Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-01-08
On
Their WAY

hoping 20 meet some day" unused
the girl who likes 70 talk. Hes the
president OF railroad. I don't care
so much about merely seeing him as
do about oonversing with him.
should be satisfied with saying a
few things TO him over the telephone
II couldn't do any betteTl
Tt isn't that want TO rage at him
want merely to assure him that
am filed with the deepest admiration
for any human being with a nerve as
colossal and contempt for his fellow
man as sublime as are his!
He runs the railroad which is the
only means Of getting out Of my sum
mer resort AL during the season /
heard vague rumors and rumbllngs
OF discomfort from the floating popu-
lauon at the inn, who, Of course. were
obliged TO escape by rail. IN an In
dolent fashion ! learned that nothing
ever occurred on that road In the
way that It should. People rather
inferred that the train crews sat IN
nights planning new and ingenious
ways 70 upset the schedule and keep
people waiting.
To DO sure, II was annoying TO
have TO take a train at II o'clock at
night, but we got TO the village by
dark and had our dinner. The bus
left AZ s for the station a mile away,
so We went IN II. Three Of us could
XIII time easily. we said. We sur
viyed the blighting depression Of the
village station for half an hour and
then we took a walk It began to
rain.
ON going back we heard the bag.
gageman saying that the train was
forty minutes late. but that a sleeper
would run down from somewhere else
earlier and we could get aboard that
and be picked up later by the train
In half an hour the report was that
the sleeper was delayed by q sand
slide on the track. We had talked all
we knew and were getting to the
point where we eyed each other with
growing dislike
"a woman with i've small children
added to the Joys Of the evening be-
cause II one child cried all the rest
piped UP, and If they ell stopped I
think che must have pinched them to
start them up again.
Then Harry Gilfst burst in upon
his wife and me to report lunch
room a block away. We fed to It.
and started in on ham sandwiches to
kill time. We ate sandwiches with
deadly seriousness, and then we be-
gan on the Gagged apple pie and the
petrifed doughnuts. Harry reported
that the main train was two hours
late now, because Of a washout.
The rain poured down The sta
ton agent slept on the table. The
baggageman said terrible things out
loud TO himself and demanded to
know how any man could live on four
hours sleep q day and why was a
railroad anyhow? Mrs Gilfst and I
sat hunched up In a dry corner and
yawned and Btraightened our hair
irrltably. 'Whadyu say?'
Down the track two men were
carrying lanterns close to the ground
In a wavering way. 'Wha-they doing
Mrs Gilhst demanded, Grossly.
They're searching for the train. my
dear told her soothingly. They
think maybe they'll hnd It slipped
down a crack where the rails Join
Don't be sillyl' she snapped. 7 shall
die II can't go to sleepl' And the
rain poured down in the miserable
black silence. We could hear the
agent snore.
There isn't any train. there never
was a train and there never will be a
train on this line Harry Gilfst
chanted mournfully. They put up
this station Just as an ornament and
added the ticket agent for a touch OF
realism. II he had Gothic nose.
now
1.-The sleeper'll get here at 2
o'clock, they report said the desper-
ate baggagemRn. 'Tn resign tomor-
row!'
And we have TO get up at g.! said
Mrs. Gilhst, hollowly. oh, how those
ham sandwiches made me feel!'