So she shall have the hour she
asked, many, many of them, enough to make her acknowledge that she is
wrong. Now I am going to write my letters and take my walk."
Elnora threw her arms around her mother and kissed her repeatedly.
"Don't you worry about me," she said. "I will get along all right, and
whatever happens, I always will be your girl and you my darling mother."
She left two sealed notes on her desk. Then she changed her dress,
packed a small bundle which she dropped with her hat from the window
beside the willow, and softly went down stairs. Mrs. Comstock was in the
garden. Elnora picked up the hat and bundle, hurried down the road a few
rods, then climbed the fence and entered the woods. She took a diagonal
course, and after a long walk reached a road two miles west and one
south. There she straightened her clothing, put on her hat and a thin
dark veil and waited the passing of the next trolley. She left it at the
first town and took a train for Fort Wayne. She made that point just in
time to climb on the evening train north, as it pulled from the station.
It was after midnight when she left the car at Grand Rapids, and went
into the depot to await the coming of day.
Tired out, she laid her head on her bundle and fell asleep on a seat in
the women's waiting-room. Long after light she was awakened by the roar
and rattle of trains. She washed, re-arranged her hair and clothing, and
went into the general waiting-room to find her way to the street.
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