Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-04-23
TO LONG BAY
By LOUISE OLIVER.
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Ss40A' uoIi leI DIS go to the BaX
 ter's alone. She's so fiighty, she'
 likely to land in Kalamazoo 1nstea,
 of Long Bay"
 Carolyn looked at her brother con
 temptuously. Just because you han
 pen to be football pet doesn't give you any license to insult your sister
 Mother, mayn't go?"
 So Carolyn triumphantly prepared TOT her Journey, and upon the day set her brother resignedly carried her bag to the station, bought her tickets and put her on the train to Long Bay.
 something will happen to Sis be. fore she's a day older or I'll miss my guess, he grumbled as he left she train. Hello, Charlie, where are you bound for?" he called to a man who bumped into him in his hurry to catch the moving car.
 "Baxters-Long Bay called Charlie from the step, and in reply he caught something of sister-same place-look after-' and the train was beyond hearing.
 This is what actually happened.
 Carolyn, armed with candy and magazines and some unopened mail, proceeded to make herself entirely comfortable for the days journey. The Pullman car had few occupants and she spent several minutes in brief inspection.
 The man across the aisle was young good looking, and, to Carolyn's pres ent annoyance, evidently very much interested in her.
 :. The train flew on and she began to tire of the trip. She began to resent in earnest the half-smiling glances of the man across the. aisle.
 "I'll go out and stand on the plat form for a change she fumed So, suiting the action to the word, she sailed grandly down the aisle upon adventure bent She wound up in tile drawing room. =! -
 T wonder if that silly man is still there, she unused, looking back through her door.
 Tickets, please" said the conduc, tor, sticking his head in the door
 Carolyn had, in fact, forgotten about hers It was in her handbag inside the big bag down the aisle She arose. Its back there. I'll get it. she said. She went back to her old seat in the car opposite the man she detested. But there was no bag there! She looked around. She was in the right place she was sure-directly across from the man. Then she spied bag, her bag she was positive, half hidden under the mans seat.
 My ticket is in my bag and the bags gone!" she declared to the con. ductor. never taking her eyes from the bag across the aisle. T left it here few minutes ago." ''It can't have left the train. It mustybe around somewhere" said the conductor patiently. You look and I'm sure you'll find it."
 And impulsive Carolyn, for whom her brother had rightfully predicted disaster, answered: Il have found it. That's it right there, am positive" She nodded toward the half-hiddep bag across the aisle.
 But this is my bag," said the man. q know it is mine," protested the stranger, but" with smile that maddened Carolyn, "I'll pay the lady's fare" He drew from his pocket a | roll of bills.
 ''No-he wont.' Carolyn assured the conductor savagely. That's my bag! I guess I know it. But I won't argue with either of you, and if that whistle means a stop I'll get off and telegraph back to the city for help. l Besides I'll telegraph ahead fofL" with a meaning glance at the suspect. l ed thief.
 The train did slow down and stop, and before the men could prevent her, Carolyn was off the car and in midst of dreary. bleak landscape without house in sight, and the train sliding down the track with never sign of reason for having stopped at all
 With tears of rage and chagrin, CarClyn started to tramp down lone. ly road at random, and the snow-as it always does in tragic moments-| began to fall. She could not tell whether she was going north, south east or west. and, finally, after wan dering hopelessly for a half hour, she sat down on stone in despair
 Charlie Pendleton, as soon as Caro- lyn had made her entirely unexpected move and left the train, grabbed his own bag and then contritely extricated another from under a seat across the aisle, but. not exactly opposite He knew the girl had returned to the wrong seat when she came back for her bag, because he had changed his own in her absence. Now that his lit. tie joke had turned out so seriously, he was ready to blame himself as the possible cause of a tragedy.
 Preparation, he convinced himself, consisted in managing to have the train stopped at the next town, hiring 3 sleigh and going in search of her through a regular blizzard, with only 3 general idea as to her present where