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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Deserted, by Edward Bellamy
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+Title: Deserted
+       1898
+
+Author: Edward Bellamy
+
+Release Date: September 21, 2007 [EBook #22714]
+Last Updated: March 8, 2018
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+Language: English
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+Character set encoding: UTF-8
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DESERTED ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by David Widger
+
+
+
+
+
+DESERTED
+
+By Edward Bellamy
+
+1898
+
+
+“What a glorious, all-satisfying country this Nevada desert would be,
+if one were only all eyes, and had no need of food, drink, and shelter!
+Would n't it, Miss Dwyer? Do you know, I 've no doubt that this is the
+true location of heaven. You see, the lack of water and vegetation would
+be no inconvenience to spirits, while the magnificent scenery and the
+cloudless sky would be just the thing to make them thrive.”
+
+“But what I can't get over,” responded the young lady addressed, “is
+that these alkali plains, which have been described as so dreary and
+uninteresting, should prove to be in reality one of the most wonderfully
+impressive and beautiful regions in the world. What awful fibbers, or
+what awfully dull people, they must have been whose descriptions have
+so misled the public! It is perfectly unaccountable. Here I expected to
+doze all the way across the desert, while in fact I 've grudged my eyes
+time enough to wink ever since I left my berth this morning.”
+
+“The trouble is,” replied her companion, “that persons in search of
+the picturesque, or with much eye for it, are rare travelers along this
+route. The people responsible for the descriptions you complain of
+are thrifty businessmen, with no idea that there can be any possible
+attraction in a country where crops can't be raised, timber cut, or ore
+dug up. For my part, I thank the Lord for the beautiful barrenness that
+has consecrated this great region to loneliness. Here there will always
+be a chance to get out of sight and sound of the swarming millions who
+have already left scarcely standing-room for a man in the East. I
+wouldn't give much for a country where there are no wildernesses left.”
+
+“But I really think it is rather hard to say in just what the beauty of
+the desert consists,” said Miss Dwyer. “It is so simple. I scribbled two
+pages of description in my note-book this morning, but when I read them
+over, and then looked out of the window, I tore them up. I think the
+wonderfully fine, clear, brilliant air transfigures the landscape and
+makes it something that must be seen and can't be told. After seeing how
+this air makes the ugly sagebrush and the patches of alkali and brown
+earth a feast to the eye, one can understand how the light of heaven may
+make the ugliest faces beautiful.”
+
+The pretty talker is sitting next the window of palace-car No. 30 of
+the Central Pacific line, which has already been her flying home for
+two days. The gentleman who sits beside her professes to be sharing
+the view, but it is only fair I should tell the reader that under this
+pretense he is nefariously delighting in the rounded contour of his
+companion's half-averted face, as she, in unfeigned engrossment, scans
+the panorama unrolled before them by the swift motion of the car. How
+sweet and fresh is the bright tint of her cheek against the ghastly
+white background of the alkali-patches as they flit by! Still, it can't
+be said that he is n't enjoying the scenery too, for surely there is
+no such Claude-Lorraine glass to reflect and enhance the beauty of a
+landscape as the face of a _spirituelle_ girl.
+
+With a profound sigh, summing up both her admiration and that despair of
+attaining the perfect insight and sympathy imagined and longed for which
+is always a part of intense appreciation of natural beauty, Miss Dwyer
+threw herself back in her seat, and fixed her eyes on the car-ceiling
+with an expression as if she were looking at something at least as far
+away as the moon.
+
+“I 'm going to make a statue when I get home,” she said,--“a statue
+which will personify Nevada, and represent the tameless, desolate,
+changeless, magnificent beauty and the self-sufficient loneliness of
+the desert. I can see it in my mind's eye now. It will probably be the
+finest statue in the world.”
+
+“If you 'd as lief put your ideal into a painting, I will give you a
+suggestion that will be original if nothing else,” he observed.
+
+“What's that?”
+
+“Why, having in view these white alkali-patches that chiefly
+characterize Nevada, paint her as a leper.”
+
+“That's horrid! You need n't talk to me any more,” she exclaimed
+emphatically.
+
+With this sort of chatter they had beguiled the time since leaving San
+Francisco the morning of the day before. Acquaintances are indeed made
+as rapidly on an overland train as on an ocean steamship, but theirs had
+dated from the preceding winter, during which they had often met in San
+Francisco. When Mr. Lombard heard that Miss Dwyer and Mrs. Eustis, her
+invalid sister, were going East in April, he discovered that he would
+have business to attend to in New York at about that time; and oddly
+enough,--that is, if you choose to take that view of it,--when the
+ladies came to go, it turned out that Lombard had taken his ticket for
+the selfsame train and identical sleeping-car. The result of which
+was that he had the privilege of handing Miss Dwyer in and out at the
+eating-stations, of bringing Mrs. Eustis her cup of tea in the car, and
+of sharing Miss Dwyer's seat and monopolizing her conversation when
+he had a mind to, which was most of the time. A bright and congenial
+companion has this advantage over a book, that he or she is an author
+whom you can make discourse on any subject you please, instead of being
+obliged to follow an arbitrary selection by another, as when you commune
+with the printed page.
+
+By way of peace-offering for his blasphemy in calling the Nevada desert
+a leper, Lombard had embezzled a couple of chairs from the smoking-room
+and carried them to the rear platform of the car, which happened to be
+the last of the train, and invited Miss Dwyer to come thither and see
+the scenery. Whether she had wanted to pardon him or not, he knew very
+well that this was a temptation which she could not resist, for the rear
+platform was the best spot for observation on the entire train, unless
+it were the cowcatcher of the locomotive.
+
+The April sun mingled with the frosty air like whiskey with ice-water,
+producing an effect cool but exhilarating. As she sat in the door of the
+little passage leading to the platform, she scarcely needed the shawl
+which he wrapped about her with absurdly exaggerated solicitude. One
+of the most unmistakable symptoms of the lover is the absorbing and
+superfluous care with which he adjusts the wraps about the object of his
+affections whether the weather be warm or cold: it is as if he thought
+he could thus artificially warm her heart toward him. But Miss Dwyer did
+not appear vexed, pretending indeed to be oblivious of everything else
+in admiration of the spectacle before her.
+
+The country stretched flat and bare as a table for fifty miles on either
+side the track,--a distance looking in the clear air not over one
+fifth as great. On every side this great plain was circled by mountains,
+the reddish-brown sides of some of them bare to the summits, while
+others were robed in folds of glistening snow and looked like
+white curtains drawn part way up the sky. The whitey-gray of the
+alkali-patches, the brown of the dry earth, and the rusty green of
+the sagebrush filled the foreground, melting in the distance into a
+purple-gray. The wondrous dryness and clearness of the air lent to these
+modest tints a tone and dazzling brilliance that surprised the eye with
+a revelation of possibilities never before suspected in them. But the
+mountains were the greatest wonder. It was as if the skies, taking pity
+on their nakedness, had draped their majestic shoulders in imperial
+purple, while at this hour the westering sun tipped their pinnacles with
+gilt. In the distance half a dozen sand-spouts, swiftly-moving white
+pillars, looking like desert genii with too much “tanglefoot” aboard,
+were careering about in every direction.
+
+But as Lombard pointed out the various features of the scene to his
+companion, I fear that his chief motive was less an admiration of Nature
+that sought sympathy than a selfish delight in making her eyes flash,
+seeing the color come and go in her cheeks, and hearing her charming
+unstudied exclamations of pleasure,--a delight not unmingled with
+complacency in associating himself in her mind with emotions of delight
+and admiration. It is appalling, the extent to which spoony young people
+make the admiration of Nature in her grandest forms a mere sauce to
+their love-making. The roar of Niagara has been notoriously utilized
+as a cover to unlimited osculation, and Adolphus looks up at the
+sky-cleaving peak of Mont Blanc only to look down at Angelina's
+countenance with a more vivid appreciation of its superior attractions.
+
+It was delicious, Lombard thought, sitting there with her on the rear
+platform, out of sight and sound of everybody. He had such a pleasant
+sense of proprietorship in her! How agreeable--flatteringly so, in
+fact--she had been all day! There was nothing like traveling together
+to make people intimate. It was clear that she understood his intentions
+very well: indeed, how could she help it? He had always said that
+a fellow had shown himself a bungler at love-making if he were not
+practically assured of the result before he came to the point of the
+declaration. The sensation of leaving everything else so rapidly behind
+that people have when sitting on the rear platform of a train of cars
+makes them feel, by force of contrast, nearer to each other and more
+identified. How pretty she looked sitting there in the doorway, her
+eyes bent so pensively on the track behind as the car-wheels so swiftly
+reeled it off! He had tucked her in comfortably. No cold could get to
+the sweet little girl, and none ever should so long as he lived to make
+her comfort his care.
+
+One small gloved hand lay on her lap outside the shawl. What a jolly
+little hand it was! He reached out his own and took it, but, without
+even a moment's hesitation for him to extract a flattering inference
+from, she withdrew it. Perhaps something in his matter-of-course way
+displeased her.
+
+To know when it is best to submit to a partial rebuff, rather than make
+a bad matter worse by trying to save one's pride, is a rare wisdom.
+Still, Lombard might have exercised it at another time. But there are
+days when the magnetisms are all wrong, and a person not ordinarily
+deficient in tact, having begun wrong, goes on blundering like a
+schoolboy. Piqued at the sudden shock to the pleasant day-dream, in
+which he had fancied himself already virtually assured of this young
+lady,--a day-dream which she was not really accountable for spoiling,
+since she had not been privy to it,--what should he do but find
+expression for his mingled vexation and wounded affection by reminding
+her of a previous occasion on which she had allowed him the liberty she
+now denied? Doubtless helping to account for this lack of tact was the
+idea that he should thus justify himself for so far presuming just
+now. Not, of course, that there is really any excuse for a young man's
+forgetting that ladies have one advantage over Omniscience, in that
+not only are they privileged to remember what they please, but also to
+ignore what they see fit to forget.
+
+“You have forgotten that evening at the California Theatre,” was what
+this devoted youth said.
+
+“I 'm sure I don't know to what you refer, sir,” she replied freezingly.
+
+He was terrified at the distant accent of her voice. It appeared to
+come from somewhere beyond the fixed stars, and brought the chill of
+the interstellar spaces with it. He forgot in an instant all about his
+pique, vexation, and wounded pride, and was in a panic of anxiety to
+bring her back. In a moment more he knew that she would rise from her
+chair and remark that it was getting cold and she must go in. If he
+allowed her to depart in that mood, he might lose her forever. He could
+think of but one way of convincing her instantaneously of his devotion;
+and so what should he do but take the most inopportune occasion in the
+entire course of their acquaintance to make his declaration. He was
+like a general whose plan of battle has been completely deranged by an
+utterly unexpected repulse in a preliminary movement, compelling him to
+hurry forward his last reserves in a desperate attempt to restore the
+battle.
+
+“What have I done, Miss Dwyer? Don't you know that I love you? Won't you
+be my wife?”
+
+“No, sir,” she said flatly, her taste outraged and her sensibilities
+set on edge by the stupid, blundering, hammer-and-tongs onset which from
+first to last he had made. She loved him, and had meant to accept him,
+but if she had loved him ten times as much she couldn't have helped
+refusing him just then, under those circumstances,--not if she died
+for it. As she spoke, she rose and disappeared within the car. It is
+certainly to be hoped that the noise of the wheels, which out on the
+platform was considerable, prevented the recording angel from getting
+the full force of Lombard's ejaculation.
+
+It is bad enough to be refused when the delicacy and respectfulness of
+the lady's manner make “No” sound so much like “Yes” that the rejected
+lover can almost persuade himself that his ears have deceived him. It is
+bad enough to be refused when she does it so timidly and shrinkingly and
+deprecatingly that it might be supposed she were the rejected party. It
+is bad enough to be refused when she expresses the hope that you will
+always be friends, and shows a disposition to make profuse amends in
+general agreeableness for the consummate favor which she is forced to
+decline you. Not to put too fine a point upon it, it is bad enough to be
+refused anyhow you can arrange the circumstances, but to be refused as
+Lombard had been, with a petulance as wounding to his dignity as was
+the refusal itself to his affections, is to take a bitter pill with an
+asafotida coating.
+
+In the limp and demoralized condition in which he was left, the only
+clear sentiment in his mind was that he did not want to meet her
+again just at present. So he sat for an hour or more longer out on the
+platform, and had become as thoroughly chilled without as he was within
+when at dusk the train stopped at a little three-house station for
+supper. Then he went into one of the forward day-cars, not intending to
+return to the sleeping-car till Miss Dwyer should have retired. When the
+train reached Ogden the next morning, instead of going on East he would
+take the same train back to San Francisco, and that would be the end of
+his romance. His engagement in New York had been a myth, and with Miss
+Dwyer's “No, sir,” the only business with the East that had brought him
+on this trip was at an end.
+
+About an hour after leaving the supper-station, the train suddenly
+stopped in the midst of the desert. Something about the engine had
+become disarranged, which it would take some time to put right. Glad
+to improve an opportunity to stretch their legs, many of the passengers
+left the cars and were strolling about, curiously examining the
+sagebrush and the alkali, and admiring the ghostly plain as it spread,
+bare, level, and white as an icebound polar sea, to the feet of the
+far-off mountains.
+
+Lombard had also left the car, and was walking about, his hands in
+his overcoat pockets, trying to clear his mind of the wreckage that
+obstructed its working; for Miss Dwyer's refusal had come upon him as
+a sudden squall that carries away the masts and sails of a vessel and
+transforms it in a moment from a gallant bounding ship to a mere hulk
+drifting in an entangled mass of débris. Of course she had a perfect
+right to suit herself about the kind of a man she took for a husband,
+but he certainly had not thought she was such an utter coquette. If ever
+a woman gave a man reason to think himself as good as engaged, she had
+given him that reason, and yet she refused him as coolly as she would
+have declined a second plate of soup. There must be some truth, after
+all, in the rant of the poets about the heartlessness and fickleness of
+women, although he had always been used to consider it the merest bosh.
+Suddenly he heard the train moving. He was perhaps fifty yards off, and,
+grumbling anathemas at the stupidity of the conductor, started to run
+for the last car. He was not quite desperate enough to fancy being left
+alone on the Nevada desert with night coming on. He would have caught
+the train without difficulty, if his foot had not happened to catch in
+a tough clump of sage, throwing him violently to the ground. As he
+gathered himself up, the train was a hundred yards off, and moving
+rapidly. To overtake it was out of the question.
+
+“Stop! ho! stop!” he yelled at the top of his lungs. But there was no
+one on the rear platform to see him, and the closed windows and the
+rattle of the wheels were sufficient to render a much louder noise than
+he could make inaudible to the dozing passengers. And now the engineer
+pulled out the throttle-valve to make up for lost time, and the clatter
+of the train faded into a distant roar, and its lights began to twinkle
+into indistinctness.
+
+“Damnation!”
+
+A voice fell like a falling star: “Gentlemen do not use profane language
+in ladies' company.”
+
+He first looked up in the air, as on the whole the likeliest quarter for
+a voice to come from in this desert, then around. Just on the other
+side of the track stood Miss Dwyer, smiling, with a somewhat constrained
+attempt at self-possession. Lombard was a good deal taken aback, but
+in his surprise he did not forget that this was the young lady who had
+refused him that afternoon.
+
+“I beg your pardon,” he replied, with a stiff bow; “I did not suppose
+that there were any ladies within hearing.”
+
+“I got out of the car supposing there was plenty of time to get a
+specimen of sagebrush to carry home,” she explained; “but when the cars
+started, although I was but a little way off, I could not regain the
+platform;” which, considering that she wore a tie-back of the then
+prevalent fashion, was not surprising.
+
+“Indeed!” replied Lombard, with the same formal manner.
+
+“But won't the train come back for us?” she asked, in a more anxious
+voice.
+
+“That will depend on whether we are missed. Nobody will miss me. Mrs.
+Eustis, if she hasn't gone to bed, may miss you.”
+
+“But she has. She went to bed before I left the car, and is asleep by
+this time.”
+
+“That 's unfortunate,” was his brief reply, as he lit a cigar and began
+to smoke and contemplate the stars.
+
+His services, so far as he could do anything for her, she should, as a
+lady, command, but if she thought that he was going to do the agreeable
+after what had happened a few hours ago, she was mightily mistaken.
+
+There was a silence, and then she said, hesitatingly, “What are we going
+to do?”
+
+He glanced at her. Her attitude and the troubled expression of her face,
+as well as her voice, indicated that the logic of the situation was
+overthrowing the jaunty self-possession which she had at first affected.
+The desert was staring her out of countenance. How his heart yearned
+toward her! If she had only given him a right to take care of her, how
+he would comfort her! what prodigies would he be capable of to succor
+her! But this rising impulse of tenderness was turned to choking
+bitterness by the memory of that scornful “No, sir.” So he replied
+coldly, “I 'm not in the habit of being left behind in deserts, and
+I don't know what it is customary to do in such cases. I see nothing
+except to wait for the next train, which will come along some time
+within twenty-four hours.”
+
+There was another long silence, after which she said in a timid voice,
+“Had n't we better walk to the next station?”
+
+At the suggestion of walking he glanced at her close-fitting dress, and
+a sardonic grin slightly twitched the corners of his mouth as he dryly
+answered, “It is thirty miles one way and twenty the other to the first
+station.”
+
+Several minutes passed before she spoke again, and then she said, with
+an accent almost like that of a child in trouble and about to cry, “I 'm
+cold.”
+
+The strong, unceasing wind, blowing from snowy mountain-caverns across
+a plain on which there was not the slightest barrier of hill or tree to
+check its violence, was indeed bitterly cold, and Lombard himself felt
+chilled to the marrow of his bones. He took off his overcoat and offered
+it to her.
+
+“No,” said she, “you are as cold as I am.”
+
+“You will please take it,” he replied, in a peremptory manner; and she
+took it.
+
+“At this rate we shall freeze to death before midnight,” he added, as
+if in soliloquy. “I must see if I can't contrive to make some sort of a
+shelter with this sagebrush.”
+
+He began by tearing up a large number of bushes by the roots. Seeing
+what he was doing, Miss Dwyer was glad to warm her stiffened muscles by
+taking hold and helping; which she did with a vigor that shortly reduced
+her gloves to shreds and filled her fingers with scratches from the
+rough twigs. Lombard next chose an unusually high and thick clump of
+brush, and cleared a small space three feet across in the centre of it,
+scattering twigs on the uncovered earth to keep off its chill.
+
+“Now, Miss Dwyer, if you will step inside this spot, I think I can build
+up the bushes around us so as to make a sort of booth which may save us
+from freezing.”
+
+She silently did as he directed, and he proceeded to pile the brush
+which they had torn up on the tops of the bushes left standing around
+the spot where they were, thus making a circular wall about three feet
+high. Over the top he managed to draw together two or three bushes, and
+the improvised wigwam was complete.
+
+The moonlight penetrated the loose roof sufficiently to reveal to each
+other the faces and figures of the two occupants as they sat in opposite
+corners, as far apart as possible, she cold and miserable, he cold and
+sulky, and both silent. And, as if to mock him, the idea kept recurring
+to his mind how romantic and delightful, in spite of the cold and
+discomfort, the situation would be if she had only said Yes, instead of
+No, that afternoon. People have odd notions sometimes, and it actually
+seemed to him that his vexation with her for destroying the pleasure of
+the present occasion was something quite apart from, and in addition to,
+his main grievance against her. It might have been so jolly, and now she
+had spoiled it. He could have boxed her pretty little ears.
+
+She wondered why he did not try to light a fire, but she wouldn't ask
+him another thing, if she died. In point of fact, he knew the sagebrush
+would not burn. Suddenly the wind blew fiercer, there came a rushing
+sound, and the top and walls of the wigwam were whisked off like a
+flash, and as they staggered to their feet, buffeted by the whirling
+bushes, a cloud of fine alkali-dust enveloped them, blinding their eyes,
+penetrating their ears and noses, and setting them gasping, sneezing,
+and coughing spasmodically. Then, like a puff of smoke, the suffocating
+storm was dissipated, and when they opened their smarting eyes there was
+nothing but the silent, glorious desolation of the ghostly desert around
+them, with the snow-peaks in the distance glittering beneath the moon.
+A sand-spout had struck them, that was all,--one of the whirling
+dust-columns which they had admired all day from the car-windows.
