Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1912-04-30
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Carl lowering dashed for the sub
way and caught the uptown express
without an instant to spare before
the gates changed after him.
A local train on the next track
was pulling out at the same time
and for awhile the two trains kept
apace.
From his seat in the express Carl
was facing row of people in the
local train. Two faces, side BY side,
stood out from the Others clearly.
One was that Of a thin-faced,
weasel-eyed man, well dressed, who
sat with arms folded and a shifting
glance darting hither and thither
from under sandy brows.
Beside him sat girl, girl with
. clear brown eyes and charming face.
She was dressed in brown velvet that
matched her eyes and hair and her
hat was the same sober hue. On her
left arm there carelessly dangled
golden mesh bag, while her hands
were thrust into brown fur muff.
AS Carl looked at the girl with
eager, admiring eyes, he was con-
scious that his train was pulling
ahead of the slower one-as is the
custom with express trains. In an
other moment he would lose sight of
the Brown Girl, as he called her in
his mind, perhaps forever, and he
felt vague attraction toward her.
Then something happened in the
next train. He witnessed it with
angry eyes, knowing that he was
helpless to interfere.
The man who was sitting beside
the Brown Girl slipped a hand down
toward the golden purse hanging
on her arm. Something flashed and
the bag dropped. The mans hand
was withdrawn and without appar-
ent movement he was still sitting
there with folded arms. The girl
was looking the other way.
Carl wondered what he could do.
The local was probably stopping now
at Twenty-eighth street, while the
first stop of his train would be at
Thirty-third street. o. course the
pickpocket would leave the local at
Twenty-eighth street, and disappear.
AS he sat there Tuning over the
fates that had decreed he should see
the Brown Girl for the first time
and then lose sight of her so quickly
when she needed help, he became
aware that his train was slowing
down and presently it stopped en-
tirely in the tunnel.
A few minutes later the same local
came up alongside and that, too, be-
came stalled from some unknown
reason.
Carl was elated to discover that
the pickpocket had had no opportu-
nifty to leave his train. He still sat
there beside the Brown Girl, who,
quite unconscious of her loss, was
looking absently across the car
straight into CARTS keen blue eyes.
"By Jove, 1 wish 1 could make
her understand without appearing
to firt with herl Of course, it
wouldn't do the least bit of good,
anyway. The fellow probably has
already passed the bag along to
confederate p muttered Carl to him.
self.
Just then he observed that the
Brown Girl was staring at him with
alarmed eyes. She suddenly lifted a
white gloved hand and gestured
frantically toward him and made
motion with her lips.
The pickpocket was glazing saw
agely at the girl he had just robbed,
and then he darted a lightning
glance at Carl and withdrew into his
sullen reverie.
The girl still gesticulated at Carl
and he glanced down just in time
to intercept the sly hand of a thief
who was abstracting his watch by
an deliberately simple method of a
slit cut in the victims coat and a
neat pair of nippers.
Carts hand closed like a vice on
the wrist of the pickpocket and he
twisted IL until the man dronped the