Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 11, Number 15, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 October 1880 — Page 6

THE MAIL

A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.1

THE UNFASHIONABLE QIRL.

W. J. iAmpton, fitcuben vlllc Herald, Date—Before the Present Era. Hbe was a mart unfashionable girl, ttbe didn't know mu*ic and she didn't know French. She dkln wear bang* nor a spit con,

And she called a pew In the church a bench.

Rhe drank from her saucer and ate with her knife. And won* a plain dress, made In last years

men, with a

She dkTnt talk love to drapper, And her linger she never coo stnile. Hbe wasn't unnatural and laced 'most to death,

She etUlc^thin^ by their names, bat was

Shi-n^jmplain of headaches all day,® Ami dangle nil night at a fanh'nablo bail.£

Hbe didn't get seared at the kitchen stove, And put nil the work on her old mother's a Khe didn't look sweet, and simper andsmlrk,

But who klwed her John Henry with a hearty smack. Hhc didn't look pale and get up at ten,

And leave her apartment mussed and unelenu, Hhe didn't twe paints and powders and pads.

And she didn't say things that she didnt mean. Hhc didnt find fault wiih family and homo,

A tul covert ho blea*luK» sho never oould oet, Hut shell IMJ ju«t as good OH an angel 'Hip a & 1 lie l.

From Good Company.

WHEN FFRO AND TWO DID NOT MAKE FOUR.

UJUI.SE STOCKTON.

"Put me down!"cried thelioy, "I don't want you to carry me! Yon ain't my lather!'' 'M am not," replied Trevor, "and I ount the fact among my mercies, hut I

.tell you ono tiling, I urn ierfectly willing to earfy hoys who don't kick, out I am very 11Kely to drop those who do in the deepest of" this snowdrift." "Don't you do it!" shouted the victim promptly, "for if you do I'll kick you awful." "If I woro the gentlemen," said the mother of the youth, as she trudged on behind, loaded with a baby and a bag, 'I wouldn't carry you step! I wouldn't «ueh yon!"

fM wtmld put himdovipa very .quickly," ipfjed Trevor, "if his logs longer, it ho guts ou

Spw

tdowly that ho delays

6W onebohinil its, and this is not a davltf.which.Wing." "indeiVl it 13 fw,M mtid tho mother, "and it

hard walking, but I suppose

we ought to bo thankful that the people ahead huve broken ft path. and I am sure am over so much obiigou to you forenrrying Jiminio, dreadful as it ia to bo snowed up in this place where thore is ?lmt o»o botwound the station, and tomorrow Christ may day!" fit might be woreo,^ replied Trevor, unu lie ]nt the boy down on his feot, and wtfd gayly, "now ran—r\m, fdr your journey, as oyer —'there is tho house just ahead!"

But their journev was not over. Tho house contained lut four rooms, and into thom wore nlosoly packed most of tho passongGrsr 'frorti tn6 sto riii-staid traiu. Tho women woro sitting forlornly on the chairs, the men stood aliout in groups, grambling, and tho children ran everywhere. "You had bettor go further on," said brakemnn who was utandingby the door, "the station is but a bit up the road and the biggest end of the crowd la landed here."

Trover glanced about the house, and was satisfied, and nt oneo took the boy up again, and led tho way along tho narrow, uneven path. It had ooased snowing, and the inky, still gray, wan yet lighter, and the wind was veering to tho southwest. "We will get on in tho morning," said Trevor, "and you will eat your Christmas dinner at homo." "The Blessed Virgin grant It," said the woman, crossing herself, and then they wore silent mi til they reached tho station.

The brakeman was right. The crowd was not so great, the rooms were largor than at tho house, and there was mora comfort.

Still, as Trevor sat down on a chair outside tho circle around the stove, ho could not realixo that tho situation was cheering. To lio snowed up in tho New Hampshire Hills on Christmas eve was autllciently exasperating, but Trevor was not twenty miles from home, aud HO the more ho'thought of how near he wivs, tho greater grew his discontent, and the more intense his desire to got on his journey.