+
+Wretched enough before, both for physical and sentimental reasons,
+this last experience quite demoralized Miss Dwyer, and she sat down and
+cried. Now, a few tears, regarded from a practical, middle-aged point
+of view, would not appear to have greatly complicated the situation, but
+they threw Lombard into a panic. If she was going to cry, something
+must be done. Whether anything could be done or not, something _must_ be
+done.
+
+“Don't leave me,” she cried hysterically, as he rushed off to
+reconnoitre the vicinity.
+
+“I 'll return presently,” he called back.
+
+But five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes passed, and he did not
+come back. Terror dried her tears, and her heart almost stopped
+beating. She had quite given him up for lost, and herself too, when with
+inexpressible relief she heard him call to her. She replied, and in a
+moment more he was at her side, breathless with running.
+
+“I lost my bearings,” he said. “If you had not answered me, I could not
+have found you.”
+
+“Don't leave me again,” she sobbed, clinging to his arm.
+
+He put his arms round her and kissed her. It was mean, base,
+contemptible, to take advantage of her agitation in that way, but she
+did not resist, and he did it again and again,--I forbear to say how
+many times.
+
+“Is n't it a perfectly beautiful night?” he exclaimed, with a fine gush
+of enthusiasm.
+
+“Is n't it exquisite?” she echoed, with a rush of sympathetic feeling.
+
+“See those stars: they look as if they had just been polished,” he
+cried.
+
+“What a droll idea!” she exclaimed gleefully. “But do see that lovely
+mountain.”
+
+Holding her with a firmer clasp, and speaking with what might be styled
+a fierce tenderness, he demanded, “What did you mean, miss, by refusing
+me this afternoon?”
+
+“What did you go at me so stupidly for? I had to refuse,” she retorted
+smilingly.
+
+“Will you be my wife?”
+
+“Yes, sir; I meant to be all the time.”
+
+The contract having been properly sealed, Lombard said, with a
+countenance curiously divided between a tragical expression and a smile
+of fatuous complacency, “There was a clear case of poetical justice in
+your being left behind in the desert to-night. To see the lights of the
+train disappearing, leaving you alone in the midst of desolation, gave
+you a touch of my feeling on being rejected this afternoon. Of all
+leavings behind, there's none so miserable as the experience of the
+rejected lover.”
+
+“Poor fellow! so he should n't be left behind. He shall be conductor
+of the train,” she said, with a bewitching laugh. His response was not
+verbal.
+
+“How cold the wind is!” she said.
+
+“Shall I build you another wigwam?”
+
+“No; let us exercise a little. You whistle 'The Beautiful Blue Danube,'
+and we'll waltz. This desert is the biggest, jolliest ball-room floor
+that ever was, and I dare say we shall be the first to waltz on it since
+the creation of the world. That will be something to boast of when we
+get home. Come, let's dedicate the Great American Desert to Terpsichore.”
+
+They stepped out from among the ruins of their sagebrush booth upon a
+patch of hard, bare earth close to the railroad track. Lombard
+puckered his lips and struck up the air, and off they went with as much
+enthusiasm as if inspired by a first-class orchestra. Round and round,
+to and fro, they swept until, laughing, flushed, and panting, they came
+to a stop.
+
+It was then that they first perceived that they were not without
+a circle of appreciative spectators. Sitting like statues on their
+sniffing, pawing ponies, a dozen Piute Indians encircled them. Engrossed
+with the dance and with each other, they had not noticed them as they
+rode up, attracted from their route by this marvelous spectacle of a
+pale-face squaw and brave engaged in a solitary war dance in the midst
+of the desert.
+
+At sight of the grim circle of centaurs around them Miss Dwyer would
+have fainted but for Lombard's firm hold.
+
+“Pretend not to see them; keep on dancing,” he hissed in her ear. He had
+no distinct plan in what he said, but spoke merely from an instinct of
+self-preservation, which told him that when they stopped, the Indians
+would be upon them. But as she mechanically, and really more dead
+than alive, obeyed his direction and resumed the dance, and he in his
+excitement was treading on her feet at every step, the thought flashed
+upon him that there was a bare chance of escaping violence, if they
+could keep the Indians interested without appearing to notice their
+presence. In successive whispers he communicated his idea to Miss Dyer:
+“Don't act as if you saw them at all, but do everything as if we were
+alone. That will puzzle them, and make them think us supernatural
+beings, or perhaps crazy: Indians have great respect for crazy people.
+It's our only chance. We will stop dancing now, and sing awhile. Give
+them a burlesque of opera. I 'll give you the cues and show you how.
+Don't be frightened. I don't believe they 'll touch us so long as we act
+as if we did n't see them. Do you understand? Can you do your part?”
+
+“I understand; I 'll try,” she whispered.
+
+“Now,” he said, and as they separated, he threw his hat on the ground,
+and, assuming an extravagantly languishing attitude, burst forth in a
+most poignant burlesque of a lovelorn tenor's part, rolling his eyes,
+clasping his hands, striking his breast, and gyrating about Miss
+Dwyer-in the most approved operatic style. He had a fine voice and knew
+a good deal of music; so that, barring a certain nervousness in the
+performer, the exhibition was really not bad. In his singing he had used
+a meaningless gibberish varied with the syllables of the scale, but he
+closed by singing the words, “Are you ready now? Go ahead, then.”
+
+With that she took it up, and rendered the prima donna quite as
+effectively, interjecting “The Last Rose of Summer” as an aria in a
+manner that would have been encored in San Francisco. He responded with
+a few staccato notes, and the scene ended by their rushing into each
+other's arms and waltzing down the stage with abandon.
+
+The Indians sat motionless on their horses, not even exchanging comments
+among themselves. They were evidently too utterly astonished by the
+goings on before them to have any other sentiment as yet beyond pure
+amazement. Here were two richly-dressed pale-faces, such as only lived
+in cities, out in the middle of an uninhabitable desert, in the freezing
+midnight, having a variety and minstrel show all to themselves, and, to
+make the exhibition the more unaccountable, without apparently seeing
+their auditors at all. Had they started up the show after being
+captured, Indian cunning would have recognized in it a device to save
+their lives, but the two had been at it before the party rode up,--
+had, in fact, first attracted attention by their gyrations, which were
+visible for miles out on the moony plain.
+
+Lombard, without ever letting his eyes rest a moment on the Indians so
+as to indicate that he saw them, had still managed by looks askance and
+sweeping glances to keep close watch upon their demeanor, and noted with
+prodigious relief that his wild scheme was succeeding better than he had
+dared to hope. Without any break in the entertainment he communicated
+his reassurance to Miss Dwyer by singing, to the tune of “My Country,
+'tis of Thee,” the following original hymn:--
+
+     “We 're doing admir'blee--
+     They 're heap much tickledee:
+          Only keep on.”
+
+To which she responded, to the lugubrious air of “John Brown's Body:”--
+
+     “Oh, what do you s'pose they 'll go for to do,
+     Oh, what do you s'pose they 'll go for to do,
+     Oh, what do you s'pose they 'll go for to do,
+          When we can sing no more?”
+
+A thing may be ridiculous without being amusing, and neither of these
+two felt the least inclination to smile at each other's poetry. After
+duly joining in the chorus of “Glory, Hallelujah!” Lombard endeavored
+to cheer his companion by words adapted to the inspiriting air of “Rally
+Bound the Flag, Boys.” This was followed by a series of popular airs,
+with solos, duets, and choruses.
+
+But this sort of thing could not go on forever. Lombard was becoming
+exhausted in voice and legs, and as for Miss Dwyer, he was expecting
+to see her drop from moment to moment: Indeed, to the air of “'Way down
+upon the Swanee River” she now began to sing:--
+
+     “Oh, dear! I can't bear up much longer:
+          I 'm tired to death;
+     My voice's gone all to pie-ee-ee-ces,
+          My throat is very sore.”
+
+They must inevitably give out in a few minutes, and then he--and,
+terribly worse, she--would be at the mercy of these bestial savages,
+and this seeming farce would turn into most revolting tragedy. With this
+sickening conviction coming over him, Lombard cast a despairing
+look around the horizon to see if there were no help in their bitter
+extremity. Suddenly he burst forth, to the tune of “The Star-Spangled
+Banner: “--
+
+     “Oh, say can you see,
+     Far away to the east,
+     A bright star that doth grow
+     Momentarily brighter?
+     'Tis the far-flashing headlight
+     Of a railroad-train:
+     Ten minutes from now
+     We shall be safe and sound.”
+
+What they did in those ten minutes neither could tell afterward. The
+same idea was in both their minds,--that unless the attention of the
+Indians could be held until the train arrived, its approach would
+only precipitate their own fate by impelling the savages to carry out
+whatever designs of murder, insult, or capture they might have. Under
+the influence of the intense excitement of this critical interval it is
+to be feared that the performance degenerated from a high-toned concert
+and variety show into something very like a Howling-Dervish exhibition.
+But, at any rate, it answered its purpose until, after a period that
+seemed like a dozen eternities, the West-bound overland express with
+a tremendous roar and rattle drew up beside them, in response to the
+waving of Miss Dwyer's handkerchief and to Lombard's shouts.
+
+Even had the Indians contemplated hostile intentions,--which they were
+doubtless in a condition of too great general stupefaction to do,--the
+alacrity with which the two performers clambered aboard the cars would
+probably have foiled their designs. But as the train gathered headway
+once more, Lombard could not resist the temptation of venting his
+feelings by shaking his fist ferociously at the audience which he had
+been so conscientiously trying to please up to that moment. It was a
+gratification which had like to have cost him dear. There was a quick
+motion on the part of one of the Indians, and the conductor dragged
+Lombard within the car just as an arrow struck the door.
+
+Mrs. Eustis had slept sweetly all night, and was awakened the next
+morning an hour before the train reached Ogden by the sleeping-car
+porter, who gave her a telegram which had overtaken the train at the
+last station. It read:--
+
+     Am safe and sound. Was left behind by your train last night,
+     and picked up by West-bound express. Will join you at Ogden
+     to-morrow morning.
+
+     Jennie Dwyer.
+
+Mrs. Eustis read the telegram through twice without getting the least
+idea from it. Then she leaned over and looked down into Jennie's berth.
+It had not been slept in. Then she began to understand. Heroically
+resisting a tendency to scream, she thus secured space for second
+thought, and, being a shrewd woman of the world, ended by making up her
+mind to tell no one about the matter. Evidently, Jennie had been having
+some decidedly unconventional experience, and the less publicity given
+to all such passages in young ladies' lives, the better for their
+prospects. It so happened that in the bustle attending the approach to
+the terminus and the prospective change of cars everybody was too busy
+to notice that any passengers were missing. At Ogden Mrs. Eustis left
+the train and went to a hotel. The following morning, a few minutes
+after the arrival of the Central Pacific train, Jennie Dwyer walked into
+her room, Lombard having stopped at the office to secure berths for the
+three to Omaha by the Union Pacific. After Jennie had given an outline
+account of her experiences, and Mrs.' Eustis's equilibrium had been
+measurably restored by proper use of the smelling-salts, the latter lady
+remarked, “And so Mr. Lombard was alone with you there all night? It's
+very unfortunate that it should have happened so.”
+
+“Why, I was thinking it very fortunate,” replied Jennie, with her most
+childlike expression. “If Mr. Lombard had not been there, I should
+either have frozen to death, or by this time been celebrating my
+honeymoon as bride of a Piute chief.”
+
+“Nonsense, child! You know what I mean. People will talk; such
+unpleasant things will be said! I would n't have had it happen for
+anything. And when you were under my charge, too! Do hand me my salts.”
+
+“If people are going to say unpleasant things because I am out of an
+evening alone with Mr. Lombard,” remarked Jennie, with a mischievous
+smile, “you must prepare yourself to hear a good deal said, my dear, for
+I presume this won't be the last time it will happen. We're engaged to
+be married.”
+
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+Title: Deserted
+       1898
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+Author: Edward Bellamy
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+
+Produced by David Widger
+
+
+
+
+
+DESERTED
+
+By Edward Bellamy
+
+1898
+
+
+"What a glorious, all-satisfying country this Nevada desert would be,
+if one were only all eyes, and had no need of food, drink, and shelter!
+Would n't it, Miss Dwyer? Do you know, I 've no doubt that this is the
+true location of heaven. You see, the lack of water and vegetation would
+be no inconvenience to spirits, while the magnificent scenery and the
+cloudless sky would be just the thing to make them thrive."
+
+"But what I can't get over," responded the young lady addressed, "is
+that these alkali plains, which have been described as so dreary and
+uninteresting, should prove to be in reality one of the most wonderfully
+impressive and beautiful regions in the world. What awful fibbers, or
+what awfully dull people, they must have been whose descriptions have
+so misled the public! It is perfectly unaccountable. Here I expected to
+doze all the way across the desert, while in fact I 've grudged my eyes
+time enough to wink ever since I left my berth this morning."
+
+"The trouble is," replied her companion, "that persons in search of
+the picturesque, or with much eye for it, are rare travelers along this
+route. The people responsible for the descriptions you complain of
+are thrifty businessmen, with no idea that there can be any possible
+attraction in a country where crops can't be raised, timber cut, or ore
+dug up. For my part, I thank the Lord for the beautiful barrenness that
+has consecrated this great region to loneliness. Here there will always
+be a chance to get out of sight and sound of the swarming millions who
+have already left scarcely standing-room for a man in the East. I
+wouldn't give much for a country where there are no wildernesses left."
+
+"But I really think it is rather hard to say in just what the beauty of
+the desert consists," said Miss Dwyer. "It is so simple. I scribbled two
+pages of description in my note-book this morning, but when I read them
+over, and then looked out of the window, I tore them up. I think the
+wonderfully fine, clear, brilliant air transfigures the landscape and
+makes it something that must be seen and can't be told. After seeing how
+this air makes the ugly sagebrush and the patches of alkali and brown
+earth a feast to the eye, one can understand how the light of heaven may
+make the ugliest faces beautiful."
+
+The pretty talker is sitting next the window of palace-car No. 30 of
+the Central Pacific line, which has already been her flying home for
+two days. The gentleman who sits beside her professes to be sharing
+the view, but it is only fair I should tell the reader that under this
+pretense he is nefariously delighting in the rounded contour of his
+companion's half-averted face, as she, in unfeigned engrossment, scans
+the panorama unrolled before them by the swift motion of the car. How
+sweet and fresh is the bright tint of her cheek against the ghastly
+white background of the alkali-patches as they flit by! Still, it can't
+be said that he is n't enjoying the scenery too, for surely there is
+no such Claude-Lorraine glass to reflect and enhance the beauty of a
+landscape as the face of a _spirituelle_ girl.
+
+With a profound sigh, summing up both her admiration and that despair of
+attaining the perfect insight and sympathy imagined and longed for which
+is always a part of intense appreciation of natural beauty, Miss Dwyer
+threw herself back in her seat, and fixed her eyes on the car-ceiling
+with an expression as if she were looking at something at least as far
+away as the moon.
+
+"I 'm going to make a statue when I get home," she said,--"a statue
+which will personify Nevada, and represent the tameless, desolate,
+changeless, magnificent beauty and the self-sufficient loneliness of
+the desert. I can see it in my mind's eye now. It will probably be the
+finest statue in the world."
+
+"If you 'd as lief put your ideal into a painting, I will give you a
+suggestion that will be original if nothing else," he observed.
+
+"What's that?"
+
+"Why, having in view these white alkali-patches that chiefly
+characterize Nevada, paint her as a leper."
+
+"That's horrid! You need n't talk to me any more," she exclaimed
+emphatically.
+
+With this sort of chatter they had beguiled the time since leaving San
+Francisco the morning of the day before. Acquaintances are indeed made
+as rapidly on an overland train as on an ocean steamship, but theirs had
+dated from the preceding winter, during which they had often met in San
+Francisco. When Mr. Lombard heard that Miss Dwyer and Mrs. Eustis, her
+invalid sister, were going East in April, he discovered that he would
+have business to attend to in New York at about that time; and oddly
+enough,--that is, if you choose to take that view of it,--when the
+ladies came to go, it turned out that Lombard had taken his ticket for
+the selfsame train and identical sleeping-car. The result of which
+was that he had the privilege of handing Miss Dwyer in and out at the
+eating-stations, of bringing Mrs. Eustis her cup of tea in the car, and
+of sharing Miss Dwyer's seat and monopolizing her conversation when
+he had a mind to, which was most of the time. A bright and congenial
+companion has this advantage over a book, that he or she is an author
+whom you can make discourse on any subject you please, instead of being
+obliged to follow an arbitrary selection by another, as when you commune
+with the printed page.
+
+By way of peace-offering for his blasphemy in calling the Nevada desert
+a leper, Lombard had embezzled a couple of chairs from the smoking-room
+and carried them to the rear platform of the car, which happened to be
+the last of the train, and invited Miss Dwyer to come thither and see
+the scenery. Whether she had wanted to pardon him or not, he knew very
+well that this was a temptation which she could not resist, for the rear
+platform was the best spot for observation on the entire train, unless
+it were the cowcatcher of the locomotive.
+
+The April sun mingled with the frosty air like whiskey with ice-water,
+producing an effect cool but exhilarating. As she sat in the door of the
+little passage leading to the platform, she scarcely needed the shawl
+which he wrapped about her with absurdly exaggerated solicitude. One
+of the most unmistakable symptoms of the lover is the absorbing and
+superfluous care with which he adjusts the wraps about the object of his
+affections whether the weather be warm or cold: it is as if he thought
+he could thus artificially warm her heart toward him. But Miss Dwyer did
+not appear vexed, pretending indeed to be oblivious of everything else
+in admiration of the spectacle before her.
+
+The country stretched flat and bare as a table for fifty miles on either
+side the track,--a distance looking in the clear air not over one
+fifth as great. On every side this great plain was circled by mountains,
+the reddish-brown sides of some of them bare to the summits, while
+others were robed in folds of glistening snow and looked like
+white curtains drawn part way up the sky. The whitey-gray of the
+alkali-patches, the brown of the dry earth, and the rusty green of
+the sagebrush filled the foreground, melting in the distance into a
+purple-gray. The wondrous dryness and clearness of the air lent to these
+modest tints a tone and dazzling brilliance that surprised the eye with
+a revelation of possibilities never before suspected in them. But the
+mountains were the greatest wonder. It was as if the skies, taking pity
+on their nakedness, had draped their majestic shoulders in imperial
+purple, while at this hour the westering sun tipped their pinnacles with
+gilt. In the distance half a dozen sand-spouts, swiftly-moving white
+pillars, looking like desert genii with too much "tanglefoot" aboard,
+were careering about in every direction.
+
+But as Lombard pointed out the various features of the scene to his
+companion, I fear that his chief motive was less an admiration of Nature
+that sought sympathy than a selfish delight in making her eyes flash,
+seeing the color come and go in her cheeks, and hearing her charming
+unstudied exclamations of pleasure,--a delight not unmingled with
+complacency in associating himself in her mind with emotions of delight
+and admiration. It is appalling, the extent to which spoony young people
+make the admiration of Nature in her grandest forms a mere sauce to
+their love-making. The roar of Niagara has been notoriously utilized
+as a cover to unlimited osculation, and Adolphus looks up at the
+sky-cleaving peak of Mont Blanc only to look down at Angelina's
+countenance with a more vivid appreciation of its superior attractions.
+
+It was delicious, Lombard thought, sitting there with her on the rear
+platform, out of sight and sound of everybody. He had such a pleasant
+sense of proprietorship in her! How agreeable--flatteringly so, in
+fact--she had been all day! There was nothing like traveling together
+to make people intimate. It was clear that she understood his intentions
+very well: indeed, how could she help it? He had always said that
+a fellow had shown himself a bungler at love-making if he were not
+practically assured of the result before he came to the point of the
+declaration. The sensation of leaving everything else so rapidly behind
+that people have when sitting on the rear platform of a train of cars
+makes them feel, by force of contrast, nearer to each other and more
+identified. How pretty she looked sitting there in the doorway, her
+eyes bent so pensively on the track behind as the car-wheels so swiftly
+reeled it off! He had tucked her in comfortably. No cold could get to
+the sweet little girl, and none ever should so long as he lived to make
+her comfort his care.
