The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-01-15
AN ADVENTURE
ON The TRAIN
Man That Changed a Bill Got
More Than He Thought.

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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 was neither too much nor too
little of her. She sat looking out of the
window with rather bored expression
on her face, as though she longed for
something with which to occupy her
mind. l 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 a dollar
bill to pay for them. 1t happened that
the boy was out Of change and looked
around for help. lifted my hat polite
ly 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 l would not
have thrown a doubt upon the lady's
honesty by unfolding it. | showed it in
my vest pocket, and she opened the
box. l remained where l was, so that
she couldn't very well help rewarding
me for changing her bill by offering me
a bit of candy. She did this with some
embarrassment. | sat on the arm Of
the seat opposite while thanked her
and said some irrelevant things. such
as the car was either too hot or too
ri I hot
made some other meaningless remark,
passing on to another and another, all
the while looking more and more un-
comfortable on my perch till at last
she cast her eyes on the vacant seat
beside her. Constituting this as an invi-
tation, l sat down.
When the conductor came along no
tced he punched a Cleveland ticket for
her. l was bound for Chicago. She had
a suit case in the car with her, on
which were the letters e. V. w. | took
particular note of these things. for l
was delighted with her and often visit
ed Cleveland.
! spent several hours very pleasantly
with her. At first she seemed abashed
at forming an acquaintance in this
way, but she soon forgot all about that,
and cav that was as companionable
to her as she was to me. When we
reached Cleveland offered to hand her
out Of the car, but she said her brother
would be there to meet her, and l saw
by look she gave me that she would
not care to have him see her receiving
attentions from q stranger. ! therefore
contented myself with thanking her for
rendering my trip enjoyable instead of
a bore and told her hoped that if she
ever came to Chicago I 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. I always read everything in my
Sunday paper, and on this occasion
wound up with the personals" Sud-
denly I was seized with astonishment
as read:
The gentleman who changed a bill for
lady ON train on the 10th can communi-
cate with her by addressing E. V. W.,
Box -, Cleveland, o.
was not only astonished; was dis
appointed. Since my return my brain
had been full Of love stories of which
e. V. w. was the heroine and | the
hero. And, after all, l had struck one
who was not above calling me to her
through personal. Then 1t came to
me that there must be some mistake.
Surely knew lady when saw one,
and the girl / had met was not only a
lady, but very innocent and refined
one. Why did she make the identificl-
ton through the dollar bill l had
changed? Because, of course, it was
the best and only sure means of iden-
tihcation.
This dollar bill was all l had to re-
mind me Of the girl who had given it
to me. had transferred it from my
pocket to a box Of trinkets on my
dresser, folded just as it was when l
received 1t. Something, / know not
what-ons of those mysterious point
ers of the brain perhaps that come to
us on occaGion-prompted me to go to
lost no time in doing so, and when
unfolded the crisp bit of paper my
eyes bulged from their sockets in as
tonishment.
1t was a thousand dollar MOTEL
Now l saw it all. The wording Of
the advertisement, instead of indicat-
ing that the girl was familiar with
methods Of assignaton, showed her in
nocence or she would not have used
it. 1t was evident she had inferred
that had discovered the denomina-
ton Of the bill, and she gave me the
means OF communicating with her to
return It
l took the midnight train for Cleve-
land, and the next morning went to
tha no,atnf1co WhaHa aarnad that