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iRKANflEMENT OF PA88KKOEK TRAINS
NOVEMBElTTsth, 1860.
Train Leave Hnrrlsburg an Follows :
' For New York vis AUentown. at 8.08 a. m.
and 1.45 1). m. . . .
For New York via Philadelphia and "Bound
Brnok Routs." H.'O, B.uft a. m. and 1.45 p. m.
For Philadelphia, at O.iO, 8.06, (thruugh car),
9.60 a. m.. 1.4ft and 4 mi p. m. . ,
For Heading, at 6.U0, 8 06. 1.(01, m., 1.46, 4.00,
and 8.o n. in. , ,
Fur Fottsvllle. atfl.no. 8.05, 9.60 a. m. and 4.00
B. m and ia Schuylkill and Husquehanna
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For AUentown. at 6 .On, 8 06, 9.60 g. in. , 146 and
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The 8.0.5 a. m. and 1.45 p. m, train have
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For Koa' ling, l'tilldelapliia, and Way tltatlous,
at 1.46 p. in.
Trains Leare Tor Harrlsburg as Foilons t
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"'Leave js'ew York via "Hound Brook ltoute."and
Philadelphia at 7.46 a. in.. 1.80 and 8 So p. in., ar
rlvln at llavibuuig. 1.60, S.io p. in., and
'Yea've'phll.delphla, at 9.45 a. m 4.00 and
7'LeavelPott'viUe.7 0n. 9,10a. m. and4.40p. m.
Leave tteadliiit, at 4.60, 8.U0, 11.60 a. m., l.' ,tl.l5,
8la'veii'.ltt9ville via 4chuylklll and Siisqwhanna
Branch, 8. 3n a. in. ,
Leave AUentown, aU.25. 9.00 a. m 12.10. 4.50,
and 9.08 p. in.
SUNDAYS:
Leave New York, at 6 HO p. m.
Leave Philadelphia, at 7.45 p. m.
Leave Heading, at 8.i a. in. audl0.3Sp. m.
Leave AUentown. at 9.05 p. m.
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HARDING'S MASQUERADE.
II WAS the last night of tbe year and
a few congenial spirits bad gathered
in the bacheltfV apartments of a mutual
friend to spend In cheery song and story
the few remaining hours of the old year's
life.
Only one of the company bad failed to
add bis share of these to the general en
tertainment. "Come Mortimer," said the host, "it's
your turn now. If you can't sing let it
be a story. You that have traveled
about so much, ought to be able to tell
something worth bearing."
A unanimous request that tbe host's
suggestion should be carried out having
been made., Mortimer commenced his
story :
" It was as long ago as the year '45,
when I was quite a young man, with
very little experience . of the world,
though I thought I knew more than I
do now or am ever likely to know. For
tbe last three years I bad been bead
bookkeeper in a wholesale dry goods
house In tbe western part of New York,
enjoying in no small .degree Its esteem
and confidence, which I fully appreci
ated and did my best to deserve. With
the desire to perform my duties well and
acceptably, I had an additional incentive
to stand high in the estimation of tbe
firm in the form of the lovely daughter
of its head, partner with whom I was
madly, aud, at It seemed then, hopeless
ly Id love. It was not the absence of
fortune and position that made me so
faint-hearted, for I bad heard Mr. Crof-
ton, ber father, say more than ouce,
" that be didn't care bow poor bis son-in-law
was if he wasn't poor in integrity
intelligence, energy and self-reliance."
I was conscious that he regarded me
with an eye of favor, cerlalnly I could
not complain tlint be did notadbrd me
ample opportunity to woo and win bis
daughter If I could. The chief dlflloul
ty In the way lay In the fact that I had
a rival who, having been longer in the
field, and apparently obtained a footing
In her favor that I despaired of ever be
ing able to win. And then the fair
Lucy hersrlf was so shy, and reserved
with me. Hue always bad a gay smile
and merry words for Fred Harding,
whilst to me she was so shy aud silent
that I never coultl gain courage to ex
press my love except by looks, and tbe
eagerness aud persistency with which
I sought ber society. Had I been
versed In tbe ways of women, I should
nut have let this dishearten me so. As
It was, my heart sometimes beat high
with the hope of eventful success, her
eyes grew so wonderously bright at my
approach and she blushed so prettily
when I spoke to ber.
