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By eleven o'clock, the above-mentioned transaction was completed. Shortly after, one of the Opposition Line's stages stopped at Mrs. Robb's boarding-house, and a lady, dressed for traveling, stepped quickly into it. Having few acquaintances, and being closely veiled, the lady passed unrecognized at the stage-office, where the other passengers got in. Half an hour afterwards Mr.
Fleetwood to go to Cincinnati, and he proposed that his wife should accompany him, and pay a visit to Mrs. Laurie, who lived in Springfield, Ohio. Mrs. Fleetwood readily consented, and they started in the pleasant month of October. On arriving at Springfield, they were met by Mr. Laurie at the stage-office and taken to his house, where the sisters met, overjoyed at seeing each other once more.
The second day arter I was changed to the Placerville route, thet woman comes outer the hotel above the stage-office. Her husband, she said, was lying sick in Placerville; that's what she said; but it was Fate, Tommy, Fate. Three months afterward, her husband takes an overdose of morphine for delirium tremems, and dies. There's folks ez sez she gave it to him, but it's Fate.
At last, her distress of mind became so great, that she went, reluctantly, to the stage-office, to inquire if they had heard from him recently. To her hesitating, anxious inquiry, she received the brief reply that they knew nothing of him. "But is he not in the employment of this office?" "I hope not," was the short, sneering reply of one of the clerks.
The rest of Carson City was pretty scattering. We were introduced to several citizens, at the stage-office and on the way up to the Governor's from the hotel among others, to a Mr.
The news of the mysterious disappearance of the old driver soon spread about W , and people gathered about the stage-office to have a look at the brave fellow who had, in the face of the past experience, brought the coach through. The agent had told Harding that if the mails had gone through nothing had been taken, for no freight had been sent and no passengers were along on that trip.
In the morning I rose up and told them I could not stand it, and I was going home. Nothing they could say availed, and my uncle went down to the stage-office with me and took my passage back. The horror of cholera was then in the land; and we heard in the stage- office that a man lay dead of it in the hotel overhead.
That pure-minded lady did not know that she was there, and was unable to see the rolling warning in her sister's eyes. "Would you mind walking over to the stage-office with me, Mr. Bentley?" asked Agnes. "I want to engage passage to Meander for tomorrow." On the way to the stage-office they talked matters over between them.
The rest of Carson City was pretty scattering. We were introduced to several citizens, at the stage-office and on the way up to the Governor's from the hotel among others, to a Mr.
"Forsaken! forsaken!" was all the form her thoughts would take, until she met the sweet face of her babe, and then her heart felt warmer, and not all forsaken. "Poor thing! how I pity her," said the clerk in the stage-office, when Mrs. W. had retired. "Her husband is a scoundrel, that's all I know about it," responded the gentleman-gambler, who had sent Warburton out on a swindling expedition.
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