that kind," Matt
answered.

There were a good many loungers about the station, young men and girls,
released from the shops for the day; in such towns they find the station
an agreeable resort, and enjoy a never-failing excitement in the coming
and going of the trains. They watched the Hilarys, as they walked, with
envy of that something distinguished which both of them had. They were
both tall and handsomely made, and they had the ease before their
fellow-beings which perhaps comes as much from the life-long habit of
good clothes as from anything else. Matt had a conscience against
whatever would separate him from his kind, but he could not help
carrying himself like a swell, for all that; and Louise did not try to
help it, for her part. She was an avowed worldling, and in this quality
she now wore a drab cloth costume, bordered with black fur down the
front of the jacket and around it at the hips; the skirt, which fell
plain to her feet, had a border of fur there, and it swirled and swayed
with her long, dashing stride in a way that filled all those poor girls
who saw it, with despair. It seemed to interest almost as painfully a
young man with a thin, delicate face, whom she noticed looking at her;
she took him at first for one of those educated or half-educated
operatives, who are complicating the labor problem more and more. He was
no better dressed than others in the crowd, and there was no reason why
he should not be a hat-shop or a shoe-shop hand, and yet, at a second
glance, she decided that he was not. He stood staring at her with a
studious frown, and with the faint suggestion of a sneer on his
clean-shaven, fine lips; but she knew that he was admiring her, however
he might be hating her, and she spoke to Matt about him as they turned
from him in their walk and promised to point him out. But when they came
up again to where he had been standing, he was gone. The train came in,
and Louise got aboard, and Matt made his way into the station, and went
to ask the operator in the telegraph office if she had got anything for
Miss Northwick.

She said, "Something just come. I was waiting for the hack to send it
up."

"Oh, I will take it, if you please. I am going back to Mr. Northwick's,"
said Matt.

"All right."

Matt took the dispatch, and hurried out to find some means of getting
quickly to Miss Northwick with it. There was no conveyance about the
station, and he started up the street at a gait which was li