Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-02

half dozen passengers making the
change she followed them. The
coaches on the other road We're
crowded, and she found herself In a
seat with young man.
II trust you will not think me Of
ficious, but haven't you made a mis-
take"
"A mistake!" she gasped.
az thought | heard you tell a lady
in the other train that you were go
ing to Charlotte?'
But I am.
mot by this train. You are going
off at an angle. This train goes to
Columbus. You should have waited
and changed at Dayton Junction"
Mercy on mel"
Here comes the conductor and
he'll tell you the same
That's what the conductor did.
Don't think me officious when l
ask what you are going to do said
the young man when the conductor
had passed on.
why, am going to turn right
back and go on to Charlotte was
answered.
He took from his case his address
card and handed it to her with:
You don't exactly understand the
situation. This road runs only two
passenger trains per day. The next
one Is 10 o'clock at night, and you
could not go on to Charlotte by any
train till next afternoon. You may
have noticed there were no hotels at
the Junction."
But I've got to get somewhere or
do something"
"You surely have. l don't want
to thrust myself forward, but l may
say that I live at Clydesdale two
stations below. | am with my father
in the lumber business. l have a
mother and sister"
But how does that help me?'
why, why, think my sister will
be at the depot
But don't know her"
But | will introduce you and ex.
plain the situation. She will then
invite you to the house to pass the
night, and in the morning you can
take the train. Our hotel Is very
poorly kept house.
Miss Betty turned her head and
had been looking out of the window
for five minutes when the young
man in some way knew that there
were tears in her eyes.
IF I have been too officious-'
he said.
1T isn't that" she replied with
sob; Its that l was idiot enough
to do just as Brother Ben said
would He'll crow over me for the
next ten years to comet
Ralph Enright-that was the name
on his card-laughed good naturedly
mo use to let Brother Ben know
anything about it, May l ask ii you
were on your way to visit friends at
Charlotte?"
Yes. my Aunt Sarah. She'll be
scared to death when | don't get
off the train
house," . ...
"Oh, yes"
Then you yourself can telephone
her right from our house. Here is
Clydesdale, and there is my sister
Nettie'
Weeks later when Miss Betty had
got home from her visit and told on
herself, her father exclaimed:
'Why, that young man might have
been a friend!'
And the mother added:
And the girl he called his sister
only decoy!' ...
And Brother Ben put in:
And that was the night dreamed
of seeing your with your throat cut!'
The Enright family were very
nice people, and they made Miss
Betty's enforced stay as pleasant as
possible. That night after they had
gone to their room the wife said to
the husband: You see the romance,
don't you?"
Cant say do"
That's because you are an old
poke! Ralph sees it,
How do you know
From the way he looks at her
He's going to marry her, too"
Don't believe it!'
That's because you are another
old poke Ralph hasn't got MS head
as full of pine lumber as you have!'
In the morning both Ralph and his