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"Keep hold of that," whispered Crene, and a yoke of oxen could not have drawn it from me. "You are sure you had it marked for Fontdale," says Mr. Baggage-master. I hold the impracticable check before his eyes in silence. "Yes, well, it must have gone on to Albany." "But it went away on that track," says Crene. "Couldn't have gone on that track.
I did not deem it advisable to wait for breakfast, but, paying my bill, jumped into a hack and drove to the first station in time to make the train. Before La Grange was reached, I entered the baggage-car and told the baggage-master to pile the trunks all around me. I was thus completely hid, as snug as a bug in a rug. When La Grange was reached, there were signs of tumult about.
"Keep hold of that," whispered Crene, and a yoke of oxen could not have drawn it from me. "You are sure you had it marked for Fontdale," says Mr. Baggage-master. I hold the impracticable check before his eyes in silence. "Yes, well, it must have gone on to Albany." "But it went away on that track," says Crene. "Couldn't have gone on that track.
Jack hastily devoted himself to questioning other employes about the station. "Why, yes, I saw a man who looked like that," replied the baggage-master. "What did he do! What became of him?" asked Jack, swiftly. "He went through here, and down that street," replied the baggage-master promptly. "Is that all you saw, or know about him?" "Yes." Jack hastily reported to his two friends.
Starr went directly to the express office of the little station and made inquiries. "Has any box come for me from Grand Forks?" asked he. "Yaas, guess that's what you're lookin' fer," replied the man who was ticket-agent, baggage-master and express agent, all three in one. "That's it!" smiled Mr. Starr, taking his money out to pay the charges. "All paid, and nuthin' to c'lect," laughed the man.
Some of the new things, however, were not so ugly; the young station-master was handsome in his railroad uniform, and pleasanter to the eye than the veteran baggage-master, incongruous in his stiff silk cap and his shirt sleeves and spectacles.
But I'll go to the office and complain to the baggage-master." So Eleanor courageously turned her back on the fascinating sight of all those revolvers, and Barbara followed closely at her sister's heels; both of them hurried to the old car that displayed a sign saying it was the baggage-room. No one was there, so the girls stood at the door, whence the road leading to the railway could be seen.
I had not reclined long on my couch, before I heard a rustling noise among the bushes, and the cries of so many animals, that I began to think I was in rather a dangerous neighbourhood, and got my pistols ready, in case a tiger or other beast of prey should have taken a fancy to the body of the baggage-master, in preference to that of some more comely person.
More like a dream was it, to watch the people that lounged or worked about the dépôt; the ticket-master, who had stood shut up there just so behind the little window for twenty years; the baggage-master, who tossed about their trunks without ever thinking of the jewelry-boxes inside, and that cologne-bottle with the shaky cork; the cross-eyed woman with her knitting-work, who sold sponge-cake and candy behind a very small counter; the small boys in singularly airy jackets, who were putting pins and marbles on the track for the train to run over; the old woman across the street, who was hanging out her clothes to dry in the back yard, just as if it had been nothing but a common Monday, and nobody had been going to Washington;—how strange it seemed that they could all be living on and on just as they did every day!
Pluto said that the baggage-master had a very red nose, and he was always getting drinks for himself when they stopped at a station, but he never once gave him a drink or anything to eat, from the time they left New York till they got to Fairport. When the train stopped there, and Pluto's chain was unfastened, he sprang out on the platform and nearly knocked Mr. Drury down.
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