
rity to thank you again. 1t troubled
me to think we had said 80 little when
you had been SO kind"
at was more thun kind OF you not
to think II presumption" he answered
her, flushing with pleasure. Il con-
fcss It rather looked like that to me
when you had so courteously dismissed
NE ut the door Of the Colorado building
and persisted in still keeping you In
sight down the walk"
'But what relief II WIS to me to
End you there when that alarm CAME
md the fire company came rushing by
and the crowd jostled me about 1twns
30 soon after the Cold Storage disas-
ter, and the idea Of fire threw me into o
panic, to say nothing OF the fact that
the crowd seemed disposed to trample
me to death without perceiving me at
oil. was SO grateful TO you for see
Ing me-" she added, smiling down ut
him with perhaps more of kindness
than she knew in the depths Of her eyes.
"You seemed like IN old friend them
friend In need"
"And how grateful ! was to that fire.
alarm for giving me q chance to as
sumo the attitude!" he eagerly ex-
claimed. sand when ventured to as
sumo that It might give me pretext to
walk along beside you-ah, Miss Mere
dith, treInbled for my audacity then
O good deal more than when was bur
glnrizing up in the Colorado building
~ can hardly credit that. ! remem-
Der you Us perfectly cool ind self-pos-
sessed," she declared, holding up her
soft cap Us though to shield her face
from the fire, in reality making 1t serve
as screen to hide the blush she could
feel burning upon her checks. "And
what q mercy it was that you did CONF,
In view OF the fact that Mrs. Hallet
vas not waiting for me ut the place
we had agreed upon! With the dark
ness and the crowds about the electric
fountains, should have been wild II
you had not been there to help me find
her. And when she had been discov-
cred and It further developed that she
lad lost the child md his nurse-why,
you were n regular godsend. TWAS such
o time OF mishaps."
"You did seem rather out OF luck, for
o fact" he laughed, though when you
make so much Of my small services /
feel anything but sympathetic in q
way; I can't be sorry that 1t happened.
But I never clearly understood, by the
way, how your friend happened to let
the boy get away from her. Was 1t in
her hunt for your"
"Oh, no; we had left little Paul with
his nurse looking at the trained animals
over in the Midway late in the after
noon, arranging that they were 10
take supper at some place over there
where the girl had friend employed.
/ fancy it was her sweetheart, from her
anxiety to patronizc the place. At all
events, It was settled that they were
to be left to their own devices until
seven o'clock, when they were TO meet
us by the electric fountains. But Mrs.
Hallet and became absorbed in bag
Cling over some curios at one Of the Al
gerian bazaars over by the anthropo-
logical building, and before we knew II
II was after seven o'clock. or course
she felt that she must fly to keep her
with little Paul, while It
vas hastily settled that I should take
the intramural train around to the Col
orado building and get my jacket,
which had left there. 1t had never
to her that she had arranged
her rendezvous ut the spot which was
sure to be most crowded at that hour,
where everybody was gathering for the
but when she came there,
Of course It was like hunting O needle in
q haystack to find the child and nurse.
And then, as it grew dark, and her
search continually appeared more hope
less, while also failed to come back,
the poor woman was simply wild. Il
seemed very funny in retrospect-such
\ chapter Of Incidents; but 1t did not APP
peal to our sense Of humor ut the time
81 should say not" he sympathet-
ically rejoined; adding. with good cheer
masculine: "Dut you came
put Of 1t all right"
Thanks 10 you. And now to have
you come a second time to rescue me
from despair" She paused express
lvely, looking at him as though in new
as she reflected upon the
strangeness Of such happenings. did
you recognize me ut once?-but / re-
called me by my name.
Now ! think Of It, though, am sur
prised that you know my name. Ibid
not suppose I mentioned it that night"
"You did not; but I heard your friend
,all you Dorothy" he confessed. ut
s not very conlmon-the name; AMI
Meredith was the only Dor
othy to be found in 20 pages of the
visitors book ut the Colorado build
ing. I had plenty Of time to look
while I was waiting for you to come"
His face had flushed deeply, and there
vas q curious light in his eyes Us he
miled up at her.
It flashed upon the girl that to
woman who loved him he would be sim.
,ly adorable with that smile upon his
ace; and then her cheeks, too. red
lened for the froward thought, and she
hastily moved away as she murmured
comprehensive "0hl"
81 felt most certain Of the name" he
vent on, "but you made your address
,ruelly vague, don't you know? TWAS
imply Colorado. There wus not even
hint as to where you might be found
n Chicago"
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