AN INCIDENT IN A RAILWAY TUNNEL.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2059, 10 August 1875, Page 3

AN INCIDENT IN A RAILWAY TUNNEL.

A correspondent of the Dundee Advertiser writes,: —A lady of dazzling beauty sat right in front of me,, and I dare say each, passenger felt that we were too tightly wedged together for such a warm day. A gentleman who had assisted the lady whose beauty was so bewitching -into the carriage squeezed himself with difficulty down at my left side, that being the only available space ; and from certain little attentions that i passed between them I concluded they were husband and wife. As we rushed onward, from the window my eye? glanced o'er the most strifeV»g features of the landscape, and I could not for the soul of me keep from talcing an occasional peep at the "vision of delight" before me. Suddenly the charming crcature,b.ent her head towards the gentleman .on my^ left, ■who, nothing loth,.bent forward to listen. " I wish we were .through the horrid tunnel," said.the lady, in accents that thrilled me like melody. " After the first halt we will reach it in a few minutes ; don't be frightened," said the gentleman, "at the tunnel, my deal." After this bi'ief confab both assumed their upright position, the whistle sounded, our speed slackened, and finally we halted. A boy, who sat nest the gentleman on my left, went out, which circumstance gave us more room arid more comfort, as we did not feel sojammed together, the gentleman having moved a little further from me. We started, and in time entered the tunnel; and in the darkness of that tunnel, whether in.the body or out of the body I cannot .tell, but this I know I had a.blessed experience indeed. A light little hand was laid on my shoulder; 1 felt a sweet warm breath fan my face; and heaven and dearth in a moment ot time, a pair ofdelicious r moist, small lips were rubbing at mine, adjusting themselves to that ecstatic pressure — that

ntensification of sweetness which lips •can feel but tongue can never express. This done, the little hand slid down my arm, thrilling every nerve in my body, and finally deposited two ..or three lozenges in my hand. May-the gentleman on ray left ever remain in "blissful ignorance of the mistake his better half made in the darkness of that tunnel. He. was, as I afterwards learned, her accredited husband.