The Huttig news., 1908-10-10

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 the chain fell clanking and the car shot out, over the bridge, through the gates, and away, al a very consider able. even if lawful. rate of speed.
 Whereupon, writing fnis to the final chapter of Romance. voting the world athematizing in no uncertain terms his lack of resource and address. Maitland paid off his cabby. alightad, and to that worthy's boundless wonder. walked into the waiting room of the railway terminus without deviating a hairs breadth from the straight and circumscrihed path of the sober in mind and body
 The 10:20 had departed by bare two minutes The next and last train for Greenfields was to leave at 10.59 Maitland with assumed .nonchalance composed himself upon bench in the waiting room to endure the 37-minute interval. Five minutes later an abe hcdied washerwoman with six children in quarter sizes descended upon the same bench: and the young man in desperation allowed himself to he dis possessed. The news stand next attract ing him, he garnered fugitive amuse- ment and two dozen copper cents by the simple process of purchasing six night extras which he did not want. and paying for each with a five-cent piece. Comprehending, at length, that he had irritated the news dealer, he meandered off, jingling his copper for tune in one hand, Juggling his news papers in the other, and made a de termined onslaught upon a slot ma chine. The latter having reluctantly disgorged 24 assorted samples of chewing gum and stale sweetmeats, Maitland returned to the washerwom- an. and sowed dissenSion in her brood hy presenting the treasure horde to the eldest girl with instructions to share 1t with her brothers and sisters.
 It is difficult to imagine what folly might next have been recorded against him had not, at that moment. fe- rocioHs and inarticulate howl from the train starter announced the fact that the 10: 59 was in waiting.
 Boarding the train in a thankful spirit. Maitland settled himself as com fortably as he might in the smoker and end avored to find surcease of ennui in his collection of extras In vain. even a two-columr portrait of Mc Dan Apictv orocLepoop aooo,, panied by viyacious catalogue of that notcriety's achievements in the field of pclte burglary hardly stirred his in terest. An elusive resemblance which he traced i1 the features of Mir Anety, as presented by the sketch artist-on- tae-spot. to some one whom he, Matt land, had known in the dark back wards aud sbysm of time, merely drew from him the comment: "Homely brute." And he laid the paners aside, eradiing his chin in the palm of one hand and staring for a weary while out of the car window at a reeling and moonsmitten landscape. He yawned eNhaustively, his thoughts astray be- tween a girl garhed all in gray. Ban nerman's earnest and thoughtful face. and tho pernieious activities of Mir. Daniel An sty. at whose dc-ar Maitland laid the responsibility for this most tdtinuing errand
 The brakenans woif-iike yelp- "Greendelds. was ringing in his cara when he awoke and stumbled down aisle and car steps inst in the nick of time. The train. whisking round curve cloaked by a belt of somoer pines, left him quite alone in the world, cast ruthlessly upon his own resources.
 An hour had elapsed. + .as 1cw midnight, the moon rode high. cold white disk against a background of sapphire velvet, it's pellucid rays re- yealing with disheartening distinct. ness the inaaimate. and li-s.less road