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Updated: June 29, 2025
He brought their handbags into the customs-room at the station where they landed; and there took a last leave and a last fee with unexpected cordiality. Again their companionship suffered eclipse in the distraction which the customs inspectors of all countries bring to travellers; and again they were united during the long delay in the waiting-room, which was also the restaurant.
'Couldn't I rattle a throat if I were at home, Father! 'Ah! we're in the enemy's country now. Miss Kathleen said she would go below to get the handbags from the stewardess. Mr. Colesworth's brows had a little darkened over the Rev. Gentleman's last remark. He took two or three impatient steps up and down with his head bent. 'Pardon me; I hoped we had come to a better understanding, he said.
When the train came in, one porter dashed forward to secure window-seats in an empty carriage, another hurried up with rugs and handbags; groups of people standing upon the platform looked after the two girls with kindly glances; everybody seemed kind and interested, as though understanding the nature of their expedition, and wishing them good- speed.
It was the work of only a few minutes for the lads to gather their belongings and dump them in their handbags. Then they hurried downstairs, where they paid their bill and learned that they could catch a train to Richmond within the hour. "Going after the submarines?" asked the night clerk. "Yes," replied Jack shortly. "Good! I hope you get 'em. Here's your taxi."
She had to support him in a last access of despair on their way to the Albany depot the morning they started to New York; but when the final details had been dealt with, the tickets bought, the trunks checked, and the handbags hung up in their car, and the future had massed itself again at a safe distance and was seven hours and two hundred miles away, his spirits began to rise and hers to sink.
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