Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-11-09

of hundred small principalities scat
tered about the continent.
Before the train reached St Louis
he made up his mind to change cars
there and go to Washington. 1t also
occurred to him that he might go on
to New York if the spell lasted. Dur
ing the day he telegraphed ahead for
accommodations, and when the flier ar
rived in st. Louis that evening he hur-
riedly attended to the transferring and
rechecking of his baggage. bought a
new ticket and dined. At s he was in
the station, and at S:15 he passed her
in the aisle. She was standing in her
stateroom door, directing her maid.
He saw a look of surprise fit across
her face as he passed. He slept sound
~ that night and dreamed that he was
crossing the ocean with her
At breakfast he saw her. but if she
saw him it was when he was not look
ing at her. Once he caught Uncle Cas-
par staring at him through his mono
Gle, which dropped instantly from his
eye in the manner that is always self
explanatory. His spirits took a furi-
Gus bound with the realization that she
had deigned to honor him by recogni-
ton, if only to call attention to him
because he possessed a certain coin.
Once the old gentleman asked him
the time of day and set his watch ac-
cording to the reply. In Ohio the man.
servant scowled at him because he in
voluntarily stared after his mistress as
she paced the platform while the train
waited at station. Again, in Ohio,
they met in the vestibule. and he was
compelled to step aside to allow her to
pass. He did not feel particularly ju-
bilant over this meeting. She did not
even glance at him.
Lorry realized that his opportunities
were fast disappearing and that he did
not seem to be any nearer meeting her
than when they started. He had hoped
to get Uncle CaSpar into a converse
ton and then use him, but Uncle Cas-
par was as distant as an iceberg. IF
there should be a wreck" Grenfall
caught himself thinking, "then my
chance would come, but l don't see
how Providence is going to help me in
any other way"
Near the close of the day, after they
left Cincinnati, the train began to wind
through the foothills of the Allie
ghanies. Bellaire, Grafton and other
soon whirling up the steep mountain,
higher and higher, through tunnel aft
er tunnel, nearer and nearer to Wash
ingtOn every minute. AS they were
pulling out of a little mining town
built on the mountain side sudden
jar stopped the train. There was some
little excitement and a scramble for
information. Some part of the engine
was disabled, and it would be neces-
sary to replace it before the run"
could proceed.
Lorry strolled up the crowd of pas
sengers who were watching the engi-
neer and fireman at work. A clear,
musical voice, almost in his ear, star
tied him, for he knew to whom it be-
longed. She addressed the conductor,
who, impatient and annoyed, stood i'm
mediately behind him.
How long are we to be delayed?"
she asked. Just two minutes before
this same conductor had responded
most ungraciously to a simple question
Lorry had asked and had gone so far
as to instruct another inQuisitive trav-
eler to go to warmer climate because
he persisted in asking for information
which could not be given except by a
clairvoyant. But now he answered in
most affable tones:
We'll be here for thirty minutes at
least, miss-perhaps longer"
She walked away after thanking
him, and Grenfall looked at his watch
Of the main street of the town ran
little lanes leading to the mines be-
low. They all ended at the edge of a
steep declivity. There was a drop Of
almost 400 feet straight into the valley
below. Along the sides of this valley
were the entrances to the mines. Above,
on the ledge, was the machinery for
lifting the ore to the high ground on
which stood the town and railroad
yards.
Down one of these streets walked the
young lady, curiOusly interested in all
about her. She seemed glad to escape
from the train and it's people. and she
hurried along, the fresh spring wind
blowing her hair from beneath her cap,
the ends of her long coat f1uttering.
Lorry stood on the platform watch
ing her; then he lighted a cigarette and
followed. He had a vague feeling that
she ought not to be alone with all the
workmen. She started to come back
before he reached her, however, and he
turned again toward the station. Then
he heard a sudden whistle, and a min
ute later from the end of the street he
saw the train pulling out. Lorry had
rather distinguished himself in college
as a runner, and instinctively he dash
ed up the street, reaching the tracks
| just in time to catch the railing of the
last coach. But there he stopped and