The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1913-01-31
AN ADVENTURE
ON THE Train
Nan That Changed a gii! Got
More Than He Thought.

met her Oh u train. here are more
impressions made IN travelling. | think
than under any other circumstances
She was about twenty. with light
fluffy hair. baby blue eyes. white teeth
and there vas neither too much nor toe
little of her. She sat looking out Of the
window with rather a bored expression
on her face. as though she lOnged fol
something with which to occupy hei
mind. longed to occupy her mind
myself.
However. my opportunity came when
a candy boy came along. She wanted
a box Of sweets and had only q dollar
bill to pay for them. 1t happened that
the boy was out of change and looked
around for help. l lifted my hat petite
~ to the girl, took a dollar in silver
from my pocket and handed 1t to her.
taking in exchange the bill. 1t was
new and crisp and so folded as to show
the dollar in a corner. Even II had
not seen its denomination / would not
have thrown a doubt upon the lady's
honesty by unfolding it. l showed it in
my vest pocket, and she opened the
box. I remained where l was. 50 that
she couldn't very well help rewardine
me for changing her bill by Offering me
a bit of candy. She did this with some
embarrassment. l sat on the arm of
the seat opposite while l thanked her
and said some irrelevant things. such
as the a was either too hot or too
cold or I hated or liked travelling or
made some other meaningless remark,
passing on to another and another. all
the while looking more and more un-
comfortable On my perch till ut last
she cast her eyes on the vacant seat
beside her. Constituting this as al invi-
tation. I sat down.
When the conductor came along / no
ticed he punched q Cleveland ticket for
her. ri bound for Chicago. She had
a suit a o in the car with her. on
which were the letters e. v. w. took
particular note Of these things. for I
was delighted with her and often visit
ed Cleveland.
l spent several hours very pleasantly
with her. At frst she seemed abashed
at forming an acquaintance In this
way, but she soon forgot all about that,
and I saw that l was as companionable
to her as she was to. me. When We
reached Cleveland l offered to hand her
out Of the car, but she said her brother
would be there to meet her, and I saw
by a look she gave me that she would
not care to have him see her receiving
attentions from q stranger. therefore
myself with thanking her for
rendering NY trip enjoyable instead Of
a bore and told her I hoped that If she
came to Chicago l might happen
to meet her.
The next Sunday morning. got
home on Wednesday, left my bache-
lOr quarters and strolled to my club
for breakfast, buying a paper by the
way. l always read everything in my
Sunday paper. and on this occasion
wound up with the personals" Sud-
denly l was seized with establishment
as ! read:
The gentleman who changed q bill fora
lady on q train on the 18th can commr il
cate with her by addressing E. v. ~,
Box -, Cleveland. o.
l was not only astonished; l was dis
Since my return my brain
had been full of love stories Of which
e. v. w. was the heroine and I the
hero. And. after all, l had struck one
who was not above calling me to her
through a personal. Then it came to
me that there must be some mistake.
I knew a lady when l saw one.
and the girl l had met was not only q
but a very innocent and refined
one. Why did she make the identifica-
ton through the dollar bill l had
changed? Because, of course. it was
the best and only sure means of iden-
This dollar bill was all l had to re
mind me of the girl who had given it
to me. l had transferred it from my
pocket to a box of trinkets on my
dresser, folded just as it was when l
received it. Something. l know not
what-one Of those mysterious point
ers Of the brain perhaps that come 10
us on occasion-prompted me to go to
my room and have a look at the bill.
l lost no time in doing So. and when |
unfolded the crisp bit of paper my
eyes bulged from their sockets in a.
constituent.
1t was q thousand dollar note!
Now I saw it all. The wording at
the advertisement. instead of indicat-
ing that the girl was familiar with
methods of designation. showed. her in
nocence or she would not have used
it. It was evident she had inferred
that l had discovered the denomina-
ton of the bill. and she gave me the
Of communicating with her -
return It
took the midnight train for Cleve-
land. and the next morning went to
the postoflce. where l learned that
box No. belonged to a family named
Worthington. Later In the day l cali
ed at the address. which I had also
received At the p~ostoflce, and sent Up