The Little River news., 1916-07-19
D L0NG BAY
By LOUISE OLIVER.


ter'g alone. Shes so fighty, she's likely to land in Kalamazoo instead of LCng Bay.
 Carolyn looked at her brother con- temp.uously. Just because you hap pen to be a football pet doesn't give you any license to insult your sister Mother, mayn't l go?'
 So Carolyn triumDbantly prepared for her journey, and upon the day set, her brother resi gncGIy 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 ny guess he grumbled as he left ,.le train. Hello, Charlie. where are yC1 bound for?" he called to man N'ho 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 tourney 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 tho plat form for change" she fumed. Sc, suiting the action to the word, she sailed grandly down the aisle upon adventure bent. She wound tip in the drawing room.
 T wonder if that silly man is still there, she nlused, 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 vas in her handbag inside the big bag down the aisle. She arose. Its back there Til get it." she sad. She went back to her old seat in the ear opposite tl.e man she dotested Put there was no bag there. She loeized around She was in the right plaeo she was sere-direetlH across fren jha man. Tfen she spied q bag. ber has she was positive, half hidden under the man s seat.
 "aIy ticket is in ny bag and the bag $ eaaes7 she declared to the cen aus9ar never taking her eyes from 5la b1g across the ats.c. T left it hoe a fey minutes a@a.
 It ea05 haze left the train. t must be around sauewharc' said the oalf"ctar patiently You lock and I'm sure you'll find it.
 Ana imaulsive Caro1vn, for whom her brother had fizhtto'ly predicted disaster, answered: T have found it, That's it right there, am positive" she noaaed toward lie half-hidden bag across the aisle
 "aut this is my aag, said the man. T know t is Etpe,' protested the stranger. but" with smile that maadenea Carolyn, "Iil pay the lady's fare" He drew from lis pocket a roll of bills.
 "No-ho won't! Carclyn assured the conductor eayaeelv. That's lny bag! guess 1 know it. But I won't argpe with either Of you, and if that whistle means a stop tI! get off and telegraph back to the city for help. Besides I'll telegraph ahead for with 2 meaning glance at the suspect ed thief.
 TT, ain did slow down and stop, and re the men could prevent her. Ca1 was off the car and in midst of ary bleak landscape without hoy n sight, and the train sliding dov lhe track with never a sign of a reas for having stopped at all.
 ' ! tears of rage and chagrin, CaGel.n started to tramp down a l0ue- ly read at random, and the suow-as t 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 h0pelessly for a half hour, she sat down On stone ia despair.
 Charlie Pendleton, as soon as Caro- lyn lad made her entirely unexpected move and left tho train, grabbed his own bag and then contritoly 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 cir | 1,;,,