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There were such things as express trains that went on, she supposed, for hundreds of miles without stopping. Suppose this should be one of them? How would she get home again? She had no money to pay for the return journey. "And I've no business here. I'm an engine-burglar that's what I am," she thought. "I shouldn't wonder if they could lock me up for this."
And as the three children went home up the hill, Peter hugging the engine, now quite its own self again, Bobbie told, with joyous leaps of the heart, the story of how she had been an Engine-burglar. It was one day when Mother had gone to Maidbridge. She had gone alone, but the children were to go to the station to meet her.
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