There was very little talking in the room. Some of the meu looked moodily out of the

Window: there was a perpetual

burning of boots at the stove the women wore soothing the children, and one of the passengers, a largo, florid man, with a

IkiuI

he«a. and

ton. ahe wasao you, hut XM*rtSL**

long beard, bustled in

and out, and the more ho hod to do, the more cheerful he booarho. He told the women not U» give their children too nwnv crackers, as neither supper nor breakfast were quite sure: and ho advised a man to make* bed on the honeh for his babv. "Tho lwl\vN it one of mine," saiil the man, walking over to tho stove, and the florid it»Mwenger laujAed, jglnnced at Trevor, slapped Ida hew,anfhurried out of the room.

In a moment he

OMW

hack followed

by a voting wearing a silk ek»k ttned with fue. "Hera's yotir lady!" he ssud, beaming on Trevor."

The young lady looked at Trevor, then at the stove, advanced a few stent, and williout a wort! or cry, Ml fainting on the floorl ii £veryoiK in the room roahed towardte hat Trevor, with a pu*h of hisatrdftg arms, put them all aside, picked her up, aud carried her to a chair by tho window. "1 thought when I first saw hor that aomethhig w*s ^ling her," said the florid twmcnger, whow name was Bar•'Iterllpa wiredrawn so tight, and pale. She asked at once for

Id didnt know yon wore in

Tr«wr looked at tba man in aurprisc, tat he did a«t K«op to a*k what he meant bnt hnrriedlv bmpm to tnke fta&fa* and tmndkM fmni a bench, meaning to lay the young lady upon It, b*rt Jos* aa he had aewnmpttahed this, the wife of the MaUon agent nunc in, puahed her way hron^Vl»«Wowd» biddiaf Ttrtor lwing the girl into the tek(gra|4i oflka^ hurried ont again.

Wlthont a word Trevor picked up the Young girl, and followed the woman Into the office where he found* lounge, and on it he laid his pretty burden, and then after a hasty glance at her, left her to tbecare of the womaa. ssytng. "She

will come to in a moment, she has only iinnted." In the entry he met a large, deaf worntax who frowned at him, and a tall, thin one who rather severely asked him how the lady was. "There is nothing the matter with her," s&id Trevor "she is nervous, and I suppose the hot room made her faint, and he then went to the door, and watched a man coming along the path from the house, carrying a basket of bread. This suggested to Trevor the possibility of supper, and he turned and went back int-o the kitchen. Here he was delighted to see a great iron, pot of coffee boiling, and a pan of ham frying. On the table was a firkin of butter, and Barton was busy dropping potatoes into a pot of hot water. He looked op and nodded, "That was pretty sudden, wasn't it? I heard you carried a lot of children, but I bet you Pd taken care of her! We'll have something for her to eat pretty soon, and that will make bar all right again. She's a pretty little creature, but not strong?" "Probably not," said Trevor, turning away.

As ho passed tho office door it opened and the agent's wife came out. "Oh, it is you!" she exclaimed with a sudden start, "she is better, and you can go in."

Trevor natunrlly hesitated, but the voung lady who was sitting on the lounge saw him and^uniled, so ho stepped forward. "I am glad to see you have recovered," he said. ,, ?. "I feeibetter. I never fainted before, .md I am sorry to be so much trouble, .nd oh, I think mv arm is broken!" and tho tears came into her soft, pleading eves, "Trevor sprang forward. "It is not broken.' he exclaimed "for vou could not hold it as you do were that tho case. Let rrfe take off your, glove," and he began to gently unfasten thernanv buttons. "lam a physician. Thero! do I hurt you? It is swollen a little. Just one moirtent! May I cut it?" W

The girl nodded, for when he approached tlio wrist the pressure was very painful, and Trevor with care skillfully cut the glove, and drew it from her hand. "You are very kind,"* she said, her voice faltering. "I didn't know you woro a doctor!" "How should you?" he said with a smile, "but I am glad I happened to be

here,

not only to help you, but to assure you that your wrist is simply sprained, and not very badly. It must be painful, but if you are careful, it will soon le well."

He then took out of his pocket a large soft handkcrcliief, tore it into strips, wet one of thorn in a pitcher of wator which was standing on the table, and bound up her wrist. "Now," he said, "you must have a sling," and ho produced ano^er handkcrcliief, and tied it around her neck, and then pliUfod her injured haiid in the loop. He then stepped off and looked at hei with a cordial, and, Jin spito of his professional caution, ail admiring glance.

