The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1897-06-30
The Old SILVER TRAIL.
BY MARY {. STlCKNEY.
ICoryrigh, 1896. by J. B. Lippincot Col
CHAPTER IIl.-CoNTINUED.


You are so kind" Dorothy returned.
her eyes very brig ut as she looked down
at him. II am sure you did not guess
that night how grateful we were. We
were so tongue-tied with excitement.
so wholly upset. But afterward-I
would have been so glad of an opportu-
nifty to thank you again. 1t troubled
me to think we had said so little when
you had been so kind"
sit was more than kind of you not
to think it presumption" he answered
her, flushing with pleasure. Il con-
TESS it rather looked like that to me
when you had so courteously dismissed
me at the door of the Colorado building
and l persisted in still keeping you Ill
sight down the walk"
"But what a relief it was to me to
find you there when that alarm came,
and the fire company came rushing by
and the crowd jostled me about! 1t was
so soon after the Cold Storage disas-
ter, and the idea Of fire threw me into q
panic, to say nothing of the fact that
the crowd seemed disposed TO trampie
me to death without perceiving me at
az. r~was so grateful to you for see
ing me-" she added, smiling down at
him with perhaps more of kindness
than she knew in the depths Of her eyes.
"You seemed like AN old friend then--a
friend in need"
"And how grateful / was to that fire.
alarm for giving me chance to as
- l.,
claimed. "And when / ventured to as
sumo that it might give me preteXt to
walk along beside you-ah, Miss Mere
dith, l trelnbled for my audacity then
a good deal more than when l was bur
glarizing up in the Colorado building"
Il can hardly credit that. remem-
Der you as perfectly cool and self-pos-
sessed," she declared, holding up her
soft cap as though TO shield her face
from the fire, in reality making it serve
as screen to hide the blush she could
feel burning upon her cheeks. And
what a mercy it was that you did come,
in view of the fact that Mrs. Hallet
was not waiting for me at the place
we had agreed upon With the dark
ness and the crowds about the electric
fountains, L should have been wild if
you had not been there TO help me find
her. And when she had been discov-
cred and it further developed that she
had lost the child and his nurse-why,
you were a regular godsend. 1t was such
a time of mishaps."
you did seem rather out of luck, for
L. ss%IA,,orH
make so much of my small services
feel al Pything but sympathetic in n
way; N can't be sorry that it happened.
But 1 never clearly understood, by the
way, how your friend happened to let
the boy get away from her. Was it in
her hunt for you?"
ooh, 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 TO
take supper at some place over there
where Che girl had a friend employed.
/ fancy it was her sweetheart, from her
anxiety to patronize the place. At all
events, il was settled that they were
TO be left to their own devices until
sevea/cclock, when they were TO meet
US by the electric fountains. But Mrs.
EalleA and / became absorbed in hag-
Cling over some curios at one of the Al
gerian bazaars over by the anthropo-
logical building, and before we knew it
IL was after seven o'clock. OF course
she felt that she must fly to keep her
appointment with little Paul, while il
was hastily settled that l should take
the intramural train around to the Col
orado building and get my jacket,
which / had left there. IL had never
occurred to her that she had arranged
her rendezvous at the spot which was
sure to be most crowded at that hour,
where everybody was gathering for the
illumination; but when she came there.
of Nurse it was like hunting a needle in
a haNstaclI 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,
tho poor woman was simply wild. T.
seemed very funny in retrospect-such
q chapter of incidents; but it did not APP
reel to our sense of humor at the time. '
~ should say not" he sympa;het-