+
+One small gloved hand lay on her lap outside the shawl. What a jolly
+little hand it was! He reached out his own and took it, but, without
+even a moment's hesitation for him to extract a flattering inference
+from, she withdrew it. Perhaps something in his matter-of-course way
+displeased her.
+
+To know when it is best to submit to a partial rebuff, rather than make
+a bad matter worse by trying to save one's pride, is a rare wisdom.
+Still, Lombard might have exercised it at another time. But there are
+days when the magnetisms are all wrong, and a person not ordinarily
+deficient in tact, having begun wrong, goes on blundering like a
+schoolboy. Piqued at the sudden shock to the pleasant day-dream, in
+which he had fancied himself already virtually assured of this young
+lady,--a day-dream which she was not really accountable for spoiling,
+since she had not been privy to it,--what should he do but find
+expression for his mingled vexation and wounded affection by reminding
+her of a previous occasion on which she had allowed him the liberty she
+now denied? Doubtless helping to account for this lack of tact was the
+idea that he should thus justify himself for so far presuming just
+now. Not, of course, that there is really any excuse for a young man's
+forgetting that ladies have one advantage over Omniscience, in that
+not only are they privileged to remember what they please, but also to
+ignore what they see fit to forget.
+
+"You have forgotten that evening at the California Theatre," was what
+this devoted youth said.
+
+"I 'm sure I don't know to what you refer, sir," she replied freezingly.
+
+He was terrified at the distant accent of her voice. It appeared to
+come from somewhere beyond the fixed stars, and brought the chill of
+the interstellar spaces with it. He forgot in an instant all about his
+pique, vexation, and wounded pride, and was in a panic of anxiety to
+bring her back. In a moment more he knew that she would rise from her
+chair and remark that it was getting cold and she must go in. If he
+allowed her to depart in that mood, he might lose her forever. He could
+think of but one way of convincing her instantaneously of his devotion;
+and so what should he do but take the most inopportune occasion in the
+entire course of their acquaintance to make his declaration. He was
+like a general whose plan of battle has been completely deranged by an
+utterly unexpected repulse in a preliminary movement, compelling him to
+hurry forward his last reserves in a desperate attempt to restore the
+battle.
+
+"What have I done, Miss Dwyer? Don't you know that I love you? Won't you
+be my wife?"
+
+"No, sir," she said flatly, her taste outraged and her sensibilities
+set on edge by the stupid, blundering, hammer-and-tongs onset which from
+first to last he had made. She loved him, and had meant to accept him,
+but if she had loved him ten times as much she couldn't have helped
+refusing him just then, under those circumstances,--not if she died
+for it. As she spoke, she rose and disappeared within the car. It is
+certainly to be hoped that the noise of the wheels, which out on the
+platform was considerable, prevented the recording angel from getting
+the full force of Lombard's ejaculation.
+
+It is bad enough to be refused when the delicacy and respectfulness of
+the lady's manner make "No" sound so much like "Yes" that the rejected
+lover can almost persuade himself that his ears have deceived him. It is
+bad enough to be refused when she does it so timidly and shrinkingly and
+deprecatingly that it might be supposed she were the rejected party. It
+is bad enough to be refused when she expresses the hope that you will
+always be friends, and shows a disposition to make profuse amends in
+general agreeableness for the consummate favor which she is forced to
+decline you. Not to put too fine a point upon it, it is bad enough to be
+refused anyhow you can arrange the circumstances, but to be refused as
+Lombard had been, with a petulance as wounding to his dignity as was
+the refusal itself to his affections, is to take a bitter pill with an
+asafotida coating.
+
+In the limp and demoralized condition in which he was left, the only
+clear sentiment in his mind was that he did not want to meet her
+again just at present. So he sat for an hour or more longer out on the
+platform, and had become as thoroughly chilled without as he was within
+when at dusk the train stopped at a little three-house station for
+supper. Then he went into one of the forward day-cars, not intending to
+return to the sleeping-car till Miss Dwyer should have retired. When the
+train reached Ogden the next morning, instead of going on East he would
+take the same train back to San Francisco, and that would be the end of
+his romance. His engagement in New York had been a myth, and with Miss
+Dwyer's "No, sir," the only business with the East that had brought him
+on this trip was at an end.
+
+About an hour after leaving the supper-station, the train suddenly
+stopped in the midst of the desert. Something about the engine had
+become disarranged, which it would take some time to put right. Glad
+to improve an opportunity to stretch their legs, many of the passengers
+left the cars and were strolling about, curiously examining the
+sagebrush and the alkali, and admiring the ghostly plain as it spread,
+bare, level, and white as an icebound polar sea, to the feet of the
+far-off mountains.
+
+Lombard had also left the car, and was walking about, his hands in
+his overcoat pockets, trying to clear his mind of the wreckage that
+obstructed its working; for Miss Dwyer's refusal had come upon him as
+a sudden squall that carries away the masts and sails of a vessel and
+transforms it in a moment from a gallant bounding ship to a mere hulk
+drifting in an entangled mass of d�bris. Of course she had a perfect
+right to suit herself about the kind of a man she took for a husband,
+but he certainly had not thought she was such an utter coquette. If ever
+a woman gave a man reason to think himself as good as engaged, she had
+given him that reason, and yet she refused him as coolly as she would
+have declined a second plate of soup. There must be some truth, after
+all, in the rant of the poets about the heartlessness and fickleness of
+women, although he had always been used to consider it the merest bosh.
+Suddenly he heard the train moving. He was perhaps fifty yards off, and,
+grumbling anathemas at the stupidity of the conductor, started to run
+for the last car. He was not quite desperate enough to fancy being left
+alone on the Nevada desert with night coming on. He would have caught
+the train without difficulty, if his foot had not happened to catch in
+a tough clump of sage, throwing him violently to the ground. As he
+gathered himself up, the train was a hundred yards off, and moving
+rapidly. To overtake it was out of the question.
+
+"Stop! ho! stop!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. But there was no
+one on the rear platform to see him, and the closed windows and the
+rattle of the wheels were sufficient to render a much louder noise than
+he could make inaudible to the dozing passengers. And now the engineer
+pulled out the throttle-valve to make up for lost time, and the clatter
+of the train faded into a distant roar, and its lights began to twinkle
+into indistinctness.
+
+"Damnation!"
+
+A voice fell like a falling star: "Gentlemen do not use profane language
+in ladies' company."
+
+He first looked up in the air, as on the whole the likeliest quarter for
+a voice to come from in this desert, then around. Just on the other
+side of the track stood Miss Dwyer, smiling, with a somewhat constrained
+attempt at self-possession. Lombard was a good deal taken aback, but
+in his surprise he did not forget that this was the young lady who had
+refused him that afternoon.
+
+"I beg your pardon," he replied, with a stiff bow; "I did not suppose
+that there were any ladies within hearing."
+
+"I got out of the car supposing there was plenty of time to get a
+specimen of sagebrush to carry home," she explained; "but when the cars
+started, although I was but a little way off, I could not regain the
+platform;" which, considering that she wore a tie-back of the then
+prevalent fashion, was not surprising.
+
+"Indeed!" replied Lombard, with the same formal manner.
+
+"But won't the train come back for us?" she asked, in a more anxious
+voice.
+
+"That will depend on whether we are missed. Nobody will miss me. Mrs.
+Eustis, if she hasn't gone to bed, may miss you."
+
+"But she has. She went to bed before I left the car, and is asleep by
+this time."
+
+"That 's unfortunate," was his brief reply, as he lit a cigar and began
+to smoke and contemplate the stars.
+
+His services, so far as he could do anything for her, she should, as a
+lady, command, but if she thought that he was going to do the agreeable
+after what had happened a few hours ago, she was mightily mistaken.
+
+There was a silence, and then she said, hesitatingly, "What are we going
+to do?"
+
+He glanced at her. Her attitude and the troubled expression of her face,
+as well as her voice, indicated that the logic of the situation was
+overthrowing the jaunty self-possession which she had at first affected.
+The desert was staring her out of countenance. How his heart yearned
+toward her! If she had only given him a right to take care of her, how
+he would comfort her! what prodigies would he be capable of to succor
+her! But this rising impulse of tenderness was turned to choking
+bitterness by the memory of that scornful "No, sir." So he replied
+coldly, "I 'm not in the habit of being left behind in deserts, and
+I don't know what it is customary to do in such cases. I see nothing
+except to wait for the next train, which will come along some time
+within twenty-four hours."
+
+There was another long silence, after which she said in a timid voice,
+"Had n't we better walk to the next station?"
+
+At the suggestion of walking he glanced at her close-fitting dress, and
+a sardonic grin slightly twitched the corners of his mouth as he dryly
+answered, "It is thirty miles one way and twenty the other to the first
+station."
+
+Several minutes passed before she spoke again, and then she said, with
+an accent almost like that of a child in trouble and about to cry, "I 'm
+cold."
+
+The strong, unceasing wind, blowing from snowy mountain-caverns across
+a plain on which there was not the slightest barrier of hill or tree to
+check its violence, was indeed bitterly cold, and Lombard himself felt
+chilled to the marrow of his bones. He took off his overcoat and offered
+it to her.
+
+"No," said she, "you are as cold as I am."
+
+"You will please take it," he replied, in a peremptory manner; and she
+took it.
+
+"At this rate we shall freeze to death before midnight," he added, as
+if in soliloquy. "I must see if I can't contrive to make some sort of a
+shelter with this sagebrush."
+
+He began by tearing up a large number of bushes by the roots. Seeing
+what he was doing, Miss Dwyer was glad to warm her stiffened muscles by
+taking hold and helping; which she did with a vigor that shortly reduced
+her gloves to shreds and filled her fingers with scratches from the
+rough twigs. Lombard next chose an unusually high and thick clump of
+brush, and cleared a small space three feet across in the centre of it,
+scattering twigs on the uncovered earth to keep off its chill.
+
+"Now, Miss Dwyer, if you will step inside this spot, I think I can build
+up the bushes around us so as to make a sort of booth which may save us
+from freezing."
+
+She silently did as he directed, and he proceeded to pile the brush
+which they had torn up on the tops of the bushes left standing around
+the spot where they were, thus making a circular wall about three feet
+high. Over the top he managed to draw together two or three bushes, and
+the improvised wigwam was complete.
+
+The moonlight penetrated the loose roof sufficiently to reveal to each
+other the faces and figures of the two occupants as they sat in opposite
+corners, as far apart as possible, she cold and miserable, he cold and
+sulky, and both silent. And, as if to mock him, the idea kept recurring
+to his mind how romantic and delightful, in spite of the cold and
+discomfort, the situation would be if she had only said Yes, instead of
+No, that afternoon. People have odd notions sometimes, and it actually
+seemed to him that his vexation with her for destroying the pleasure of
+the present occasion was something quite apart from, and in addition to,
+his main grievance against her. It might have been so jolly, and now she
+had spoiled it. He could have boxed her pretty little ears.
+
+She wondered why he did not try to light a fire, but she wouldn't ask
+him another thing, if she died. In point of fact, he knew the sagebrush
+would not burn. Suddenly the wind blew fiercer, there came a rushing
+sound, and the top and walls of the wigwam were whisked off like a
+flash, and as they staggered to their feet, buffeted by the whirling
+bushes, a cloud of fine alkali-dust enveloped them, blinding their eyes,
+penetrating their ears and noses, and setting them gasping, sneezing,
+and coughing spasmodically. Then, like a puff of smoke, the suffocating
+storm was dissipated, and when they opened their smarting eyes there was
+nothing but the silent, glorious desolation of the ghostly desert around
+them, with the snow-peaks in the distance glittering beneath the moon.
+A sand-spout had struck them, that was all,--one of the whirling
+dust-columns which they had admired all day from the car-windows.
+
+Wretched enough before, both for physical and sentimental reasons,
+this last experience quite demoralized Miss Dwyer, and she sat down and
+cried. Now, a few tears, regarded from a practical, middle-aged point
+of view, would not appear to have greatly complicated the situation, but
+they threw Lombard into a panic. If she was going to cry, something
+must be done. Whether anything could be done or not, something _must_ be
+done.
+
+"Don't leave me," she cried hysterically, as he rushed off to
+reconnoitre the vicinity.
+
+"I 'll return presently," he called back.
+
+But five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes passed, and he did not
+come back. Terror dried her tears, and her heart almost stopped
+beating. She had quite given him up for lost, and herself too, when with
+inexpressible relief she heard him call to her. She replied, and in a
+moment more he was at her side, breathless with running.
+
+"I lost my bearings," he said. "If you had not answered me, I could not
+have found you."
+
+"Don't leave me again," she sobbed, clinging to his arm.
+
+He put his arms round her and kissed her. It was mean, base,
+contemptible, to take advantage of her agitation in that way, but she
+did not resist, and he did it again and again,--I forbear to say how
+many times.
+
+"Is n't it a perfectly beautiful night?" he exclaimed, with a fine gush
+of enthusiasm.
+
+"Is n't it exquisite?" she echoed, with a rush of sympathetic feeling.
+
+"See those stars: they look as if they had just been polished," he
+cried.
+
+"What a droll idea!" she exclaimed gleefully. "But do see that lovely
+mountain."
+
+Holding her with a firmer clasp, and speaking with what might be styled
+a fierce tenderness, he demanded, "What did you mean, miss, by refusing
+me this afternoon?"
+
+"What did you go at me so stupidly for? I had to refuse," she retorted
+smilingly.
+
+"Will you be my wife?"
+
+"Yes, sir; I meant to be all the time."
+
+The contract having been properly sealed, Lombard said, with a
+countenance curiously divided between a tragical expression and a smile
+of fatuous complacency, "There was a clear case of poetical justice in
+your being left behind in the desert to-night. To see the lights of the
+train disappearing, leaving you alone in the midst of desolation, gave
+you a touch of my feeling on being rejected this afternoon. Of all
+leavings behind, there's none so miserable as the experience of the
+rejected lover."
+
+"Poor fellow! so he should n't be left behind. He shall be conductor
+of the train," she said, with a bewitching laugh. His response was not
+verbal.
+
+"How cold the wind is!" she said.
+
+"Shall I build you another wigwam?"
+
+"No; let us exercise a little. You whistle 'The Beautiful Blue Danube,'
+and we'll waltz. This desert is the biggest, jolliest ball-room floor
+that ever was, and I dare say we shall be the first to waltz on it since
+the creation of the world. That will be something to boast of when we
+get home. Come, let's dedicate the Great American Desert to Terpsichore."
+
+They stepped out from among the ruins of their sagebrush booth upon a
+patch of hard, bare earth close to the railroad track. Lombard
+puckered his lips and struck up the air, and off they went with as much
+enthusiasm as if inspired by a first-class orchestra. Round and round,
+to and fro, they swept until, laughing, flushed, and panting, they came
+to a stop.
+
+It was then that they first perceived that they were not without
+a circle of appreciative spectators. Sitting like statues on their
+sniffing, pawing ponies, a dozen Piute Indians encircled them. Engrossed
+with the dance and with each other, they had not noticed them as they
+rode up, attracted from their route by this marvelous spectacle of a
+pale-face squaw and brave engaged in a solitary war dance in the midst
+of the desert.
+
+At sight of the grim circle of centaurs around them Miss Dwyer would
+have fainted but for Lombard's firm hold.
+
+"Pretend not to see them; keep on dancing," he hissed in her ear. He had
+no distinct plan in what he said, but spoke merely from an instinct of
+self-preservation, which told him that when they stopped, the Indians
+would be upon them. But as she mechanically, and really more dead
+than alive, obeyed his direction and resumed the dance, and he in his
+excitement was treading on her feet at every step, the thought flashed
+upon him that there was a bare chance of escaping violence, if they
+could keep the Indians interested without appearing to notice their
+presence. In successive whispers he communicated his idea to Miss Dyer:
+"Don't act as if you saw them at all, but do everything as if we were
+alone. That will puzzle them, and make them think us supernatural
+beings, or perhaps crazy: Indians have great respect for crazy people.
+It's our only chance. We will stop dancing now, and sing awhile. Give
+them a burlesque of opera. I 'll give you the cues and show you how.
+Don't be frightened. I don't believe they 'll touch us so long as we act
+as if we did n't see them. Do you understand? Can you do your part?"
+
+"I understand; I 'll try," she whispered.
+
+"Now," he said, and as they separated, he threw his hat on the ground,
+and, assuming an extravagantly languishing attitude, burst forth in a
+most poignant burlesque of a lovelorn tenor's part, rolling his eyes,
+clasping his hands, striking his breast, and gyrating about Miss
+Dwyer-in the most approved operatic style. He had a fine voice and knew
+a good deal of music; so that, barring a certain nervousness in the
+performer, the exhibition was really not bad. In his singing he had used
+a meaningless gibberish varied with the syllables of the scale, but he
+closed by singing the words, "Are you ready now? Go ahead, then."
+
+With that she took it up, and rendered the prima donna quite as
+effectively, interjecting "The Last Rose of Summer" as an aria in a
+manner that would have been encored in San Francisco. He responded with
+a few staccato notes, and the scene ended by their rushing into each
+other's arms and waltzing down the stage with abandon.
+
+The Indians sat motionless on their horses, not even exchanging comments
+among themselves. They were evidently too utterly astonished by the
+goings on before them to have any other sentiment as yet beyond pure
+amazement. Here were two richly-dressed pale-faces, such as only lived
+in cities, out in the middle of an uninhabitable desert, in the freezing
+midnight, having a variety and minstrel show all to themselves, and, to
+make the exhibition the more unaccountable, without apparently seeing
+their auditors at all. Had they started up the show after being
+captured, Indian cunning would have recognized in it a device to save
+their lives, but the two had been at it before the party rode up,--
+had, in fact, first attracted attention by their gyrations, which were
+visible for miles out on the moony plain.
+
+Lombard, without ever letting his eyes rest a moment on the Indians so
+as to indicate that he saw them, had still managed by looks askance and
+sweeping glances to keep close watch upon their demeanor, and noted with
+prodigious relief that his wild scheme was succeeding better than he had
+dared to hope. Without any break in the entertainment he communicated
+his reassurance to Miss Dwyer by singing, to the tune of "My Country,
+'tis of Thee," the following original hymn:--
+
+     "We 're doing admir'blee--
+     They 're heap much tickledee:
+          Only keep on."
+
+To which she responded, to the lugubrious air of "John Brown's Body:"--
+
+     "Oh, what do you s'pose they 'll go for to do,
+     Oh, what do you s'pose they 'll go for to do,
+     Oh, what do you s'pose they 'll go for to do,
+          When we can sing no more?"
+
+A thing may be ridiculous without being amusing, and neither of these
+two felt the least inclination to smile at each other's poetry. After
+duly joining in the chorus of "Glory, Hallelujah!" Lombard endeavored
+to cheer his companion by words adapted to the inspiriting air of "Rally
+Bound the Flag, Boys." This was followed by a series of popular airs,
+with solos, duets, and choruses.
+
+But this sort of thing could not go on forever. Lombard was becoming
+exhausted in voice and legs, and as for Miss Dwyer, he was expecting
+to see her drop from moment to moment: Indeed, to the air of "'Way down
+upon the Swanee River" she now began to sing:--
+
+     "Oh, dear! I can't bear up much longer:
+          I 'm tired to death;
+     My voice's gone all to pie-ee-ee-ces,
+          My throat is very sore."
+
+They must inevitably give out in a few minutes, and then he--and,
+terribly worse, she--would be at the mercy of these bestial savages,
+and this seeming farce would turn into most revolting tragedy. With this
+sickening conviction coming over him, Lombard cast a despairing
+look around the horizon to see if there were no help in their bitter
+extremity. Suddenly he burst forth, to the tune of "The Star-Spangled
+Banner: "--
+
+     "Oh, say can you see,
+     Far away to the east,
+     A bright star that doth grow
+     Momentarily brighter?
+     'Tis the far-flashing headlight
+     Of a railroad-train:
+     Ten minutes from now
+     We shall be safe and sound."
+
+What they did in those ten minutes neither could tell afterward. The
+same idea was in both their minds,--that unless the attention of the
+Indians could be held until the train arrived, its approach would
+only precipitate their own fate by impelling the savages to carry out
+whatever designs of murder, insult, or capture they might have. Under
+the influence of the intense excitement of this critical interval it is
+to be feared that the performance degenerated from a high-toned concert
+and variety show into something very like a Howling-Dervish exhibition.