"Howdid you hurt it?" he asked. "An old w'oinan ahead of mo, walking from the cars, slipped, and I tried to catch her, but I fell, and caught myself on mv hand."

At that moment the door was suddenly opened, and IJarton came in with a tablecloth over his arm, and two cups, saucers and plates in his hand. "Ilelgho!" ho said, "so you were hurt! What,to it?"

"My wrist is sprained," tho girl simply answered. "That's had," he said, "but it might be worse. We are going to give you your supper in here for two reasons. Tho first is that the children are getting noisy,— bed timo and no bods, you know,—and iu the second, thore is only a scrap of fresh meat In the house, and I^poke for. itfor vou.""

Barton, it was evident, had promptly become a member of the sutler department. and bustling out, he filled a waiter with bread and butter, coffee potatoes, beefsteak, and a glasa of jelly, and came back with it, his face all aglow with satisfaction. ,, "There," ho said, placing his dishes on tho table, "you wouldn't fare better than that if you were at the Hotel Continental in Paris. You don't need to have your appetites tempted, and there's enough to satisfy them, so draw up, and don't let tho potatoes get cold."

Ho then lighted the lamp, and hurried off Tlio voung lady and Trevor looked at each other, and smiled. "I will not intrudo any longer," said Trevor. "Is there no one I can send to vou?" "I am alone," she said, looking a little surprised, "I thought you knew that! And I really think you ought to eat voursuppor. Of course you must have a great deal to do. I am not hungry, and if you will excuso me I will stay hero#" "lk you think I would sit horealone!" said Trevor warmly, "you must eat your supper, or you will bo sick," aud then added, as he* saw her glance at her ami. "of course I shall be glad to stay and wait on you, unless you prefer me to send ono oft he women? There is a respectable Irish \voman, but she has two children." "I will have some supper after awhile," she said, faintly. "You must eat it now," said Trevor, in Ids gravest and, aitosl. professional tone, aud the girl at once arose and took the chair he placed fbrfier at the little table. .. "No," hoaald. aa with ber wUhiurcd hand she drew the coffee pot toward her, "I am going to he both host and hostess, and I will carvrthe meat, and pour the eoflfee." rnp .• "Don't say *oour the ooflfee.'" she said, with alittlo laugh, "it sounds so Yankee—eo—so Kew Rnglknd-ish, I mean." "But I am a Yankee," said Trevor. "Yea, I know," replied the girl, "and I

suppose

when anyone knocks at your

door vou say, 'come' instead of 'come in?'"* "I don't know hot that I do," replied Trevor, "I never thought of It. Now do me a favor,—dont ten me from what State you came, let me find out! Yon so *sily*detect*d me, eo now put my perception to the teat," '•It wouldn't ho fair,n she aaid, "for^f course I knew yoa were from Vermont, and you may think i—bat I agree—1 won't tell you!"

The young lady's hat was now off, and her cloak lav on the lounge. She was pretty. She had soft brown hair, worn in a 4m pie, piciureeqae style. liar efes werebtwu, and a* lender and merrv as a child's, and her manner waa frank, and not devoid of repone. Trevor admired her, and as he waa a tall slender blonde, and very manly, she, in tnrn,

fkTv^knbw l*he said, presently, "that I waa anrpnmd when yoa Mid yon wwr*»a doetoiT "Were yoa?" he aakl, looking iotererted. **aud 1 have hem flattering myaeU that I was acquiring a professions] air! it la a little hard on me to find that yoa at once knew I waa a Vermont-

,U 'i1

or, but did not guess that I was a physician. But of course, I knew you were from Vermont," she said. "Worse and worse," he exclaimed "is it so plainly evident as that! Don tell me that I all ter!

