The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1910-05-20
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traveller was lifting up a big dog.
Whatever it was, it crept along the
other side of the car, jumped upon
the sofa opposite and remained Fer
fectly quiet.
''No words passed between the man
and the object, and after lying there
few minutes 1 began to get uncom-
Portable. Perhaps it was a young
tiger, or a big monkey, or perhaps it
was some prisoner. Or perhaps
here l remembered having heard that
maniac woman had escaped some
where in this very neighborhood a
few days before.
Just as 1 had reached this point
in MY reflections the man, in whose
hands I had noticed something long
and thin, like a rife barrel, got up.
The end of the object swung very
near my face as he turned it around
and put it in rack near, and I broke
out in a cold perspiration. AS soon
as he had taken his seat reached up
cautiously and touched the object,
and found to my relief that it was
only one Of those long slaves which
the people in India use in walking.
''Then tried to engage.th man in
conversation, but he answered in
monosyllables. I was lying in my
pajamas, and 1 became so uneasy that
I drew on my trousers and got up.
asked the man whence he had come,
and he replied that he had just
reached the junction on the train
from Benares, which was an hour
late. He was so short in his replies
that by the time we reached the next
station I had made up my mind to
get out and complain to the station
master.
80 when we stopped, I alighted
and found that functionary, who at
my request turned his lantern into
the carriage, but I could not see the
object on the further berth.
els it customary to allow prison
ers to travel in first carriages?' de-
manded.
tSahib, I know the gentleman
he replied, and he has no prisoner
II was not satisfied with the
guards reply and insisted upon his
turning the lantern into the COM
partment again. At this the Hindu
inside, who had been doing, arose
and came out upon the platform. He
exchanged some words in Hindustani
with the station master, and then he
turned to me.
Sir, it is my wife that have
travelling with me- he said.
"Well, I wondered what man
was doing dragging his wife about
with him by a chain, for the rattling
continued at intervals, so I decided
to remain up, and began to smoke.
"The traveller thawed after his ex-
PLANTATION, and found him a very in
tellectual man. He gave me much
information about northern India.
Suddenly he asked me whether be-
1onged to the craft and upon my re-
plying that did, he informed me that
he was master of his lodge.
GAS daylight approached I would
cast an inquiring look in the direc-
ton of the other occupant of the COM
partment. When it got light 1 found
to my surprise that the woman, whose
face was heavily yelled, was swathed
in a beautiful silk robe. She wore
sandals and as I glanced at them I
discovered that what had aroused my
alarm was multitude of anklets and
bracelets.
sit is the custom in India for a
man to show affection for his wife
by loading her with such trinkets, and
that particular Hindu displayed more
devotion in that way than any other
ever came across. He did not in
troduce her, to me, nor did he address
a single word to her while they were
in the car He had violated the
roads rules by bringing his wife into
the compartment, but knowing l was
not a Hindu he thought I would not
object. The following day I learned
that he was the chief Government
auditor for the railways of that dis
trict. New York Sun.