The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-05-09

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ter's departure he took the coin from
his pocket. and. with his back to the
door, his face to the window, studied
Its lettering.
At one little station a group of In
dian zeal hunters created considerable
interest among the passengers. Gren-
fall was down at the station platform
at once, looking over a great stack of
game. AS he left the car he met Uncle
Caspar. who was hurrylng toward his
niece's section. A few moments later
she came down the steps, followed by
the dignified old gentleman. Grenfall
tingled with a strange delight as she
moved quite close to his side in her
desire to see. Once he glanced at her
face. There was a pretty look of fear
In her yes as she surveyed the mas
sive bears and the stark, stiff ante.
lopes. But she laughed as she turned
away with her uncle.
Grenfall was smoking his cigarette
and vigorously jingling the coins in his
pocket when the train pulled out. Then
he swung On the ear steps and found
himself at her feet. She was standing
at the top, where she had fingered a
moment. There was an expression of
anxiety in her eyes as he looked up
into them, followed instantly by one of
relief. Then she passed into the car.
Doubtless she would have been as So
licitous had he been the porter or the
brakeman, he reasoned, but that she
had noticed him at all pleased him.
At Abilene he bought the Kansas
City newspapers. After breakfast he
found a seat in the observation car and
settled himself to read. Presently
some n took a seat behind him He
did not look back, but ~unconcernedly
cast his eyes upon the broad mirror
In the opposite car wall. Instantly he
forgot his paper. She was sitting with
In five feet of him, a book in her lap,
her gaze bent briefly OF the fitting
buildings outside. He studied the re-
Election furtively until she took up the
book and began to read.
The first page of his paper was fairly
alive with fresh and important dis
patches, chiefly foreign. At length, aft
er allowing himself to become really
interested in a Paris dispatch of some
international consequence, he turned
his eyes again to the mirror. She was
leaning slightly forward, holding the
open book in her lap, but reading, with
straining eyes, an article in the paper
he held.
He calmly turned to the next page
and looked leisurely yer it. Another
glance. quickly taken, showed to him
a disappointed frown on the pretty face
and a reluctant resumption of novel
reading. A few moments later he
turned back to the first page. holding
the paper in such a position that she
could o see and, full of curiosity.
read every line of the foreign news,
wondering what had interested her.
Under ordinary circumstances Lorry
would have offered her the paper and
thought nothing more of it. With her,
however, there was an air that made
him hesitate. He felt strangely awk-
ward and inexperienced beside her.
Precedents did not seem to count. He
arose, tossed the paper over the back
of the chair, as if casting it aside for
ever, and strolled to the opposite win
dow and looked out for a few moments,
jingling his coins carelessly. The jim
gle of the pieces suggested something
else to him. His paper still hung in
willingly upside down, as he had left it,
on the chair, and the lady was porting
over her novel. AS he passed her he
drew his right hand from his pocket,
and a piece of money dropped to the
floor at her feet. Then began an en-
barrassed search for the coin-in the
wrong direction, of course. He knew
precisely where it had rolled, but pur-
posely looked under the seats on the
other side of the car. She drew her
skirts aside and assisted in the search.
-Four different times he saw the little
piece of money. but did not pick it up.
Finally, laughing awkwardly, he began
to search on her side of the car. where
upon she rose and gave him more room.
She became interested III the search
and bent over to scar the dark corners
with eager eyes. Their heads were
very close together more than once.
At last she uttered an exclamation, and
her hand went to the floor in triumph,
They arose together, flushed and smil-
ing. She had the coin in her hand.
II have it, she said gayly, a deli
cious foreign tinge to the words,
Il thank YOU he began, holding
out his hand as if in a dream of costa
sy, but her eyes had fallen momentari-
ly On the object of their search.
"Oh!" she exclaimed, the prettiest
surprise in the world coming into her
face. 1t was a coin from her PARKWAY
homeland, and she was betrayed into
the involuntary exclamation. Instant
ly, however, she regained her compo-
sure and dropped the piece into his
outstretched hand, a proud flush mount
ing to her cheek, a look of cold reserve
to her eyes. He had hoped she would
offer some comment on what she must
have considered a strange coincidence.
but he vas disappointed. He wondered
If she even heard him say:
81 am sorry to have troubled you"
She had resumed her seat, and to