Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-06-01

chase a ticket. He remembered it had
taken him about three minutes, and at
the end of Il similar period he stepped
on the platform again with the paste
board and change in his hand, as If he
had just come from the window.
ut will be real nice to have your
company to town." she said. Bob col
| ored.
"I've changed my mind" he explain
ed. 'Im not going to town this morn
ing. May wait until the last train"
Il will have father send check to
your club" she smiled as the train
came in and he saw her settled in the
chair car. Il suppose shall see you
at Collins Monday?'
Surely" he smiled as he raised his
hat and made for the platform, but as
the train grew smaller IN the distance
he became less confident. 1t was Sat
urday afternoon. lie could not wire to
his office for money. They closed at
noon, and ii was IL now. He might
try the boys, but most of them went
out of town over Sunday. In any
event, he should hate to explain that
lie Uuu lelt lHe 1uFNcTS Ill SUCH II
that he had not even had time to send
for funds. He made his way to the lit
tie hotel, where the landlords curious
glances made him realize that the
transfer to the hotel would excite Gu
riosity.
He began to feel that he had acted
very foollshly. If he had confessed to
Fay that he only had S10-that would
have taken her to town-or told her to
send up to Carver's and have taken the
next train! Now it looked as IL he
should have TO stay in the town over
Sunday.
The landlord could not cash him a
check, so he took a room and made his
way to it. After the comfort of Carver
castle the dingy room, with its sheet
iron stove and fiorid wall paper, SEEM
ed intolerable, but it was better than
wandering around town and perhaps
running into Frank Jordan.
Somehow, as the afternoon passed,
Jordan appeared less formidable than
he had. and Pelham began to feel I'M
comfortably like Il fool 1t had been
such n trtic to quarrel over. He had
found them III the music room and Jor
dan had bec,. diSentangling n strand
OF Alice's hair from his coat button.
He had refuse TO believe her prompt
eYDlaraton that n turning he muse
he had caught ner hair. He had as
sumed Irritation, and his cutting re-
marks had ended in the return of his
ring and misery for them both. In his
hot anger he had not liked to ask his
host to cash check and had gone
away without n thought of emergen-
cies.
There is no time to consider the COM
monplace things of life when one has
just lost the girl he loves, and all would |
have been well enough had he not |
feared Fay Gressit's ridicule.
He made pretense of reading q
book he found in his hand bag, but he |
could not interest himself In the story |
and long before the dusk began to close |
in he was thoroughly miserable.
He welcomed knock at the door. 1t |
could only be the porter with coal or
the chambermaid with towels, but |
somehow he felt as if he had been
stranded on a desert island, and he |
welcomed the advent of any one. He
sprang to his feet rs he cried Come
in!' and confronted Frank Jordan.
You will pardon my breaking in up
on your solitude" began Jordan, "but
Miss Carver sent me for you"
How did you know was here?" he
demanded suspiciously.
Miss Gressit sent n telegram warn
Ing Us THAT you were still In town and
SoolS zou tsa4