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Half-way up the road to the Mess Wargrave looked back and saw an elephant heave into sight around a bend below the Dermots' house and plod heavily up to their gate. On the charjama the passenger-carrying contrivance of wooden seats on the pad with footboards hanging by short ropes sat a lady and two European men holding white umbrellas up to keep off the vertical rays of the noonday sun.
All along the train, in disobedience of orders, the carriage doors are open, and "Tommies" and "Jocks," and "Pats" are seated on the footboards, singing, shouting, laughing. This, until night falls. Then, one by one, the carriage doors are shut, and the men set about the business of sleeping.
"Let me have your cap, Grim," said Acton, all energy in a moment. "I'm going forward to see what is up. Back in a minute." He slipped out carefully, but seeing the predicament of the guard, he did not jump out into the snow, but advanced carefully along the footboards, feeling his way forward by the brass-work of the carriages.
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