The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-04-21

win DO here IN fifteen minutes. You
must get away"
How2 There's 30 chance. Oh. IL
only my train had been on timer The
girl broke down and sobbed
"Herel Don't do that. You must
keep your nerve, you know Mortous
brain was working quickly Listen. 1T
the sheriff doesn't find you here wnen
be arrives he'll think you are In the
neighborhood surely. and hen stop to
search the village. That win take him
until morning The next station north
is Newboro fifteen miles. We have
over an hour IN Which to make It. viii
YOU take the CHANGER
"Yes--any chance. | haven't really
done anything wrong. aud If can es-
cape7-
"Quick, then. Go over to that shed
on the other tracks and wait"
The girl disappeared. and Morton
sanntered into the waiting room "Pve
a bad headache and decided I'd better
not travel Win the hotel be openYp
open until 50 comes ID
much Obliged. Good night"
Morton picked up his satchel and
started toward the hotel Then be
doubled across The tracks to where
the girl was waiting.
Hurry. There's not much time TO
lose he said. He had nodcad that
afternoon hand ear on q siding near
the street and went to It.
"Help me to push 1T he directed
Easy. though The agent must MOI
hear"
Together they showed the car eently
along the rails and into the darkness.
Far or they heard the whistle Of tue
sheriff's train.
Morton waited until 1t Numbered up
to tho station. Now. he cried. we
must push ahead Their noise VIII
drown ours"
They jumped aboard and grasping
the levers. started or and fl a mo
ment were swinging northward under
the stars, with the station lights grow
s9s fainter Ia the dlstance
The pumping was hard for tho
grade was uphlll. and for bait an hour
nothing was heard but the chnking
stroke az the levers. lac pounding of
the wheels and the iahored breathing
OF the man and woman The girl
looked exhausted. and Morton felt as
though there was a glowing furnace
IN bis chest. How long could be last
outq be wondered Then he felt the
car run easier. aud en-they bad
reached the crest Of the grade and
started downward Morton looked at
bis watch. Ii was 10 O'clock
wen make Il now be said "Yoa
sest."
The girl sank YEARLY upon the plat
form. while the car sped through
woods and meadows ratified over
bridges and rumbled past walls Of
rock.
u wish could ever thank you
she said. looking up. her face clear in
the soft starlight
You have thanked me + many
times"
"But / mean in words. don't know
what / would have done If you had
not helped me. May | tell You why !
am running awayY
.You needn't unless you wish.
know you've done nothing wrong. You
couldn't
II want to tell you couldn't bear
lat least--I mean ! want you to I'M
derstand-it wasn't wrong. | don't
think you'll say it was wrong. You
see, my mother died a few days ago
and. oh, loved her sol-and my step
father hated me. He was cruel to me
and cruel to her even at the last
After she was buried be was worse
than ever and yesterday be told me
must leave his house. / was glad to
go-only too glad. ! asked aim for
my mothers little trinkets-- things she
had had as a girl, few little bits OF
jewelry my own father had given her
and her picture. She told him on her
deathDed they were to be mine. But
when asked for them he refused me:
said the law gave them to him told
him / would take them. aud he threat