and a piece o f money dropped to the J He saw a look of surprise tilt Reross
floor at her feet. Then began an em­ her face as lie passed. He slept sound­
barrassed search for the coin—in the ly that night and dreamed that he was
wrong direction, o f course. He knew crossing the ocean with her.
precisely where it had rolled, but pur­
At hrenkfast he saw her, but i f she
posely looked under the seats on the saw him it was when he was not look­
other side o f the car. She drew her ing at her. Once he caught Uncle Cas­
skirts aside and assisted in the search. par staring at him through his mono­
Four different times he saw the little cle, which dropped Instantly from his
piece of money, but did not pick it up. eye in the manner that is. always self
Finally, laughing awkwardly, he began explanatory. His spirits took a furi­
to search on her side of the car. where­ ous bound with the realization that she
upon she rose and gave him more room. had deigned to honor him by recogni­
She became Interested In the search tion, if only to call attention to him
and bent over to scan the dark corners because he possessed a certain coin.
with eager eyes. Their heads were
Once the old gentleman asked him
very close together more than once. the time o f day and set his watch ac­
A t last she uttered an exclamation, and cording to the reply. In Ohio the man­
her hand went to the floor in triumph. servant scowled ut him because he in­
They arose together, flushed and smil­ voluntarily stared after his mistress ns
ing. She had the coin in her hand.
she paced the platform while the train
" I have it!” she said gayly, a deli­ waited at a station. Again, in Ohio,
cious foreign tinge to the words.
they met in the vestibule, and he was
“ I thank you” — he began, holding com p iled to step aside to allow her to
out his hand as if in a dream o f ecsta­ pass. He did not feel particularly ju ­
sy, but her eyes had fallen momentari­ bilant over this meeting. She did not
ly on the object o f their search.
even glance nt him.
“ Oh!” she exclaimed, the prettiest
Lorry realized that his opportunities
surprise in the world coming into her were fast disappenring and that he did
face. It was a coin from her faraway not seem to be any nearer meeting her
homeland, and she was betrayed into than when they started. He had hoped
the involuntary exclamation. Instant­ to get Uncle Caspar into a conversa­
ly, however, she regained her compo­ tion and then use him, but Uncle Cas­
sure and dropped ¿he piece into ids par was ns distant as an iceberg. " I f
outstretched hand, a proud flush mount
there should be a wreck,” Grenfall
ing to her cheek, a look o f cold reserve caught himself thinking, “ then my
to her eyes. He had hoped she would chance would come, but I don’t see
offer some comment on what she must how Providence is going to help mo in
have considered a strange coincidence, any other way.”
^
Near the close of the day, a fte f ttycy
but he was disappointed. He wondered
le ft Cincinnati, the train began to wind
i f she even heard him say:
through the foothills of the Alle-
“ I am sorry to have troubled you."
She had resumed her seat, and to glianies. Bellnire, Grafton and other
him there seemed a thousand miles be­ towns were left behind, and they were
tween them. Feeling decidedly unebm- soon whirling up the steep mountain,
fortable and not a little abashed, lie lWghcr and higher, through tunnel a ft­
left her and strode to the door. Again er tunnel, nearer and nearer to Wash­
a mirror gave him a thrill. This time ington every minute. As they were
it was the glass in the car’ s end. He pulling out o f a little mining town
bad taken but a half dozen steps when built on the mountain side a sudden
the brown head was turned slyly and jar stopped the train. There was some
a pair of interested eyes look «! after little excitement and a scramble for
liim. She did not know that he could information. Some part of the engine
see her, so he had the satisfaction of was disabled, and it would be neces­
observing that pretty, puzzled face sary to replace it before the “ run”
plainly until he passed through the could proceed.
door.
Lorry strolled up the crowd of pas­
Grenfal! had formed many chance sengers who were watching the engi­
acquaintances during his travels, some neer and fireman at work. A clear,
musical voice, almost in his ear, star­
times taking risks and liberties tha
tled him, for he knew to whom it be­
were refreshingly bold. He had sc
dom been repulsed, strange to say, and longed. She addressed the conductor,
as he went to his section dizzily he who, impatient ayd annoyed, stood im­
thought of the good fortune that had mediately behind him.
