The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1913-04-25
CHAPTER VII.
a Mixed Pickle.

Mrs. Whitcomb had almost blushed
when she had murmured to Lieuten-
ant Hudson:
II should think the young couple
would have preferred a stateroom'
And Mr.. Hudson had flinched lit
tie as he explained:
Yes, of course. We tried to get IT.
but It was gone"
1t was during the excitement over
that the stateroom-tenants slipped in
unobserved.
First came a fluttering woman
whose youthful beauty had a certain
hue of experience, saddening and
wisering. The porter brought her in
from the station-platform led her to
the stateroom's concave door and
passed in with her luggage. But she
fingered without, a Peri at the gate
of Paradise. When the porter re-
turned TO bow her in, she shivered and
hesitated, and then demanded:
"Oh, porter, are you sure there's no.
body else in there?"
The porter chuckled, but humored
her panic
81 ain't seen nobody. Shall look
under the seat?"
To his dismay, she nodded her head
violently. He rolled his eyes in won
derment. but returned TO the state
room, made a pretense of examination,
and came back with a face full of re-
assurance. Nom, they's nobody
there. Take a mighty small-size bur
glar 10 squeeze unda that bald-er-
berth. Nom, nobody there"
oh"
The gasp was so equivocal that he
made bold 10 ask:
is you pleased or disappointed
The mysterious young woman was
too much agitated to rebuke the impu-
dSnce. She merely sighed; "Oh, por-
ter, I'm so anxious"
I'm not-now," he muttered, for
she handed him a coin.
Porter, have you seen anybody on
board that looks suspicious?"
"Evvabody looks suspicious TO me,
Missy. But what was you expecting
-especial?"
"Oh, porter have you seen anybody
that looks like a detective in dis.
guise?"
We'll, theys one man looks Is If he
was disguised as a balloon, but don't
believe he's no slooch-hound."
We'll, If you see anybody that looks
like detective and he asks for Mrs.
Fcsdick-"
Mrs. What-dick?"
Mrs. Fosdick! You tell him I'm not
on board And she gave him another
coin.
'Yassum.' said the porter, nnger-
ing willingly on such fertile soil. IN
tell him Mrs. Fosdick done give me
her word she wasn't on bode."
"Yes!-and II woman should ask
you"
What kind of a woman"
The hideous kind that men call
handsome"
"Oh, amt they hideous, them hand
some women"
Well If such a woman asks for
va AbFAANh oit ny uuHUduu -
first wife-but OF course that doesn't
interest you"
"No'm-yes'
III she comes-tell her-tell her
oh. what shall we tell herr"
The porter rubbed his thick skull:
"Lemme see-we might say you-i
tell you what Wen tell her: we'll tell
her you took the train for New YORK.
and If she runs mighty fast she can
just abogt ketch f."
Zine. finel" And she rewarded
his genius with another coin. And,
porter" lie had not budged "Por-
ter. II very handsome man with
luscious eyes and a soulful smile asks
for ne"
"T'll th'ow him off the train"
"Oh. no-no,-that's my husband
my present husband You may let
him in. Now Is IL all perfectly clear,
porter
"Oh. yassum, clear a. clear" Thus
guaranteed she entered the stateroom,
leaving the porter alone with his prob
lem. lie tried 90 work IL out in a
semissd!ble humble: "Lemi1s zee!