Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1921-02-03
soUTHERNER AND AMERICAN

Ineagre mail bag ard tie attendant
crowd rarely had any iGdueemls Iii
from the arrival or d. parture oG
travellers 70 break through their APP
parent Law OF silenl. stoA9 contsH-
ltiatjon.
81 long intervals town OF mere
precautions &c tae seuerai character
81 Below woHld be passel and break
the monotony; anl IN old gentleman
no misils havo been taken 4nr Gem
eral Campbell OF Colonel Rivers 50
alike would IL ey be III dress and
manner would get en- the train or
sometimes i Would be gentle faced
woman always accompanied Is ao:Re
one With soft white hair, ard i low
sweet soice that woula MAKE ME think
OF nay mother. Occasionally. loo
some hoy about my own aye. accom-
panied by mother or sister to tell hlnl
geodLys and lie 10, aiways looking
foolish and saeepish while they Mere
Going Il: wonder why evidently
sound on Journey similar 70 my own.
though re' so la aliold
Being entirety alone among s;rang-
crs for the first time iii my life. felt
too shy to open conversation with any
Of my follow travellers, and sat hour
By hour watching the scefYes from the
car window, AZ the train joited an
adyisedly used word along slowly
with happy go-lucky indifference 10
time tables and connections; and
when, later in the day We arrived
some hours late al Chattanooga
where | was to have changed cars I
thought, from the lack of surprise on
the part Of the other travellers. and
the indifference of the railroad peo-
pie. that missing connections and lay
ing over were the most natural things
in the world, and no one expected any
attention to be paid to such useless
things as time tables.
This enforced lay-oyer WAS the
cause Of my being mixed ~ III a little
adventure, and most unwilingly COM
RoIled TO play the here's part the
more especially as the other actors
were Yankees I had however. the
satisfaction OF knowing that the
hero's work Was most unheroically
lone, and that he escaped any further
contact with the Yankees.
was passing out of the depot,
when a tall fine looking, soIdierly
ipan turned from the ticket Office.
where lie had boon making some in
quiries. and walked ont at the same
tinla recognized him at once as the
Yankee captain who use TO cone 10
Below 10 see Mr. Smithers in recon
struction days. He. OF course. did not
recognize me. as he woula halsilY
nave remembered me, even had he
seen nae at that time We left the sta
ton together and saw him get III 4
buggy. III which Was sitting a young
girl
Well. Daisy. We will not leave UNI
Ill The day after tomorrow and now
Ne may as well take a drive, | heard
him say as he drove OFT
Iii the careless glance gave her
could not help seeing lat DAISY
had the most beautiful head ii long
coppar-goid hair had ever seen. and
large dark eyes OF some kind, that
made her striking looking. though 10;
vet beautiful She will be hummer
| 5y and BY. if she Is Yankee" halt
muttered 10 myself. as walked away
70 the hotel; and then forgn, all about
her.
Finding at the hotel that ii was still
nearly two hours TO supper time
strolled away TO explore the surround
ngs, and finally struck the river well
outside Of and below the town. and
came to a driveway near the river
bank. ] strolled ON little distance
and saw a horse and buggy hitched by
The roadside. and near il my Yankee
captain seated OH rock overlooking
The water quietly smoking cigar
and holding a bunch Of ferns in his
hands About thirty PAGES furthei
down caught the sheen Of COLDER
/ hair. and saw Daisy on rock tut
ling ont over the river, and in the &C
of reaching for bunch of ferns tha
grew out of ereyice near the edge
The girl had not heard my step, ant
was. no doHb' startled on looking III
/ from her fern gathering TO sec ;
stranger 50 close to her; and, forget
ting her close proximity 70 the edge o
The rock, she gave an involuntary stel
backwards and plunged down into tin
/ deep. swift current. and was quick.
carried oul into the stream.
Without even stopping to throw OF
the light coat j wore. / sprang in at
t ter her and with a dozen or more 0
the strokes learned IN the old swim
ming contests Of school days. reaches
| her as she came 10 the surface tn
second lime. and seized the long gol
den hair that streaned out over tn
water. / looked over my shoulder
and saw her father rs | supposed y
Was on the point 81 plunging in, an
i called to him.,
/ Hold on. | have hers You ca
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