The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-14

2 sound. my disturher had slipped away
INTO the gloom and darkness, In a
frenzy OF wakefupess. ! sat up. drew
on pair of slippers and fumblcd for
ms bathrobc.
From berth across. probably lower
ten, came that particularly aggravating
snore which begins lightly, delicately,
Family soprano. goes down the scale
a note with every breath. and. after
keeping the listener tense with cxpec.
tatIon, ends with an explosion that
tears the very air. / was more and
more irritable; ] sal on the edge of
the berth and hoped the snorcr would
choke 10 death,
He had considerable vitality. how.
ever; he .withstood one shock after an.
other and survived TO start again with
new vIgor. in desperation | found some
cigarettes and one match. piled my
blankets over my grip, and drawing the
were still occupied. ! made my way 10
the vcstibulc of the car
was not clad for dress parade Is
1T because the male is so restricted TO
gloom IN his everyday attire that ne
blossoms into gaudy colors in his pa
lamas and dressing gowDsi II would
take a Turk TO feel at home before
an audience in my red and yellow bath
robe, Christmas remembrance from
Mrs. klopton. with slippers 10 match
SO, naturally, when | saw fcm-
lnlne figure on Nc platform my first
instinct was 10 dodge, The woman,
however, was quicker than I she gave
me startled glance. wheeled and dis
appeared, with a fash of two bronze
colored braids, into the next car.
Cigarette box in one hand, mater
in the other. | leaned against the un
certain frame of the door and gazed
after her vanished figure. The noun
tain air Mapped my bathrobe around my
bare ankles. my one match burned To
the end and went out, and still ]
stared. For | had seen on her expires
sive face haunting look that was hor-
ror, nothing less. Heaven knows,
am not psychological Emotions have
TO be written large before I can read
them. But a woman IN trouble always
Appeals 10 me, and this woman was more
than that She was in deadly fear.
If | had not been afraid of being
ridiculous. ] would have followed her.
But | faucied that the appaririou OF
a man in a red and yellow bathrobe,
with an unkempt thatch of hair. walk
ing mp TO her and assuring her that
he would protect her would probably
put her into Mysteries. had done that
once before. when burglars had tried
TO break into the house. and had startled
the Darlor maid into bed for Il week.
So ] tried 10 assure myself that !
had imagined the lady < distrcss-or
caused II. perhaps-and TO dismiss her
from my mind. Perhaps she was mere
" anxious about the unpleasant gen
tleman Of the restaurant | thought
smuglv that / could have told her
all about him: that he was sleeping
the sleep of the Just and the intoxi-
Gated in berth that ought, by all that
was fair and right. 10 have been mine.
and that If | were tied to man who
snored like that l should have him an
aesthetized and his soft palate put
where it would never again flap like
loose sail in the wind.
We passed Harrisburg as | stood
there. II was starlight, and the great
crests OF the Allegbenics had given way
TO low hills. At intervals we passed
smudges OF gray white, no doubt IN
daytime comfortable farms. which Me
Knight says is a good way of putting
it. the farms being a lot more comfort
able than the people on them.
| was growing drowsy: the woman
with The bronze hair and the horri,
fed face was fading IN retrospect. 1t
was colder. too, and | turned with a
shiver TO 90 IN.
AS I did so. a bit of paper huttcred
into the air and settled on my sleeve
like a butterfly on gorgeous red and
yellow blossom. [. picked it up curl
ouslv and glanced nj IT. il was part
of n telegram that had been torn into
bits
There were only parts of four words
on the scrap, but it left me puzzled and
thoughtful II read, ''-owcr ten, car
scve-.h ''Lower ten, car seven. was
my bcrth-thc one | had bought and
found preempted.
Continued Next Sunday.)