ND ITS CONSEQUENCES.

Meanwhile, the "tall good-looking fellow with the eyeglass and light
whiskers" sat quaking opposite Emma Lee. The extreme absurdity, not to
say danger, of his position as a traveller to nowhere without a ticket,
flashed upon him when too late, and he would have cheerfully given fifty
pounds, had he possessed such a sum, if the boards under his feet would
have opened and let him drop between the rails. In fact he felt so
confused and guilty that--albeit not naturally a shy youth--he did not
dare to look at Emma for some time after starting, but sat with downcast
eyes, revolving in his mind how he was to get out of the dilemma; but
the more he revolved the matter the more hopeless did his case appear.
At length he ventured to look at Emma, and their eyes encountered. Of
course Gurwood looked pointedly out at the window and became fascinated
by the landscape; and of course Emma, looked out at the _other_ window,
and became equally interested in the landscape. Feeling very unhappy;
Edwin soon after that took out a newspaper and tried to read, but failed
so completely that he gave it up in despair and laid the paper on the
seat beside him.

Just then a happy thought flashed into his mind. He would go on to
Langrye station, get out there, and make a confidant of his friend
Joseph Tipps, who, of course, could easily get him out of his
difficulty. He now felt as if a mighty load were lifted off his heart,
and, his natural courage returning, he put up his eyeglass, which had
been forgotten during the period of his humiliation, and gazed at the
prospect with increasing interest--now through the right window, and
then through the left--taking occasion each time to glance with still
greater interest at Emma Lee's beautiful countenance.

The captain, whose disposition was sociable, and who had chatted a good
deal with his daughter while their _vis-a-vis_ was in his agony, soon
took occasion to remark that the scenery was very fine. Edwin, gazing
at the black walls of a tunnel into which they plunged, and thinking of
Emma's face, replied that it was--extremely. Emerging from the tunnel,
and observing the least possible approach to a smile on. Emma's lips,
Edwin remarked to the captain that railway travelling presented rather
abrupt changes and contrasts in scenery. The captain laughingly agreed
with this, and so, from one thing to another, they went on until the two
got into a lively conversation--Ca