also look like a baggage mas-

The girl again looked at him in a curious and surprised way, end colored

course," she said, "I knew you

were a conductor, tlncle Ed told me all about it." "About it!" repeated Trevor, "about what?" "About your father and his sickness," she said, blushing even more deeply, "and the offer yqu had on this road, and your giving up your studies, and do you know, she addded, with a charming burst of rosy candor, "that I think your wife must be a perfectly splendid woman to encourage you as she has done!" "My wife!" exclaimed Trevor, putting down his cup, "my father! Why, my dear young lady, there must be some mistake. I don't knowyour Uncle Ned! I have ho wife!" "Oh, yes you have!" she exclaimed, "and my uncle is Professor Grahame! You were ono of his students, you know," and she half arose from her chair, leaning one hand on the table. '"I am afraid there is some mistake," said Trevor, "I wish I was'aequaintxl with Professor Grahame, but I certainly am not!" "But you must be," she said positively, "I am the young lady he put under your charge! I saw him talking to you. Perhaps you did not understand? Don't tell me that you arc not Mr. George Seymour!" "It would have been harder heart than Trevor possessed that would* not have Ijeen touched by the girl's distress aiul perplexity, and had he dared ho at once would nave asserted that he was Sevmou'r, and that he was her Uncle Ed's best friend, but he explained as gently as he could tliat his name was Trevor, that ho was a physician practicing in Xcw Haven, and was now on his way to spend Christmas with his mother. Then he told her that he was entirely at her service, and asked lier to command him, and arose, and took up his cap. "Oh, what must you think of me!"she said, the tears coming into her eyes, and in turn taking up her hat and cloak, "I thought yon knew mo, and that overyone know* that I had boen put under your care!"

And then sho turned abruptly toward the door, but as hor one hand was occupied witli holding her cloak and hat, she could not open it as quickly as she meant. .}i

Trevor had been for a moment itir-

?orward

riscd

bv lier movement, then he sprang and laid his hand on the door

knob. "You must not go," he exclaimed, "you must not oven think of it! This room is yours, and I will at once leave you." "You have-been very kind to me," she said, trving to recover her self-posses-sion, "and owe you many thanks, hut I would nit her find the woman of the house." "I am net going to permit you to leave this room. "I will send the woman to vou," he said. "Hereyoncan be quiet, and not be troubled by thfe noisy crowd outside."

He opened tho door, then closed it, and came back. "Is it best," ho asked, "to speak of this mistake? It'will only make gossip among strangers, and as I shall not intrudo on you again, you will not Mannoyed." .I|H£L "I cannot help being annoyed,'TBR it is With mvself. I saw Uncle Ed fcpeak to you, aiid I thought, of course, yon were Mr. Seymour! And your clothes, too, are tho color of a conductor!" she added, wi,th the falntost of mischievous smiles.

Trevor glanoed at his dark blue flannel suit, and also smiled. "I understand perfectly, now," he said, "how tho mistake arose. I was Btanding on tho platform at EaBt Putney. I had

fot

off the train to buy a newspaper, and had asked the conductor, whose name I know is Seymour, about our chances, when a gentleman came up to us very hurriedly, and said that his niece, Violet—" "Yes, that is my name!" exclaimed the young lady, delightedly, "Violet Grahame!" "Was on the train," continued Trevor, "and asked him to take care of her. He explained that he had to get back to his horses "You are quite right," she said, "and I am so glad vou understand! Ana then, you know, I saw Uncle Ed go up to you, and he had told mo that you—that Mr. Seymour was a large man, and so I made the mistake." "He is large," said Trevor, "he is a young Falstatr, but I could look over his head." "When/describe a man as'largo,'" said she, "I never moan that he is fat!" "Nor I," said Trevor, smiling, "the mistake was altogether your Uncle's! And now I will send tho agent's wife to yon."

Violet hesitated for a moment, and glanoed at the table, and Trevor's cup of coffee. "I really think," sho said, "that you ought to finish your supper. I would not like for you to starve^because of my stupidity, and on Christmas Evo at thut!" "Oh, I can get something outside," he said* "You shall do nothing of the kind," said the small tyrant "what would that big. red man sav if you began your supper here, and then went outside to finish it?"

