Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1891 — He Was Absent-Minded. [ARTICLE]

He Was Absent-Minded.

A young lady entered a car on tl\e New York and New England Road, at One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, yesterday, and walked up to the only vacant seat beside a gentleman who was intently reading a letter. “Engaged, sir?” she asked. “Just missed it. She writes that the is a sister of mine now,” answered the gentleman, absent-mindedly, without looking up. “I—l beg your pardon,” stammered the confused young lady, “but may I—?” “Never again for me,” interrupted f-he excited gentleman. The young lady, fearing that she might have a lunatic for a neighbor if she took the seat, turned her back, intending to go into another car at the next stop. Meanwhile the gentleman had finished his letter and taken his bearings. Noticing‘the lady standing while there was a seat vacant next to his, he politely notified her of the fact After some hesitation she blushingly accepted. Then, he having fully recovered his composure, what had just occurred gradually dawned upon him, and he felt it incumbent upon himself to offer the young lady an apology, which she received so graciously that explanations of a more confidential nature soon followed, and when I left the train at Brewster’s they were on a fair way to become brother and sister, if nothing better, he having apparently forgotten his previous expressed resolution—“ Never again for me.”—New York Herald.