"Fred Harding was a gentleman of
leisure, and quite a favorite with tbe
fitlrer portion of tbe community. He
hud plenty of money; which be spent
freely, though where be obtained It was
not clear. He was a slender, smooth
face chap, with Boft, white hands glossy
curls and carefully got up attire. I nev
er liked him, though that is not strange,
considering how be monopolized tbe so
ciety of my adored Lucy. He was al
ways very civil to me, but there was no
love lost on either side. There seldom
1b between two men in love with the
same woman.
One day Mr. Crofton called me on one
side, staling that he was going to give
me a strong proof of his confidence in
what be was pleased to term my good
sense and Integrity, by intrusting to me
Borne important business, to which it
would be inconvenient for him person
ally to attend. I will not take up the
time by describing tbe nature of this
business which has nothing to dd with
iny story, merely saying that it necessi
tated my going Into the interior ol the
State, and taking with me $80,000.
" I was not a little proud that a mis
sion of so much importance should be
eutrusted to me; wondering, in my ela
tion, if Lucy knew bow much confi
dence ber father bad in me, and inward
ly resolving that I would perform it in a
way that would justify his good opin
ion. "I was to take the evening train.
Just before starting I called at Mr. Crof
ton 's private office to receive the money
and bis parting instructions. I could
scarcely believe that the small package
banded me contained so large an
amount. Ills last injunction to me was
to put it In my breast pocket ; to keep
my coat buttoned closely to tbe cbln,
and to avoid talking with strangers.
11 1 took tbe 6:30 train, traveling
straight up, with only brief stoppages,
for nearly four hours. Then we came
to tbe junction, aud, leaving the ex
press I took tbe accommodation train on
another and less frequented road. There
was a delay of about fifteen minutes,
owing to the fact that we were obliged
to switch off to let tbe express train
pass. About five minutes before we
started an old mau entered whose white
beard aud hair gave him a very venera
ble appeaTauce. He had a womau with
him who clung timidly to his arm.
" Do these cars go to Bolton V" be
said addressing me.
" They do," I replied.
" Are you going as far as that V"
" I'm going beyond It," I said.
" You're In luck, Emily," said the old
man addressing the veiled woman on
his arm. " Here's a gentleman that's
going right througb Kolton, and will
see that you don't get off at the wrong
place.
" My daughter is not used to travel
Ing," he added, turning to me, " and Is
just getting up from a serious illness.
If you will kindly see that sbe makes no
mistake I will be glad."
"Certainly," I responded.
" Viewing with ' no littlo self com
placency this additional proof of the
confidence that people seemed disposed
to place in me, I removed my cloak from
the vacant seat as a tacit invitation to
my charge that she was at liberty to ap
propriate it if she choose to do so.
"Observing my movement, the old
man said :
' " Thank you, sir, would you as soon
let my daughter he ve the seat farthest
from tbe window ? She is so sensitive
to the cold." '
"Then, as tbe young lady took tbe
seat alluded to, be kissed ber, saying :
" Good-bye, my dear child. Don't
talk; your lungs are still so weak, you
know. Give my love to your aunt and
cousins, and write as soon as you are
able." '
" As the cars moved on I stole a look
at my fair companion for fair she look
ed and young from the glimpses ob
' talned through her veil. She was drese
ed very warmly, having ou, in addition
to tbe long loose cloak, that fell to tbe
floor, a large cape and scarf. On her
bead was the ' conventional bonnet of
that day, and which had material
enough In It for half a dozen of the style
worn now.
"Her unnatural pallor was heightened
by tbe blacktet eyes and eyelashes that
I think I ever saw, though on account
of her shyness and timidity, the latter
veiled the former much of the time
from view. She seemed entirely unfit
to be out at that season of the year, be
ing seized at one lime with a paroxysm
of coughing that quite alarmed me. To
my Inquiry If I could get ber anything
she shook her head, and, remembering
her father's caution to her, I said no
more. Removing the cork from a vial
whose peculiar odor I remember yet, she
touched It to her Hps. Whatever It was
seemed to have the desired efiect. Fold
ing my cloak I placed it on the seat
back of ber and, leaning her head upon
It sbe slept, or seemed to do so.
