The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-01-04

a quick eager glance over the room !:
then, as if not finding what he
sought, turned to the ticket agent
again.
Ten miles beyond Roseberry June
ton, eh?" he said in louder voice
with some emphasis, and after last
nights storm dangerous road, sir,
as you say-the road to the south. -
| looked up from my book a little
startled.
Il said nothing of the kind, sir 4"
said the agent curtly. Il have heard
of no damage being done to the line
by the storm either north or south
Certainly there can be no trouble on
my division or | should have been
notified"
The stranger laughed scornfully.
Yet ! say there is danger" he said
meaningly, still with his voice slight
ly lifted. 1T is bad day, sir, for
travelling southwark
He looked at me with so much
meaning that l rose to my feet. As
did so he raised his right hand to his
cheek and / caught for the second
time that night confused glimpse of
gray sleeve and an Immaculate cuff
held together by a golden spider
with eyes of many faceted, grayish
green gems. With an almost imper
ceptible gesture and glance that met
mine squarely he lifted his eyebrows
expressively, then wheeled and left
the station.
to follow him-to wrest meaning
| from his words thrilled me, and yet
if he cared to avoid me, what chance
was there for me to Oyertake him in
the rain-smothered darkness outside
the dimly lighted station. Besides,
the people We're thronging into the
room and | knew that my train
could not be long delayed.
And so | get my second warn
ing!" | said with something that was
almost shiver of apprehension.
sauntered idly toward the wicket.
Drunk, do you suppose l asked
indifferently.
"Darned if | know Something
wrong with his think tank undoubt-
edly."
| sat down again and picked up
my book AS / did so I became aware
for the first time that two young wo-
men sitting near me were regarding
me a little curiously. l stared back
at them until the older, the less pre-
possessing of the two, caught my
glance and colored with annoyance.
They We're both tall and slender,
rather fashionably dressed, although
of that l could hardly perhaps be
good Judge, and the younger woman
was heavily veiled. The older, as
if to escape my too7eager scrutiny,
opened book which was lying on
her knee, and which / discovered to
be a copy of the same book which
held, one of the popular recently
published works of fiction, began to
turn the leaves.
Here is one of the most striking |
passages in the book to my mind
she said to her companion, but with a
sly look at me that put me on my
guard at once.
THE way is full of menace; SO
much so, that the man who foolishly !
enters upon it is damned already. |
No matter how powerful his friends
my be, how wise he may think him
self, neither guardianship nor brains,
neither power sor wit can save him
from the merited consequences OF
his own presumption. Even the girl
who loves him will find her prayers
unheeded. Well for his unshriven
soul if she begins now-today-th
offices for the dying"
She paused moment. "The train
is coming" she said. "We are too
late, We've. Let lis 60"
This Itime-this second warning
had found me on my guard.
Tell me what you meant" | said
sharply. Your words were address
ed to me and-and they are not in
the book. They"
She looked at me over her should
er with a little startled exclamation
and slipped from my touch like a
frightened thing. The next moment
she and her companion We're swal-