Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1907-01-04
While They
Waited A.
By Virginia Leila Vents
By Virginia Leila Wsnt1
Copyright, 1905. By @. h. sutolif,e

Office just as his train was pulling cot
from the station.
"Pshaw" he exclaimed irascibiy, and
then to the sleepy looking. contentsd
ticket agent, when docs the nsxt
train leave for New York;"
1.-TWO hours" replied that indfvfduAl
laconically.
Maverick Oliver wasn't a man to CRY
over spilled milk. He sat himself
philosophically down in a shady recess
of the waiting room and extracted a
notebook. He wouid look over some
memoranda he had jotSed down for his
solicited article for the Review and
then take stroll along the country
hedges. There seemed to be a rather
attractive bit of woodland Just beyond.
How long must wait for connec-
tions for RosecliffT
Something in the woman's voice, half
contralto, half alto, made the man with
the notebook suddenly start. He'd
been SO engrossedly coming his mem
oranda that he had scnDcely noticed
the incoming train, with all its attend
ant hustle. Now, however, single
woman's voice made him start and
caused the Review article to be as far
from his thoughts as the military af-
fairs of nations B. @.
| The woman's back was turned to
ward Oliver, but he knew 1t was Flea
nor. Who else in all the world had
that queenly carriage. that soft slope
Of shoulder, that bewitching mass Of
| coiled chestnut hair7
For RoseclinT came the tieket
agents monotonous voice as he carsss-
ed his wrinkled forehead with the
back Of bis hand. "A half hour,
ma'am. Trains sixteen minutes late"
The woman turned impatiently away
from the window.
1t was then they came fnce to face.
! "Ycu" cried oliver. springing up.
| She stood there in the barren waiting
room, filling its emptiness with the
richness Of her charm. To the mans
hungry eyes she was food Of the most
satisfying as well as of the most deli
cate sort.
She did not hold out her hand. Never
| theless she encountered him not in her
old imperlous fashion, but with n smile
including him In some mood too large
to be wholly personal.
NV you nay shanseu' hieuhof'
"Are you, too, waiting for q train 2.
she answered softly in return. "In
"ne.n .eIt, ui' uo you so'
| ~, 4>e" Ao'A' eaiu oh'e''
90 ,,r Sou'
| o,,e ' .oui ..en rni'eo ."S
~. -, 'ooA ne u"Diia anu my
SUI .a I,on hei' anu men lney
80. t ~ 49,! Wy anu uo"n 'ne p'a'-
% I'm .se.n' nun anu "onah' ~.
steau vi nusoanu anu "lie' heiu apar'
W eo,ie i"hse nat 'neS nau oo'n ae-
'ep'eu -
In the neios, all around the putter-
cups were goioen ana the wiio carros
was IN "hite, iacenhe mower. over
III tns WOODS peyoha some song plros'
| waxing from tnelr summer siesta, were
| ousinnins u "arpie. a group Oh traV-
| eiihs men was iouhsihg on the raiilhg
| at the rar end or the PLATFORM, e1-
pectoratlng copiously TO punctuate the
points IN their stories.
| o"Ver oue'e' .no pi"''"rm o.epo ae
Tue June, emu oi tne walk WIN HIS
nahuAereniei' anu .he "ohah sat Sc
,ene,s uo"n' ner uehea.e pronie Jul
ileu against 'he ciear piue oi .he SKY
'ihe SOME eAquisi'e c"iheo. one hau
ui""ys peeh peau'iui' .housn' IL
wash lhat "hich mace the man tx
ciu,n asain irrepressiply'
iou We chanseu So hieahor! IL was
.rue. II was no mere lahcy OF MS
imaginative "riters eye tnat aiscoV-
ere" new me"nhss IN .he iace peiore
hinh' II hau UNDERGONE vague put
very cry sracions o,. 'runslorn'atioh.
chahseo! repeated she' WIN
| curious tehuerhess. I've trieo 10
enahge-trieo' 90 you understand
oihce iasl winter "hen we agreed 10
separate I've oeen trying-so nard'
MaVerich-to take coH'roi OIL my own
stuhteu nature turn IL wnere
TWISTS
Dear broke In Oliver. with bit
yer nuliiii'J' we were Do.n =" "'".-e.
you We peen eie'erer than II you've
unsharieu Things ~here tney falied 10
NJ 'he pattern. I've not changed mucn'
III afraid
ohaer her Diack iasnes the woman
might have translated fhad he been
high pIumadn as some iovo, oc,u,oo.
cence in his former state what OIL
ver fe,t NOW bou,evor ,yos c,,r,o,,+v In
his vounc wife NOT in b,mseIr s.
"TelI me- +" be burst forth "wbat hos
cbonged Won coy,
She rolled I'm her absurd LITTLE hand
lsercb,ef info a string and tbrow,ng n
over her knee. nulIed n unconsc,ouslv
Inv both ends gazing steodfastIv into
tho hIre dIstonca ohovo OI,vor,s hood
"J don,t know wbetber ought to
FOL, Won " sba haoan
oliver recalled tbot de,,c,o,s rtt,a,
habit she usad n have of temnt,no tho,
.