The Newtown bee., 1904-01-29

reQulreQ, anu alter dIIduslHR oo 0oll for him later, Kendrick returned to his rooms. Once there, he threw off his coat and set to work. One of the rooms was his | workshop, where his inventions were | wrought out, and he had to decide quickly on what he could leave behind, and what must be taken with him, and then pack the latter in big wooden box he happened to have. It was done after awhile, and the cover of the box nailed on. Then he carefully packed the model of the in- vention he had just sold, and the dia- grams that went with it, together with the few necessaries for his journey, in a valise; this he must take with him. After this, the packing of his other belongings was simple matter. His landlady offered to call an expressman, and the man came just as Kendrick finished dressing.
 As his hack crawled through the con- gested shopping district, Kendrick glanced little longingly at the jewell " stores. But the crowd was greater, if that were possible, than it had been in the afternoon. "It would take half-hour at the least to get waited on," he told himself. i've shall have to get the wedding ring later.'
 MT Campbell was on hand, and they proceeded at once to MT Ames'. As Kendrick stepped from the hack, he looked eagerly It the house, almost ex- pecting to see Rachel standing in the open door to welcome him. To his consternation, he saw that the house was wholly dark.
 He turned to Campbell. "Wait here minute," he said. "There is some thing wrong."
 He ran up the steps of the house next door. "Can you tell me where the Ames's are?" he inquired when a woman answered his ring.
 "Why, yes; they have gone to spend Christmas with Mrs Ames' brother, MT Dearborn, in North Colcord," she told him.
 "Did all of them go?" Kendrick asked.
 "Yes; MT and Mrs Ames and Ra- chel."
 Kendrick thanked her and returned to the carriage. He was tremendously disappointed, but not daunted. "To the north union station," he directed the driver, as he re-entered the car riage.
 He had briefly related the circum- stances of the case to the minister, so there was now no explanation to be made, beyond the fact that the family were away.
 "You will be forced to give up your plan," the minister suggested.
 "Give it up?" Kendrick replied. "No, not yet. There are still five hours Colcord is on different line, but the express on which I am going passes south of it, and makes one stop-at the Leaning station, 10 miles from where MT Dearborn lives. My idea now is to take the train to Colcord Center, hire horse and sleigh at a livery stable there, ride out to MI Dearborn's, be married, then keep on to Leaning and catch the express. want you to go with me; they will keep you over night and carry you tc the station in the morning. Willyou"
 "Most certainly I will," his com panion answered promptly. "Only let me stop moment at my old friends and tell him why I shall not be back tonight"
 This done, they hurried on. Wher they reached the station, Kendrick left the minister to pay the hackmar and hastened to the ticket office We're in luck," he exulted, wher they came together again. "Our trair starts in five minutes"
 The cars were damned with bundle laden people who had waited till the last moment to go to the city for theil Christmas gift buying, and it was not till they changed cars at point half way distant to Colcord that Kendricl could sit down. In the remaining houl of the journey he had abundant time for thinking, and it suddenly occurred to him that the thing he was about t( do was preposterous. To ask woman to marry him off-hand at an instant's notice, and the next instant pack z handbag, say good-by to home anC friends and start on a 30OO-mile jour ney! Was there a woman in the world however devoted, who would be per suaded to fall in with so wild scheme: What had he been thinking of?
 He paused bad quarter of an hour and then he set his lips determinedly
 "I've embarked on the enterprise, , he concluded, "and I'll go through with it. I'll brazen it out. If they laugh at me, I shall doubtless survive it, and anyway shall see Rachel; that alone will be worth all it costs anc more.''
 | Nevertheless, man doesn't like tC feel that he is probably making a foo of himself, and it was with rather g glum visage that Kendrick left the cal with the minister at Colcord Center
 They had no difficulty in getting g horse and sleigh at the livery-stable "But you will have to manage in some way to get the rig back yourself" the liveryman said. II don't know of any one I can send"
 MT Campbell came to the rescue "I will go with you and bring it back, , he volunteered.
 "Where will you spend the rest o1