He would think you had ate it all up," said Trevor. "I thought they had it brought in hero because they knew you," said A iolet* "It was brought to you," he said "why they included roe I don't know, unleiw as your surgeon." "Will you sit down?" she said. "Not without you," he replied. "But I am not hungry." "I am, and neither of us know when we will get another meeL" "I will sit on this lounge," she said, "if vou will excuse me. I really want nothing more." "Then," he said, again putting hte hand on the knob of the door by which thejtwere still standing, "I bid yoa good-

violet glanced at her hantteged wifat with a little spasm of gratitude, and she at once resumed her seat at the tJble. "Yon are very obstinate," she said. ••So my mother aaya," be replied, and with great gravity he seated hinwelf, and then arose, opened the window, flung the coffee out of the »P* the window, sat down' and poured out fresh coffee. "By toHcaerrow night yoa may be wh£7ng fortl^eaa^saia Violet. "I hope he said, for yoa know I

^^Down think #iilW»giitOir to the morning?" aha eskedL "I don't know/Hie iamnd, "the tjyfr is very heavily blocked, and the atonftttayaetheo**^ Do jtNrynnKii farthetf"

HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL.

I go to Centreville," she said, with the air of introducing a dubiousstranger, "I meant to have spent Christinas with my grandma, Mrs. Henderson. I live in Philadelphia, mamma and I papa is in the Navy, and cannot be said to live anywhere but on his ship." "Is your grandmother any relation to Craig" Henderson?" asked Trevor "He came from Centreville." "Wrhy, he is my oousin!" exclaimed Violet, "do vou know him?" "Very well indeed," replied Trevor, "I went to school for two years with him in Centreville, and we studied medicine in Paris together. I have often been at his grandmother's. She is a lovely old ladv." "She certainly is," said Violet and then she looked as if matters were clearing up, "and where does your mother live?" "In Putney. Twelve miles from Centreville, and only twenty miles from this place. I expect she is at this moment scolding about the storm, and sending servants in succession to ask for news of the train. We were due two hours ago." "I wish I could send grandma a telegram," said Violet, glancing at the instrument. "I wonder where the operator is!" exclaimed Trevor, "Why, that is odd! But vour grandmother' will know the train is detained. Now," pushing back his chair from the table, "I am going to look for Mr. Georgo' Seymour. I would iiko to tell him what *1 think of him?"

"Don't

be hard on him," said Violet

"I expect the poor fellow has been very husv. I wondered, before I knew that vou' were not the conductor, how you happened to have so much time to spend on me."

Trevor arose. "Do you know," said he, that there is one thing I with you wouldn't do?" "What is it?" she asked. *. "I wish you wouldn't say 'grandma.' It sounds so very—Philadelpliiun!" and he picked up his hat and promptly left the room.

In about an hour Trevor camo back with tho (Conductor. He was very short, very stout, and had black eyes aud curly hair. "I am ashamed to come in,1] lie saul, speaking quickly, and with a little lisp, "and I am shocked almost lx?yond telling to know that you met with an accident." "And by the way," said Trevor, "that wot bandage must bo renewed immediately." And, without asking permission, he began to unwrap Violet's wrist. "But," continned Mr. Seymour, "I had not forgotten you. I looked all through Deems' houso over there, and 1 have been here twice. No ono know anything of a young lady alone. The only person over here in whom anyone was interested was a brido who had fallen down and hurt himself in some way. I moan to look her up, but. her husband is with her,

of courso she is taken care

of." "I don't kuow," said Violet, incoherently, and with a blush, glancing at Trevor. "I haven't heard of hor," said the young doctor, indifferently, and as he tastonod the bandage around her wrist Violet noticed what shapely fingers he had. "Of course," sayl the conductor, "I ought to have looked for you after you came on board, but I was so occupied in trying to get mv train through that I really forgot, when we stopped there was an invalid to be looked after, and no end of women and babite! I am sure I do not want to see my old professor again, for shall be ashamed to face mm!"' "You needn't," cried Violet, "I have needed nothing, and the people hero, and Dr. Trevor,—everybody has been very kind!" "I am glad you happened to meet the Doctor," said tho oonuuetor. ignorant of how recent was her acquaintance with him.

When ten o'clock came, the house was comparatively quiet. The one bed up stairs was well filled with children, while the mothers, wrapped in shawls, table covers and coats, sat in chairs, or lay on the floor, and slept. Down stairs men were on the benches in the waiting room, or nodded in chairs drawn around the stove.

