The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-12-30
BY HOMER eRAYDoN.

81 have got to be in Buffalo on the
tenth to see a man. The train arrives
at three. You can leave Blankville
so as to arrive there at 2:30. Take a
seat in the ladies' waiting room and
will look there for you. There isn't
one chance in thousand of anything
going wrong, but if anything should
then appeal to the police as have al
ways told you to-
About the first thing to attract the
young lady's attention, after being
put on the train by her relatives, was
young man. He had the chair next
| to her in the chair car, and he could
not very well help but attract her at
tention. He had to remove his grip
and hat and cane from her chair, be-
fore she could occupy it, and he had
to beg her pardon for not knowing
that she was to take the train at that
particular station and occupy that par
ticular chair, and when she dropped
her purse in settling herself, he had
to pick it up and hand it to her with
something like another apology He
was good-looking and of pleasing ad-
dress, but when once settled the girl
turned her shoulder to him. In her
scrapbook at home she had a list Of
over 100 divorce cases that had come
about between couples that had first
met on railroad trains and fallen in
love while speeding along at fifty
miles an hour, and she didn't propose
that her name should be added to the
list.
The young man was most circum'
spect. He had a daily paper contain.
ing the account of a scandal in high
life and three murders, but he did not
offer it to her. He had two of the
current magazines, but she waited in
vain for the Beg pardon, but may
offer?" In fact, when she ventured
to turn her shoulder ever so little
after half an hour and take a peer
from the corner of her eye, the good
young man was lying back in his
chair with his eyes shut. Miss Clara
felt piqued. Any good-looking young
lady of twenty would have felt the
same. She would have resented il
had he sought a Irritation, but for him
to quietly ignore her in that fashion
was, to say the least, an ill-bred thing
She first made up her mind that he
must have been married within the
last month; then that he was a sharp
er who was lying low for fear of the
conductor; then that he was fugitive
from justice and did not want to puI
himself forward and be remembered
1t was with a glow of satisfaction thai
the girl thought this out. 1t was hel
revenge for being snubbed
Buffalo was reached in due time
and she had thirty minutes to wait
She forgot about the young man as
she left the train, but five minute,
later she saw him in the waiting
room. She saw that he saw her, an(
she gave him a freezing look. Colo
mel Williams would have take hi.
oath that his train would roll into thu
depot at three o'clock to the second
but it was not there at three, nor Z
quarter past, nor yet when half al
hour had passed. AS the minutes
/, flew away Miss Clara became very
nervous and walked about and KEEP
glancing at the big clock At quar-
ter past three she not only saw the
young man again, but he dared to ap
proach her and lift his hat and say:
Perhaps you are waiting for the
three o'clock train from New York
If so, let me say that it is forty min
utes late. | have just consulted the
board, as l am expecting party or
that train"
The girl have him a cold bow in re
turn. Had he fingered to wonder witt
her why the train was late when hel
father had said that it would be OF
time-had he hung around to tall
about the exports and imports of tn,
United States for the last twelve
months-had he evinced the least in
, terest in her she would have sen
him packing, But the very fact tina
he did not aroused her pique afresh
and she wandered off and looked in Z
mirror to see if the sunburn of the
country had taken away any of hel
good looks. She had just satisfied
herself that it had not when she miss
ed her purse. She uttered al
"Oh-h-h-h!" and dropped into sea-
and of course, half dozen womer
gathered around to see what was the
matter All had observed her carry
ing her purse in her hand. She had il
in her hand when talking to the
young man about the lateness of the
train, or, rather, when he was talkina
to her They had noticed that it was
not in her hand when she came back
from consulting the clock for the
twenty-third time.