+But, at any rate, it answered its purpose until, after a period that
+seemed like a dozen eternities, the West-bound overland express with
+a tremendous roar and rattle drew up beside them, in response to the
+waving of Miss Dwyer's handkerchief and to Lombard's shouts.
+
+Even had the Indians contemplated hostile intentions,--which they were
+doubtless in a condition of too great general stupefaction to do,--the
+alacrity with which the two performers clambered aboard the cars would
+probably have foiled their designs. But as the train gathered headway
+once more, Lombard could not resist the temptation of venting his
+feelings by shaking his fist ferociously at the audience which he had
+been so conscientiously trying to please up to that moment. It was a
+gratification which had like to have cost him dear. There was a quick
+motion on the part of one of the Indians, and the conductor dragged
+Lombard within the car just as an arrow struck the door.
+
+Mrs. Eustis had slept sweetly all night, and was awakened the next
+morning an hour before the train reached Ogden by the sleeping-car
+porter, who gave her a telegram which had overtaken the train at the
+last station. It read:--
+
+     Am safe and sound. Was left behind by your train last night,
+     and picked up by West-bound express. Will join you at Ogden
+     to-morrow morning.
+
+     Jennie Dwyer.
+
+Mrs. Eustis read the telegram through twice without getting the least
+idea from it. Then she leaned over and looked down into Jennie's berth.
+It had not been slept in. Then she began to understand. Heroically
+resisting a tendency to scream, she thus secured space for second
+thought, and, being a shrewd woman of the world, ended by making up her
+mind to tell no one about the matter. Evidently, Jennie had been having
+some decidedly unconventional experience, and the less publicity given
+to all such passages in young ladies' lives, the better for their
+prospects. It so happened that in the bustle attending the approach to
+the terminus and the prospective change of cars everybody was too busy
+to notice that any passengers were missing. At Ogden Mrs. Eustis left
+the train and went to a hotel. The following morning, a few minutes
+after the arrival of the Central Pacific train, Jennie Dwyer walked into
+her room, Lombard having stopped at the office to secure berths for the
+three to Omaha by the Union Pacific. After Jennie had given an outline
+account of her experiences, and Mrs.' Eustis's equilibrium had been
+measurably restored by proper use of the smelling-salts, the latter lady
+remarked, "And so Mr. Lombard was alone with you there all night? It's
+very unfortunate that it should have happened so."
+
+"Why, I was thinking it very fortunate," replied Jennie, with her most
+childlike expression. "If Mr. Lombard had not been there, I should
+either have frozen to death, or by this time been celebrating my
+honeymoon as bride of a Piute chief."
+
+"Nonsense, child! You know what I mean. People will talk; such
+unpleasant things will be said! I would n't have had it happen for
+anything. And when you were under my charge, too! Do hand me my salts."
+
+"If people are going to say unpleasant things because I am out of an
+evening alone with Mr. Lombard," remarked Jennie, with a mischievous
+smile, "you must prepare yourself to hear a good deal said, my dear, for
+I presume this won't be the last time it will happen. We're engaged to
+be married."
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Deserted, by Edward Bellamy
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+Title: Deserted
+       1898
+
+Author: Edward Bellamy
+
+Release Date: September 21, 2007 [EBook #22714]
+Last Updated: March 8, 2018
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+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h1>
+      DESERTED
+    </h1>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      By Edward Bellamy <br /> <br /> 1898
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What a glorious, all-satisfying country this Nevada desert would be, if
+      one were only all eyes, and had no need of food, drink, and shelter! Would
+      n't it, Miss Dwyer? Do you know, I 've no doubt that this is the true
+      location of heaven. You see, the lack of water and vegetation would be no
+      inconvenience to spirits, while the magnificent scenery and the cloudless
+      sky would be just the thing to make them thrive.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;But what I can't get over,&rdquo; responded the young lady addressed, &ldquo;is that
+      these alkali plains, which have been described as so dreary and
+      uninteresting, should prove to be in reality one of the most wonderfully
+      impressive and beautiful regions in the world. What awful fibbers, or what
+      awfully dull people, they must have been whose descriptions have so misled
+      the public! It is perfectly unaccountable. Here I expected to doze all the
+      way across the desert, while in fact I 've grudged my eyes time enough to
+      wink ever since I left my berth this morning.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The trouble is,&rdquo; replied her companion, &ldquo;that persons in search of the
+      picturesque, or with much eye for it, are rare travelers along this route.
+      The people responsible for the descriptions you complain of are thrifty
+      businessmen, with no idea that there can be any possible attraction in a
+      country where crops can't be raised, timber cut, or ore dug up. For my
+      part, I thank the Lord for the beautiful barrenness that has consecrated
+      this great region to loneliness. Here there will always be a chance to get
+      out of sight and sound of the swarming millions who have already left
+      scarcely standing-room for a man in the East. I wouldn't give much for a
+      country where there are no wildernesses left.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;But I really think it is rather hard to say in just what the beauty of
+      the desert consists,&rdquo; said Miss Dwyer. &ldquo;It is so simple. I scribbled two
+      pages of description in my note-book this morning, but when I read them
+      over, and then looked out of the window, I tore them up. I think the
+      wonderfully fine, clear, brilliant air transfigures the landscape and
+      makes it something that must be seen and can't be told. After seeing how
+      this air makes the ugly sagebrush and the patches of alkali and brown
+      earth a feast to the eye, one can understand how the light of heaven may
+      make the ugliest faces beautiful.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The pretty talker is sitting next the window of palace-car No. 30 of the
+      Central Pacific line, which has already been her flying home for two days.
+      The gentleman who sits beside her professes to be sharing the view, but it
+      is only fair I should tell the reader that under this pretense he is
+      nefariously delighting in the rounded contour of his companion's
+      half-averted face, as she, in unfeigned engrossment, scans the panorama
+      unrolled before them by the swift motion of the car. How sweet and fresh
+      is the bright tint of her cheek against the ghastly white background of
+      the alkali-patches as they flit by! Still, it can't be said that he is n't
+      enjoying the scenery too, for surely there is no such Claude-Lorraine
+      glass to reflect and enhance the beauty of a landscape as the face of a <i>spirituelle</i>
+      girl.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With a profound sigh, summing up both her admiration and that despair of
+      attaining the perfect insight and sympathy imagined and longed for which
+      is always a part of intense appreciation of natural beauty, Miss Dwyer
+      threw herself back in her seat, and fixed her eyes on the car-ceiling with
+      an expression as if she were looking at something at least as far away as
+      the moon.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I 'm going to make a statue when I get home,&rdquo; she said,&mdash;&ldquo;a statue
+      which will personify Nevada, and represent the tameless, desolate,
+      changeless, magnificent beauty and the self-sufficient loneliness of the
+      desert. I can see it in my mind's eye now. It will probably be the finest
+      statue in the world.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If you 'd as lief put your ideal into a painting, I will give you a
+      suggestion that will be original if nothing else,&rdquo; he observed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What's that?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, having in view these white alkali-patches that chiefly characterize
+      Nevada, paint her as a leper.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That's horrid! You need n't talk to me any more,&rdquo; she exclaimed
+      emphatically.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this sort of chatter they had beguiled the time since leaving San
+      Francisco the morning of the day before. Acquaintances are indeed made as
+      rapidly on an overland train as on an ocean steamship, but theirs had
+      dated from the preceding winter, during which they had often met in San
+      Francisco. When Mr. Lombard heard that Miss Dwyer and Mrs. Eustis, her
+      invalid sister, were going East in April, he discovered that he would have
+      business to attend to in New York at about that time; and oddly enough,&mdash;that
+      is, if you choose to take that view of it,&mdash;when the ladies came to
+      go, it turned out that Lombard had taken his ticket for the selfsame train
+      and identical sleeping-car. The result of which was that he had the
+      privilege of handing Miss Dwyer in and out at the eating-stations, of
+      bringing Mrs. Eustis her cup of tea in the car, and of sharing Miss
+      Dwyer's seat and monopolizing her conversation when he had a mind to,
+      which was most of the time. A bright and congenial companion has this
+      advantage over a book, that he or she is an author whom you can make
+      discourse on any subject you please, instead of being obliged to follow an
+      arbitrary selection by another, as when you commune with the printed page.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By way of peace-offering for his blasphemy in calling the Nevada desert a
+      leper, Lombard had embezzled a couple of chairs from the smoking-room and
+      carried them to the rear platform of the car, which happened to be the
+      last of the train, and invited Miss Dwyer to come thither and see the
+      scenery. Whether she had wanted to pardon him or not, he knew very well
+      that this was a temptation which she could not resist, for the rear
+      platform was the best spot for observation on the entire train, unless it
+      were the cowcatcher of the locomotive.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The April sun mingled with the frosty air like whiskey with ice-water,
+      producing an effect cool but exhilarating. As she sat in the door of the
+      little passage leading to the platform, she scarcely needed the shawl
+      which he wrapped about her with absurdly exaggerated solicitude. One of
+      the most unmistakable symptoms of the lover is the absorbing and
+      superfluous care with which he adjusts the wraps about the object of his
+      affections whether the weather be warm or cold: it is as if he thought he
+      could thus artificially warm her heart toward him. But Miss Dwyer did not
+      appear vexed, pretending indeed to be oblivious of everything else in
+      admiration of the spectacle before her.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The country stretched flat and bare as a table for fifty miles on either
+      side the track,&mdash;a distance looking in the clear air not over one
+      fifth as great. On every side this great plain was circled by mountains,
+      the reddish-brown sides of some of them bare to the summits, while others
+      were robed in folds of glistening snow and looked like white curtains
+      drawn part way up the sky. The whitey-gray of the alkali-patches, the
+      brown of the dry earth, and the rusty green of the sagebrush filled the
+      foreground, melting in the distance into a purple-gray. The wondrous
+      dryness and clearness of the air lent to these modest tints a tone and
+      dazzling brilliance that surprised the eye with a revelation of
+      possibilities never before suspected in them. But the mountains were the
+      greatest wonder. It was as if the skies, taking pity on their nakedness,
+      had draped their majestic shoulders in imperial purple, while at this hour
+      the westering sun tipped their pinnacles with gilt. In the distance half a
+      dozen sand-spouts, swiftly-moving white pillars, looking like desert genii
+      with too much &ldquo;tanglefoot&rdquo; aboard, were careering about in every
+      direction.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But as Lombard pointed out the various features of the scene to his
+      companion, I fear that his chief motive was less an admiration of Nature
+      that sought sympathy than a selfish delight in making her eyes flash,
+      seeing the color come and go in her cheeks, and hearing her charming
+      unstudied exclamations of pleasure,&mdash;a delight not unmingled with
+      complacency in associating himself in her mind with emotions of delight
+      and admiration. It is appalling, the extent to which spoony young people
+      make the admiration of Nature in her grandest forms a mere sauce to their
+      love-making. The roar of Niagara has been notoriously utilized as a cover
+      to unlimited osculation, and Adolphus looks up at the sky-cleaving peak of
+      Mont Blanc only to look down at Angelina's countenance with a more vivid
+      appreciation of its superior attractions.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was delicious, Lombard thought, sitting there with her on the rear
+      platform, out of sight and sound of everybody. He had such a pleasant
+      sense of proprietorship in her! How agreeable&mdash;flatteringly so, in
+      fact&mdash;she had been all day! There was nothing like traveling together
+      to make people intimate. It was clear that she understood his intentions
+      very well: indeed, how could she help it? He had always said that a fellow
+      had shown himself a bungler at love-making if he were not practically
+      assured of the result before he came to the point of the declaration. The
+      sensation of leaving everything else so rapidly behind that people have
+      when sitting on the rear platform of a train of cars makes them feel, by
+      force of contrast, nearer to each other and more identified. How pretty
+      she looked sitting there in the doorway, her eyes bent so pensively on the
+      track behind as the car-wheels so swiftly reeled it off! He had tucked her
+      in comfortably. No cold could get to the sweet little girl, and none ever
+      should so long as he lived to make her comfort his care.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      One small gloved hand lay on her lap outside the shawl. What a jolly
+      little hand it was! He reached out his own and took it, but, without even
+      a moment's hesitation for him to extract a flattering inference from, she
+      withdrew it. Perhaps something in his matter-of-course way displeased her.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To know when it is best to submit to a partial rebuff, rather than make a
+      bad matter worse by trying to save one's pride, is a rare wisdom. Still,
+      Lombard might have exercised it at another time. But there are days when
+      the magnetisms are all wrong, and a person not ordinarily deficient in
+      tact, having begun wrong, goes on blundering like a schoolboy. Piqued at
+      the sudden shock to the pleasant day-dream, in which he had fancied
+      himself already virtually assured of this young lady,&mdash;a day-dream
+      which she was not really accountable for spoiling, since she had not been
+      privy to it,&mdash;what should he do but find expression for his mingled
+      vexation and wounded affection by reminding her of a previous occasion on
+      which she had allowed him the liberty she now denied? Doubtless helping to
+      account for this lack of tact was the idea that he should thus justify
+      himself for so far presuming just now. Not, of course, that there is
+      really any excuse for a young man's forgetting that ladies have one
+      advantage over Omniscience, in that not only are they privileged to
+      remember what they please, but also to ignore what they see fit to forget.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You have forgotten that evening at the California Theatre,&rdquo; was what this
+      devoted youth said.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I 'm sure I don't know to what you refer, sir,&rdquo; she replied freezingly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He was terrified at the distant accent of her voice. It appeared to come
+      from somewhere beyond the fixed stars, and brought the chill of the
+      interstellar spaces with it. He forgot in an instant all about his pique,
+      vexation, and wounded pride, and was in a panic of anxiety to bring her
+      back. In a moment more he knew that she would rise from her chair and
+      remark that it was getting cold and she must go in. If he allowed her to
+      depart in that mood, he might lose her forever. He could think of but one
+      way of convincing her instantaneously of his devotion; and so what should
+      he do but take the most inopportune occasion in the entire course of their
+      acquaintance to make his declaration. He was like a general whose plan of
+      battle has been completely deranged by an utterly unexpected repulse in a
+      preliminary movement, compelling him to hurry forward his last reserves in
+      a desperate attempt to restore the battle.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What have I done, Miss Dwyer? Don't you know that I love you? Won't you
+      be my wife?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No, sir,&rdquo; she said flatly, her taste outraged and her sensibilities set
+      on edge by the stupid, blundering, hammer-and-tongs onset which from first
+      to last he had made. She loved him, and had meant to accept him, but if
+      she had loved him ten times as much she couldn't have helped refusing him
+      just then, under those circumstances,&mdash;not if she died for it. As she
+      spoke, she rose and disappeared within the car. It is certainly to be
+      hoped that the noise of the wheels, which out on the platform was
+      considerable, prevented the recording angel from getting the full force of
+      Lombard's ejaculation.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It is bad enough to be refused when the delicacy and respectfulness of the
+      lady's manner make &ldquo;No&rdquo; sound so much like &ldquo;Yes&rdquo; that the rejected lover
+      can almost persuade himself that his ears have deceived him. It is bad
+      enough to be refused when she does it so timidly and shrinkingly and
+      deprecatingly that it might be supposed she were the rejected party. It is
+      bad enough to be refused when she expresses the hope that you will always
+      be friends, and shows a disposition to make profuse amends in general
+      agreeableness for the consummate favor which she is forced to decline you.
+      Not to put too fine a point upon it, it is bad enough to be refused anyhow
+      you can arrange the circumstances, but to be refused as Lombard had been,
+      with a petulance as wounding to his dignity as was the refusal itself to
+      his affections, is to take a bitter pill with an asafotida coating.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In the limp and demoralized condition in which he was left, the only clear
+      sentiment in his mind was that he did not want to meet her again just at
+      present. So he sat for an hour or more longer out on the platform, and had
+      become as thoroughly chilled without as he was within when at dusk the
+      train stopped at a little three-house station for supper. Then he went
+      into one of the forward day-cars, not intending to return to the
+      sleeping-car till Miss Dwyer should have retired. When the train reached
+      Ogden the next morning, instead of going on East he would take the same
+      train back to San Francisco, and that would be the end of his romance. His
+      engagement in New York had been a myth, and with Miss Dwyer's &ldquo;No, sir,&rdquo;
+       the only business with the East that had brought him on this trip was at
+      an end.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      About an hour after leaving the supper-station, the train suddenly stopped
+      in the midst of the desert. Something about the engine had become
+      disarranged, which it would take some time to put right. Glad to improve
+      an opportunity to stretch their legs, many of the passengers left the cars
+      and were strolling about, curiously examining the sagebrush and the
+      alkali, and admiring the ghostly plain as it spread, bare, level, and
+      white as an icebound polar sea, to the feet of the far-off mountains.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Lombard had also left the car, and was walking about, his hands in his
+      overcoat pockets, trying to clear his mind of the wreckage that obstructed
+      its working; for Miss Dwyer's refusal had come upon him as a sudden squall
+      that carries away the masts and sails of a vessel and transforms it in a
+      moment from a gallant bounding ship to a mere hulk drifting in an
+      entangled mass of débris. Of course she had a perfect right to suit
+      herself about the kind of a man she took for a husband, but he certainly
+      had not thought she was such an utter coquette. If ever a woman gave a man
+      reason to think himself as good as engaged, she had given him that reason,
+      and yet she refused him as coolly as she would have declined a second
+      plate of soup. There must be some truth, after all, in the rant of the
+      poets about the heartlessness and fickleness of women, although he had
+      always been used to consider it the merest bosh. Suddenly he heard the
+      train moving. He was perhaps fifty yards off, and, grumbling anathemas at
+      the stupidity of the conductor, started to run for the last car. He was
+      not quite desperate enough to fancy being left alone on the Nevada desert
+      with night coming on. He would have caught the train without difficulty,
+      if his foot had not happened to catch in a tough clump of sage, throwing
+      him violently to the ground. As he gathered himself up, the train was a
+      hundred yards off, and moving rapidly. To overtake it was out of the
+      question.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Stop! ho! stop!&rdquo; he yelled at the top of his lungs. But there was no one
+      on the rear platform to see him, and the closed windows and the rattle of
+      the wheels were sufficient to render a much louder noise than he could
+      make inaudible to the dozing passengers. And now the engineer pulled out
+      the throttle-valve to make up for lost time, and the clatter of the train
+      faded into a distant roar, and its lights began to twinkle into
+      indistinctness.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Damnation!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      A voice fell like a falling star: &ldquo;Gentlemen do not use profane language
+      in ladies' company.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      He first looked up in the air, as on the whole the likeliest quarter for a
+      voice to come from in this desert, then around. Just on the other side of
+      the track stood Miss Dwyer, smiling, with a somewhat constrained attempt
+      at self-possession. Lombard was a good deal taken aback, but in his
+      surprise he did not forget that this was the young lady who had refused
+      him that afternoon.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I beg your pardon,&rdquo; he replied, with a stiff bow; &ldquo;I did not suppose that
+      there were any ladies within hearing.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I got out of the car supposing there was plenty of time to get a specimen
+      of sagebrush to carry home,&rdquo; she explained; &ldquo;but when the cars started,
+      although I was but a little way off, I could not regain the platform;&rdquo;
+       which, considering that she wore a tie-back of the then prevalent fashion,
+      was not surprising.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Indeed!&rdquo; replied Lombard, with the same formal manner.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;But won't the train come back for us?&rdquo; she asked, in a more anxious
+      voice.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That will depend on whether we are missed. Nobody will miss me. Mrs.
+      Eustis, if she hasn't gone to bed, may miss you.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;But she has. She went to bed before I left the car, and is asleep by this
+      time.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That 's unfortunate,&rdquo; was his brief reply, as he lit a cigar and began to
+      smoke and contemplate the stars.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      His services, so far as he could do anything for her, she should, as a
+      lady, command, but if she thought that he was going to do the agreeable
+      after what had happened a few hours ago, she was mightily mistaken.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      There was a silence, and then she said, hesitatingly, &ldquo;What are we going
+      to do?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      He glanced at her. Her attitude and the troubled expression of her face,
+      as well as her voice, indicated that the logic of the situation was
+      overthrowing the jaunty self-possession which she had at first affected.
+      The desert was staring her out of countenance. How his heart yearned
+      toward her! If she had only given him a right to take care of her, how he
+      would comfort her! what prodigies would he be capable of to succor her!