“ How long are we to be delayed?”
been his in other attempts and asked
himself why it had not occurred to him she asked. Just two minutes before
to make the same advances in the pres­ this same conductor had responded
ent instance. Somehow she was d if­ most ungraciously to a simple question
ferent. There was that strange digni­ Lorry had asked and had gone so far
ty, that pure beauty, that imperial ns to instruct another inquisitive trav­
manner, all combining to forbid the eler to go to a warmer climate beonuse
he persisted in asking for information
faintest thought o f familiarity,
He took out the coin and leaned back which could not l>e given except by a
in ills chair, wondering where it came clairvoyant. But now he answered in
from. “ In any case,” he thought, “ it most affable tones:
“ W e’ ll be here for thirty minutes nt
*11 make a good pocketpiece, and some
day I ’ ll And some idiot who knows least, miss—perhaps longer.”
She walked away after thanking
more about geography than I do.” Mr.
Lorry’s own ideas of geography V e re him, and Grenfnll looked at his watch.
Off the main street of the town ran
jumbled and vague, as if lie had got
them by studying the labels on Ills little lanes leading to the mines lie-
hatbox. He knew the places lie had low. They all ended at the edge o f a
been to. and lie recognized a new coun­ steep declivity. There was a drop of
try by the annoyances o f the customs almost 400 feet straight into the valley
house, but beyond this his ignorance below. Along the sides of this valley
was complete. The coin, so far as bo were the entrances to the mines. Above,
knew, might have come from any one on the ledge, was the machinery for
o f a hundred small principalities scat­ lifting the ore to the high ground on
which stood the town and railroad
tered abont the continent.
Before the train reached St. Louis ya rds.
he made up his mind to change enrs
Down one o f these streets walked the
there and go to Washington. It nlso young lady, curiously interested in all
occurred to him that lie might go on about her. She seemed glad to escape
to New York If the spell lasted. Dur­ from the train and its people, and she
ing the day he telegraphed ahead fur hurried along, the fresh spring wind
accommodations, and when the flier ar­ blowing her hair from beneath her cap,
rived in St. Louis that evening he hur­ the ends o f her long coat fluttering.
riedly attended to the transferring and
Lorry stood on the platform watch­
recheokiug of his baggage, bought a ing her: then be lighted a cigarette and
new ticket and dined. At 8 he was In followed. He had a vague feeling that
the station, and at 8:15 he passed her she ought not to be alone with all the
In the aisle. She was standing In her workmen. She started to come hark
stateroom door, directing her maid.
Itefore he reached her. however, awl he
turned again toward the station. Then
he heard a sudden whistle, and a min­
ute later from the end o f the street he
saw the train pulling out. Lorry had
rather distinguished himself in college
as a runner, and instinctively he dash­
ed up the street, reaching the tracks
just in time to catch the railing of the
last eoaeh. But there he stopped and
stood with thumping heart while the
coaches slid smoothly up the track,
leaving him behind. He remembered
he was not the only one left, and he
panted and smiled. It occurred to him
when it was too late that he might
have got on the train and pulled the
rope or called the conductor, but that
was out o f the question now. After
all, It might not be such a merry game
to stay iu that filthy little town. It did
not follow that she would prove friend­
ly.
A few moments later she appeared,
wholly unconscious of what had hap­
pened.- A glance down the track, aud
her fuce was the picture, of despair.
Thou Bhe saw him coming toward
her with long strides, flushed and ex­
cited. Regardless o f apprtirances, con­
ditions or consequences, she hurried to
meet him.
“ Where is the train?” she gasped as
the distance between them grew short,
her blue eyes seeking his beseechingly,
her hands clasped.
“ It has gone.”
“ Gone? And w e—we nre left?”
Ho nodded, delighted by the wonl
“w e.”
“ The conductor said thirty minutes.
It lias been but tw enty!” she cried half
tearfully, half angrily, looking at.her
watch. “ Oh, what shall I do?” she
went on distractedly. He hod enjoyed
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