Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-08-06
Still Waters
Run Deep
By EUNIcE BLAKE

and handsome as a picture. He had
an oval face, large dreamy eyes and
cameo cut features.
Wilton entered a parlor car n day
for a journey. On the opposite side
were three women. One was about
thirty, another twenty and the third
seventeen. The two younger ones call
ed the Oldest Aunt Sue, while she call
ed the next younger Dorothy and the
younger Fanny. Aunt Sue seemed to
be on terms Of equality with the 9th
ers and was the merrtest OF the three.
Dorothy and she were continually
cracking jokes with each other. while
Fanny was sober, but childlike.
Wilton, having placed his hand bag
gage In the rack above him, settled
himself in his. chair, pulled a novel
from his pocket and began to read. he
did not therefore observe the effect his
manly beauty had on the ladies.
Dorothy looked from him to Aunt Sue
and back again to him with an express
sion that being interpreted meant,
isn't he just too lovely for anythingf"
Aunt Sue returned the glance, indicat-
ing Handsome enough to kiss" Little
Fanny observed the mute comments Of
her elders, but said nothing.
Dorothy leaned toward Aunt Sue and
whispered something In her ear. Aunt
Sue cast her eyes aside, rested them
on Wilton for a few moments, then
whispered something In Dorothy's ear.
Then Dorothy swung her chair around
and said something to Fanny, who
glanced at Wilton and shook her head,
indicating a negative.
Wilton read on unconscious Of the at
tention he vas attracting from those
three ladies. Indeed, he had no given
them a glance on entering the car and
had begun his reading as 500 as he
had settled himself. They were all
comedy, dressed in a manner to in
dictate that they were persons of refine
ment, and since women like to be
noticed Wilton ignoring them may
have spurred them to a conspiracy they
concocted concerning him. But of this
the reader must form his or her own
opinion after hearing what this con
spiracy was.
Those were the days when trains III
passing through tunnels were not light
ed as they are today. On the line upon
which these three persons were travel
ing was a tunnel SO long that some
three minutes by the watch were re-
quired for a train to pass through Ii.
The train reached the tunnel In about
an hour after starting. AS soon as
they entered it Wilton dropped his
book on his knee and with his face-to
the window waited for the return OF
light. About half the distance under
ground had been passed when he felt
Il pair of arms thrown around his neck
and a pair of lips pressed against his
own.
Having been pinioned from behind,
lie was powerless to resist the kiss-if
he had wished to do so-or to get a
hold on the kisser. He tried to clutch
the arms, but they evaded him, and all
the satisfaction he derived from the
attempt was a knowledge that they
were covered with feminine material.
He reached out wildly in the dark, but
came in contact with nothingness.
Nearly two minutes elapsed before
the train shot out into daylight. When
it did so Wilton swept the car with his
glance with a view to discovering who
had kissed him. There were h number
of women in it besides the three ladies
mentioned. Having noted those at a
distance, he fixed his glance upon his
neighbors. Aunt Sue vas peering out
Of the window, and, her back being
toward him, he could not see her face.
Dorothy was wiping the dust out of
her eyes with her handkerchief. Fan
ny was leaning back In her chair look
ing up at the car ceiling apparently
wrapped in thought.
Wilton formed an opinion that he
had been kissed by n of his neigh
bors. He anne to this conclusion be-
cause they were so near him and be-
cause there vas no other woman on
the train who looked as If she would
be likely to commit such an act. OF
Tic THREE ne uAeu upon OOAOluy On
the culprit. And yet when she finished
wiping the dust out of her eyes he
noticed an amused rather than a guilty
expression on her face. Aunt Sue kept
her back turned toward him SO long
that he was not sure after all that she
was not the perpetrator. The only
one of the three that he was quite sure
was innocent was Fanny. She looked
fitted to sit as a model for a Madonna
When the train reached the terminal
Wilton left the car, still uncertain as
to who had kissed him. The three la.
dies left at the same time, and he saw
them driven away in a private car
rage. They took no notice of him
seeming to be oblivious of him.
One evening not a week later Wilton
appeared, handsomer than eve in even
ing dress at a function. He was walk,
ing toward a group of ladies, and wheT
within n few feet Of them one of them