| Show MYRAS ADV adventures it was with real sorrow that myra F ferris erris bade adieu to a school that bad had really been a home to her to teachers who hod had been friends schoolmates who had ben like sisters the eldest miss lipsett went ent to dw the depot with M ath her in the cab it and n on the w way ay began a course of advice to unprotected females that lasted until the depot was w as reached the 1 he main point of t the he advice was to speak to nobody of all things cal eat to bring an unprotected oung young tingle single female traveler to grief speaking to an unknown person was the most dangerous remember 1 cried miss lipsett from the h tation platform and she put her finger to her lip away went the cars and d my myra M sat wrapped in her veil an and d saw the he familiar landscape anish vanish and thought h how ow the girls would miss her tier and how she would miss them until by slow degreed fut future re hopes replaced past memories 1 I and I 1 am ou on my way to be married she said to herself what ft a queer girl I 1 am to ba have e forgotten all about it it was odd but then myras engagement was an odd one she had been brought up by her grand mother a sentimental lady of the old school who was very fond of 0 her however her grandfather who was afflicted with the gout and a bad temper made his house no home for a child and the girl was soon sent to school bho she spent the summer vacations at home however and at times she met den cooper who lived ou on the next place and whose mother had been be her r grandmothers schoolmate though mrs ferri had married at sixteen and mrs cooper at forty ben was tho the only c child hild of the more mature couple the idol of their hearts at first fl mt he was of course a big boy al ways ready to amuse the pretty little girl next door but by the time myra was six teen he was a young man a very pretty fellow with blue eyes curly hair and a dimple in his chin and he fell inloe in love with myra and arid told his ills mother so and his mother told myras grandmother and myras grandmother asked myra to confide in her and the girl said with blushes that she did like ben ihen then the elderly ladies resolved to make the oung young people happy and they were en to eich each other and ben den set to work tomake to make his fortune and myra went back to school in the course of making his fortune ben was obliged to go to california and there he had now remained n five years and myra had bad been kept at school perfecting herself in many accomplishments until bhe bile vaa was one and twenty and now tho the poor old grandfather no longer driven mad by his hi aches and pains pain lay at rest in his grave and when myra reached homo home the wedding day would be le set and ben would go into busi business rims for himself near his old home they hod it ad written constantly sha she hod had always thought of him fondly he ile wrote that he wo would u id le ile the happiest man alive when W en once he lie held her tier hand in ills again 1 I shall be very cry happy I 1 know OA v myra said to herself and I 1 suppose sui poso all tho the talk in plays pl ays and arid novels must be exaggerated that in real life people never ne er go wild about each other but just feel nicely as I 1 do to ben bhe she bad had come to this conclusion when the word junction reached her cars ears she was to change at croydon junction and springing to hr feet sho she ran to the tile door and was helped to the platform by an energetic brakeman A moment after she recognized the fact that she hod had made it i mistake this was not tho the place at which she should have alighted she must return to her car but home sometimes times at tho the junctions cars do very erratic things while myra had been gazing about her and realizing the fact that at croydon junction there was a grocery groce and not a hotel at the corner of the one longstreet long street that the station was on tho the other side and that the church there visible had a steeple whereas the one in sight had a tower her car had glided away and another taken its place it was a new ew york train from which people had alighted to take lunch eon and as it flew upon its way without making pause myrn myra soon began to feel uneasy bhe she anted wanted to ask question but the awful warning to be silent prevented her from speaking to her tier neighbors la in tain vain she called to the conductor ua as ho he went by lie would not stop can I 1 be of any ser service asked a masculine alne in voice at her elbow but myra only all shook oo 00 k her head and at it lust with ath the word t ticket Icke sl the conductor really re illy pau paused led beside her seat 1 I gae gave you my ticket she said sald 1 I haie to buy another at the junction im going to chicago the conductor stared at her tier in silence then shook bis his head this la the new york express he said how now did you come here beret myra explained well he be wild all that you can do now Is to go on and take the chicago ex press from new york this trip wont coot cost you much well be in the city within two h hours 0 U m he ile M wrote rote something on a ticket and handed it to her myra put her hand in her pocket her ifer was gone oh surely I 1 must have dropped it here sherried she cried she searched about BO so lid her neighbors ho so did the conductor finally the conductor walked away aw ay big tears began to pour down myrall checks sho was wits terrified beyond expression 1 I beg your pardon said the gentleman beaida beside her but I 1 hue bee how terribly alarmed you are tare loiero Is no reason I 1 will see that everything la Is right you ou shall get safely to chicago I 1 give you my word for that ill take cure care of you for a moment myra reflected H then she turned and looked at the gentleman he ile was a it handsome brown bearded young man wath ui ali mice nice eyes c es brocail shoulders and that protecting air hir that women love D ue spite nil all the warnings that had been given her she title coul could 1 not feel afraid of him besides what hit could she do to penniless and alone on oil her tier wily wa to a gre gamt at city where she had