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Sometimes it took a few early travellers from Calne to Garchester; especially on Wednesdays and Saturdays, Garchester market-days; but it rarely left passengers at Calne. "Did you hear the news, Mr. Markham?" asked the porter. "What news?" returned the station-master. "I heard it last night. Jim come into the Elster Arms with it, and he'd heard it at Garchester.
The station-master looked somewhat sharply at the man he was addressing, and decided to give the direction asked. "There is but one young girl in town of that name," he declared, "and she lives in that little house you see just beyond the works. But let me tell you, stranger," he went on with some precipitation
"The Signori may stay all night, and welcome; but they cannot come to dinner, for there is nothing in the house to eat!" This was not reassuring, and again the old station-master lost himself in meditation.
Had the telegrams been despatched many things would have occurred; but since the only signaller in Jumala had gone to bed, and the station-master, after one look at the tremendous pile of paper, discovered that railway regulations forbade the forwarding of imperial messages, policemen Ram Singh and Nihal Singh were fain to turn the stuff into a pillow and slept on it very comfortably.
The little man was in deeper gloom than a day sobering on crimson dusk when the train stopped and his quick ear caught the sound of the station, as pronounced by his friend at Rouen. He handed his card to the station-master. A glance, and the latter signalled to a porter, saying: 'Paradis'; and the porter laid hold of Skepsey's bag. Skepsey's grasp was firm; he pulled, the porter pulled.
'I'll see he's well looked after, he said, 'and I'll bring him in time to catch the 7.30 train to Meresleigh in the morning. 'You'll find him in my office, answered the station-master, and to the office Coote went accordingly. Now, if he had acted sensibly in the matter he would have spared Jimmy a good deal of unpleasantness, and Jimmy's father and mother much anxiety.
With mistrust mounting to exasperation Zuleika sat watching the faint and frantic researches of her maid. "Stop!" she said suddenly. "I have a much better idea. Go down very early to the station. See the station-master. Order me a special train. For ten o'clock, say." Rising, she stretched her arms above her head. Her lips parted in a yawn, met in a smile.
Pitt went over to the station with a boy, who wheeled the luggage. When the suit-cases were duly labeled "Leamington," and the station-master had received his tip of a shilling, to insure his remembering them, Mrs. Pitt returned to the hotel, where she found five bicycles lined up. At sight of her, the rest came running out.
I should advise you all to put some food into your haversacks, there is no saying how long we may be on the road." "What sort of trucks are they, Chris?" "They have high sides, but no roofs. Of course I would rather have had roofs, but the station-master could not provide any waggons with them.
"There might be a horse at the 'Lion. There's no post-office." "Well, I suppose I could wire to Brookfield Station from here?" "Not to Brookfield." "But supposing you want to tell the station-master there that the train's off the line, or that you've won the first prize at the Flower Show in the vegetable class, how would you do it?" "Brookfield's not on this line.
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