+      But this rising impulse of tenderness was turned to choking bitterness by
+      the memory of that scornful &ldquo;No, sir.&rdquo; So he replied coldly, &ldquo;I 'm not in
+      the habit of being left behind in deserts, and I don't know what it is
+      customary to do in such cases. I see nothing except to wait for the next
+      train, which will come along some time within twenty-four hours.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      There was another long silence, after which she said in a timid voice,
+      &ldquo;Had n't we better walk to the next station?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      At the suggestion of walking he glanced at her close-fitting dress, and a
+      sardonic grin slightly twitched the corners of his mouth as he dryly
+      answered, &ldquo;It is thirty miles one way and twenty the other to the first
+      station.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Several minutes passed before she spoke again, and then she said, with an
+      accent almost like that of a child in trouble and about to cry, &ldquo;I 'm
+      cold.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The strong, unceasing wind, blowing from snowy mountain-caverns across a
+      plain on which there was not the slightest barrier of hill or tree to
+      check its violence, was indeed bitterly cold, and Lombard himself felt
+      chilled to the marrow of his bones. He took off his overcoat and offered
+      it to her.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No,&rdquo; said she, &ldquo;you are as cold as I am.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You will please take it,&rdquo; he replied, in a peremptory manner; and she
+      took it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;At this rate we shall freeze to death before midnight,&rdquo; he added, as if
+      in soliloquy. &ldquo;I must see if I can't contrive to make some sort of a
+      shelter with this sagebrush.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      He began by tearing up a large number of bushes by the roots. Seeing what
+      he was doing, Miss Dwyer was glad to warm her stiffened muscles by taking
+      hold and helping; which she did with a vigor that shortly reduced her
+      gloves to shreds and filled her fingers with scratches from the rough
+      twigs. Lombard next chose an unusually high and thick clump of brush, and
+      cleared a small space three feet across in the centre of it, scattering
+      twigs on the uncovered earth to keep off its chill.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Now, Miss Dwyer, if you will step inside this spot, I think I can build
+      up the bushes around us so as to make a sort of booth which may save us
+      from freezing.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      She silently did as he directed, and he proceeded to pile the brush which
+      they had torn up on the tops of the bushes left standing around the spot
+      where they were, thus making a circular wall about three feet high. Over
+      the top he managed to draw together two or three bushes, and the
+      improvised wigwam was complete.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The moonlight penetrated the loose roof sufficiently to reveal to each
+      other the faces and figures of the two occupants as they sat in opposite
+      corners, as far apart as possible, she cold and miserable, he cold and
+      sulky, and both silent. And, as if to mock him, the idea kept recurring to
+      his mind how romantic and delightful, in spite of the cold and discomfort,
+      the situation would be if she had only said Yes, instead of No, that
+      afternoon. People have odd notions sometimes, and it actually seemed to
+      him that his vexation with her for destroying the pleasure of the present
+      occasion was something quite apart from, and in addition to, his main
+      grievance against her. It might have been so jolly, and now she had
+      spoiled it. He could have boxed her pretty little ears.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      She wondered why he did not try to light a fire, but she wouldn't ask him
+      another thing, if she died. In point of fact, he knew the sagebrush would
+      not burn. Suddenly the wind blew fiercer, there came a rushing sound, and
+      the top and walls of the wigwam were whisked off like a flash, and as they
+      staggered to their feet, buffeted by the whirling bushes, a cloud of fine
+      alkali-dust enveloped them, blinding their eyes, penetrating their ears
+      and noses, and setting them gasping, sneezing, and coughing spasmodically.
+      Then, like a puff of smoke, the suffocating storm was dissipated, and when
+      they opened their smarting eyes there was nothing but the silent, glorious
+      desolation of the ghostly desert around them, with the snow-peaks in the
+      distance glittering beneath the moon. A sand-spout had struck them, that
+      was all,&mdash;one of the whirling dust-columns which they had admired all
+      day from the car-windows.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Wretched enough before, both for physical and sentimental reasons, this
+      last experience quite demoralized Miss Dwyer, and she sat down and cried.
+      Now, a few tears, regarded from a practical, middle-aged point of view,
+      would not appear to have greatly complicated the situation, but they threw
+      Lombard into a panic. If she was going to cry, something must be done.
+      Whether anything could be done or not, something <i>must</i> be done.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Don't leave me,&rdquo; she cried hysterically, as he rushed off to reconnoitre
+      the vicinity.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I 'll return presently,&rdquo; he called back.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes passed, and he did not come
+      back. Terror dried her tears, and her heart almost stopped beating. She
+      had quite given him up for lost, and herself too, when with inexpressible
+      relief she heard him call to her. She replied, and in a moment more he was
+      at her side, breathless with running.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I lost my bearings,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If you had not answered me, I could not
+      have found you.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Don't leave me again,&rdquo; she sobbed, clinging to his arm.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He put his arms round her and kissed her. It was mean, base, contemptible,
+      to take advantage of her agitation in that way, but she did not resist,
+      and he did it again and again,&mdash;I forbear to say how many times.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Is n't it a perfectly beautiful night?&rdquo; he exclaimed, with a fine gush of
+      enthusiasm.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Is n't it exquisite?&rdquo; she echoed, with a rush of sympathetic feeling.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;See those stars: they look as if they had just been polished,&rdquo; he cried.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What a droll idea!&rdquo; she exclaimed gleefully. &ldquo;But do see that lovely
+      mountain.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Holding her with a firmer clasp, and speaking with what might be styled a
+      fierce tenderness, he demanded, &ldquo;What did you mean, miss, by refusing me
+      this afternoon?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What did you go at me so stupidly for? I had to refuse,&rdquo; she retorted
+      smilingly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Will you be my wife?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes, sir; I meant to be all the time.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The contract having been properly sealed, Lombard said, with a countenance
+      curiously divided between a tragical expression and a smile of fatuous
+      complacency, &ldquo;There was a clear case of poetical justice in your being
+      left behind in the desert to-night. To see the lights of the train
+      disappearing, leaving you alone in the midst of desolation, gave you a
+      touch of my feeling on being rejected this afternoon. Of all leavings
+      behind, there's none so miserable as the experience of the rejected
+      lover.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Poor fellow! so he should n't be left behind. He shall be conductor of
+      the train,&rdquo; she said, with a bewitching laugh. His response was not
+      verbal.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;How cold the wind is!&rdquo; she said.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Shall I build you another wigwam?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No; let us exercise a little. You whistle 'The Beautiful Blue Danube,'
+      and we'll waltz. This desert is the biggest, jolliest ball-room floor that
+      ever was, and I dare say we shall be the first to waltz on it since the
+      creation of the world. That will be something to boast of when we get
+      home. Come, let's dedicate the Great American Desert to Terpsichore.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      They stepped out from among the ruins of their sagebrush booth upon a
+      patch of hard, bare earth close to the railroad track. Lombard puckered
+      his lips and struck up the air, and off they went with as much enthusiasm
+      as if inspired by a first-class orchestra. Round and round, to and fro,
+      they swept until, laughing, flushed, and panting, they came to a stop.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was then that they first perceived that they were not without a circle
+      of appreciative spectators. Sitting like statues on their sniffing, pawing
+      ponies, a dozen Piute Indians encircled them. Engrossed with the dance and
+      with each other, they had not noticed them as they rode up, attracted from
+      their route by this marvelous spectacle of a pale-face squaw and brave
+      engaged in a solitary war dance in the midst of the desert.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At sight of the grim circle of centaurs around them Miss Dwyer would have
+      fainted but for Lombard's firm hold.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Pretend not to see them; keep on dancing,&rdquo; he hissed in her ear. He had
+      no distinct plan in what he said, but spoke merely from an instinct of
+      self-preservation, which told him that when they stopped, the Indians
+      would be upon them. But as she mechanically, and really more dead than
+      alive, obeyed his direction and resumed the dance, and he in his
+      excitement was treading on her feet at every step, the thought flashed
+      upon him that there was a bare chance of escaping violence, if they could
+      keep the Indians interested without appearing to notice their presence. In
+      successive whispers he communicated his idea to Miss Dyer: &ldquo;Don't act as
+      if you saw them at all, but do everything as if we were alone. That will
+      puzzle them, and make them think us supernatural beings, or perhaps crazy:
+      Indians have great respect for crazy people. It's our only chance. We will
+      stop dancing now, and sing awhile. Give them a burlesque of opera. I 'll
+      give you the cues and show you how. Don't be frightened. I don't believe
+      they 'll touch us so long as we act as if we did n't see them. Do you
+      understand? Can you do your part?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I understand; I 'll try,&rdquo; she whispered.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Now,&rdquo; he said, and as they separated, he threw his hat on the ground,
+      and, assuming an extravagantly languishing attitude, burst forth in a most
+      poignant burlesque of a lovelorn tenor's part, rolling his eyes, clasping
+      his hands, striking his breast, and gyrating about Miss Dwyer-in the most
+      approved operatic style. He had a fine voice and knew a good deal of
+      music; so that, barring a certain nervousness in the performer, the
+      exhibition was really not bad. In his singing he had used a meaningless
+      gibberish varied with the syllables of the scale, but he closed by singing
+      the words, &ldquo;Are you ready now? Go ahead, then.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      With that she took it up, and rendered the prima donna quite as
+      effectively, interjecting &ldquo;The Last Rose of Summer&rdquo; as an aria in a manner
+      that would have been encored in San Francisco. He responded with a few
+      staccato notes, and the scene ended by their rushing into each other's
+      arms and waltzing down the stage with abandon.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Indians sat motionless on their horses, not even exchanging comments
+      among themselves. They were evidently too utterly astonished by the goings
+      on before them to have any other sentiment as yet beyond pure amazement.
+      Here were two richly-dressed pale-faces, such as only lived in cities, out
+      in the middle of an uninhabitable desert, in the freezing midnight, having
+      a variety and minstrel show all to themselves, and, to make the exhibition
+      the more unaccountable, without apparently seeing their auditors at all.
+      Had they started up the show after being captured, Indian cunning would
+      have recognized in it a device to save their lives, but the two had been
+      at it before the party rode up,&mdash; had, in fact, first attracted
+      attention by their gyrations, which were visible for miles out on the
+      moony plain.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Lombard, without ever letting his eyes rest a moment on the Indians so as
+      to indicate that he saw them, had still managed by looks askance and
+      sweeping glances to keep close watch upon their demeanor, and noted with
+      prodigious relief that his wild scheme was succeeding better than he had
+      dared to hope. Without any break in the entertainment he communicated his
+      reassurance to Miss Dwyer by singing, to the tune of &ldquo;My Country, 'tis of
+      Thee,&rdquo; the following original hymn:&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     &ldquo;We 're doing admir'blee&mdash;
+     They 're heap much tickledee:
+          Only keep on.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      To which she responded, to the lugubrious air of &ldquo;John Brown's Body:&rdquo;&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     &ldquo;Oh, what do you s'pose they 'll go for to do,
+     Oh, what do you s'pose they 'll go for to do,
+     Oh, what do you s'pose they 'll go for to do,
+          When we can sing no more?&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      A thing may be ridiculous without being amusing, and neither of these two
+      felt the least inclination to smile at each other's poetry. After duly
+      joining in the chorus of &ldquo;Glory, Hallelujah!&rdquo; Lombard endeavored to cheer
+      his companion by words adapted to the inspiriting air of &ldquo;Rally Bound the
+      Flag, Boys.&rdquo; This was followed by a series of popular airs, with solos,
+      duets, and choruses.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But this sort of thing could not go on forever. Lombard was becoming
+      exhausted in voice and legs, and as for Miss Dwyer, he was expecting to
+      see her drop from moment to moment: Indeed, to the air of &ldquo;'Way down upon
+      the Swanee River&rdquo; she now began to sing:&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     &ldquo;Oh, dear! I can't bear up much longer:
+          I 'm tired to death;
+     My voice's gone all to pie-ee-ee-ces,
+          My throat is very sore.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      They must inevitably give out in a few minutes, and then he&mdash;and,
+      terribly worse, she&mdash;would be at the mercy of these bestial savages,
+      and this seeming farce would turn into most revolting tragedy. With this
+      sickening conviction coming over him, Lombard cast a despairing look
+      around the horizon to see if there were no help in their bitter extremity.
+      Suddenly he burst forth, to the tune of &ldquo;The Star-Spangled Banner: &ldquo;&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     &ldquo;Oh, say can you see,
+     Far away to the east,
+     A bright star that doth grow
+     Momentarily brighter?
+     'Tis the far-flashing headlight
+     Of a railroad-train:
+     Ten minutes from now
+     We shall be safe and sound.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      What they did in those ten minutes neither could tell afterward. The same
+      idea was in both their minds,&mdash;that unless the attention of the
+      Indians could be held until the train arrived, its approach would only
+      precipitate their own fate by impelling the savages to carry out whatever
+      designs of murder, insult, or capture they might have. Under the influence
+      of the intense excitement of this critical interval it is to be feared
+      that the performance degenerated from a high-toned concert and variety
+      show into something very like a Howling-Dervish exhibition. But, at any
+      rate, it answered its purpose until, after a period that seemed like a
+      dozen eternities, the West-bound overland express with a tremendous roar
+      and rattle drew up beside them, in response to the waving of Miss Dwyer's
+      handkerchief and to Lombard's shouts.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Even had the Indians contemplated hostile intentions,&mdash;which they
+      were doubtless in a condition of too great general stupefaction to do,&mdash;the
+      alacrity with which the two performers clambered aboard the cars would
+      probably have foiled their designs. But as the train gathered headway once
+      more, Lombard could not resist the temptation of venting his feelings by
+      shaking his fist ferociously at the audience which he had been so
+      conscientiously trying to please up to that moment. It was a gratification
+      which had like to have cost him dear. There was a quick motion on the part
+      of one of the Indians, and the conductor dragged Lombard within the car
+      just as an arrow struck the door.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Mrs. Eustis had slept sweetly all night, and was awakened the next morning
+      an hour before the train reached Ogden by the sleeping-car porter, who
+      gave her a telegram which had overtaken the train at the last station. It
+      read:&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     Am safe and sound. Was left behind by your train last night,
+     and picked up by West-bound express. Will join you at Ogden
+     to-morrow morning.
+
+     Jennie Dwyer.
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      Mrs. Eustis read the telegram through twice without getting the least idea
+      from it. Then she leaned over and looked down into Jennie's berth. It had
+      not been slept in. Then she began to understand. Heroically resisting a
+      tendency to scream, she thus secured space for second thought, and, being
+      a shrewd woman of the world, ended by making up her mind to tell no one
+      about the matter. Evidently, Jennie had been having some decidedly
+      unconventional experience, and the less publicity given to all such
+      passages in young ladies' lives, the better for their prospects. It so
+      happened that in the bustle attending the approach to the terminus and the
+      prospective change of cars everybody was too busy to notice that any
+      passengers were missing. At Ogden Mrs. Eustis left the train and went to a
+      hotel. The following morning, a few minutes after the arrival of the
+      Central Pacific train, Jennie Dwyer walked into her room, Lombard having
+      stopped at the office to secure berths for the three to Omaha by the Union
+      Pacific. After Jennie had given an outline account of her experiences, and
+      Mrs.' Eustis's equilibrium had been measurably restored by proper use of
+      the smelling-salts, the latter lady remarked, &ldquo;And so Mr. Lombard was
+      alone with you there all night? It's very unfortunate that it should have
+      happened so.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, I was thinking it very fortunate,&rdquo; replied Jennie, with her most
+      childlike expression. &ldquo;If Mr. Lombard had not been there, I should either
+      have frozen to death, or by this time been celebrating my honeymoon as
+      bride of a Piute chief.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nonsense, child! You know what I mean. People will talk; such unpleasant
+      things will be said! I would n't have had it happen for anything. And when
+      you were under my charge, too! Do hand me my salts.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If people are going to say unpleasant things because I am out of an
+      evening alone with Mr. Lombard,&rdquo; remarked Jennie, with a mischievous
+      smile, &ldquo;you must prepare yourself to hear a good deal said, my dear, for I
+      presume this won't be the last time it will happen. We're engaged to be
+      married.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+
+
+
+
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+Title: Deserted
+       1898
+
+Author: Edward Bellamy
+
+Release Date: September 21, 2007 [EBook #22714]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DESERTED ***
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+Produced by David Widger
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+DESERTED
+
+By Edward Bellamy
+
+1898
+
+
+"What a glorious, all-satisfying country this Nevada desert would be,
+if one were only all eyes, and had no need of food, drink, and shelter!
+Would n't it, Miss Dwyer? Do you know, I 've no doubt that this is the
+true location of heaven. You see, the lack of water and vegetation would
+be no inconvenience to spirits, while the magnificent scenery and the
+cloudless sky would be just the thing to make them thrive."
+
+"But what I can't get over," responded the young lady addressed, "is
+that these alkali plains, which have been described as so dreary and
+uninteresting, should prove to be in reality one of the most wonderfully
+impressive and beautiful regions in the world. What awful fibbers, or
+what awfully dull people, they must have been whose descriptions have
+so misled the public! It is perfectly unaccountable. Here I expected to
+doze all the way across the desert, while in fact I 've grudged my eyes
+time enough to wink ever since I left my berth this morning."
+
+"The trouble is," replied her companion, "that persons in search of
+the picturesque, or with much eye for it, are rare travelers along this
+route. The people responsible for the descriptions you complain of
+are thrifty businessmen, with no idea that there can be any possible
+attraction in a country where crops can't be raised, timber cut, or ore
+dug up. For my part, I thank the Lord for the beautiful barrenness that
+has consecrated this great region to loneliness. Here there will always
+be a chance to get out of sight and sound of the swarming millions who
+have already left scarcely standing-room for a man in the East. I
+wouldn't give much for a country where there are no wildernesses left."
+
+"But I really think it is rather hard to say in just what the beauty of
+the desert consists," said Miss Dwyer. "It is so simple. I scribbled two
+pages of description in my note-book this morning, but when I read them
+over, and then looked out of the window, I tore them up. I think the
+wonderfully fine, clear, brilliant air transfigures the landscape and
+makes it something that must be seen and can't be told. After seeing how
+this air makes the ugly sagebrush and the patches of alkali and brown
+earth a feast to the eye, one can understand how the light of heaven may
+make the ugliest faces beautiful."
+
+The pretty talker is sitting next the window of palace-car No. 30 of
+the Central Pacific line, which has already been her flying home for
+two days. The gentleman who sits beside her professes to be sharing
+the view, but it is only fair I should tell the reader that under this
+pretense he is nefariously delighting in the rounded contour of his
+companion's half-averted face, as she, in unfeigned engrossment, scans
+the panorama unrolled before them by the swift motion of the car. How
+sweet and fresh is the bright tint of her cheek against the ghastly
+white background of the alkali-patches as they flit by! Still, it can't
+be said that he is n't enjoying the scenery too, for surely there is
+no such Claude-Lorraine glass to reflect and enhance the beauty of a
+landscape as the face of a _spirituelle_ girl.
+
+With a profound sigh, summing up both her admiration and that despair of
+attaining the perfect insight and sympathy imagined and longed for which
+is always a part of intense appreciation of natural beauty, Miss Dwyer
+threw herself back in her seat, and fixed her eyes on the car-ceiling
+with an expression as if she were looking at something at least as far
+away as the moon.
+
+"I 'm going to make a statue when I get home," she said,--"a statue
+which will personify Nevada, and represent the tameless, desolate,
+changeless, magnificent beauty and the self-sufficient loneliness of
+the desert. I can see it in my mind's eye now. It will probably be the
+finest statue in the world."
+
+"If you 'd as lief put your ideal into a painting, I will give you a
+suggestion that will be original if nothing else," he observed.
+
+"What's that?"
+
+"Why, having in view these white alkali-patches that chiefly
+characterize Nevada, paint her as a leper."
+
+"That's horrid! You need n't talk to me any more," she exclaimed
+emphatically.
+
+With this sort of chatter they had beguiled the time since leaving San
+Francisco the morning of the day before. Acquaintances are indeed made
+as rapidly on an overland train as on an ocean steamship, but theirs had
+dated from the preceding winter, during which they had often met in San
+Francisco. When Mr. Lombard heard that Miss Dwyer and Mrs. Eustis, her
+invalid sister, were going East in April, he discovered that he would
+have business to attend to in New York at about that time; and oddly
+enough,--that is, if you choose to take that view of it,--when the
+ladies came to go, it turned out that Lombard had taken his ticket for
+the selfsame train and identical sleeping-car. The result of which
+was that he had the privilege of handing Miss Dwyer in and out at the
+eating-stations, of bringing Mrs. Eustis her cup of tea in the car, and
+of sharing Miss Dwyer's seat and monopolizing her conversation when
+he had a mind to, which was most of the time. A bright and congenial
+companion has this advantage over a book, that he or she is an author
+whom you can make discourse on any subject you please, instead of being
+obliged to follow an arbitrary selection by another, as when you commune
+with the printed page.
