Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1898-04-22

| passengers IN the seats. 4 m always
running into somebody / haven't seen
for a long time. Now, who would
have thought of meeting you coming
into this smoker-- in this section Of
the country?"
.''Yes," said the taller-he with the
new tweed travelling cap-"but then
the world is big enough to keep old
acquaintances like us apart Let's
sit down here-apart for years. How
many years is it,"
"Must be a good ten, should say, ("
said the first speaker, a dark, wiry man,
with small side whiskers.
"Quite that hadn't heard of you
for quite long while when Scobel
told me about that desperate love af-
fair of yours, and that was"
''Ha, hal Yes, that was more than
four years ago. Did Scobel ever tell
you the end of that? No? Got a
cigar?" The small man wriggled his
neck with an air of complete self-sat-
isfaction. 'sWell, / don't mind tell
ing you, knowing that it won't go any
further, of course ="
''Of course, that's understood. "
81 don't mind telling you that / al
ways thought myself well ont of that
| affair-yes. You see, sine went away
=, I'm Galena one sumner to slend
T pine time at a small watering pace
d-N Nhere an aunt of hers was staying.
course, we kept up correspondence
Every sweet and all that. you know
4but all Of sudden the letter
bbpped. Well, / Didn't know what to
henh bike of that Just as was beginning
Broq get fidgety letter came from her,
Deling me that she had met with a
Benz tghtfnl acaident-slipped from a
S556pb of tree into creek. It SO
;ppened that some fellow was stand
u;,S near, fishing, and this man man
! Id to crawl ont on the same limb oi
y y tree Just as she was losing hei
~ d. Oh. perhaps Scobel told you
that?''
'No, said the other man, looking
he ash of his cigar, ".Scobel didn't
me that was only smiling at
ApT thought OF hex much alike all
Chiqkse romantic rescues are.
be el'Oh, yes; all alike, you know,
III, so far as | eau make out, this
ow didn't do anything particularly
ve, either. just held his hand ont
her and pulled her in. Anybody
n lid do that, you know"
thoi How did he get to her?' the man
ii the tweed cap asked.
" Climbed ont on the limb, be-
CURVE. Well, then there was some
whit of mystery about the man for
M ine days. He didn't tell his name,
IA she didn't find it ont until after
got quite we'll. But you see,
anh hppes, / didn't care to have my
Sai hcee writing to me every day about
mes ne other fellow didn't know.
thei'0f course not, said Trappes.
use, SO very so IN took an opportunity
request her to-to just drop that
70 of the limb. Told her l didn't
at to know his name, even if she
find it out y
0liver'And that put an end to your affaie,
rated it?''
S, inw THAT? On. not That was only the
,ipnaliinning Of the end, as it were. :"
the smaller man-his name
ply sici Bradley to fall into a re-
friend ipective reve-ie, and Trappes re-
my CITED his feelings by smoking aud
'usls "as seos,lying his cigar ash in silence.
i know wYou know, Trappes, Bradley at
grave presumed. There's no question
to try tt it. Eloise-Miss Jennings
Plata DR very nice girl at that time. But
= was very younglg
nodded gravely. 81 guess
must have been.s he said, s'to
by what Scobel told me- You
Any ofs were a man Of some taste, Brad
desiring always thought So
y ans ~ aaaeasees; that's all right" said Brad.
price quo
soned lunetty and all that. wonder il
IHoS, Wtlll as graceful as she WASP"
z1s b.. Ms'gshould think 50, quite, said
"o"s es. 'tEh? What did you say:
didn't quite catch. This road
wivery badly ballasted." ="
,.n. - 4 there's one point that I've all
csn.s cana ~ = hut my foot down on, Bradley
Twenty bed. 81 hold that when man
q a basp himself wife it is his to com
blHsrs. ha .l;. nd hers to obey"
ssa;-s4a s pes nodded his assent
''That was the rock that Eloise and
1 spiitupon. She wrote me rather d
huffy letter, telling me she was going
to find out this fellows name = this
limb man, you know for her own
satisfaction, if not for mine, and have
him call upon her. Well, that was
too much.
"Was rather sassy" Trappes re-
marked.
stOh, yes" said the little man. "a
simply wouldn't stand it. / said tC
myself, If I'm not her master now,
mover will be when we are man and
Wife So wrote and insisted abso
lutely on her not seeing that man
again. You see, / felt that / must
rise to meet the crisis or be forever
fallen
"Quite so,s said Trappes. "And
she?',
well, YOU know how women are,
Trappes. | suppose Tn little head
strong myself, said Bradley, settling
his collar.
''Ye-es," said Trappes, 81 confess
ycu did impress me as little over in
clined to have your own way abont
things in general when l first met you
And you were only a boy then. .
Il can't help it, Trappes. It's my
nature, | suppose. Well, let me tel
you about Eloise ="
'sYou still call her by her first
name?'
''oh, force of habit, you know.
was going to say, don't believe Ev,
would ever have wanted to touch til,