BYflflYflfliK B ttmmw-mmtmmmmmmmwmmmmmtmm ! .u ....j . .. H m ADVENTURE ON THE TRAIN H Man That Changed a Bill Got H More Than He Thought. H I met nor on a train. There tiro more H ' lmproHtiloiiH uinilu In traveling, I tlijtik, fl than under any other circumstances. H Sho wiih about twenty, with lllu. H fluffy half, baby bluu eyea, white. tooth, H nntl (hero wiih neither too much nor too fl little of her. She Hat looking out of the B window with rather a bored expression fl , on her face, iih though .slie longed for j Koniotlilug with which to occupy her B mind. 1 longed to occupy her mind H However, my opportunity came when BflKflJ a candy hoy came along. Shu wanted BflKj a box of .sweets and had only a dollar bill to.lmy for them, It happened that flftflB the hoy wnit out of change and looked BBS around for help. I lifted my hat polite- H ly to the girl, took a dollar In sliver BflB from, my pocket and handed it to her. BBB . taking in exchange the "bill, 'It was H new and crisp and 80 folded as to show fl tlie dollar in a corner. Even if I had H not' scon It.s denomination I would not H have thrown a doubt upon the lady's M houcs(y by unfolding It. I shoved it in BflKfl my vest pocket, and .she opened the KBfl box. t remained whero I was, so tint m she couldn't very well help warding m mo for changing Iior bill by ottering me BBH a bit of candy. She did thl.s with some ftVfl embnrrnBsnient. 1 sat on the arm of - tiio seflr opposite wullo I thanked her Kflfl and Bald some irrelevant things, such M as thenar was either too hot or too Bfl-B cold or I hated or liked traveling or Kflfl inndoSbino other inonnlngless remark, 1 pnsslng'ou to another and another, all H! o while looking moro and more un- B&flJ comforthblo on my perch till at last b" buc cast her eyes on the vacant Beat Hu beside her. Construing this as an invi- ftfl-flk'; tation, I sat down. H When W cdnductor camo along I no- Lfl-flB-V ticed lie puuclied u Cleveland ticket for B-flB&fl-W her. I was bound for Chicago. She bad AfjYjfjV, a suit case In the car wftb her. on BflBBBk-i .jvhlcliworo the letters E. V. W. 1 took B-flB&flB-flf ttortlculnr note of these things, for I ftfljflBflaflP "was delighted with her and often vlslf- BBBBEBF . cd Clovolund. W I spent, several hours very pleasantly fl-fl-flr with her. At first she Fee mod abashed B&flBfl -lit forming an acquaintance in tills HHM vny. Imt alio soon forgot all ubont taut. liTvm Jf wnd l sw that' I was as companionable JyAj-V 'to her ag she wns to me. When wV BlBWiJgA-vW':':l" "' jif'UiJxKKXiuLjta. tiand her BB-BWWroaou,. pno HSfJiqrWtKtnv BX ' "onItl ito therejto meet Jber, nud I tfavr H ' -ly look slio gave mo that she would flVJ 'not cara to have Jiim see hr receiving m :attentious from n stranger. I therefore H -contented myself with thnnldhg her lot H - j Tendering my trip enjoyable- instend of H boro nntl told her I hoped thnt If she j-"' Tcr c,imo to Chicago I might happen tojmcct her. .- "Tho next Sunday morning I got m home on Wednesday I left my b'ache- M lor quarters and strolled to my club B for breakfast, buying a paper by tho M way. I alwayB read everything In my B Sunday paper, and on this occasion B wound up with the "personals;" Slid- H flonly I wns seised with astonishment H ao I read: B Tho Kcntlemnn who changed a hilt for a BBfl lady on a train on tho ICth can communl- BY cato with hor by addrc&dlng E. V. W., IBB Box , Clqvcland, O. B I wns not only astonished; I was dls- H appointed. SInco my return my bruin 1 bad been full of love stories of which H II V. W. was the heroine and I tho H hero. And, after all, I hud struck one H whoM-iiK ndt abovo calling me to her H .through a personal. Then it came to H me that there must bo some mistake. H Surely! I' know a ludy when I saw one. H and the girl I had met was not only a H lady, but a very innocent and refined H one. Why did sho make the Identities- H tlon through tho dollar bill I had H changed? Because, of course, it wus. H tho best and only sure means of Iden- H tiflcatlou. H This dollar bill was all I had to re- H mind me of tho girl who had Riven It H to me. I had transferred it from my H pocket to a box of trinkets on my H dresser, folded Just as It was when I H received it Somethlug, I know not H what 0110 of those mysterious point H ra of the brain porhups that come to H ua on occasion prompted uie to go to H my room and have a look at the bill. H I lost no time In doing so, and when I B unfolded the crisp bit of paper my H eyes bulged from their sockets in as H tonlshment. M It was a thousand dollar uoto! B Now I saw it all. The wording of M tho .lulvertiKpment, instead of liidloat- B iug that the girl was familiar with B metljods of assignation, showed her in B . nocouco or sho would not have used. - it It was evident she had inferred M that I had discovered the denom!na-: M tlon of tho bill, and 'She gave mo tho B means of communicating with her to H return It. Iitook U16 jniauigh,trajp. for Cjoy.Q;, H land, and the next mqrnlngr went" to H tholpostolflce, whero' if learned thaP H boxNo belonged to a familynamcd H Wrthlnsrton. Later la tht dayl Uv. ea at the nddresa, which I'hnd also recelvod at tho postofflce, and sent up my card, on which I had written. "Tho gentleman who changed the bill." I soon heard a nistlo on tho stair carte, nnd E. V. W. camo hurrying In. anxiety on every feature, to know If hor money was safo. I hastened to reassure her by handing her the note. Sho had received It from her father in Now York, who was at tho moment engaged In making a cash payment of a pleco of real estate, and had Inadvertently Inad-vertently given her the wrung bill. Within n year I murrlfirt b?r.