The record-union., 1898-12-08
MY ONLY ADVENTURE.

NO doubt there are some people who
actually enjoy strange experiences, or
anything that Is startling or different
xrom the jog-trot monotony Of their
everyday routine. may say at once
that am not one Of these. Ny nearest
approach to an incident was having
my life endangered by drunken cab
man IN the Bayswater Road but on
tnat occasion my shrieks and gesticu-
Lations attracted attention, and he drew
up at last, whereupon I instantly got
Out and walked away Regarding what
1 call my only adventure, this pro-
ceeding was unfortunately impractical
Die. 1t proved, as will be seen, a dis
aStrous affair for me, and / am now
writing short and truthful statement,
IN order to clear myself from the
scandalous imputations to which it has
given rise
My husband, Mr.. Thomas Moggins,
Is member Of well-known firm in
Minc1ng Lane We have no family,
ana have lived for years at a pleas
ant watering place upon the South
Coast. Thomas has not been an active
member of Podd Plants for consid-
erabie time, but he generally goes UP
TO business once or twice week. His
heart is in Podds and Plants of a
different description-he is devoted to
his garden, where he works away as
hard as any laborer for hours, although
we keep a Scotchman who has the
gate-lodge and EGO a year, not to speak
of coal and vegetables.
Our house is a fine detached resi-
a 1I< 4xrva
acres of ground, and is called The
Manor, and, I may say, without boast
ing, that no one in our circle gives
better dinner or is more generally re-
spected and looked up to than we are.
My husband is one of the church war
dens at St. Peters. I am chair-woman
of the Society for Providing Old Wo-
men with Clothes" and Secretary to
the Young Women's Sunday Out As
ISOLATION
Now 1 am really coming to my ad-
venture, which occurred last summer
I had been up in London for a days
shopping July "sales'), and was re-
turning by well-known fast train,
but discovered when l got to the sta
ton that it was on the point of start
ing AS I hurried along the platform
L Caught SlSnI OF SOIll6 people 1IOII
my own neighborhood, Mrs. Tipping
ham and her sister. I noticed that they
looked remarkably smart, beflowered
hats, white wells, white gloves; prob
ably they were coming from Sandown
races! 1 did not get into their car
riage, for Mrs. Upp1ngham is a nobody
who has recently come to my road-a
dreadfully pushing person, feverishly
anxious to be visited by 1.-The resi-
dents" But I am rather fastidious;
did not like her looks, and I have not
called.
I am little stout. and hate to be
fused. I hate being hustled along by
the guard, saying, Now, ma am, look
sharp, please-look sharpi" On the
present occasion, before I knew where
I was, I found myself pushed head
foremost into a f1rst-class carriage,
and instantly the train began to move.
1t took me considerable time to re-
cover my breath and my composure.
put aside my bag and parasol, pun
down my veil and rearrange all my
little parcels. I was aware that / had
a fellow passenger, a man who sat at
the far corner, but all that I could dis
Germ was a pair of gray trousers and a
pair of tan gloves holding the evening
paper did not give him a second
thought; was most devoutly thankful
that I had not scrambled into the next