The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-06-21
, MISS BEECHER'S
JOURNEY.
An Exciting Story of Chicago
Girls Trip to the Maine Woods.
BY GEORGE LINCOLN.
Copyright, 1901. nv Georgia trcoI,

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| MISS Maud Beecher was a Chicago girl
She went to Boston on a visit ia her
cousin, Miss Teresa Holland, a girl with
fad, and that fad was old historic
houses, of which Miss Teresa had made
a large number of photographs. If Miss
heecher had fad, it was the adornment
OF her own stylish person, especially with
jewels, of which she had a rare collection.
The two cousins did not find them
selves very congenial, and Maud soon
tired of wheeling through the historic
parts of Massachusetts in search of the
most tumble down houses there. She got
on better with Tom Holland and often
begged him to take her wheeling with the
other fellows" Tom was II, and he
found his cousin very amusing.
At last Tom and the other fellows
went TO the Maine woods for hunting
trip, Mrs. Holland and the younger chill
dren left for their seaside home. and
Maud and Teresa were left alone in the
great city house.
Teresa was surprised one day when
Maud appeared with her travelling bag in
hcr hand. She Wore a covert cloth skirt
ana Il silk shirt waist. She had fastened
a costly diamond pin in her hair and an
other in her breast to hold in her watch
with its iewclcd nendan+ On bor f,,,,r.
were many rare gems
"Wcn," exclaimed Teroso "u.boro
nowF'
"To the Maine woods +o 500 Ton, 9"
! Maud replied caylv. Teresa dronnod hon
pen in dismav.
Going to SEQ Tom " ebo oioo,,I,t,,l
"and wearing all those Jewels RooU,
/ Maud, shall have to telegram ran,rio
if you insist on this Wild nranI5 Came. !
will give up This article ma a. Win M,
to the beach If Won wish 7 tbougbt VA,
were auitc contrntod "
"No, Teresa. will not Lot Won sacrifice
your precious article I am o,ito dntnr-
mined to go fishing with tho bavs Dor'+
/ be goose. Teresa: LET mo go Mrs Eur.
ridge is un there cooking fnt. tho b,vs 7
shall he chapcroued all right It's n,
worse than Wheeling with thnm oil o,.cr
( Massachusetts"
Teresa gave it IN and went bocl, to bar
/ article after remarking that at lnast
Maud ought to have sense enough to tal,n
off her jewclry if She didn't want in oct
robbed
Maud protested that if was soror ON
/ her person than anywhere else and thar
/ she had a chamois bag aronnd her noel,
/ with all her stones in it. Then she start
I ed off down the street. and Teresa soon
forgot all about her. remaining absorbed
I in her work till the dinner hon ram,
I Then she remembered with \ panc maj
her cousin had done very uncircum,nnct
thing and felt bound to write Mrs. IIol-
I land about it.
Maud enjoyed her Journey immensely
/ and was not at all alarmed to find she
must spend the night in Portland and
| leave mt an unreasonable bour in tbc
morning. She ACCOMPLISHED all her ar
rangements without difficulty and was
| treated with rcspectful courtesy bv all
the railroad and hotel officials.
As the train bowlcd along porthward
! in the early morning she was congratulat
| ing herself and thinking with scorn Of
timid young maidens who never travelled
alone when she became conscious of n
pair of eyes riveted on her face. Wheel
| ing in her chair, she encountered them.
| They were gray. UNPLEASANT eyes and
they did not drop before hers. but their
owner smiled boldly.
She turned quickly away and buried
| herself in n newspaper. The eyes still
followed her, and she ventured to turn
| toward them again and pretended 10 fall
! asleep, thus gaining an opportunitv to
study the offender through half shut ewes.
! He was well dressed man. though
! Maud's mental comment was that he
was "cheap."
probably wants to fiirt." she thought
angrily. "WeU. I'm not that kind" and
! she invountarily tossed her head. Again
the man smiled.
inst then an older man with n smooth.
hard face ioiaed him and both began to
talk earnestly. frequently CHANGING across
at Maud as though she were the subject
! Of their talk. At last she could endure il
| no longer and heckoned to the conductor.
"Those men" pointing directly nj them.
"ore annoving me very much bv their
holiness"
81 am very sorry" returned the polite
conductor, 81 will see that il does not
happen again" And he moved toward
the Young man.
The elder man rose as the conductor
crossed thc car and engaged him in n
conversation which NIaud could not hnar
but Tho conductor GLANCED hack nj bor
g several times and she knew there was
some rnvsfcrv She would have shricked
oloud could She have heard what the cool
stranger was saving.
"rbe voupr lalv is my niece" he said.
"ond This youny mans sister. She has
hoan insane for some months though
ouitn harmless and quiet. At last her
mind became 80 deranged that we decided
to take her 10 a uuiet little camp in the
woods. Her mother is there already
waiting for her She likes to fancy her.