Trevor, Barton, and the agent's family occupied the kitchen, and in the office Miss Grahame lay on the lounge, and a wiry little German woman, who was wrapped in a huge blanket shawl, curled herself tip on the table and slept, breathing in the loudest, most aggressive manner.

Violet could not sleep. The room was hot and close. Her wrist gave hor great pain, the German annoyed hor? ana she at length became nervous. Finally she got up, and going to the window raised it, and wrapping herself in her cloak, she stood there for a few moments, refreshed by the cool, snowy air. The storm seemed over, and a few stars were shining dimly in the sky. The hills looked shadowy and very near, and over the path came a man carrying a lantern. When he came near, Violet saw that it was the conductor, and, glad to speak to almost anyone and so relieve her loneliness, she leaned out of the window and Mid: "Is that you, Mr. Seymour?"

He held his lantern up to see who spoke and then came near and said in a low voice: "I'm mighty glati to catch you here lor I wanted to speak to you without arousing tho whole place. A man who lives five miles from Putney has just stopped at Deems' to feed and rest his horses, and he is going home as soon as tho moon is up anout one o'clock, I suppose. Now. there's no nae in telling all this crowd, but we won't get away from here before noon to-morrow and as I feel in duty bound' to do something for vou, I just got hold of the man before anyone else could, and asked him if he would take vou over to Putney, and he said he would. Yon see if you get there, yon can find some one to take you to Centreville, ami so, I guess, you can get to your grandmother's to Christmas dinner after all. Now, will yoa take the chance?"

Violet hesitated. ,« "The man is an honest, .respectable firmer," said the conductor him. His name is Hughes, and although his sleighi»rough, itisstrwig, and his horses «re good."

No one eke is g°*?gr' saidIV tolet. "Why no,' ITSlSSJS any of them got wind of It there would hew everlasting rush and row. \oa see, ever so many of them belong round mnyaftt

Why, 1 the house

him go into the hotwe until Ihadspoken to yew. He hi In the stable, and tnere'ii

couple

ta&e

of fellows there arieep on the

looked at him timidly apd wtth

some nervoosoesa, a* if she had something to My, and could not make op her

**Ot «aS you don't like the idea of atartlmr off th» way witha atranger, and rtnkdjL hatH tubes, I know,wUl take ZSSySi rrfWmr wife to him without hesitation «iU a you would

rather stay, we'll get off sometime tomorrow, and I think there will be breakfast enough to go around. I know there is Hour in the house, and 1*11 look out for you." "Would you mind Speaking to Dr. Trevor about it," said Violet. "Certainly not," said tho conductor "just you stay here and I will hunt him up."

Fortunately Trevor was easily found, and Seymour brought him around to the window, and in cautions tones explained the situation. "Now," he continued, "if we can find any other woman going to Ceutreville, we* could pack her in, and then Miss Grahame wouldn't be quite so uneasy, and it would also divide the explense. I wonder if that woman," pointing to the German, "is alone, ana where sho is going?" "Oh, don't speak so loudly," softly and in excited tones, cried Violet, "you might wake her ujp, and I know that, she lives right in Putney, for she told mo so!" "Why, she's tho very person!" the conductor'exclaimed "you call her and see what she says!" "But," said Violet, speaking very quickly and with courage born of the emergencv, "l)r. Trevor lives at Putney, too, and lie really ought not to disappoint his mother, and 1 will wait for tho train!"

At this arrangement Iwth Trevor and the conductor smiled, and Violet who it was evident had lieen educated withiwmie knowledge of •wnventionaUttes, fiiuthud aud said: "I would be very glad to stay.*'

At this moment Barton appeared at the door. "Hello!" he stud, "you t*ii re! What's up now? Anything wrong with the train?" "Why, that's the very thing," hrmid when the conductor bruitly explained "I wish it would help ni« tl go to Centreville, and I don't kno but what- it would! I tell you, I'll go speak to the man, and if.lio'thinks I can aich a train at West Putney, I'll just crowd in with vou and—" "It wouldn't help you one particle," said the conductor decidedly "Hughes has a load and I know he can't t&ke'threb and of course this young lady must be got on." "Oh, I won't separate them!" Barton exclaimed. "I wouldn't dare! There was a perfect indignation meeting after she fainted, and the women found out she had been loft to come on alone. I told them it was none of their business, but bless me! then they all began at me, and tho woman whose boy you carried railed the worst!" "Well, I don't seo why!" said Trevor, "I am very sure if Miss—" "Will vou go, Doctor Trevor?" interrupted Violet hastily, as if she did not want this discussion to go farther. "If you will," ho answered, "for lam sure when we get to Putney I can get a sleigh to take you to Centreville." "It's all right then?" said tho conductor, and I'll "go and toll Hughes, for he will be awfully impatient. You had letter got tho woman liere to give you some coffee before you start."

