Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-01-25
s: On
Their Way

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hoping to meet some day. unused
the girl who likes TO talk. Hes the
president Of railroad. don't care
go much about merely seeing him a.
| do. about conversing with him.
should be satisfied with saying
few things to him over the telepnon'
il l couldn't do any better!
Tt isn't that ! want to rage al MIN
want merely TO assure him that
am filed with the deepest admiration
for any human being with a nerve az
colossal and contempt for his fello"
man as sublime AZ are his.
HE runs the railroad which is the
only means of getting out OF my sum.
mer resort. All during the season
heard vague rumors and rumblings
OF discomfort from the floating popn'
lation at the inn. who, Of course. we're
obliged to escape By rail-. In an In
dolent fashion ] learned that nothing
ever occurred on that road In the
way that II should. People rather
inferred that the train crews sat W
nights planning new and ingenious
ways to upset the schedule and keeT
people waiting.
ITO be sure. IL was annoying to
have to take a train at II o'clock at
night. but We got TO the village br
dark and had our dinner. The bus
left at S for, tbs station a mile away,
so We went in It,. Three Of us could
kill time easily. we said. We sur
vived the blighting depression OF the
village. station for half an hour and
then We took walk. 1T began to
rain. -
"On going back We heard the bag
sageman saying that the train was
forty minutes late, but that sleeper
would run down from somewhere else
earlier and We could got aboard tha;
and be- picked up ater BY the train
In half an hour the report was that
the sleeper was delayed by sand,
slide on the track. we bad talked all
We knew and were getting to the
point where we eyed each other Will:
growing dislike. -. =
Il woman with FIVE small children
added TO the joys Of the $eVening be,
cause II one child cried all the rest
piped up. and il: they all stopped !
think she r,ust have, pinched them to
start them up again.
Then Harry Gilast burst In upon
his wife and me to. report a lunch;
room "A block Away. We fed to If.
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
petrihed 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
basgageman said terrible things. on
loud TO himself and demanded tn
knox how any man could live on four
hours sleep a day and Why was q
railroad anyhow Mrs. Gilhst and |
sat hIuched up in a dry corner and
yawned and Strengthened our hair
irritably. 'Whadyu say
Down the track two men were
carving lartern close to the groun';
in 4 wareriug way. 'Wba-they doing
Mrs Gilfist demanded. GROSSLY,
They're searching for the train. my
dear. told her sootFingly. They
think maybe they'll find it slipped
down crack where the rails join.
Don't be silly" she snapped. I shal!
die II can't 60 to sleep. 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 z
train on this line, Harry Cliffs
cban,ed mournfully. They put w
this station just as an ornament and
added the ticket agent for touch nf
realism. II he had Gothic nose
now
The seeperll get here at
o'clock, they report. said the desper,
ate bsesaseman. I'll resign tomor,
row.
And we have to get up at s: 8ajd
Mrs. Gil6st. hollowly. oh, how those
ham sandwiches made ME feel.
AT 10 minutes after train am
bIed in from somewhere and, Keeling