lad never tw r L bon ln bo n before ix fore you ou tire bo kind sari sin he kaid said 1 I feel like a little helpless child I 1 have never traveled before wore and do not know what to do in emergencies like this found your pocketbook t the conductor asked aske A at this moment myra saw iw her neighbor hand him some money and receive a ticket which be he stuck in the back of the wat before her 1 I am already under pecuniary obliga t eions ons to you sir the she my fr friends lenh who w bo will be very er grateful to you will of coune cour benot not al allow lownie me to remain fco will ill you kindly give gh e me your card that I 1 may know low where to all lu in the gentleman inter erupted now tir try r to forget your anxiety flety il mj ra effort to do 09 she Slie wiped AW her eyes removed ZI lier lift tear soaked veil tell sud rua boon soon looked hernek herst af again I 1 meanwhile me arl while her neighbor talked on gayly pointed tel out the interesting places on the road amused her in a thousand ways new york wa reached before she dreamed that they were there and now what waa vas to happen what happened was wits this Ile retort left her in the waiting room for a moment and returning placed a ticket in n her bands hands express to chicago he paid said but the tile chicago express s docs does not leave for several hours and we must have some dinner I 1 know a nice little restaurant bard hard by we will go there poor myral all that she could do was to repeat her thanks and think what grand mamma and the misses lipsett would say any it if they knew sho she bad had not only talked to a stranger but was under obligations to him and was going to dine with him and moreover since of course tho the gentleman would be repaid the money he had BO so kindly spent in her behalf she really quite enjoyed the adventure there must le be something about me she thought in spite of all my good bringing up to feel this way wily but she could not help being delighted with her afternoon such a nice little dinner such it nice little walk after afterward warL then tea ten in tile loveliest place myra had ever seen and arid then ot off and away to the da pot again she felt as its though she had known her companion forever you will take this young lady to her tier sleeping compartment the gentleman said to A porter and see that she has all she he wants there was wits a gleam of silver gween between bis ills glove and arid the black hand so readily outstretched now goodby he said and thank you for the most pleasant experience I 1 have ever had lie ile put a parcel into her hands as be he spoke oh I 1 have enjoyed it very much myself r said myra but the pecuniary obligation kindly give me your card my family will the car began to move take care sir 11 cried the porter the gentleman stepped briskly out of the wa way bof of an in approaching engine only just in time her momentary fright over myra saw him waving his handkerchief in the distance alere was a situation cut but what could myra do but go to her place where later litter she opened the dainty white parcel and arid found it novel by the author she best loved and a u package pic kago of the most delightful delight fu I 1 coo con how flow oddly she felt half happy halt frightened how her heart was beating how flow words this stranger hail had uttered glances that he had L civen ivea returned to her memory what did it all mean after the had bad tried to read awhile she tucked herself under the snowy linen of her bed the soft pink edged blanket wr wrapped her snugly tha the car moved easily but she elie could not sleep suddenly in the night she sat tip covered her face with her bands hands and began to sob 1 I am in love with him she said and land I 1 shall never bee him again anil and I 1 am going home to marry hen ben cooper whom I 1 only like ilke a little oh what shall I 1 do oh how bhe cried but it was wits only natural her grandmother thought ti that lat she a should hould wear a tear fatal nel tied face after such frightful adventures the there had been the wildest excitement over her ance and ben having gone away on bunt busl ness bom something ething about property mr mm ferris ferri said 1 I had not his ills imi assistance tance in making inquiries what my feelings were you will never know poor marit had anoll h to do to think of her own feelings liens absence however she was wits thank tor for for now that she knew what love was a she he could never never marry a man bhe bile only liked both ladies worried over the pecuniary obligation and the crowning was given to myras mortification when in shaking out her tier traveling dress nhe she found her pocketbook with nil all its contents safe between the stud stuff and the lining there ww was neither either rip nor hole but a piece of the drapery had been HO so placed that albrit it had in a moment of ab abstraction str action thrust the pocketbook under it and the mysterious some something thing which had now and then struck her ankle was wits at last discovered oh ohl it was dreadfully dread full and yet but for the supposed loss that happy afternoon would never have been poor myra she waa wits very sorry rry for herself sorry tor for ben den when in the course of a week she beard heard that he lie was at home they will be here to tea mrs ferris said and aicra wished that the floor would open and swallow her still her resolution was unchanged and when at last she had dressed herself up in her pink cashmere trimmed with white lace pinned a row roo bud in her hair and was fairly on her way to the parlor she resolved that ben should not for a moment iw be deceived gravely she silo entered the room her cheeks haleber pa pale leber her eyes cast down some one rushed forward to greet her two hands caught hers hem she looked up before her brood the stranger who had won her tier heart zou you did not know me myra he cried but ut I 1 knew you at once it waa wits very hard to send you home alone but the law needed me and I 1 could not go with you can you forgive me my foolish joke and arid myra waa was as you may imagine only too happy to forgive mary kyle dallas in to chicago times |