" I bad not tbe remotest Idea or inten
tion of going to sleep, but I did. How
long I slept I don't know. I only know
that I awoke with a sense of suffocation
to which the fresh air that poured in
from the open car door was a welcome
relief. The cars bad stopped, which
was, perhaps the reason why I awoke.
With a confused feeling in my brain
that I could not account for, I watched
tbe people going out until the peculiar
odor before alluded to reminded me of
my companion, I turned to see how she
was faring. To my astonishment she
was gone.
"Can this be Bolton V" I thought
springing to my feet, startled and not a
little mortified at my Involuntary re
missness. As I did so, I stumbled over
a reticule, ou which one of my feet bad
been resting, and which my fair charge
had left behind her. Catching it up I
sprang from the cars. As I gained the
platform I caught a glim pee of her hur
rying along the other side of the depot,
where a long train of cars was standing.
To my surprise she glanced back, as I
called out to ber, but did not slacken her
speed. Tbe train for which she was
making now began to move, but spring
ing up tbe steps with a quickness of mo
tion for which I was entirely unprepar
ed, she disappeared from view.
'I As tbe train thundered past me,
moved by impulse, I thrust my hand
into my breast pocket. Tbe package
was gone.
" Should I live a thousand years I
shall never forget the sensation that
came over me; the dismay, tbe horror
that for a while benumbed every faculty,
But it was not long before every nerve
of my heart and brain was fully aroused
and at work I Like a flash of lightning,
by whom and how I bad been robbed,
all was clear to me.
In tbe meantime the train which I
had left had gone on, and I stood in tbe
gray dawn alone on the platform. I as
certained that tbe place was not Bolton,
but Warwick ; . that the train taken by
the woman went by a more circuitous
route in tbe same direction whence I
had started, that it was a fast train, its
first stopping place being a large manu
facturing town forty miles back. I Im
mediately resolved to take the next
train for that place. On learning that
it would be two hours before I oould do
this, I turned my next thought to break
fast, coutrlvlng, in spite of my anxiety,
to make a tolerably substantial meal
from tbe bountiful spread table of the
hotel opposite, and feeling ten per cent
better in consequence.
" As I rose from tbe trble, I thought
of the little satchel that the woman had
left behind her, either from her baste to
escape, or because sbe feared to awake
me if she removed it from beneath my
feet. , Its contents surprised and puzzled
me. Not on account of their extent and
value however. They consisted of a
dickey, a pair of socks, a black cloth or
tie, as It is now call an odd glove and
a handkerchief. Not an article of wo
man's apparel was in it. There was no
name or initial on anything with the
exception of the haudkerchief.on which
were the letters F. H., worked in red
silk. Ou shaking tbe satchel, to make
sure that there was nothing more, a wad
of crumbled paper dropped out. Unroll
ing It I smoothed it upon my knee. It
proved to be part of a letter, that part
ou which the address was written In the
days before envelopes were Invented,
Tbe lower right hand corner was torn
oft', leaving tbe superscription ' to read
thus:
Fbed'k Hak
Stock
" The last four letters formed the first
syllable of Stockport, the place where
I resided. On turning the paper, I
found some penciled memoranda, whiob
ran thus : ' Bonnet, veil, cloak, scarf,
gloves.
" As I recalled tbe face beneath the
veil the short, wavy hair, parted in tbe
middle of tbe forehead, the arched eye
brows, tbe intense blackness of tbe eyes,
which never" once directly met my owr,
there flashed upon me the secret of the
indefinable resemblance to some one I
had seen, which bad struck meat tbe
llrsjt glance, but which made no particu
lar impression on my mind at the time.
