CHAPTER XVII.A NEW SIDE.
Ida met with an experience unusual to her on her trip to Philadelphia.
While riding on the cars she perceived that a man and woman, fellow-passengers, were eying her with no little curiosity.
What had attracted their attention she was at a loss to know, and for a time it irritated her.
But, turning to the window, she, by interesting herself in a magazine, tried to forget it.
And, becoming interested in her story, she did forget it, and was only started from her interest by seeing a man seat himself in the chair next to her.
For a time she paid no attention to this person, except to observe that he was a man apparently of thirty-five, wearing a closely-clipped brown beard and brown mustache, his hair cut very short.
Her book slipping from her lap gave this ma
