The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-10-03

franIss e6eek6d At the lnie time
.tYts. sir, / DID. and e the bagsagl
h iefiartment can't take clre. Of -tna
trunks all at once It had better g
l.Did you hand the three checks to
three dinerent womeas
.eOf course did
Are you sure you kept them sepa-
aof course-that is-that IS. you
! know
Yes know smiled the baggage
master. you handed out any old
checs. uad as j consequence there IS
a mix. It's up 10 you 70 do some teie-
graphing and straiehten things out
8Ir. Lee spent the whole day tele-
graphing and receiving collect" mes
sages from Buffalo,. Rochester and Syr-
acytse. but he made little headway.
His messages we're Inquirlng and pa
cific: his COLLECTS were vigorous ana
rather threatening. At the end of the
day he decided on making personal
trip to straIghten out the tangle. he
could remember the trunks and their
respective owners.
His first stop was at Syracuse. He
was sure that the girl In mourning
with humble looking trunk had had 1t
checked there Two telegrams had
passed and he had her address. In the
course OF an hour he found her She
hadn't quite so much mourning on now
ard was better looSInS than he had
thought She had received the plain
woman's trunk with the broken handle.
She was refined, ladylize girl and in
mourning for I'm aunt who had left her
$4,000. but yet she used language
tinged with acid. Next time she went
travelling and Ind to appeal to man
for help size would make sure that he
knew enough to check his own trunk,
and so forth. and 50 forth. A woman
may lose her sweetheart and say moth
ing, but let her lose her trunk while
travelling and It takes years to exhaust
the subject.
Mr.. Lee got away with his ears burn
ing. and ret he admired Miss Strothers.
He arranged to have the trunk sent on
to Rochester and then took the train
for that city. The plain woman wns
expecting him. She had the trunk all
ready to point at but It didn't happen
to be Miss Strothers' trunk. 1t be
lonGed to Miss Remington. Here was
another mlxup.
The bachelor drew long breath
and started to explain. but was cut
short after minute. He was asked to
Identify himself as an honest man; he
was asked TO prove that be was not
baggage thief: he was asked to con-
vince the plain looking woman, who
looked plainer than ever in her own
house and with her anger up. that his
grandfather had I.eyer been hung for
capital crime.
At the end OF half an hour the plan
woman soften on him bit. She
softened enough To sa.- that perhcDs
after all It was his ;i-,t crime aad that
II he hustled .troyui ana got that one
handled i=r;u:; IN !spr.l.stnr inside OF
two hours sie would not call in the
police.
Bachelor Zee loused to return to New
York and find rest and peace. but mex
orabIe fate drove him on to Buffalo.
There he found Miss Remington.
eel am not going to blame you mt an
she said as she met him. ut was all
my fault in thinking that you knew
anything about the operation of rail
roads. You could have loaded that
trunk into IN auto and had it into the
Snten Island ferry In half an hour.
MIR. Ice proceeded to explain. but X
was not much of an explanation. How
ever, the more he explained and the
more he failed to explain the more he
became Interested In Miss Remington.
1t was a matter OF four days before
the big trunk, the little trunk and the
one handled trunk reached their re-
spective owners.
The chapter was closed then and
there with the plain looking woman,
but not SO with one OF the others. Ever
since that date. and particularly during I
the last three months, the bachelor |
club man has found 1t necessary to go |
up the road TO talk trunk business, and |
he finds that the most effective way to |
remind Miss Remington OF her duty to- |
ward the diamond ring she wears is to
suggest that he take a trip to Syracuse
TO see the other young woman about
ler trunk.