From Farm to Fortune, or, Only a Farmer's Daughter — page 14: what you’re looking at

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\ MY QUEEN. 11 am waiting for my uncle. I wrote him that his vehicle, he started back into the depot I was coming, and I fully expected him to to find her trunk, and as she leaned from “meet me.” | ; the cab window and looked after him Marion “Ought to be here if he’s coming,” said saw that he was joined by the stranger. the man, good-naturedly; “you've been wait- She could not hear what they said, but ing nearly an hour. You must be getting she saw the cabman shake his head repeat- pretty weary.” edly while the man wrote something on a “T am, and hungry, too,” said Marion, piece of paper without once stopping talking. _ smiling; “but you see I am a country girl, Finally she saw a bill change hands be- - and I don’t know my way. I would cer- tween them. The cabman had evidently tainly get lost if I were to attempt to find relented, for he pocketed not only the money ; him.” - F but the paper the stranger had written.. - As she spoke she did not notice that a- As the young girl was rapidly driven up- well-dressed man had suddenly drawn near town she gazed out of the cab windows and and was listening intently to her remarks the scenes of the great city’°made her face without appearing to do so... pale and flush alternately. Ps “What’s his address?” asked the messen- Every little while she felt in her bag for 4 ger, in a business-like way. her money—-the fifty dollars which her fa- % Marion took a slip*of paper from her reti- ther had at last given her when she de- cule, and handed it to him. nounced him so vigorously for his treatment j _ +> “Frederic Stanton, The Norwood,” the of Dollie. ~ man read aloud. ‘“That’s a good ways from St find berl PU find hert’ sheckept ihhere. ~“You’d better take a cab.” whispering to herself, and then the fearful 4 “How much will it cost?” asked Marion, proportions of the great city staggered her , anxiously. and she would be almost overwhelmed by the The messenger consulted his table of rates enormity of her undertaking. for a moment before answering. She took a crumpled paper from her bag “Two dollars,’ he said, finally; “but of and read it over. It was a letter from Bert course your uncle will pay it. Mighty queer Jackson written in a cleverly disguised hand, of him not to meet you when he knew you telling her that he had reached New York were a stranger in the city.”’ ; safely, and giving her the address of a cheap “But you see he doesn’t know me!” said lodging-house that he was making his home Marion, quickly. “He married my mother’s for the present. sister Susan, but we girls have never seen Marion had answered the letter promptly, him. I—I was obliged to come here on giving him the news of Dollie’s disappear- business, so I had to write to him. There ance, and she knew full well that Bert would .was no one else, and he wrote back that be constantly on the lookout for her sister. _ he would meet me.” | “Poor Bert! I must hunt him up,” she : “Perhaps he did and didn’t know you,’ whispered, with a sigh. “He'll help me find said the messenger more cheerfully; “but Dollie. He’s really my only friend in all anyway, I’ll get you a carriage and send this big city!’ you to him. _ Then another thought entered her mind “Here!” he called to a cabman standing and would not go away. She was thinking a short distance away. “Take this lady’s of Bert’s visit to the kitchen that last night trunk check and here's the address she’s to and the sudden disappearance of the family go to.” He turned away with the air of jewels. | one who had done his duty. “He wouldn’t have written if he had been The man who had been watching Marion guilty,” she whispered decidedly. “It was moved a little nearer, When the cabman Mr. Lawson who stole them! The infamous came up he heard the conversation between villain who abducted my sister!” -~ them. Marion breathed a sigh of thankfulness After the “cabby” had placed Marion in that she had never mentioned her suspicions. COnnIEcoookKkS. conn