It was just as clear to me now aa twelve
hours luter. I bad been robbed, not by
a woman, but a man, and the man was
Fred Harding ! He was In tbe habit of
often lounging In and out of tbe store,
reading the papers and exchanging the
news, and I had a distant rempmbrance
of his sitting by the stove, within hear
ing distance, when Mr. Crofton first
mentioned the matter to me,but thought
nothing of It at the time.
" In less than ten minutes I was on
my way back to Block port. What my
thoughts and feelings were during the
Journey would be difficult to describe, so
conflicting were their nature. At one
time I was strong In the belief that I
should be able to circumvent the vllllan
that had robbed me of more than life,
and then my hopes were down to zero.
I knew that Harding's eagerness to win
sweet Lucy Crofton made him jealous of
the favor with which her father regard
ed me, and was convinced that bla ob
ject was not simply money, but to ruin
me In my employer's estimation. The
result would be tbe same, at all events.
Unless I could get the package, farewell
to all my bright prospects and the sweet
est maiden in all the world to me.
" It was dusk when I reached Stock
port, for which I was not sorry. I went
directly to the hotel where I knew Hard
ing boarded. ' He had been out of town
for the last two days,' so the porter told
me, ' but had lust got back.' Ascer
taining tbe number, I proceeded to bis
room, and, the door being ajar, I went
in ; Harding was not there, but the
bright light and Cheerful fire indicated
that he was not far ofT, and I sat down
and waited.
" I looked scrutlzlngly around. On
tbe chair near me lay an old glove, the
mate to the one in the satchel, as I
found by comparing them. Another
link In the chain of evidence.
" I had scarcely time to secure this
and decide upon my course of action
when Harding entered. I have not
power to describe bis astonishment and
dismayed look as be saw me. Quickly
recovering himself be advanced eagerly
toward me. ,
" Ignoring tbe outstretched band I
said, sternly :
" Mr. Harding, here is the satchel you
left behind you In the little masquerade
you played last night. You acted your
part well, but it is time to lay off the
mask now. In this satchel is an odd
glove, the mate of which I found upon
the chair yonder, and which may be1 of
value to you. You can have it la ex
change for tbe package you took from
me."
" Taken entirely by surprise, and a
coward at heart, tbe villain turned dead
ly pale.
"'Will you give. me twenty-four
hours to leave town in V"
" Taking a revolver from my pocket I
advanced one step nearer.
" ' Give me that package and you can
have forty-eight hours ; refuse and you
have not five minutes to live '.'
" It was about bis person as I surmis
ed, and without another word be gave it
to me.
" Only waiting to make sure that it
was tbe same, and bad not been tamper
ed with, I sprang down tbe stairs, two
steps at a time, in my haste to catch the
train that I knew would be soon due.
Twenty minutes later I was on my
journey again feeling like a freed bird as
I sped along.
" By traveling day and night, and
taking, brief times for rest and refresh
ments I so nearly made up the time I
had lost as to be able to bring my busi
ness to a satisfactory conclusion within
the limits assigned me. On my return
I found a good many of my friends and
acquaintances considerably excited on
the subject of Harding's sudden and
mysterious disappearance. ' I kept my
own counsel, however, being more
ashamed of the successful game that had
been played with me, than by being able
by a fortunate combination of circum-.
stances, to checkmate him in tbe end.
" It was not until Lucy had been my
wife nearly a year, and I was junior
partner of the firm, that I ventured to
tell ber father of his narrow escape from
a serious loss,, which, in . its results,
would have been more disastrous to me
than to him, inasmuch as it would have
involved tbe loss of tbe most precious of
all my earthly possessions.
43T Do not fancy, because you can
only save a penny now and then, that
you will never become the possessor of
pounds.
True integrity is the diamond of
character, consisting of natural excel
lencies crystallzed by the sanctifying
grace of Christ.
' C3T To be perfectly just is an attribute
of the divine nature ; to be so to tbe
utmost of our ability is tbe glory of
man. ,
A Cress Baby.
Nothing Is so conducive to a man's
remaining a bachelor as stopping for
one night at the house of a married
friend and being kept awake for five or
nlv hnn.. Kb lllii rrv indf rt u iimm lttt
AH cross aud crying babies need only
Hop Bitters to make them well and
smiling. Young man, remember this.
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