Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-13

Warren was almost asleep IN the
urper berth before Helen was ready
tc turn out the light in their state
room. She loved to travel but was
always fastidious. so 1t took her some
time to prepare for bed. She undressed
slowly and hung her travelling suit
carefully on q hook, with her shirt
waist-a dark blue chiffon one-beside
il. Long after she was ready for sleep
there were several little things TO tend
TO; a button had dropped from her
pump as she had taken II of, and she
stopped to sew it on, knowing that
everything would be rushed in the
morning; and she was Just closing her
travelling bag when Warren growled
sleepily:
What on earth are you doing?"
Dear, I'm so sorry. l thought you
had fallen asleep long ago." and Helen.
oonscience-stricke at keeping the
dight burning right in Warren's eyes.
turned il off.
She was very tired and almost asleep
when she remembered that she had
not put her watch under her pillow
If Warren hadn't remembered to tell
the steward to call them they might
oversleep and go on to Boston, which
would take them out of their way.
Their tickets wouldn't be good that
way either. Ought she to wake War
Ien and ask him if he had remem-
,bered or would it be simpler to get up
and find her watch and then trust to
waking up? She remembered putting
her watch in her bag; it would only
take a moment to get it. She remem-
lbered having hung her bag over the
arm of the chair, and feeling her way
carefully across the room she found
the chair and her bag without any
trouble and felt around for her watch.
The Watch VanisheS
There was a faint light from the
corridor shining in the transom over
the door so she wasn't entirely in the
dark. but her watch certainly wasn't
in the handbag. She sat down on the
edge of the chair and dumped the con-
tents out on her lap. There was a tiny
purse for change, a pencil, lip stick,
q small box of powder, and a hand
kerchief. but no watch.
Helen stared blankly around the
room and then at the articles on her
lap. Could she have lost the watch or
could anyone have taken 1t? No. she
had taken 1t off in the stateroom just
a little while previous, and she had
intended to put 1t in her bag and evi-
IDENTIFY hadn't. But where had she put
st? If she lost that watch she would
never forgive herself. 1t had been a
present from her father on her
eighteenth birthday.
Cautiously she stood up and began
to feel around on the little shelf near
the window. She might have put it
there. With little gasp of relief she
found ii, but her fingers hit a glass.
which balanced for a moment peril
ously on the edge of the shelf and then
fell with a Clatter.
who's there" growled Warren
from his berth.
Helen was chattering from the cold
and. clutching the watch in one hand,
she made her way back to bed.
Haven't you gone to he'd yet?
That's right: stay up fussing around
till all hours of the night and then
grumble because YOU haven't had
enough sleep"
Dear [ got up to get my watch. I
thought perhaps YOU had forgotten to
leave word with the steward about
waking up and I can always wake up
II ] have my watch under the pillow"
"Of course | told the steward 70
wake us. Why didn't YOU wake me
up instead of proving around and
dropping things and soaring a person
out of q years growth >"
I'm sorry, dear, | hated to wake
YOU and / thought | could get the
watch without making any noise"
Huh. fine chance you'd have of
finding anything in the dark without
raising the dead before YOU got what
you wanted. and Warren relapsed
into silence.
She Wonders about the Place
Helen was wide awake now, and she
began to wonder what the place would
be like. Carrie and her husband had
stayed there all last season and had
recommended it very highly. and War
rem had suddenly decided to run up
there for a week END and see for him
self whether it would he a good place