+
+By way of peace-offering for his blasphemy in calling the Nevada desert
+a leper, Lombard had embezzled a couple of chairs from the smoking-room
+and carried them to the rear platform of the car, which happened to be
+the last of the train, and invited Miss Dwyer to come thither and see
+the scenery. Whether she had wanted to pardon him or not, he knew very
+well that this was a temptation which she could not resist, for the rear
+platform was the best spot for observation on the entire train, unless
+it were the cowcatcher of the locomotive.
+
+The April sun mingled with the frosty air like whiskey with ice-water,
+producing an effect cool but exhilarating. As she sat in the door of the
+little passage leading to the platform, she scarcely needed the shawl
+which he wrapped about her with absurdly exaggerated solicitude. One
+of the most unmistakable symptoms of the lover is the absorbing and
+superfluous care with which he adjusts the wraps about the object of his
+affections whether the weather be warm or cold: it is as if he thought
+he could thus artificially warm her heart toward him. But Miss Dwyer did
+not appear vexed, pretending indeed to be oblivious of everything else
+in admiration of the spectacle before her.
+
+The country stretched flat and bare as a table for fifty miles on either
+side the track,--a distance looking in the clear air not over one
+fifth as great. On every side this great plain was circled by mountains,
+the reddish-brown sides of some of them bare to the summits, while
+others were robed in folds of glistening snow and looked like
+white curtains drawn part way up the sky. The whitey-gray of the
+alkali-patches, the brown of the dry earth, and the rusty green of
+the sagebrush filled the foreground, melting in the distance into a
+purple-gray. The wondrous dryness and clearness of the air lent to these
+modest tints a tone and dazzling brilliance that surprised the eye with
+a revelation of possibilities never before suspected in them. But the
+mountains were the greatest wonder. It was as if the skies, taking pity
+on their nakedness, had draped their majestic shoulders in imperial
+purple, while at this hour the westering sun tipped their pinnacles with
+gilt. In the distance half a dozen sand-spouts, swiftly-moving white
+pillars, looking like desert genii with too much "tanglefoot" aboard,
+were careering about in every direction.
+
+But as Lombard pointed out the various features of the scene to his
+companion, I fear that his chief motive was less an admiration of Nature
+that sought sympathy than a selfish delight in making her eyes flash,
+seeing the color come and go in her cheeks, and hearing her charming
+unstudied exclamations of pleasure,--a delight not unmingled with
+complacency in associating himself in her mind with emotions of delight
+and admiration. It is appalling, the extent to which spoony young people
+make the admiration of Nature in her grandest forms a mere sauce to
+their love-making. The roar of Niagara has been notoriously utilized
+as a cover to unlimited osculation, and Adolphus looks up at the
+sky-cleaving peak of Mont Blanc only to look down at Angelina's
+countenance with a more vivid appreciation of its superior attractions.
+
+It was delicious, Lombard thought, sitting there with her on the rear
+platform, out of sight and sound of everybody. He had such a pleasant
+sense of proprietorship in her! How agreeable--flatteringly so, in
+fact--she had been all day! There was nothing like traveling together
+to make people intimate. It was clear that she understood his intentions
+very well: indeed, how could she help it? He had always said that
+a fellow had shown himself a bungler at love-making if he were not
+practically assured of the result before he came to the point of the
+declaration. The sensation of leaving everything else so rapidly behind
+that people have when sitting on the rear platform of a train of cars
+makes them feel, by force of contrast, nearer to each other and more
+identified. How pretty she looked sitting there in the doorway, her
+eyes bent so pensively on the track behind as the car-wheels so swiftly
+reeled it off! He had tucked her in comfortably. No cold could get to
+the sweet little girl, and none ever should so long as he lived to make
+her comfort his care.
+
+One small gloved hand lay on her lap outside the shawl. What a jolly
+little hand it was! He reached out his own and took it, but, without
+even a moment's hesitation for him to extract a flattering inference
+from, she withdrew it. Perhaps something in his matter-of-course way
+displeased her.
+
+To know when it is best to submit to a partial rebuff, rather than make
+a bad matter worse by trying to save one's pride, is a rare wisdom.
+Still, Lombard might have exercised it at another time. But there are
+days when the magnetisms are all wrong, and a person not ordinarily
+deficient in tact, having begun wrong, goes on blundering like a
+schoolboy. Piqued at the sudden shock to the pleasant day-dream, in
+which he had fancied himself already virtually assured of this young
+lady,--a day-dream which she was not really accountable for spoiling,
+since she had not been privy to it,--what should he do but find
+expression for his mingled vexation and wounded affection by reminding
+her of a previous occasion on which she had allowed him the liberty she
+now denied? Doubtless helping to account for this lack of tact was the
+idea that he should thus justify himself for so far presuming just
+now. Not, of course, that there is really any excuse for a young man's
+forgetting that ladies have one advantage over Omniscience, in that
+not only are they privileged to remember what they please, but also to
+ignore what they see fit to forget.
+
+"You have forgotten that evening at the California Theatre," was what
+this devoted youth said.
+
+"I 'm sure I don't know to what you refer, sir," she replied freezingly.
+
+He was terrified at the distant accent of her voice. It appeared to
+come from somewhere beyond the fixed stars, and brought the chill of
+the interstellar spaces with it. He forgot in an instant all about his
+pique, vexation, and wounded pride, and was in a panic of anxiety to
+bring her back. In a moment more he knew that she would rise from her
+chair and remark that it was getting cold and she must go in. If he
+allowed her to depart in that mood, he might lose her forever. He could
+think of but one way of convincing her instantaneously of his devotion;
+and so what should he do but take the most inopportune occasion in the
+entire course of their acquaintance to make his declaration. He was
+like a general whose plan of battle has been completely deranged by an
+utterly unexpected repulse in a preliminary movement, compelling him to
+hurry forward his last reserves in a desperate attempt to restore the
+battle.
+
+"What have I done, Miss Dwyer? Don't you know that I love you? Won't you
+be my wife?"
+
+"No, sir," she said flatly, her taste outraged and her sensibilities
+set on edge by the stupid, blundering, hammer-and-tongs onset which from
+first to last he had made. She loved him, and had meant to accept him,
+but if she had loved him ten times as much she couldn't have helped
+refusing him just then, under those circumstances,--not if she died
+for it. As she spoke, she rose and disappeared within the car. It is
+certainly to be hoped that the noise of the wheels, which out on the
+platform was considerable, prevented the recording angel from getting
+the full force of Lombard's ejaculation.
+
+It is bad enough to be refused when the delicacy and respectfulness of
+the lady's manner make "No" sound so much like "Yes" that the rejected
+lover can almost persuade himself that his ears have deceived him. It is
+bad enough to be refused when she does it so timidly and shrinkingly and
+deprecatingly that it might be supposed she were the rejected party. It
+is bad enough to be refused when she expresses the hope that you will
+always be friends, and shows a disposition to make profuse amends in
+general agreeableness for the consummate favor which she is forced to
+decline you. Not to put too fine a point upon it, it is bad enough to be
+refused anyhow you can arrange the circumstances, but to be refused as
+Lombard had been, with a petulance as wounding to his dignity as was
+the refusal itself to his affections, is to take a bitter pill with an
+asafotida coating.
+
+In the limp and demoralized condition in which he was left, the only
+clear sentiment in his mind was that he did not want to meet her
+again just at present. So he sat for an hour or more longer out on the
+platform, and had become as thoroughly chilled without as he was within
+when at dusk the train stopped at a little three-house station for
+supper. Then he went into one of the forward day-cars, not intending to
+return to the sleeping-car till Miss Dwyer should have retired. When the
+train reached Ogden the next morning, instead of going on East he would
+take the same train back to San Francisco, and that would be the end of
+his romance. His engagement in New York had been a myth, and with Miss
+Dwyer's "No, sir," the only business with the East that had brought him
+on this trip was at an end.
+
+About an hour after leaving the supper-station, the train suddenly
+stopped in the midst of the desert. Something about the engine had
+become disarranged, which it would take some time to put right. Glad
+to improve an opportunity to stretch their legs, many of the passengers
+left the cars and were strolling about, curiously examining the
+sagebrush and the alkali, and admiring the ghostly plain as it spread,
+bare, level, and white as an icebound polar sea, to the feet of the
+far-off mountains.
+
+Lombard had also left the car, and was walking about, his hands in
+his overcoat pockets, trying to clear his mind of the wreckage that
+obstructed its working; for Miss Dwyer's refusal had come upon him as
+a sudden squall that carries away the masts and sails of a vessel and
+transforms it in a moment from a gallant bounding ship to a mere hulk
+drifting in an entangled mass of debris. Of course she had a perfect
+right to suit herself about the kind of a man she took for a husband,
+but he certainly had not thought she was such an utter coquette. If ever
+a woman gave a man reason to think himself as good as engaged, she had
+given him that reason, and yet she refused him as coolly as she would
+have declined a second plate of soup. There must be some truth, after
+all, in the rant of the poets about the heartlessness and fickleness of
+women, although he had always been used to consider it the merest bosh.
+Suddenly he heard the train moving. He was perhaps fifty yards off, and,
+grumbling anathemas at the stupidity of the conductor, started to run
+for the last car. He was not quite desperate enough to fancy being left
+alone on the Nevada desert with night coming on. He would have caught
+the train without difficulty, if his foot had not happened to catch in
+a tough clump of sage, throwing him violently to the ground. As he
+gathered himself up, the train was a hundred yards off, and moving
+rapidly. To overtake it was out of the question.
+
+"Stop! ho! stop!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. But there was no
+one on the rear platform to see him, and the closed windows and the
+rattle of the wheels were sufficient to render a much louder noise than
+he could make inaudible to the dozing passengers. And now the engineer
+pulled out the throttle-valve to make up for lost time, and the clatter
+of the train faded into a distant roar, and its lights began to twinkle
+into indistinctness.
+
+"Damnation!"
+
+A voice fell like a falling star: "Gentlemen do not use profane language
+in ladies' company."
+
+He first looked up in the air, as on the whole the likeliest quarter for
+a voice to come from in this desert, then around. Just on the other
+side of the track stood Miss Dwyer, smiling, with a somewhat constrained
+attempt at self-possession. Lombard was a good deal taken aback, but
+in his surprise he did not forget that this was the young lady who had
+refused him that afternoon.
+
+"I beg your pardon," he replied, with a stiff bow; "I did not suppose
+that there were any ladies within hearing."
+
+"I got out of the car supposing there was plenty of time to get a
+specimen of sagebrush to carry home," she explained; "but when the cars
+started, although I was but a little way off, I could not regain the
+platform;" which, considering that she wore a tie-back of the then
+prevalent fashion, was not surprising.
+
+"Indeed!" replied Lombard, with the same formal manner.
+
+"But won't the train come back for us?" she asked, in a more anxious
+voice.
+
+"That will depend on whether we are missed. Nobody will miss me. Mrs.
+Eustis, if she hasn't gone to bed, may miss you."
+
+"But she has. She went to bed before I left the car, and is asleep by
+this time."
+
+"That 's unfortunate," was his brief reply, as he lit a cigar and began
+to smoke and contemplate the stars.
+
+His services, so far as he could do anything for her, she should, as a
+lady, command, but if she thought that he was going to do the agreeable
+after what had happened a few hours ago, she was mightily mistaken.
+
+There was a silence, and then she said, hesitatingly, "What are we going
+to do?"
+
+He glanced at her. Her attitude and the troubled expression of her face,
+as well as her voice, indicated that the logic of the situation was
+overthrowing the jaunty self-possession which she had at first affected.
+The desert was staring her out of countenance. How his heart yearned
+toward her! If she had only given him a right to take care of her, how
+he would comfort her! what prodigies would he be capable of to succor
+her! But this rising impulse of tenderness was turned to choking
+bitterness by the memory of that scornful "No, sir." So he replied
+coldly, "I 'm not in the habit of being left behind in deserts, and
+I don't know what it is customary to do in such cases. I see nothing
+except to wait for the next train, which will come along some time
+within twenty-four hours."
+
+There was another long silence, after which she said in a timid voice,
+"Had n't we better walk to the next station?"
+
+At the suggestion of walking he glanced at her close-fitting dress, and
+a sardonic grin slightly twitched the corners of his mouth as he dryly
+answered, "It is thirty miles one way and twenty the other to the first
+station."
+
+Several minutes passed before she spoke again, and then she said, with
+an accent almost like that of a child in trouble and about to cry, "I 'm
+cold."
+
+The strong, unceasing wind, blowing from snowy mountain-caverns across
+a plain on which there was not the slightest barrier of hill or tree to
+check its violence, was indeed bitterly cold, and Lombard himself felt
+chilled to the marrow of his bones. He took off his overcoat and offered
+it to her.
+
+"No," said she, "you are as cold as I am."
+
+"You will please take it," he replied, in a peremptory manner; and she
+took it.
+
+"At this rate we shall freeze to death before midnight," he added, as
+if in soliloquy. "I must see if I can't contrive to make some sort of a
+shelter with this sagebrush."
+
+He began by tearing up a large number of bushes by the roots. Seeing
+what he was doing, Miss Dwyer was glad to warm her stiffened muscles by
+taking hold and helping; which she did with a vigor that shortly reduced
+her gloves to shreds and filled her fingers with scratches from the
+rough twigs. Lombard next chose an unusually high and thick clump of
+brush, and cleared a small space three feet across in the centre of it,
+scattering twigs on the uncovered earth to keep off its chill.
+
+"Now, Miss Dwyer, if you will step inside this spot, I think I can build
+up the bushes around us so as to make a sort of booth which may save us
+from freezing."
+
+She silently did as he directed, and he proceeded to pile the brush
+which they had torn up on the tops of the bushes left standing around
+the spot where they were, thus making a circular wall about three feet
+high. Over the top he managed to draw together two or three bushes, and
+the improvised wigwam was complete.
+
+The moonlight penetrated the loose roof sufficiently to reveal to each
+other the faces and figures of the two occupants as they sat in opposite
+corners, as far apart as possible, she cold and miserable, he cold and
+sulky, and both silent. And, as if to mock him, the idea kept recurring
+to his mind how romantic and delightful, in spite of the cold and
+discomfort, the situation would be if she had only said Yes, instead of
+No, that afternoon. People have odd notions sometimes, and it actually
+seemed to him that his vexation with her for destroying the pleasure of
+the present occasion was something quite apart from, and in addition to,
+his main grievance against her. It might have been so jolly, and now she
+had spoiled it. He could have boxed her pretty little ears.
+
+She wondered why he did not try to light a fire, but she wouldn't ask
+him another thing, if she died. In point of fact, he knew the sagebrush
+would not burn. Suddenly the wind blew fiercer, there came a rushing
+sound, and the top and walls of the wigwam were whisked off like a
+flash, and as they staggered to their feet, buffeted by the whirling
+bushes, a cloud of fine alkali-dust enveloped them, blinding their eyes,
+penetrating their ears and noses, and setting them gasping, sneezing,
+and coughing spasmodically. Then, like a puff of smoke, the suffocating
+storm was dissipated, and when they opened their smarting eyes there was
+nothing but the silent, glorious desolation of the ghostly desert around
+them, with the snow-peaks in the distance glittering beneath the moon.
+A sand-spout had struck them, that was all,--one of the whirling
+dust-columns which they had admired all day from the car-windows.
+
+Wretched enough before, both for physical and sentimental reasons,
+this last experience quite demoralized Miss Dwyer, and she sat down and
+cried. Now, a few tears, regarded from a practical, middle-aged point
+of view, would not appear to have greatly complicated the situation, but
+they threw Lombard into a panic. If she was going to cry, something
+must be done. Whether anything could be done or not, something _must_ be
+done.
+
+"Don't leave me," she cried hysterically, as he rushed off to
+reconnoitre the vicinity.
+
+"I 'll return presently," he called back.
+
+But five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes passed, and he did not
+come back. Terror dried her tears, and her heart almost stopped
+beating. She had quite given him up for lost, and herself too, when with
+inexpressible relief she heard him call to her. She replied, and in a
+moment more he was at her side, breathless with running.
+
+"I lost my bearings," he said. "If you had not answered me, I could not
+have found you."
+
+"Don't leave me again," she sobbed, clinging to his arm.
+
+He put his arms round her and kissed her. It was mean, base,
+contemptible, to take advantage of her agitation in that way, but she
+did not resist, and he did it again and again,--I forbear to say how
+many times.
+
+"Is n't it a perfectly beautiful night?" he exclaimed, with a fine gush
+of enthusiasm.
+
+"Is n't it exquisite?" she echoed, with a rush of sympathetic feeling.
+
+"See those stars: they look as if they had just been polished," he
+cried.
+
+"What a droll idea!" she exclaimed gleefully. "But do see that lovely
+mountain."
+
+Holding her with a firmer clasp, and speaking with what might be styled
+a fierce tenderness, he demanded, "What did you mean, miss, by refusing
+me this afternoon?"
+
+"What did you go at me so stupidly for? I had to refuse," she retorted
+smilingly.
+
+"Will you be my wife?"
+
+"Yes, sir; I meant to be all the time."
+
+The contract having been properly sealed, Lombard said, with a
+countenance curiously divided between a tragical expression and a smile
+of fatuous complacency, "There was a clear case of poetical justice in
+your being left behind in the desert to-night. To see the lights of the
+train disappearing, leaving you alone in the midst of desolation, gave
+you a touch of my feeling on being rejected this afternoon. Of all
+leavings behind, there's none so miserable as the experience of the
+rejected lover."
+
+"Poor fellow! so he should n't be left behind. He shall be conductor
+of the train," she said, with a bewitching laugh. His response was not
+verbal.
+
+"How cold the wind is!" she said.
+
+"Shall I build you another wigwam?"
+
+"No; let us exercise a little. You whistle 'The Beautiful Blue Danube,'
+and we'll waltz. This desert is the biggest, jolliest ball-room floor
+that ever was, and I dare say we shall be the first to waltz on it since
+the creation of the world. That will be something to boast of when we
+get home. Come, let's dedicate the Great American Desert to Terpsichore."
+
+They stepped out from among the ruins of their sagebrush booth upon a
+patch of hard, bare earth close to the railroad track. Lombard
+puckered his lips and struck up the air, and off they went with as much
+enthusiasm as if inspired by a first-class orchestra. Round and round,
+to and fro, they swept until, laughing, flushed, and panting, they came
+to a stop.
+
+It was then that they first perceived that they were not without
+a circle of appreciative spectators. Sitting like statues on their
+sniffing, pawing ponies, a dozen Piute Indians encircled them. Engrossed
+with the dance and with each other, they had not noticed them as they
+rode up, attracted from their route by this marvelous spectacle of a
+pale-face squaw and brave engaged in a solitary war dance in the midst
+of the desert.
+
+At sight of the grim circle of centaurs around them Miss Dwyer would
+have fainted but for Lombard's firm hold.
+
+"Pretend not to see them; keep on dancing," he hissed in her ear. He had
+no distinct plan in what he said, but spoke merely from an instinct of
+self-preservation, which told him that when they stopped, the Indians
+would be upon them. But as she mechanically, and really more dead
+than alive, obeyed his direction and resumed the dance, and he in his
+excitement was treading on her feet at every step, the thought flashed
+upon him that there was a bare chance of escaping violence, if they
+could keep the Indians interested without appearing to notice their
+presence. In successive whispers he communicated his idea to Miss Dyer:
+"Don't act as if you saw them at all, but do everything as if we were
+alone. That will puzzle them, and make them think us supernatural
+beings, or perhaps crazy: Indians have great respect for crazy people.
+It's our only chance. We will stop dancing now, and sing awhile. Give
+them a burlesque of opera. I 'll give you the cues and show you how.
+Don't be frightened. I don't believe they 'll touch us so long as we act
+as if we did n't see them. Do you understand? Can you do your part?"
+
+"I understand; I 'll try," she whispered.
