The Adventures of a Modest Man

ate, Chance, and Destiny; and what ha

g man running after a

other line began to move out, while the engineers of the two locomotives, leaning from their cab windows, exchanged sooty grins. It was non

her passengers ran, too, amid the gibes of newsbo

le. Meanwhile he was running, and running hard through the falling snow; the ice under foot did not aid him; hi

thumb on the pane in order to see better; h

y him. And at one of the windows of this car he saw a pretty gir

of the signal rope on the rear platform; doubtless one or the other spurred him to a desperate flying leap which landed him and his suit-case

latter across the aisle from the attractive girl in chinchilla furs who had smiled at his misfortunes-not very maliciously. Now, as

lence of railroads made him hotter; the knowledge that he had fur

tle boy across the aisle giggled his last giggle; several men resumed th

ted opposite him, said: "Vell, Mister, you run

ing his heated face with his handkerchief

resuming his eyeglasses and holding his newsp

he dawning smile in the blue eyes of his neighbor die out instantly as he turned.

tacles and a walrus moustache, came straddling down the aisle.

board," explained th

ed the conductor

a ticket;

conductor; "ver

ha

o you g

get out? I'm goi

Sefenty-vi

verly, to

Peve

everly! no

verly alretty?

ly on this line, and I don't want to go t

don'd go py Beverly alret

ue eyes suffused with mirth. And instantly, as before, the mirth died out. As an extinguisher of smiles he

I get this matter straight! Now, d

py Pev

everly," he repeated in

che looked up gravely over his newspaper:

rly isn't

gh dimes?" demanded the con

aid it right yet!"

retty understandt? Sefenty-vive cends! Und"-here he jammed a seat check into the rattling windows-sill-"Und ven I sez

n the aisle, the young man took a cautious glance at the check in the window-sill. But on it was printed only, "Please show this to the conductor," so he got no satisfaction there. He had mislaid his ti