Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-12

travelling suit and his clean cut fea-
lures Indicated that he was TO tho
manner born. Beside him sat a young
| man I'm the costume Of the country.
Ills skirt Was flannel; his hat was o
sonbrero.
On the next seat bnck sat lady,
the arisrocntic gentleman's wife, and
beside her a girl OF nineteen, their
daughter. The man In the sombrero
was telling them about the mountains
ana It's people and pointing out the
more prominent peaks, To which the
travellers listened with great interest.
Ihe sun was hot. the pace was slow,
and the two combined tended TO make
the driver drowsy. When the coach
reached an eminencc and started down
an incline. instead of being wide
awake 10 the dangers OF mountain
travel. he was nodding. He not only
failed to put on the brake, but drop
ped the reins. He was awakened by
the shouts OF the passengers behind
hin' who saw terrible death staring
them In the face. The horses. UNI
checked. started down the slope and
were soon going Mt n breakneck pace.
The driver basely abandoned his
post ana. putting his foot on the iron
step beside him. hyung himself to the
ground. The young man who had been
pointing out objects OF interest let
himself down over the footboard on to
the tongue, gathered up the reins,
quickly remounted To the box. put on
the brake and managed to reduce the
pace sufficiently TO enable the coach
10 turn curve without going over n
precipice. Then after n further short
descent he brought the horses to a
standstill. The first sensation that
came TO him AFTER It was all over was
reelihg the arms of the aristocratic
gentleman about his neck.
One day couple OF years after this
episode Mrs. Murphy and her daugh-
ter, while bowling along Ocean avenue
at Newport, received a terrible shock.
Oh, heavens. mother. there's Bar
ton Keith! Look the other way.
quickr'
MISS Murphy, pretending TO see some
thlhg To which she desired TO call her
inothers attention, pointed In the op-
poslte direction from the young man,
the carriage rolled by, and the women
began to discuss the situation.
What In the world could have
brought him here" exclaimed the
! mother.
Il would as soon have expected to
see Mississippi pilot"
Bart has been Il stage driver"
He'll tell everybody here all about
our antecedents"
1T seems hard To cut him after that
affair you had with him"
There have been changes since then.
AT that time father was building his
little branch railroad; he hadn't got on
to the main line"
We'll, l don't think there's much
danger. considering that he can't have
any entrce here. Heaven knows whit
II time we've had 10 even get I'm on
the outer circle. How can Bart Keith
with no money get In ut ALP
He may be prosperous; he's well
enough dressed"
Ihat night there WAS grand func-
ton ut one OF the cottages" and the
next morning Mary Murphy ran TO her
mother with newspaper I'm her hand
and her eyes wide open
For lands sake. mother. listen 20
this: Among those present at Mrs.
Atherton's last night was Mr.. Barton
Keith"
You don't mean itr'
How I'm the name Of conscience do
you suppose he got in therep
i can't imagine. I know we couldn't
get a bid"
He must have pait somewhere"
Your father lrid d pun, but It didn't
work He offered Peter Jones tfp
on the stock of our road IL he'd get
MIN an invit1tion 90 the Athertons'.
But Pete said they were OF the old
New York blue blood and rich besides.
These people who have both blood and
money are the hardest Of all TO move"
Ono! Here's the explanatlOnw and
she read a social item:
Mr. Barton Keith IL visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Emerson Forbes
"Oh. my goodness gracious" exclalu-
cd the mother, how I'm the world did
nc ever get in with them?"
There was n silence between tho two
which Mary ended by saying:
Mother, we've gone and done It."
$50 we have"
We must hndia way 60 take a back
track"
$50 we must"
but we're entirely ignorant of the
key to the position"
What do you mean by tbatT
We don't know what reason the
Borbes have for taking I'm Bart"
DO you suppose they know what
hos heenT"
"Of course they do Bart couldn't
keep It II he wished That's the sin !
gular part OF t. The Forbes have
been prominent I'm New York and New
port society for 2 hundred years. hut