The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1922-01-05

True. he had a dim, persistent impulse
to action-or else why should he be
at the station but for the clearest
expression of his condition it is neces.
sary to borrow a culinary symbol he
was telling. The state of shock was
slowly dispensing while a perception
of anguish as slowly increased. He
was beginning to swallow nothing at
intervals. and the intervals were grow
ing shorter.
Dusk was misting down. outdoors.
when with dragging steps he came out
of the station. He looked hazily up
and down the street, where the corner
lamps and shop-windows now were
lighted, and. after dreary hesitation,
he went in search of a ~pawn-shop, and
found one The old man who operated
it must have been a philanthropist. for
Noble was so fortunate as to secure a
loan Of nine dollars upon his watch.
Surprised at this, he returned to the
station, and went back to the same old
bench.
A little after six O'Clock a changing
and connection in the train-shed out
side. attending the arrival of a
Through express" stirred him from
his torpor. He walked heavily across
the DON to the same ticket-window
he had blocked before, but there was
no queue attached to it now. He
rested his elbow on the apron and his
chin upon his hand, and for some mo-
ments the clerk waited until he should
state his wishes. This was a new
clerk, who had just relieved the other.
"Well! WeIil" he said at last.
"I1l take it now Noble responded,
gently.
"Whatll you take now?"
"That ticket |"
"What ticket?'
"The same one I wanted before"
Noble sighed.
The clerk gave him a piercing look,
glanced out of the window and saw
that there were nc other clients, then
went to a desk at the farther end of
his compartment, and took up some
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Noble leaned upon the apron of the
window, waiting; and if he thought
anything, he thought the man was
serving him.
The high, resonant room became
with voices and with the
mingling echoes of footsteps on the
tiled floor, as passengers from the ex-
press hurried to the street, or more
gaily struggled through, shouting to
who came to greet them and
these moving groups there
walked a youthful fine lady noticeably
anlivening to the dullest eye. She was
preceded by a brisk porter who car
ried two travelling bags of a rich sort,
as well as a sack of implements for
The game of golf and she was warm
in dark furs, against which the vastly
clump of violets she wore showed
levy gleamings of blue.
At sight Of Noble Dill, more than
at the ticket-window, she hest
-ated, then stopped and observed him.
Here was a coincidence, in a mild
for, as it happened, she was her
self the most observed person in all
place. She was yelled in two
7eils, but she had been seen in the
rain without these, and some of her
el~low-travelers, though strangers to
Ter, were walking near her in a hypo-
way. hoping still not to lose
light of her, even yelled. And although
Surroundings permitted the most
neager information of her features,
What they did reveal was harmfully
moreover, there was d sweet
less to the figure, a disturbing grace;
nd nothing DISCUSSES such an air of
wearing that many violets as a daily
exquisite and matter of course.
1t was Julia's fortune (though her
ather had other ideas concerning the
latter) to be the possessor of a per-
distinctly pleasing to the
Masculine eye, and of this the fair
ulia was probably aware. In any
vent she was quite conscious of the
tir which her passage through the
nrong created.
So the coincidence came about that
his observed lady stopped and OBJ
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