The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-10-04

terVleW IL. baggage master instead.
There was lightly in his bearing as
he set ont , crush the worm under
his feet 7 worm wasn't very busy
just then ! heard him through and
then retail FL with:
1--WE hay. two kilograms from two
other wOu.eG about trunks having gone
wrong, anL as all owing to your hav-
ing butted in here the other day. re-
member y0u very well. You had three
trunks checked at the same time"
Yes, sir did and if the baggage
department can't take care of the
trunks all ut once it had better go
hang"
Did you hand the three checks to
three different women?"
"Of course | did"
Are you sure you kept them sepa-
ratc?"
"Of course-that is-that is. you
know
Yes, l know" smiled the baggage
master. You handed out any old
check, and as a consequence there is
a mix. It's up to you to do some tele-
graphing and straighten things out"
Mr.. Lee spent the whole day tele-
graphing and receiving collect mes
sages from Buffalo, Rochester and Syr-
acuse, but he made little Roadway.
His messages We're inquiring and pa
cific; his collects" were vigorous and
rather threatening. At the end of the
day he decided on making personal
trip to straighten out the tangle. He
could remember the trunks ana their
| respective owners.
His first stop was at Syracuse. He
was sure that the girl in mourning
with a humble looking trunk had had it
| checked there. Two kilograms had
passed and lie had her address. In the
| course Of an hour he found her. She
| hadn't quite so much mourning on now
and was better looking than he had
! thought She had received the plain
] woman's trunk with the broken handle
/ She was a refined, ladylike girl and in
| morning for an aunt who had left her
| H5U.e.0, but yet she Usel language
| tingrl with acid. Next tine she went
/ travelling =nl had to appeal to 4 man
| for help sc would make sure that he
| knew enough to check his own trunk.
| and so forth and so forth. \ woman
/ may lose ne. sweetheart and say moth
/ ing hot let her lose her trunk while
! travelling aHl it takes years 80 exhaust
/ the subject.
A!Y. lee -ot away with his ears burn
/ in@ r-3 .at lie admired Miss Str1jlcrs.
! IL lrral ed to have the trunk sent on
| - Rochester and then took the train
for that city. The plain woman was
expecting him. She had the trunk all
ready to point at, but it didu't happen
TO lie Miss Str0thcr>' trunk. 1t be-
| longel to Miss Remington. Here was
another miXup.
The bachelor drew long breath
and started to explain. but was cut
short after a minute. He was asked t.
identify himself as an honest man; he
was asked to prove that h. was not q
baggage thief; he wds asked to con
vince the pain looking woman, who
looked palmer than ever in her own
house and with her anger up, that his
grandfather lad never been hung for a
capital crime
At the end Of half an hour the plain
woman soften on him a bit She
s5tleuod enough to say that perhaps
after all it was his first crime and that
il re hustled around and got that one
handled trunk in Rochester inside of
two hours She would not call in the
police.
Bachelor Lee longed to return to New
Ior! and find rest and peace, but mex
orahle fate drove him on to Buffalo.
There he found Miss Remington.
Il am not going to blame you at ALL"
she said as she met him. 1t was all
my fault in thinking that YOU knew
anything about the operation Of rail
roads. You could have loaded that
trunk into an auto and had it into the
Staten Island ferry in half an hour.
Mr.. Lee proceeded to explain. but it
was not much Of an explanation. How
ever, the more he explained and the
more he failed to explain the more be
became interested in Miss Remington.
1t was Il matter of four days before
| ll4t D4- Il ullh, ll4t IltIt Il u!IA anu lIlG
ono handled trunk reached their re-
spectiye owners.
The chapter was closed then and
there with the plain looking woman
but net so with one of the others. Ever
since that date, and particularly during
the last three months, the bachelor
club man has found it necessary to &c
Up the road to talk trunk business, and
he finds that the most effective way tC
remind Miss Remington Of her duty to
ward the diamond ring she wears is t
suggest that he take a trip to Syracuse
to aye the other young woman abou
her trunk.
Shifting the Responsibility.
Sir John Macdonald, when premier