The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-04-17
CHAPTER xI.


Chance Encounter.
While Mrs Temple was contiding 20
her husband that the agitated couple
in the next seat had Just come from
& wedding gtactory, and had got on
while he was lost III tobacco land the
people IN the seat on the other side
OF them We're engaged IN L little
drama OF them own
Ira Lathrop known to an who knew
him as a woman hating swapping tur-
tie. was so busiiy engaged Trying 10
drag the faItheat invading rice grains
out OF tue bach OF his neck, that he
mss late in realizing his whereabOu
When he raised his head he found
that he had crowded into a scat Win
an uncomfortable looking woman. VINO
crowded against the window with old
maidenly timdity
He felt some apology 10 he neces-
ssry, aud he snalled Disgusting
things. these weddings After he
heard this, II did not sound entirely
felicitous, so he grudgingly yeutured
Excuse me you married
She denied the soft impeachment
80 heartily that he sotteued little:
You're sensible WOMAN I guess
you and ] are The only sensible peo-
pie on this train
'It-seems--s she giggled IL
: WIS the first time her spinstershlp
had been taken as material tot i com
pliment, Something ia the girLsh
giggle aud the strangely young smile
that swept twenty years from her
face and belied the silver lines m
her hair seemed to catch the old
bachelors attention lie stared at ner
no fercely that Size looked about tor
a way 10 escape Then curiousiy
anxious, almost hungry look soft
ened his leouiue jonls into bOyIsA
eagerness, aud his growl became
sort OF gruft pufr.
Say, you LOOK something Ike an
old weetheart-er-fri mine
Were you ever IN Brattleboro, VIZ
A flush warmed her check, and
sense OF home warmed her prim
speech. as she confessed.
Il came from there originally"
so did I, said Ira Lathrop, lean
Ing closer, and beaming like big
sun i don't suppose you remember
Ira Lathrop?'
The old maid stared al the bachelor
AZ II she were trying to see ne boy
she had knowA, through the mask that
time had modelled on his face. And
then she was d girl again, ana her
voice chimed as she cried
why lra!-Mr. Lathrop'-is 1t
your"
she gave him her hand-bOth her
hands. and he smothered them in one
big paw and laid the other on FOR
extra warmth, as he nodded his saw
age head and roared as gentle as a
suckiHg dove:
well, welE Annie-Anne-Miss
Cattle! What do YOU think OF that?
They gossiped across the chasm or
OF years about people and things. and
knew nothing OF the excitement 80
close TO them. saw nothing OF Chicago /
slipping back into the distance "lih I
its many lights shooting across me +
windows like hurled torches
Suddenly a tnlnge OF ancient jeai-I
ouey shot through the man heart .
recurring TO old emotions
so you're not married, annie
whAteYer became OF that fellow who F.
used to hang round you all the
time?"
Charlie selbyg" She biushed at tle
name. and thrilled at Tie iuNuy ~
meeting jealousy "Oh lie entered
the church lies minister ont ia
Ogden. Utah
4 always knew he'd never amount
o much. sas Lathrop's eplain on
,is old rival Then he started Win
new twlnge. you bound for ogden,
oog@
on. no" she smiled, enrapiured
1 the new sensation OF making "a miu
nsious. and understanding all IN
sah tbs motives that make oo9 9uettes.