Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1906-12-21


There was dignity In his bearing as
be set out to crush the worm under
his feet. The worm wasn't very busy
Just theu and heard him through and
then retallated with:
1--WE have two kilograms from two
other women nbout trunks having gone
wrong. and IT'S all owing to your hav-
ing butted In here the other day. I re-
member you very well. You had three
trunks checked at the same time"
Yes. sir. l did. and II the baggage
department can't take care Of the
trunks all at Onee II had better go
hang"
-Did you hand the three checks to
Gree different womenr'
''Of course I did"
"Are you sure you kept them sepn-
nte7"
"of eourDe-that is-that is, you
know
Eyes. I 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 teie-
graphing and receiving collect" mos
sages from Buffalo, Rochester and syr-
acuse, but he made little Roadway.
His messages were inQuiring and pa
cinc; his collects were vigorous and
rather threatening. At the end Of the
day he decided on making n personal
trip to straighten out the tangle. He
could remember the trunks and their
respective wners
His Hrst stop was at Syracuse. He
WINS sure that the girl In mourning
with a humble looking trunk had had It
checked there. Two kilograms had
passed and he had her address. In the
course of an hour he found her. She
hadn't quite 30 much mourning OF 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
mourning for an aunt who had left her
$4,000, but yet she used language
tinged with acid. Next time she went
travelling and had to appeal to a man
for help she would make sure that he
knew enough to check his own trunk,
Ond so forth, and so 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 bum
ing. and yet he admired Miss Strothers
He arranged to have the trunk sent OF
to Rochester md then took the train
for that city. The plain woman was
expecting him. She had the trunk al
ready to point at, but It didn't happier
to be Miss Strothers' trunk. 1t he
longed TO Miss Remington Here wa
another mlxup.
The bachelor drew a long breatl
md started to explain. but w0s Gu
short after a minute. lie was asked Il
Identify himself MS an honest man; h
was asked to prove that he was not
baggage thief; he was asked to con
vince the plain looking woman, VIII,
looked palmer than ever In her owl
house and with her anger up. that ht
grandfather had never been hung for
capital crime.
At the end Of half an hour the plaiI
woman soften on him a bit Sht
softened enough to say that perhaps
after all II was his first crime and tina
II he hustled around and got that on,
handled trunk In Rochester inside o
two hours she would not call In tn.
polica
Bachelor Lee longed to return to New
York and end rest and peace. but mex
orable fate drove him on to Buffalo
There he found Miss Remington
II am not going to blame you at an
she said as she met him at was al
my fault In thinking that you knew
anything about the operation Of rail
roads. You could have loaded tina
trunk into an auto and had II into thu
Staten Island ferry In half an hour.
MIR. Lee proceeded to explain, but Il
was not much Of an explanation. How
ever, the more no explained nnd tbs
more he failed to explain the more h
became interested In Miss Remington.
II was q matter of four days beforl
the big trunk. the little trunk and th'
one handled trunk reached their re
spective owners.
Tho chapter was closed then ant
there with the plain looking woman
but not 80 with one Of the others. Eve
since that date. and particularly durini
the last three months. the bachelo
club man has found It necessary to g
up the road 10 talk trunk business, an,
he finds that the most effective way {
remind Miss Remington OF her duty &c
ward the diamond ring she wear is (
suggest that he take a trip to Syraeus
10 see the other young womRn abou
her trunk.
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