Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-12-30
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Greenlands, after arranging Tor MS
luggage to be sent over.
As he left the station a smart little
trap rolled up to the platform and
an extremely pretty girl inquired for
several express packages placed in
the trap, while on the seat beside the
girl was poised an enormous blue
bandbox.
''Be careful, please" warned the
girl anxiously as the express agent
handled the box.
Gregory swung down the road
that led to Greenlands with a keen
anticipation Of the walk ahead of
him. The road was a shady one,
dipping up and down with the con-
formation of the land and affording
delightful glimpses of the richly
tinted autumn foliage.
He had gone perhaps a quarter of
a mile when there was the sharp
rattle of hoofs on the hard road, and
the little trap passed him swiftly,
the blue bandbox swaying perilously.
He watched her gain the rise be-
yond and then she disappeared in
the depression of the road, only to
be silhouetted against the sky at the
next hill. AS he walked down into
this first depression his eyes fell
upon the blue bandbox lying in the
dust where it had spilled from the
cart. He picked it up by the string
that fastened it and walked on,
quite confident that the girl would
miss the box and return for it. He
was not displeased at the opportuni-
ty afforded him of meeting the
pretty girl.
When he next saw the cart it was
still bowling smoothly along the
road ahead of him, and the girl APP
peared not to have missed the blue
bandbox from the seat. To Gregory
this was perplexing because she had
appeared 50 solicitous concerning its
welfare.
The bandbox was light and prob
ably contained one of those lacy Gre
atoms that are beloved of just this
sort of pretty girl, decided Gregory
as he FASTENED along the road.
The trap still kept about twenty
rods in advance of his hurrying feet
and gained a little whenever he
painted up a hill and lost a trife as
he sped down the next incline Once
he shouted, but met with no re-
Spouse and, keenly conscious of the
absurd appearance he must present
as his stride fastened to a dog trot,
he was silent.
Occasionally he paused to mop his
heated face, and once he stopped TO
drink from a wayside spring, but
each delay only increased the dis
lance between the blue bandbox and
its fair owner.
At last he stopped and, turning
around as he famed himself with
his hat, he was conscious that some
body was following him as industri-
ously as he was pursuing the girl
of the blue bandbox laundering
llong the road behind him was a
arge fat negress who shook a threat
ming fist in his direction, while her
her hand beckoned him to pause
% his steps As she came up TO
lim she glanced fercely at him and
wooped to snatch the bandboy from
ne ground beside him, but Gregory
as too quick and backed into the
nshcs with the box securely behind
m
We'll, nanny what's up?' he
,kcd ms pleasantly as he could con-
lering that The girl and the-trap
M entirely disappeared from sight
whats up" She sputtered wrath
plIy "Ah'll show you, young man,
hats mp if you don't hand back
VAT there BAN box What you
inkin' ola nice respectable young
en- a-runnin' off with a lady's best
onnety Give me that ban box 1"
ho commanded as Gregory showed
" signs OF yielding TO her orders
Pm sorry, nanny, but this band
box belongs to young lady who
has, he was beginning when she
interrupted him.
'"rhat there hat belong to nobody
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