TRAVELING WITH A REFORMER
Now do go on with the game play the whole day if you want to and don t let s have any more trou ble about it!"
"No, I only sat down here to establish this gen tleman s rights he can have his place now. But before you go won t you tell me what you think the company made this rule for? Can you imagine an excuse for it? I mean a rational one an ex cuse that is not on its face silly, and the invention of an idiot?"
"Why, surely I can. The reason it was made is plain enough. It is to save the feelings of the other passengers the religious ones among them, I mean. They would not like it, to have the Sabbath dese crated by card-playing on the train."
"I just thought as much. They are willing to desecrate it themselves by traveling on Sunday, but they are not willing that other people
"By gracious, you ve hit it! I never thought of that before. The fact is, it is a silly rule when you come to look into it."
At this point the train-conductor arrived, and was going to shut down the game in a very high-handed fashion, but the parlor-car conductor stopped him and took him aside to explain. Nothing more was heard of the matter.
I was ill in bed eleven days in Chicago and got no glimpse of the Fair, for I was obliged to return east as soon as I was able to travel. The Major secured and paid for a stateroom in a sleeper the day before we left, so that I could have plenty of room and be comfortable; but when we arrived at the station a
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