The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-09-05

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and lodging among the trunks.
And then. too. there was et hing
Irritating iD tie snxpiciop tiltt abe had
laughed as H II were = huge Joke Ter
.hars even now she was doubled 10 Ia
her narrow couch sitting the klggle
that would not be suppressed.
When the garde came back with
the lugubrious lnformatioD thnt moth.
ing. positively nothing. wash be had
It is painful to record that Brock sworp
in q ma which won the deepest "
spect Of the trainman
AT 4 o'clock In the morning. m'sieur.
an old gentleman and his wife will get
out at Strassburg. their destination.
They are In this carriage. and you may
take their Compartments m'sieur will
not object to sleeping IN . room just
vacated by two mourners who today
buried a beloved son In Paris. They
have kept all Of the flowers In their
-Four o'clock: Good Lord. what am
| to do till thenY" groaned Brock. glar-
ing with unmanly hatred at the door
of the Medcroft compartment.
Perhaps madame may be willing to
take the upper ventured the guard
t~imorously. but Brock checked him
with a peremptory gesture. He pro-
posed. instead. the luggage van. where
upon the garde burst into q psalm Of.
utter detection. It was against the
rules. ir%revscably. I
Then l guess I'll have to cit here ali
night. said Brock family. He was
forgetting his English.
If m'sieur will not occupy his own
bed. yes." said, the guard. struggling
his shoulders and washing his hands
of the whole incomprehensible AFFAIR.
''M'sieur win then be up to receive the
customs officers ut the frontier. Per
haps he will give me. the keys to ma
DANES trunks * that she may not be
disturbed"
ASK her for 'em yourself" growled
Brock. after one dazed moment Of dis.
may
The hours crawied slowly by. de
paced the length Of the wriggling cor.
ridor a hundred times back and forth:
be sat on every window seat In the
carriage; he nodded and dozed and
groaned and laughed at himself in the
deepest derision oil through the dismal
night. Daylight came at 4. He saw
the sun rise for the frst time In his
life. He neither enjoyed nor appre-
ciated the novelty Never had he wit
messed anything so mournfully depress.
ing as the FIRST gray tints that crept up
to mock him in his vigil. Never had
be seen anything SO CHASTITY as the soft
red glow that suffused the morninR
sky.
''1Il sleep all day II l ever get into
that id bed" be said to himself, bit.
terly wistful.
The customs oficers had eyed him sus
piciously at the border. They had EVIL
] IDENTIFY been, told Of his strange mad
ness In refusing to occupy the berth
10 bad paid for. Their examination u
his effects was more thorough than
usual. 1t may have entered their heads
that he was standing guard Over the
repose of d fair accomplice. They ask
ed - many embarrassing and discon
certing questions that heswas devoutly
relieved when they passed on. still sua
picious.
The train was late. and at s O'Clock
he was desperately combating an Inn.
pulse to leave It at Strassbnrg. find
lodging In a hotel and then. refreshed.
ret out for London to have it out with
the malevolent Medcroft. The disem
barking Vf the venera BILE moutners.
however. restored him to q degree OF
his peace Of mind. After all. he re-
viewed, 1t would be cowardly and base
TO desert a trusting wife. He pictured
her az asleep and securely confident In
his xtanchness. No. be would have It
cut with Medcroft at some later day.
He was concentrating himself on
the acquisition Of a bed-although II
might possess the odor Of a bed of
tuberoses when all of his pleasant
calculations were upset by the appear
ance OLA German burgher and his
family. II was then that he learned
that these people had booked e com
partement from strassburg 70 Mn
! Mich. sKas
Brock resumed his window seat and
fdespondently awaited the caii tosbreak
fast he fell sound asleep with biz
monocle In position. nor did Il matter
ITO him that bis hat dropped through
the. window and went scuttling Oh
acrOss the green Rhenish fields when
,stnext he looked at His watch Il var {
O'Clock. A small boy va standing a
the end Of the passage staring wide
eyed at him. Two little Girls came
i piling, half dressed. from ! c0mpart
ment. evidently In response TO The
Ayoungster's whispered command q
hurry ont md We the funny man
Brock scOwIed darkly. and the trit
darted swiftly fnt0 the compartment
he dragged his stir legs Into tha
dining car at Stuttgart and showed
them under 4 table. The I Wal
quite empty An IA wae star1nR blank
lys at the menu the cOndpcteur from
hisscar hurried Az with IN word thal
madam wOuId not breakfnsk untI 2
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