Show 1 An kan incident 0 of r colorado orado travel I 1 the tho car door opened there was a rattle and anda rustle rustie upon the platform out outside ide aud she came bling ia at the same instant there came in with Ifer her a ruddy cheeked checked blue bitle eyed boy whose years were not counted above ten she sho carried in her arms a bundle closely and care fully wrapped at one ione end of which ii a tiny face appeared a diminutive copy of her own carefully placing this bundle bundie upon a seat beat she next dragged in a box and a basket and d trofie odor of vilge bilge water such as 1 ever pervades the steerage or between decks of the emigrant vessel announced to the indifferently brently interested te fellow passe passenger nger was an emigrant she was not liot more than thirty she was fair and appeared as strange and timid aa a the antelope we saw from the car ing over the plains but no one spoke to her ller no one presumed to claim acquaintance with this eifim travel I 1 soiled weary looking young woman vy omah and elia ellb as she sat on the next my own gazing wearily out lupon the tho wide break monotony of tho the plains I 1 observed several times during durin the day that her laige blue eyes oyes filled filled with tears and that the little boy in scotch cap knee breeches and black hose busied himself hi M self seit in a vain aftem attempt t to com corm fort his mother all this I 1 ob i ser ber ved vod from behind my liry book which proved a medium amedius of tion between iny ay fellow passenger ana and myself she had bad been looking at the back of my book attentively for some time when sho she broke the silence by saying 1 I 1 I beg pardon sir but can you bell beil sellme me when we shall arrive looking at an envelope at BI bllou bijou jou jon station tomorrow to morrow evening sometime jf if all goes oes welli wella well weli I 1 replie replied d rozile Is the country 0 out ut th there as wild and and aud as sparsely settled as this sir I 1 yes tyes madam or more so it s depends very much upon thedor the por tion of the bijou you go to 11 1 arlic rilo iee ice being broken between iny self and my fellow passenger she soon fell a victim to a v onal American newspaper interviewer to whom she he told her story but this story would havo but little interest for the general reader were it not for the tho sequel which whig is herewith given I 1 will vve eve give her hen er story as near as possible in nor non et own wn 0 words yes sir I 1 am from england I 1 left there three weeks ago I 1 observed you reading dickens and took the liberty of speaking peaking to you do I 1 admire dickens yea sir I 1 r loved him I 1 am a relative of his and have visited him A t his place at gads hill I 1 am from gloster do you know gloster it t is a dear old town we lived just within the shadow of that great cathedral a sigh oh the dear old town I 1 espee expect t we will never meet again 0 it Is ia a grand old structure tule sir you can read about r k it in athia he mystery of edwin drood 11 HO H describes our town just as it is we all loved mr dickens I 1 walked with him many times in the grand old structure for he made our home his home homo when lie he came to gloster cr ho he only lived ten miles away and frequently came to see us while he was working upon his last book I 1 observed you reading one of his works and nd I 1 ma made de so free as to speak fo for r a I 1 am oh oil so very lonesome and strange here did I 1 come all the tilo way alone sir yes sir but it was wro wrong ng in me to attempt it I 1 think sometimes I 1 shall give up before I 1 reach my husband but charles is guite quite a man tome to me you have no me idea mr sir liow how clever arid arld kind my been boen tome both on the voyage and at halifax at baltimore and cincinnati how do I 1 like the states did you say oh sir I 1 dont like them at atall all ali I 1 like the state of cincinnati the best of any I 1 have been in I 1 sto stop p pod at halifax it is a dull cold miserable place they kept us three days day sat at baltimore to discharge cargo at cincinnati my luggage was smashed and I 1 had to purchase deal boxes to pack in they charged me a sovereign for them I 1 was detained one day at st louls louis a nasty gloomy smoky pla pia place cels ceis is it not sir at leavenworth they refused to take my english gold for my hotel bill and I 1 was in great trouble and distress did I 1 get my luggage all right yes sir there is nine hundred pounds of it why did I 1 bring so much did you say why sir air my husband wrote to ino me that ho he had got a perfect little eden of a place in colorado Coi col orado yes sir lie he calls our new home eden and I 1 thought I 1 would bring as many of the old things from home as possible and I 1 brought a box of tea a barrel of sugar several of long cloth some boots and clothing and at least a hundred different kinds of garden seeds speeds we will be so happy when I 1 get home but air crying I 1 really think I 1 will never rea reach C li ho home me again three weeks of travel all alone has nearly cost me my life what is my husband do doing 9 in colorado did you say sir he 1 1 is sheep farming he was a tailor and gentle gentie mena mens furnisher furril sher in gloster we lived in one house for nineteen years my father kept the business before I 1 married my husband wo we were doing very well and getting rich but my husband husban d wha wb had been a sailor when a bo boy Ys and who was born in brazil was always discontented and wanted to travel in an evil ovil hour I 1 consented to sell out our business in gloster he took with him and started to colorado his letters which he be wrote from colorado were vey very interest ng they were printed in in our country paper at al home homo oh sir if you only could know how tired I 1 am of traveling how lonesome I 1 feel here upon these plains so many thousands of miles I 1 from in my dear old home you would mould 70 realize alize how anxious I 1 am to meet my husband the sun and the train rolled on westward and toward evening evening on the second day out from kansak kansas city came in insight sight of bijou my bly fellow passenger was all bustle and excite exciter ment she had been half a dozen times to the glass to adjust her hair and apparel the beautiful little 0 boy in his scotch cap blue cap and black stockings kings had his golden locks freshly curled his rosy cheeks washed and stood upon the car seat looking out of the window looking looting for father y oh mother I 1 think I 1 seo eco father said charley no mother its some one else ob ah I 1 see a coffin mother some person is dead they are taking the coffin out 01 ef the wagon mother thero there it is mother there we are past it now now we shall see seo father wo are home bome the train stopped the tho weary travel soiled niece of charles charies dickens gathered up her parcels and her cloaks and anti stepped stopped out upon tho the wild bleak spot called bijou station the passengers all interested in tile tiie talkative and ard unsophisticated pair of travelers crowded to the window to witness the expected meeting of husband and wife they saw it while her bag baggage gago oage was being tumbled out of the tho c car r she stood with her baby in her arms and her boy by h her er side gazing around upon the strange scene and peering eagerly among the rough clad ran ranchmen ranchman ranch climen men and plainsmen plainsman plains men for the face which alone of all others lle ile she lie to see A rough looking but polite ran ranchman climan cilman stopped stepped forward and ud with a blumy baw cud aud bashful manner inquire inquired aho the madame desired to see 1 I want my husband mr henry lester does he not keep keen a sheep and cattle farm near here ho he did madam answered the ranchman sadly but lies hes rounded up his herd for the tho last time thero he is in that coffan died last wednesday night and were wore bendin tilo tho body to denver according to his last instructions he died of congestion of the bowels madame beg pardon madame but are aro you his wife chedid he did not finish his sentence but stepped forward to catch the falling form lorm of my fellow traveler who was carried to the accy r in in a swoop swoon the little boy uttered a piteous wail of grief while I 1 led him sobbing back to the car which this wearied and travel tired pair had left a minute before so hopeful and so happy there were man many wet e eyes yes ses in that car just tile tiie then ri mine among the resty rests rest as I 1 held that beautiful boy sobbing t to 0 my breast I 1 saw mw my fellow traveler twice again once when she followed fol owed her husband to his last resting place attended by one solitary carriage and four mourners and again last monday rn orning when pale sad rad and bowed with grief grier she started with her fair haired boy upon her long journey back to the quiet shade and seclusion of herold heroid her old oid home 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