At a little after one o'clock, when the moon was up but very dimly shining, Hughes with his sleigh came over tho drifted road to the station, and Trevor,

who

was with him, got out and hurried into tho kitchen to call Violet. Sho arose at once, and wont into tho oilico for her cloak, and found tho German woman still asleep on the table. Sho 'looked at hor with some compassion, and then gently touched, butdid not awaken hor. Then she shook her, and the woman started up. "Mein hear!" she said, "vat is dat!" "I oulv wanted to tell to lie on tilt) lounge. 'You will be more comfortable," said Violet. "And where will you be?" "lam not going to stay here," said Violet. "The train, is dat going?" cried the woman, jumping from tho table. "Not yet," said Violet, fastening her cloak "I am going with a farmer part of the way." "To where?" said the woman suspi-

^"T^Putney," said Violet, and without a moment's delay left the room. But she wns no quicker than the German, who flew after her, and in a second had her husband aroused, and dragged him out to the door. "See here! See here!" she cried, "if dat girl goes to Bntney, we must go along." "Not much!" said Barton, who was unfolding a blanket he had discovered on the seat of the sleigh, "there's no room for me, and I guess there's none for you."

By this time the husband was awake and began to scold violently in German. "What i* he talking about?" said Violet stepping into the sleigh. "Goodness only knows!" said Barton. "I suppose he wants to go along. I wonder if you will be crowded by that bag of meal? Bless my sonl!" he cried, as the

German

caught hold of Trevor's arm as

if to prevent him from getting into the sleign, "vou must be reasonable, Deutsch or nein Doutach! You wouldn't separate a man from his own frau, would you? Comprenez vous that?"

As be emphasized this remark by a rat her forcible push, the German stepped hack, but with his wife still made many comments on his own feelings, but as thevwere in German neither Trevor or Violet were very much disturbed by them. "It waa rather a stroke of genius in you to use three languages to him," snid Trevor, tacking the blanket around Violet, and not alluding to the little misstatement.

wouldn't have found your lady *o It's lucky she spoke to me, or *hemtont have ^one badtc to Deems to look for

y"Ob, yes!"said Trevor, "I never have understood why you spoke to me about —about this lady." "It all came from my being of an observing tarn," said Barton, "and know—1— Yon

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I did nothing of the kind!"

cried Violet, blaahing like a roae*"I asked for Mr. Seymour? I waa told be mat the station!" "Maybe you did,'* said Barton, "Irot it was all

it mixed. Then I didn't know and asked yoa what be looked like, and yoa Mid be wsa tall and C*ir

that farmeit la he never coming out of ti«i kitchen?" "WeU, then," continued Barton turning totwvor, "when I went hack Into

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the room I knew you the very moment I saw you, and so I weut right back for her—" "And I owe you many thanks," cried Trevor as Mr.' Hughes' came out and stepped into his seat, but Violet did not even say good-bv as thev dashed gayly off.

It was hours after this when, after much struggle over drifts, they came near Putney that she said without any connection: "It is perfectly stnpid for so many women to dress alike!"

Trevor did not reply ho could not say it was stupid when he considered to what her fur-lined cloak had led, so ha remaiued silent but he looked at her, and she did not look at him!

The next year they starlet! from New Haven together, and for fear of delays gave themselves more time, and so were in Putney on the twenty-second of December.

As they passed Deems' houso and the station, they both looked out the window' and then at each other and smiled. f\ "I wish we could see Barton," said Trevor. "I don't!" replied Violet. "But my dear," sjaid heil husluind, "consider, that if it had n«t been for him—*' "I well consider nothing!" exclaimed Violet "I think he was a perfectly horrid man!"