+
+"Now," he said, and as they separated, he threw his hat on the ground,
+and, assuming an extravagantly languishing attitude, burst forth in a
+most poignant burlesque of a lovelorn tenor's part, rolling his eyes,
+clasping his hands, striking his breast, and gyrating about Miss
+Dwyer-in the most approved operatic style. He had a fine voice and knew
+a good deal of music; so that, barring a certain nervousness in the
+performer, the exhibition was really not bad. In his singing he had used
+a meaningless gibberish varied with the syllables of the scale, but he
+closed by singing the words, "Are you ready now? Go ahead, then."
+
+With that she took it up, and rendered the prima donna quite as
+effectively, interjecting "The Last Rose of Summer" as an aria in a
+manner that would have been encored in San Francisco. He responded with
+a few staccato notes, and the scene ended by their rushing into each
+other's arms and waltzing down the stage with abandon.
+
+The Indians sat motionless on their horses, not even exchanging comments
+among themselves. They were evidently too utterly astonished by the
+goings on before them to have any other sentiment as yet beyond pure
+amazement. Here were two richly-dressed pale-faces, such as only lived
+in cities, out in the middle of an uninhabitable desert, in the freezing
+midnight, having a variety and minstrel show all to themselves, and, to
+make the exhibition the more unaccountable, without apparently seeing
+their auditors at all. Had they started up the show after being
+captured, Indian cunning would have recognized in it a device to save
+their lives, but the two had been at it before the party rode up,--
+had, in fact, first attracted attention by their gyrations, which were
+visible for miles out on the moony plain.
+
+Lombard, without ever letting his eyes rest a moment on the Indians so
+as to indicate that he saw them, had still managed by looks askance and
+sweeping glances to keep close watch upon their demeanor, and noted with
+prodigious relief that his wild scheme was succeeding better than he had
+dared to hope. Without any break in the entertainment he communicated
+his reassurance to Miss Dwyer by singing, to the tune of "My Country,
+'tis of Thee," the following original hymn:--
+
+     "We 're doing admir'blee--
+     They 're heap much tickledee:
+          Only keep on."
+
+To which she responded, to the lugubrious air of "John Brown's Body:"--
+
+     "Oh, what do you s'pose they 'll go for to do,
+     Oh, what do you s'pose they 'll go for to do,
+     Oh, what do you s'pose they 'll go for to do,
+          When we can sing no more?"
+
+A thing may be ridiculous without being amusing, and neither of these
+two felt the least inclination to smile at each other's poetry. After
+duly joining in the chorus of "Glory, Hallelujah!" Lombard endeavored
+to cheer his companion by words adapted to the inspiriting air of "Rally
+Bound the Flag, Boys." This was followed by a series of popular airs,
+with solos, duets, and choruses.
+
+But this sort of thing could not go on forever. Lombard was becoming
+exhausted in voice and legs, and as for Miss Dwyer, he was expecting
+to see her drop from moment to moment: Indeed, to the air of "'Way down
+upon the Swanee River" she now began to sing:--
+
+     "Oh, dear! I can't bear up much longer:
+          I 'm tired to death;
+     My voice's gone all to pie-ee-ee-ces,
+          My throat is very sore."
+
+They must inevitably give out in a few minutes, and then he--and,
+terribly worse, she--would be at the mercy of these bestial savages,
+and this seeming farce would turn into most revolting tragedy. With this
+sickening conviction coming over him, Lombard cast a despairing
+look around the horizon to see if there were no help in their bitter
+extremity. Suddenly he burst forth, to the tune of "The Star-Spangled
+Banner: "--
+
+     "Oh, say can you see,
+     Far away to the east,
+     A bright star that doth grow
+     Momentarily brighter?
+     'Tis the far-flashing headlight
+     Of a railroad-train:
+     Ten minutes from now
+     We shall be safe and sound."
+
+What they did in those ten minutes neither could tell afterward. The
+same idea was in both their minds,--that unless the attention of the
+Indians could be held until the train arrived, its approach would
+only precipitate their own fate by impelling the savages to carry out
+whatever designs of murder, insult, or capture they might have. Under
+the influence of the intense excitement of this critical interval it is
+to be feared that the performance degenerated from a high-toned concert
+and variety show into something very like a Howling-Dervish exhibition.
+But, at any rate, it answered its purpose until, after a period that
+seemed like a dozen eternities, the West-bound overland express with
+a tremendous roar and rattle drew up beside them, in response to the
+waving of Miss Dwyer's handkerchief and to Lombard's shouts.
+
+Even had the Indians contemplated hostile intentions,--which they were
+doubtless in a condition of too great general stupefaction to do,--the
+alacrity with which the two performers clambered aboard the cars would
+probably have foiled their designs. But as the train gathered headway
+once more, Lombard could not resist the temptation of venting his
+feelings by shaking his fist ferociously at the audience which he had
+been so conscientiously trying to please up to that moment. It was a
+gratification which had like to have cost him dear. There was a quick
+motion on the part of one of the Indians, and the conductor dragged
+Lombard within the car just as an arrow struck the door.
+
+Mrs. Eustis had slept sweetly all night, and was awakened the next
+morning an hour before the train reached Ogden by the sleeping-car
+porter, who gave her a telegram which had overtaken the train at the
+last station. It read:--
+
+     Am safe and sound. Was left behind by your train last night,
+     and picked up by West-bound express. Will join you at Ogden
+     to-morrow morning.
+
+     Jennie Dwyer.
+
+Mrs. Eustis read the telegram through twice without getting the least
+idea from it. Then she leaned over and looked down into Jennie's berth.
+It had not been slept in. Then she began to understand. Heroically
+resisting a tendency to scream, she thus secured space for second
+thought, and, being a shrewd woman of the world, ended by making up her
+mind to tell no one about the matter. Evidently, Jennie had been having
+some decidedly unconventional experience, and the less publicity given
+to all such passages in young ladies' lives, the better for their
+prospects. It so happened that in the bustle attending the approach to
+the terminus and the prospective change of cars everybody was too busy
+to notice that any passengers were missing. At Ogden Mrs. Eustis left
+the train and went to a hotel. The following morning, a few minutes
+after the arrival of the Central Pacific train, Jennie Dwyer walked into
+her room, Lombard having stopped at the office to secure berths for the
+three to Omaha by the Union Pacific. After Jennie had given an outline
+account of her experiences, and Mrs.' Eustis's equilibrium had been
+measurably restored by proper use of the smelling-salts, the latter lady
+remarked, "And so Mr. Lombard was alone with you there all night? It's
+very unfortunate that it should have happened so."
+
+"Why, I was thinking it very fortunate," replied Jennie, with her most
+childlike expression. "If Mr. Lombard had not been there, I should
+either have frozen to death, or by this time been celebrating my
+honeymoon as bride of a Piute chief."
+
+"Nonsense, child! You know what I mean. People will talk; such
+unpleasant things will be said! I would n't have had it happen for
+anything. And when you were under my charge, too! Do hand me my salts."
+
+"If people are going to say unpleasant things because I am out of an
+evening alone with Mr. Lombard," remarked Jennie, with a mischievous
+smile, "you must prepare yourself to hear a good deal said, my dear, for
+I presume this won't be the last time it will happen. We're engaged to
+be married."
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+Title: Deserted
+       1898
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+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+    <h1>
+      DESERTED
+    </h1>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <h2>
+      By Edward Bellamy <br /> <br /> 1898
+    </h2>
+    <p>
+      <br />
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What a glorious, all-satisfying country this Nevada desert would be, if
+      one were only all eyes, and had no need of food, drink, and shelter! Would
+      n't it, Miss Dwyer? Do you know, I 've no doubt that this is the true
+      location of heaven. You see, the lack of water and vegetation would be no
+      inconvenience to spirits, while the magnificent scenery and the cloudless
+      sky would be just the thing to make them thrive.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;But what I can't get over,&rdquo; responded the young lady addressed, &ldquo;is that
+      these alkali plains, which have been described as so dreary and
+      uninteresting, should prove to be in reality one of the most wonderfully
+      impressive and beautiful regions in the world. What awful fibbers, or what
+      awfully dull people, they must have been whose descriptions have so misled
+      the public! It is perfectly unaccountable. Here I expected to doze all the
+      way across the desert, while in fact I 've grudged my eyes time enough to
+      wink ever since I left my berth this morning.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;The trouble is,&rdquo; replied her companion, &ldquo;that persons in search of the
+      picturesque, or with much eye for it, are rare travelers along this route.
+      The people responsible for the descriptions you complain of are thrifty
+      businessmen, with no idea that there can be any possible attraction in a
+      country where crops can't be raised, timber cut, or ore dug up. For my
+      part, I thank the Lord for the beautiful barrenness that has consecrated
+      this great region to loneliness. Here there will always be a chance to get
+      out of sight and sound of the swarming millions who have already left
+      scarcely standing-room for a man in the East. I wouldn't give much for a
+      country where there are no wildernesses left.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;But I really think it is rather hard to say in just what the beauty of
+      the desert consists,&rdquo; said Miss Dwyer. &ldquo;It is so simple. I scribbled two
+      pages of description in my note-book this morning, but when I read them
+      over, and then looked out of the window, I tore them up. I think the
+      wonderfully fine, clear, brilliant air transfigures the landscape and
+      makes it something that must be seen and can't be told. After seeing how
+      this air makes the ugly sagebrush and the patches of alkali and brown
+      earth a feast to the eye, one can understand how the light of heaven may
+      make the ugliest faces beautiful.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The pretty talker is sitting next the window of palace-car No. 30 of the
+      Central Pacific line, which has already been her flying home for two days.
+      The gentleman who sits beside her professes to be sharing the view, but it
+      is only fair I should tell the reader that under this pretense he is
+      nefariously delighting in the rounded contour of his companion's
+      half-averted face, as she, in unfeigned engrossment, scans the panorama
+      unrolled before them by the swift motion of the car. How sweet and fresh
+      is the bright tint of her cheek against the ghastly white background of
+      the alkali-patches as they flit by! Still, it can't be said that he is n't
+      enjoying the scenery too, for surely there is no such Claude-Lorraine
+      glass to reflect and enhance the beauty of a landscape as the face of a <i>spirituelle</i>
+      girl.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With a profound sigh, summing up both her admiration and that despair of
+      attaining the perfect insight and sympathy imagined and longed for which
+      is always a part of intense appreciation of natural beauty, Miss Dwyer
+      threw herself back in her seat, and fixed her eyes on the car-ceiling with
+      an expression as if she were looking at something at least as far away as
+      the moon.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I 'm going to make a statue when I get home,&rdquo; she said,&mdash;&ldquo;a statue
+      which will personify Nevada, and represent the tameless, desolate,
+      changeless, magnificent beauty and the self-sufficient loneliness of the
+      desert. I can see it in my mind's eye now. It will probably be the finest
+      statue in the world.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If you 'd as lief put your ideal into a painting, I will give you a
+      suggestion that will be original if nothing else,&rdquo; he observed.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What's that?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, having in view these white alkali-patches that chiefly characterize
+      Nevada, paint her as a leper.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That's horrid! You need n't talk to me any more,&rdquo; she exclaimed
+      emphatically.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      With this sort of chatter they had beguiled the time since leaving San
+      Francisco the morning of the day before. Acquaintances are indeed made as
+      rapidly on an overland train as on an ocean steamship, but theirs had
+      dated from the preceding winter, during which they had often met in San
+      Francisco. When Mr. Lombard heard that Miss Dwyer and Mrs. Eustis, her
+      invalid sister, were going East in April, he discovered that he would have
+      business to attend to in New York at about that time; and oddly enough,&mdash;that
+      is, if you choose to take that view of it,&mdash;when the ladies came to
+      go, it turned out that Lombard had taken his ticket for the selfsame train
+      and identical sleeping-car. The result of which was that he had the
+      privilege of handing Miss Dwyer in and out at the eating-stations, of
+      bringing Mrs. Eustis her cup of tea in the car, and of sharing Miss
+      Dwyer's seat and monopolizing her conversation when he had a mind to,
+      which was most of the time. A bright and congenial companion has this
+      advantage over a book, that he or she is an author whom you can make
+      discourse on any subject you please, instead of being obliged to follow an
+      arbitrary selection by another, as when you commune with the printed page.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      By way of peace-offering for his blasphemy in calling the Nevada desert a
+      leper, Lombard had embezzled a couple of chairs from the smoking-room and
+      carried them to the rear platform of the car, which happened to be the
+      last of the train, and invited Miss Dwyer to come thither and see the
+      scenery. Whether she had wanted to pardon him or not, he knew very well
+      that this was a temptation which she could not resist, for the rear
+      platform was the best spot for observation on the entire train, unless it
+      were the cowcatcher of the locomotive.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The April sun mingled with the frosty air like whiskey with ice-water,
+      producing an effect cool but exhilarating. As she sat in the door of the
+      little passage leading to the platform, she scarcely needed the shawl
+      which he wrapped about her with absurdly exaggerated solicitude. One of
+      the most unmistakable symptoms of the lover is the absorbing and
+      superfluous care with which he adjusts the wraps about the object of his
+      affections whether the weather be warm or cold: it is as if he thought he
+      could thus artificially warm her heart toward him. But Miss Dwyer did not
+      appear vexed, pretending indeed to be oblivious of everything else in
+      admiration of the spectacle before her.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The country stretched flat and bare as a table for fifty miles on either
+      side the track,&mdash;a distance looking in the clear air not over one
+      fifth as great. On every side this great plain was circled by mountains,
+      the reddish-brown sides of some of them bare to the summits, while others
+      were robed in folds of glistening snow and looked like white curtains
+      drawn part way up the sky. The whitey-gray of the alkali-patches, the
+      brown of the dry earth, and the rusty green of the sagebrush filled the
+      foreground, melting in the distance into a purple-gray. The wondrous
+      dryness and clearness of the air lent to these modest tints a tone and
+      dazzling brilliance that surprised the eye with a revelation of
+      possibilities never before suspected in them. But the mountains were the
+      greatest wonder. It was as if the skies, taking pity on their nakedness,
+      had draped their majestic shoulders in imperial purple, while at this hour
+      the westering sun tipped their pinnacles with gilt. In the distance half a
+      dozen sand-spouts, swiftly-moving white pillars, looking like desert genii
+      with too much &ldquo;tanglefoot&rdquo; aboard, were careering about in every
+      direction.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But as Lombard pointed out the various features of the scene to his
+      companion, I fear that his chief motive was less an admiration of Nature
+      that sought sympathy than a selfish delight in making her eyes flash,
+      seeing the color come and go in her cheeks, and hearing her charming
+      unstudied exclamations of pleasure,&mdash;a delight not unmingled with
+      complacency in associating himself in her mind with emotions of delight
+      and admiration. It is appalling, the extent to which spoony young people
+      make the admiration of Nature in her grandest forms a mere sauce to their
+      love-making. The roar of Niagara has been notoriously utilized as a cover
+      to unlimited osculation, and Adolphus looks up at the sky-cleaving peak of
+      Mont Blanc only to look down at Angelina's countenance with a more vivid
+      appreciation of its superior attractions.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was delicious, Lombard thought, sitting there with her on the rear
+      platform, out of sight and sound of everybody. He had such a pleasant
+      sense of proprietorship in her! How agreeable&mdash;flatteringly so, in
+      fact&mdash;she had been all day! There was nothing like traveling together
+      to make people intimate. It was clear that she understood his intentions
+      very well: indeed, how could she help it? He had always said that a fellow
+      had shown himself a bungler at love-making if he were not practically
+      assured of the result before he came to the point of the declaration. The
+      sensation of leaving everything else so rapidly behind that people have
+      when sitting on the rear platform of a train of cars makes them feel, by
+      force of contrast, nearer to each other and more identified. How pretty
+      she looked sitting there in the doorway, her eyes bent so pensively on the
+      track behind as the car-wheels so swiftly reeled it off! He had tucked her
+      in comfortably. No cold could get to the sweet little girl, and none ever
+      should so long as he lived to make her comfort his care.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      One small gloved hand lay on her lap outside the shawl. What a jolly
+      little hand it was! He reached out his own and took it, but, without even
+      a moment's hesitation for him to extract a flattering inference from, she
+      withdrew it. Perhaps something in his matter-of-course way displeased her.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      To know when it is best to submit to a partial rebuff, rather than make a
+      bad matter worse by trying to save one's pride, is a rare wisdom. Still,
+      Lombard might have exercised it at another time. But there are days when
+      the magnetisms are all wrong, and a person not ordinarily deficient in
+      tact, having begun wrong, goes on blundering like a schoolboy. Piqued at
+      the sudden shock to the pleasant day-dream, in which he had fancied
+      himself already virtually assured of this young lady,&mdash;a day-dream
+      which she was not really accountable for spoiling, since she had not been
+      privy to it,&mdash;what should he do but find expression for his mingled
+      vexation and wounded affection by reminding her of a previous occasion on
+      which she had allowed him the liberty she now denied? Doubtless helping to
+      account for this lack of tact was the idea that he should thus justify
+      himself for so far presuming just now. Not, of course, that there is
+      really any excuse for a young man's forgetting that ladies have one
+      advantage over Omniscience, in that not only are they privileged to
+      remember what they please, but also to ignore what they see fit to forget.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You have forgotten that evening at the California Theatre,&rdquo; was what this
+      devoted youth said.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I 'm sure I don't know to what you refer, sir,&rdquo; she replied freezingly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He was terrified at the distant accent of her voice. It appeared to come
+      from somewhere beyond the fixed stars, and brought the chill of the
+      interstellar spaces with it. He forgot in an instant all about his pique,
+      vexation, and wounded pride, and was in a panic of anxiety to bring her
+      back. In a moment more he knew that she would rise from her chair and
+      remark that it was getting cold and she must go in. If he allowed her to
+      depart in that mood, he might lose her forever. He could think of but one
+      way of convincing her instantaneously of his devotion; and so what should
+      he do but take the most inopportune occasion in the entire course of their
+      acquaintance to make his declaration. He was like a general whose plan of
+      battle has been completely deranged by an utterly unexpected repulse in a
+      preliminary movement, compelling him to hurry forward his last reserves in
+      a desperate attempt to restore the battle.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What have I done, Miss Dwyer? Don't you know that I love you? Won't you
+      be my wife?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No, sir,&rdquo; she said flatly, her taste outraged and her sensibilities set
+      on edge by the stupid, blundering, hammer-and-tongs onset which from first
+      to last he had made. She loved him, and had meant to accept him, but if
+      she had loved him ten times as much she couldn't have helped refusing him
+      just then, under those circumstances,&mdash;not if she died for it. As she
+      spoke, she rose and disappeared within the car. It is certainly to be
+      hoped that the noise of the wheels, which out on the platform was
+      considerable, prevented the recording angel from getting the full force of
+      Lombard's ejaculation.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It is bad enough to be refused when the delicacy and respectfulness of the
+      lady's manner make &ldquo;No&rdquo; sound so much like &ldquo;Yes&rdquo; that the rejected lover
+      can almost persuade himself that his ears have deceived him. It is bad
+      enough to be refused when she does it so timidly and shrinkingly and
+      deprecatingly that it might be supposed she were the rejected party. It is
+      bad enough to be refused when she expresses the hope that you will always
+      be friends, and shows a disposition to make profuse amends in general
+      agreeableness for the consummate favor which she is forced to decline you.
