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The brawny-armed fellows hang back, and scowl, and muffle words in a very suspicious manner, and protest they won't be got into a scrape. But Crene has no scrape for them. She cannot swear to their identity. She had eyes only for the trunk. "Well," says Baggage-man, at his wits' end, "you let me take your check, and I'll send the trunk on by express, when it comes."
The baggage-man had not seen him lately. The ranch was almost certain to be too far to walk to, to-night. My trunk I discovered myself still staring dolefully after the vanished East-bound; and at the same instant I became aware that the tall man was looking gravely at me, as gravely as he had looked at Uncle Hughey throughout their remarkable conversation.
Cliff was on the point of telling Willy she was a fool, but she refrained. "Here is the baggage-man," said Willy, "and he wants your checks." As Mrs. Cliff took the little pieces of brass from her purse and handed them to the man, Willy looked on in amazement. "Good gracious!" she exclaimed. "Seven! I guess you had to pay for extra baggage.
I wish he wouldn't talk about things eatable," groaned Bess, in Nan's ear. "Better put the women and the children in the Pullman," suggested the baggage-man. "Can't. Their tickets don't call for first-class accommodations," said the conductor, stubbornly, "and none of them wants to pay the difference in tariff." "You've got your hands full, Carter," said the express messenger.
The baggage-man had a quantity of questions to ask him, and Hayes was desirous of re-explaining how the ticket-collector had happened to misunderstand him. Pulling his long whiskers, the acting manager walked about murmuring, 'Stupid fool! stupid darned fool! And there were some twenty young women who pleaded in turn, their little hands laid on the arm of the popular fat man.
I saw other people doing it," he explained, noting my surprise. "Isn't it the custom?" "I'm happy to say it isn't yet, on most of our roads. They were tipping the baggage-man, to make sure that he checked their baggage in time and put it on the train. I had to do that myself when I came up; otherwise it might have got along here some time next day. But the system is perfect."
They climbed up into the warm and lighted car, and after the baggage-man in charge had given them a sour nod of recognition the first thing that David noticed was his own and Father Roland's property stacked up near the door.
I do surely hope that is the weather programme. We want to get out of here." "And walk to Tillbury?" cried Nan. "It would be one good, long walk," responded the conductor, grimly. "Hi, Jim!" he added to the baggage-man, whose face appeared through the tobacco smoke that filled the forward baggage car. "Jim, these young ladies are going to take care of the pup.
A raw-boned Irish baggage-man emerged from the confusion, and of a sudden Paul realized the necessity of even greater tact here than he had used with the Scotch girl, for he had no authority of any sort behind him by virtue of which he could demand so much as a favor. "Are you a married man?" he inquired, abruptly. "G'wan! I thought ye wanted a baggage-man," the big fellow replied.
"Say, mister, you've never played solitaire, have you?" he asked. "Never," confessed David. Without another word the baggage-man hunched himself over his table, dealt himself another hand, and not until the train began slowing up for Thoreau's place did he rise from his seat or cease his low mutterings and grumblings.
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