IMI'OUK LAOHK.—Beware

BROWN'S

EXPECTORANT

1 he old reliable remedy lor nil Throat and Lung Diseases, a sclentltio preparat ion, compounded Irom tlie formula of one of tho most successful practitioners in the WesterncountiV- It has Mood tho text fbr the last twenty years and will effect acute after all other oough reiuetUes h.»vu lulled.

READ THE FOLLOWING.. HAM. OF URPRKSKHTATIVIOS.

INDIANAPOI.lOi, APOI.IS I nil Jo, W71»

it IM)IAJ» UIU .tun. JU, Dn. .1. If. BROWN—We havo uSud your "Brown's Kipectorant" and Uiko pleasure In saying that it is tho best edlclne Ppr cougns, oohta, hoarsouess, and cheerfully reconinund It to all who may be troubled with Throat and Lung affections.

Wsi MACK, ripcakor House of Hep. ZE.voit, llep Harrison county. OA trrooaw IS ep KMox county.

Mo.vrooMsay, ltin JWnuwn county. 0 0 A a a a conn'tca. e"c 1 KLL, Doerkeeper House of Hep. N WAKKUM, Rep Hancock county, 11 ABIIOTT,Hop HurtholoiiK'W couuty E CAXKMB, Kep Kultoa county. JITO W Oopwica, rtep Montgomerycotjpty W 0 NBVF, Rep Putnam coanty.

IT ACTS LIKE MAGIO?'**

r--2 TF OFFICM J. M. AND I. R. R. Oo.. I JarrsKflOMViLLB, Ind., April fl, IsTC. DH.J. H. Baow*—Having suffered with a severe oongh tot

duced to try one bottle of your "Brownv Expectorant." I unhesitatingly say I uid to act work tor

found it pleasant to the taste, and to act like maglo. A few doses done the' the ooogb.aad 1 am well.

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tiist asr.—Those who indulge in lager beer cannot lie too «»refill with ivferencG fo its quality. Lager is a frightfully prolitie source of that malady, Blight's Diseaso of tho Kidney. Fortunately, lager drinkers now have their antidote. It has been incontestiblv proved that Bright'a Disease, and all diseases of tho Kidneys, Bladder, Liver, and Urinary Organs ara curable by the use oft hat infallible Kidnev ami Liver Medicine. HUNT'S 11&MEDY. Sold by all drugists. Trial size, 75 cents, ....

WK have no uervous ton i. at "o\4s&^o reliable and convenient as Feljows' tVttnpound Syrup of lly{xphospluto«, aud WO therefore, gladly recommend it is tho diseases of such organs depend for health ujKin involuntary muscuiar act ion.

some time past, I was In

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READ WHAT GEN. KIMBALLHAY8. IWDLAJf APOLIS, loU., Dec. 20, 1869. Da. J. H. BBOWK—After having used your "Expcotoraut Syrup" long enough to know and appreciate lt» good qualities. I can cheerfully bear testimony to Its uniform saeoem la caring the most obstinate .cases of coughs, colds, etc. 1 have frequently administered the''Expectorant" to my j,entaschll-(

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dren, and always found It the very well as the most pleasant remedy of It* kind NATHAN KIMBALL, Treasurer of Btate.

WHAT A CASE OF CONHUMFTION BAYS David A. Hands,of Dnrllngton, Montgomery coanty, ssyn: "My wife nas been afflicted with consumption for a number of y«u* and during that time has tried moat all or the medicines recommended tor that disease wlthoat afforting any relief. I was Induced by the recommendations oi Dr. Park, drugg'st at Darlington, to try 'Brown's Expectorant Syrup,' and lam now happy to say that iny wife is so much Improved I am confident it will entirely restore her health by its continued use.'r

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'j EDiirncaoit, Ind., AugustSW, W71. This is to certify that I have n»cd Brown's Exptctorant in mf lamlly since lt» first introdacilon. It has neverlallwl to Kl^cnUre satisfaction. My wife is suejoet to bronchitis, and I lave found no remedy eqnai to "Brown's ExpectorsnL" I recommend it ss a safe and reliable remedy-

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