+      Not to put too fine a point upon it, it is bad enough to be refused anyhow
+      you can arrange the circumstances, but to be refused as Lombard had been,
+      with a petulance as wounding to his dignity as was the refusal itself to
+      his affections, is to take a bitter pill with an asafotida coating.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      In the limp and demoralized condition in which he was left, the only clear
+      sentiment in his mind was that he did not want to meet her again just at
+      present. So he sat for an hour or more longer out on the platform, and had
+      become as thoroughly chilled without as he was within when at dusk the
+      train stopped at a little three-house station for supper. Then he went
+      into one of the forward day-cars, not intending to return to the
+      sleeping-car till Miss Dwyer should have retired. When the train reached
+      Ogden the next morning, instead of going on East he would take the same
+      train back to San Francisco, and that would be the end of his romance. His
+      engagement in New York had been a myth, and with Miss Dwyer's &ldquo;No, sir,&rdquo;
+       the only business with the East that had brought him on this trip was at
+      an end.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      About an hour after leaving the supper-station, the train suddenly stopped
+      in the midst of the desert. Something about the engine had become
+      disarranged, which it would take some time to put right. Glad to improve
+      an opportunity to stretch their legs, many of the passengers left the cars
+      and were strolling about, curiously examining the sagebrush and the
+      alkali, and admiring the ghostly plain as it spread, bare, level, and
+      white as an icebound polar sea, to the feet of the far-off mountains.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Lombard had also left the car, and was walking about, his hands in his
+      overcoat pockets, trying to clear his mind of the wreckage that obstructed
+      its working; for Miss Dwyer's refusal had come upon him as a sudden squall
+      that carries away the masts and sails of a vessel and transforms it in a
+      moment from a gallant bounding ship to a mere hulk drifting in an
+      entangled mass of débris. Of course she had a perfect right to suit
+      herself about the kind of a man she took for a husband, but he certainly
+      had not thought she was such an utter coquette. If ever a woman gave a man
+      reason to think himself as good as engaged, she had given him that reason,
+      and yet she refused him as coolly as she would have declined a second
+      plate of soup. There must be some truth, after all, in the rant of the
+      poets about the heartlessness and fickleness of women, although he had
+      always been used to consider it the merest bosh. Suddenly he heard the
+      train moving. He was perhaps fifty yards off, and, grumbling anathemas at
+      the stupidity of the conductor, started to run for the last car. He was
+      not quite desperate enough to fancy being left alone on the Nevada desert
+      with night coming on. He would have caught the train without difficulty,
+      if his foot had not happened to catch in a tough clump of sage, throwing
+      him violently to the ground. As he gathered himself up, the train was a
+      hundred yards off, and moving rapidly. To overtake it was out of the
+      question.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Stop! ho! stop!&rdquo; he yelled at the top of his lungs. But there was no one
+      on the rear platform to see him, and the closed windows and the rattle of
+      the wheels were sufficient to render a much louder noise than he could
+      make inaudible to the dozing passengers. And now the engineer pulled out
+      the throttle-valve to make up for lost time, and the clatter of the train
+      faded into a distant roar, and its lights began to twinkle into
+      indistinctness.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Damnation!&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      A voice fell like a falling star: &ldquo;Gentlemen do not use profane language
+      in ladies' company.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      He first looked up in the air, as on the whole the likeliest quarter for a
+      voice to come from in this desert, then around. Just on the other side of
+      the track stood Miss Dwyer, smiling, with a somewhat constrained attempt
+      at self-possession. Lombard was a good deal taken aback, but in his
+      surprise he did not forget that this was the young lady who had refused
+      him that afternoon.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I beg your pardon,&rdquo; he replied, with a stiff bow; &ldquo;I did not suppose that
+      there were any ladies within hearing.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I got out of the car supposing there was plenty of time to get a specimen
+      of sagebrush to carry home,&rdquo; she explained; &ldquo;but when the cars started,
+      although I was but a little way off, I could not regain the platform;&rdquo;
+       which, considering that she wore a tie-back of the then prevalent fashion,
+      was not surprising.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Indeed!&rdquo; replied Lombard, with the same formal manner.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;But won't the train come back for us?&rdquo; she asked, in a more anxious
+      voice.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That will depend on whether we are missed. Nobody will miss me. Mrs.
+      Eustis, if she hasn't gone to bed, may miss you.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;But she has. She went to bed before I left the car, and is asleep by this
+      time.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;That 's unfortunate,&rdquo; was his brief reply, as he lit a cigar and began to
+      smoke and contemplate the stars.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      His services, so far as he could do anything for her, she should, as a
+      lady, command, but if she thought that he was going to do the agreeable
+      after what had happened a few hours ago, she was mightily mistaken.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      There was a silence, and then she said, hesitatingly, &ldquo;What are we going
+      to do?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      He glanced at her. Her attitude and the troubled expression of her face,
+      as well as her voice, indicated that the logic of the situation was
+      overthrowing the jaunty self-possession which she had at first affected.
+      The desert was staring her out of countenance. How his heart yearned
+      toward her! If she had only given him a right to take care of her, how he
+      would comfort her! what prodigies would he be capable of to succor her!
+      But this rising impulse of tenderness was turned to choking bitterness by
+      the memory of that scornful &ldquo;No, sir.&rdquo; So he replied coldly, &ldquo;I 'm not in
+      the habit of being left behind in deserts, and I don't know what it is
+      customary to do in such cases. I see nothing except to wait for the next
+      train, which will come along some time within twenty-four hours.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      There was another long silence, after which she said in a timid voice,
+      &ldquo;Had n't we better walk to the next station?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      At the suggestion of walking he glanced at her close-fitting dress, and a
+      sardonic grin slightly twitched the corners of his mouth as he dryly
+      answered, &ldquo;It is thirty miles one way and twenty the other to the first
+      station.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Several minutes passed before she spoke again, and then she said, with an
+      accent almost like that of a child in trouble and about to cry, &ldquo;I 'm
+      cold.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The strong, unceasing wind, blowing from snowy mountain-caverns across a
+      plain on which there was not the slightest barrier of hill or tree to
+      check its violence, was indeed bitterly cold, and Lombard himself felt
+      chilled to the marrow of his bones. He took off his overcoat and offered
+      it to her.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No,&rdquo; said she, &ldquo;you are as cold as I am.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;You will please take it,&rdquo; he replied, in a peremptory manner; and she
+      took it.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;At this rate we shall freeze to death before midnight,&rdquo; he added, as if
+      in soliloquy. &ldquo;I must see if I can't contrive to make some sort of a
+      shelter with this sagebrush.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      He began by tearing up a large number of bushes by the roots. Seeing what
+      he was doing, Miss Dwyer was glad to warm her stiffened muscles by taking
+      hold and helping; which she did with a vigor that shortly reduced her
+      gloves to shreds and filled her fingers with scratches from the rough
+      twigs. Lombard next chose an unusually high and thick clump of brush, and
+      cleared a small space three feet across in the centre of it, scattering
+      twigs on the uncovered earth to keep off its chill.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Now, Miss Dwyer, if you will step inside this spot, I think I can build
+      up the bushes around us so as to make a sort of booth which may save us
+      from freezing.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      She silently did as he directed, and he proceeded to pile the brush which
+      they had torn up on the tops of the bushes left standing around the spot
+      where they were, thus making a circular wall about three feet high. Over
+      the top he managed to draw together two or three bushes, and the
+      improvised wigwam was complete.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The moonlight penetrated the loose roof sufficiently to reveal to each
+      other the faces and figures of the two occupants as they sat in opposite
+      corners, as far apart as possible, she cold and miserable, he cold and
+      sulky, and both silent. And, as if to mock him, the idea kept recurring to
+      his mind how romantic and delightful, in spite of the cold and discomfort,
+      the situation would be if she had only said Yes, instead of No, that
+      afternoon. People have odd notions sometimes, and it actually seemed to
+      him that his vexation with her for destroying the pleasure of the present
+      occasion was something quite apart from, and in addition to, his main
+      grievance against her. It might have been so jolly, and now she had
+      spoiled it. He could have boxed her pretty little ears.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      She wondered why he did not try to light a fire, but she wouldn't ask him
+      another thing, if she died. In point of fact, he knew the sagebrush would
+      not burn. Suddenly the wind blew fiercer, there came a rushing sound, and
+      the top and walls of the wigwam were whisked off like a flash, and as they
+      staggered to their feet, buffeted by the whirling bushes, a cloud of fine
+      alkali-dust enveloped them, blinding their eyes, penetrating their ears
+      and noses, and setting them gasping, sneezing, and coughing spasmodically.
+      Then, like a puff of smoke, the suffocating storm was dissipated, and when
+      they opened their smarting eyes there was nothing but the silent, glorious
+      desolation of the ghostly desert around them, with the snow-peaks in the
+      distance glittering beneath the moon. A sand-spout had struck them, that
+      was all,&mdash;one of the whirling dust-columns which they had admired all
+      day from the car-windows.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Wretched enough before, both for physical and sentimental reasons, this
+      last experience quite demoralized Miss Dwyer, and she sat down and cried.
+      Now, a few tears, regarded from a practical, middle-aged point of view,
+      would not appear to have greatly complicated the situation, but they threw
+      Lombard into a panic. If she was going to cry, something must be done.
+      Whether anything could be done or not, something <i>must</i> be done.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Don't leave me,&rdquo; she cried hysterically, as he rushed off to reconnoitre
+      the vicinity.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I 'll return presently,&rdquo; he called back.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes passed, and he did not come
+      back. Terror dried her tears, and her heart almost stopped beating. She
+      had quite given him up for lost, and herself too, when with inexpressible
+      relief she heard him call to her. She replied, and in a moment more he was
+      at her side, breathless with running.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I lost my bearings,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If you had not answered me, I could not
+      have found you.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Don't leave me again,&rdquo; she sobbed, clinging to his arm.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      He put his arms round her and kissed her. It was mean, base, contemptible,
+      to take advantage of her agitation in that way, but she did not resist,
+      and he did it again and again,&mdash;I forbear to say how many times.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Is n't it a perfectly beautiful night?&rdquo; he exclaimed, with a fine gush of
+      enthusiasm.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Is n't it exquisite?&rdquo; she echoed, with a rush of sympathetic feeling.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;See those stars: they look as if they had just been polished,&rdquo; he cried.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What a droll idea!&rdquo; she exclaimed gleefully. &ldquo;But do see that lovely
+      mountain.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      Holding her with a firmer clasp, and speaking with what might be styled a
+      fierce tenderness, he demanded, &ldquo;What did you mean, miss, by refusing me
+      this afternoon?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;What did you go at me so stupidly for? I had to refuse,&rdquo; she retorted
+      smilingly.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Will you be my wife?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Yes, sir; I meant to be all the time.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      The contract having been properly sealed, Lombard said, with a countenance
+      curiously divided between a tragical expression and a smile of fatuous
+      complacency, &ldquo;There was a clear case of poetical justice in your being
+      left behind in the desert to-night. To see the lights of the train
+      disappearing, leaving you alone in the midst of desolation, gave you a
+      touch of my feeling on being rejected this afternoon. Of all leavings
+      behind, there's none so miserable as the experience of the rejected
+      lover.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Poor fellow! so he should n't be left behind. He shall be conductor of
+      the train,&rdquo; she said, with a bewitching laugh. His response was not
+      verbal.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;How cold the wind is!&rdquo; she said.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Shall I build you another wigwam?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;No; let us exercise a little. You whistle 'The Beautiful Blue Danube,'
+      and we'll waltz. This desert is the biggest, jolliest ball-room floor that
+      ever was, and I dare say we shall be the first to waltz on it since the
+      creation of the world. That will be something to boast of when we get
+      home. Come, let's dedicate the Great American Desert to Terpsichore.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      They stepped out from among the ruins of their sagebrush booth upon a
+      patch of hard, bare earth close to the railroad track. Lombard puckered
+      his lips and struck up the air, and off they went with as much enthusiasm
+      as if inspired by a first-class orchestra. Round and round, to and fro,
+      they swept until, laughing, flushed, and panting, they came to a stop.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      It was then that they first perceived that they were not without a circle
+      of appreciative spectators. Sitting like statues on their sniffing, pawing
+      ponies, a dozen Piute Indians encircled them. Engrossed with the dance and
+      with each other, they had not noticed them as they rode up, attracted from
+      their route by this marvelous spectacle of a pale-face squaw and brave
+      engaged in a solitary war dance in the midst of the desert.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      At sight of the grim circle of centaurs around them Miss Dwyer would have
+      fainted but for Lombard's firm hold.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Pretend not to see them; keep on dancing,&rdquo; he hissed in her ear. He had
+      no distinct plan in what he said, but spoke merely from an instinct of
+      self-preservation, which told him that when they stopped, the Indians
+      would be upon them. But as she mechanically, and really more dead than
+      alive, obeyed his direction and resumed the dance, and he in his
+      excitement was treading on her feet at every step, the thought flashed
+      upon him that there was a bare chance of escaping violence, if they could
+      keep the Indians interested without appearing to notice their presence. In
+      successive whispers he communicated his idea to Miss Dyer: &ldquo;Don't act as
+      if you saw them at all, but do everything as if we were alone. That will
+      puzzle them, and make them think us supernatural beings, or perhaps crazy:
+      Indians have great respect for crazy people. It's our only chance. We will
+      stop dancing now, and sing awhile. Give them a burlesque of opera. I 'll
+      give you the cues and show you how. Don't be frightened. I don't believe
+      they 'll touch us so long as we act as if we did n't see them. Do you
+      understand? Can you do your part?&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;I understand; I 'll try,&rdquo; she whispered.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Now,&rdquo; he said, and as they separated, he threw his hat on the ground,
+      and, assuming an extravagantly languishing attitude, burst forth in a most
+      poignant burlesque of a lovelorn tenor's part, rolling his eyes, clasping
+      his hands, striking his breast, and gyrating about Miss Dwyer-in the most
+      approved operatic style. He had a fine voice and knew a good deal of
+      music; so that, barring a certain nervousness in the performer, the
+      exhibition was really not bad. In his singing he had used a meaningless
+      gibberish varied with the syllables of the scale, but he closed by singing
+      the words, &ldquo;Are you ready now? Go ahead, then.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      With that she took it up, and rendered the prima donna quite as
+      effectively, interjecting &ldquo;The Last Rose of Summer&rdquo; as an aria in a manner
+      that would have been encored in San Francisco. He responded with a few
+      staccato notes, and the scene ended by their rushing into each other's
+      arms and waltzing down the stage with abandon.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      The Indians sat motionless on their horses, not even exchanging comments
+      among themselves. They were evidently too utterly astonished by the goings
+      on before them to have any other sentiment as yet beyond pure amazement.
+      Here were two richly-dressed pale-faces, such as only lived in cities, out
+      in the middle of an uninhabitable desert, in the freezing midnight, having
+      a variety and minstrel show all to themselves, and, to make the exhibition
+      the more unaccountable, without apparently seeing their auditors at all.
+      Had they started up the show after being captured, Indian cunning would
+      have recognized in it a device to save their lives, but the two had been
+      at it before the party rode up,&mdash; had, in fact, first attracted
+      attention by their gyrations, which were visible for miles out on the
+      moony plain.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Lombard, without ever letting his eyes rest a moment on the Indians so as
+      to indicate that he saw them, had still managed by looks askance and
+      sweeping glances to keep close watch upon their demeanor, and noted with
+      prodigious relief that his wild scheme was succeeding better than he had
+      dared to hope. Without any break in the entertainment he communicated his
+      reassurance to Miss Dwyer by singing, to the tune of &ldquo;My Country, 'tis of
+      Thee,&rdquo; the following original hymn:&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     &ldquo;We 're doing admir'blee&mdash;
+     They 're heap much tickledee:
+          Only keep on.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      To which she responded, to the lugubrious air of &ldquo;John Brown's Body:&rdquo;&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     &ldquo;Oh, what do you s'pose they 'll go for to do,
+     Oh, what do you s'pose they 'll go for to do,
+     Oh, what do you s'pose they 'll go for to do,
+          When we can sing no more?&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      A thing may be ridiculous without being amusing, and neither of these two
+      felt the least inclination to smile at each other's poetry. After duly
+      joining in the chorus of &ldquo;Glory, Hallelujah!&rdquo; Lombard endeavored to cheer
+      his companion by words adapted to the inspiriting air of &ldquo;Rally Bound the
+      Flag, Boys.&rdquo; This was followed by a series of popular airs, with solos,
+      duets, and choruses.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      But this sort of thing could not go on forever. Lombard was becoming
+      exhausted in voice and legs, and as for Miss Dwyer, he was expecting to
+      see her drop from moment to moment: Indeed, to the air of &ldquo;'Way down upon
+      the Swanee River&rdquo; she now began to sing:&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     &ldquo;Oh, dear! I can't bear up much longer:
+          I 'm tired to death;
+     My voice's gone all to pie-ee-ee-ces,
+          My throat is very sore.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      They must inevitably give out in a few minutes, and then he&mdash;and,
+      terribly worse, she&mdash;would be at the mercy of these bestial savages,
+      and this seeming farce would turn into most revolting tragedy. With this
+      sickening conviction coming over him, Lombard cast a despairing look
+      around the horizon to see if there were no help in their bitter extremity.
+      Suddenly he burst forth, to the tune of &ldquo;The Star-Spangled Banner: &ldquo;&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     &ldquo;Oh, say can you see,
+     Far away to the east,
+     A bright star that doth grow
+     Momentarily brighter?
+     'Tis the far-flashing headlight
+     Of a railroad-train:
+     Ten minutes from now
+     We shall be safe and sound.&rdquo;
+ </pre>
+    <p>
+      What they did in those ten minutes neither could tell afterward. The same
+      idea was in both their minds,&mdash;that unless the attention of the
+      Indians could be held until the train arrived, its approach would only
+      precipitate their own fate by impelling the savages to carry out whatever
+      designs of murder, insult, or capture they might have. Under the influence
+      of the intense excitement of this critical interval it is to be feared
+      that the performance degenerated from a high-toned concert and variety
+      show into something very like a Howling-Dervish exhibition. But, at any
+      rate, it answered its purpose until, after a period that seemed like a
+      dozen eternities, the West-bound overland express with a tremendous roar
+      and rattle drew up beside them, in response to the waving of Miss Dwyer's
+      handkerchief and to Lombard's shouts.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Even had the Indians contemplated hostile intentions,&mdash;which they
+      were doubtless in a condition of too great general stupefaction to do,&mdash;the
+      alacrity with which the two performers clambered aboard the cars would
+      probably have foiled their designs. But as the train gathered headway once
+      more, Lombard could not resist the temptation of venting his feelings by
+      shaking his fist ferociously at the audience which he had been so
+      conscientiously trying to please up to that moment. It was a gratification
+      which had like to have cost him dear. There was a quick motion on the part
+      of one of the Indians, and the conductor dragged Lombard within the car
+      just as an arrow struck the door.
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Mrs. Eustis had slept sweetly all night, and was awakened the next morning
+      an hour before the train reached Ogden by the sleeping-car porter, who
+      gave her a telegram which had overtaken the train at the last station. It
+      read:&mdash;
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+     Am safe and sound. Was left behind by your train last night,
+     and picked up by West-bound express. Will join you at Ogden
+     to-morrow morning.
+
+     Jennie Dwyer.
+</pre>
+    <p>
+      Mrs. Eustis read the telegram through twice without getting the least idea
+      from it. Then she leaned over and looked down into Jennie's berth. It had
+      not been slept in. Then she began to understand. Heroically resisting a
+      tendency to scream, she thus secured space for second thought, and, being
+      a shrewd woman of the world, ended by making up her mind to tell no one
+      about the matter. Evidently, Jennie had been having some decidedly
+      unconventional experience, and the less publicity given to all such
+      passages in young ladies' lives, the better for their prospects. It so
+      happened that in the bustle attending the approach to the terminus and the
+      prospective change of cars everybody was too busy to notice that any
+      passengers were missing. At Ogden Mrs. Eustis left the train and went to a
+      hotel. The following morning, a few minutes after the arrival of the
+      Central Pacific train, Jennie Dwyer walked into her room, Lombard having
+      stopped at the office to secure berths for the three to Omaha by the Union
+      Pacific. After Jennie had given an outline account of her experiences, and
+      Mrs.' Eustis's equilibrium had been measurably restored by proper use of
+      the smelling-salts, the latter lady remarked, &ldquo;And so Mr. Lombard was
+      alone with you there all night? It's very unfortunate that it should have
+      happened so.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Why, I was thinking it very fortunate,&rdquo; replied Jennie, with her most
+      childlike expression. &ldquo;If Mr. Lombard had not been there, I should either
+      have frozen to death, or by this time been celebrating my honeymoon as
+      bride of a Piute chief.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;Nonsense, child! You know what I mean. People will talk; such unpleasant
+      things will be said! I would n't have had it happen for anything. And when
+      you were under my charge, too! Do hand me my salts.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      &ldquo;If people are going to say unpleasant things because I am out of an
+      evening alone with Mr. Lombard,&rdquo; remarked Jennie, with a mischievous
+      smile, &ldquo;you must prepare yourself to hear a good deal said, my dear, for I
+      presume this won't be the last time it will happen. We're engaged to be
+      married.&rdquo;
+     </p>
+    <p>
+      <br /> <br />
+    </p>
+<pre xml:space="preserve">
+
+
+
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