Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-06


 cent ear that nestled ln the dark
 brown coils and waves of the pretty head in front of him.
 When, however, it became patent that his companion desired to form
 her own impressions of the pages un- influenced by his well-deivered com
 ments, Mr. Stuyvesant had bethought him of the semisomnolent occupants of the opposite section, and some
 cabalistic signs he ventured with 8 little silver cup summoned them Tn
 pleased surprise to the water-cooler at the rear end, where he regaled them with good story and the best of " o. F. Scotch, and accepted their lavish bid to sit with them awhile. From this coign of vantage he had studied her sweet, serious, oval face
 as she sat placidly reading little
 volume in her lap, only once in awhile
 raising pair of very dark, very
 beautiful, very heavily browed and dashed brown eyes for brief survey of the forbidding landscape; then, with never an instant's peep at him,
 dropping their gaze again upon t4e book.
 Not once in the long, hot afternoon had she vouchsafed him the mini mum of show of interest, curiosity,
 or even consciousness of his pres ence Then the train made it's sec ond stop on account of the fires, and Bre'r Rabbit his 1uckless break into the long monctony of the de- clining day.
 Tentative spikes, clods and empty fasks having failed to find him, the.
 beaters had essayed skirmish line, and with instant result. Like chorus of yells and the accompani- ment of 8 volley of missiles, Jack shot into space from behind his shelter and darted zigzagging through the brush. A whizzing spike, chance shot that nearly grazed his nose, so dazzled his brain let that the terrified creature dou-, bled on his trail and came bounding
 back towards the train.
 Close to the track-side ran nar- row ditch. In this ditch at the in- stant crouched the tall lieutenant. Into this ditch leaped Bunny, and the next second had whizzed past the stepping form and bored straight into a little wooden drain. There some unseen, unlooked-for object blocked him.
 Desperately the hind-legs kicked and tore in the effort to force the passage, and with shout of tri- umph the tall soldier swooped upon the prize, seized the struggling legs, swung the wretched creature aloft, and for the first time in six mortal hours met full in his own the gaze of the deep, beautiful brown eyes he had so striven to attract, and they were half pleading, half command ing for Bunny. The next instant, un- injured, but leaping madly for life, Bre'r Rabbit was streaking eastward whose first huge leap owed much of it's length to the impetus of Stuyve- sant's long, lean, sinewy arm.
 This time when he looked up and raised his cap, and stood there with his blonde hair blowing down over the broad white forehead, although the soft curves of the ripe red lips at the window above him changed not, there was something in the dark-brown eyes that seemed to say: Thank. you!"
 Yet when he would have met those eyes again that evening, when Last call for dinner in the dining-car" was sounding through the train, he could not. Neither were they among those that peered from between parted curtains in the dim light of the sleeper, many in fright, all in anxiety, when somewhere in the dead of the summer night long after all occupants of the rearmost cars were wrapped in slumber, the long train bumped to sudden jarring stand still, and up ahead there arose sound of rush, of excitement and alarm.
 (To Be Continued)