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"Oh, no; Parkinson said he was a friend of his, just taking the trip for his health." Darrell smiled quietly, knowing Hunter to be a member of the syndicate employing Parkinson, but kept his knowledge to himself. A little later, when Darrell and Whitcomb left together for the dining-car, quite a friendship had sprung up between them.
You're always curious about people, and I expect this man knew more about people than anybody that ever lived." "City people or country people?" "Both. People are pretty much the same everywhere." "Oh, no, they're not. The people who go through in the dining-car aren't like us." "What makes you think they aren't, my girl? Their clothes?" Thea shook her head. "No, it's something else.
"And I also see your good mother and estimable father dying of starvation, if they have to wait much longer for you to appear with them in the dining-car " But Norton was already scrambling into his clothes, his usually solemn eyes shining with excitement.
Friends of her mother met her steamer in New York and put her on her train, and friends of Stephen Lorimer met her in Chicago and drove and dined her and saw her off on the Santa Fe. She began to have at once a warm sense of the West and home. The California poppies on the china in the dining-car made her happy out of all proportion.
It seemed singular to me afterward that the one answer to all of these small mysteries should not have suggested itself at once. But it did not. The end of the conductor's run the point which I had paid fare came at midday at the capital of the State, where there was a stop long enough to enable the train's people or those who chose to evade the dining-car to seek a lunch counter.
"I believe, Monsieur Choulette, that men were always as they are to-day, selfish, avaricious, and pitiless. I believe that laws and manners were always harsh and cruel to the unfortunate." Between La Roche and Dijon they took breakfast in the dining-car, and left Choulette in it, alone with his pipe, his glass of benedictine, and his irritation.
This kept her amused until noontime, when a waiter came through the car banging a gong. Miss Powers shut her book with a snap, and announced that they would go to the dining-car for their lunch. This was even more fun, for it seemed so queer to Patty to sit at a table and eat, while at the same time she was flying through the country at such break-neck speed.
She bowed to him coldly, but her heart beat as if something exciting had happened. That night she forgot to set back her watch, and so went to dinner earlier than usual. Not far ahead, also bound for the dining-car, was Mr. Hilliard. She disliked the large tables laid for four; and when he could, her favourite waiter kept a place for Mrs. May at a small table for two persons.
The lunch in our dining-car was for the first time in Spain not worth the American price asked for it; everywhere else on the Spanish trains I must testify that the meals were excellent and abundant; and the refection may now have felt in some obscure sort the horror of the world in which the Sud-Express seemed to have lost itself.
"First call to dinnah in the dinah," called a coloured waiter, passing through the car in white jacket and apron. "Now we'll have to stop all our foolishness," said Allison, sedately, as she rose to lead the way to the dining-car. They followed as decorously as grandmothers, each realizing the responsibility that devolved on her, since they were travelling without a chaperon.
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