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"Where are you travelling to?" demanded Blunt, with a touch of sarcasm in his tone. Poor Gurwood's countenance fell. He became somewhat pale, and said, in a much less resolute voice, "You have no right to ask that question; but since you suspect me, I may tell you that I am going to Langrye." "Show your ticket," said the guard, looking in at that moment.
Well, one day as we was close upon Langrye station about two miles I suddenly takes it into my head that I'd bring the thing to a pint, so I sings out to my mate that was my fireman, ma'am says I, `look out Jim, an' I draws out my pencil an' bends my legs you must always bend your legs a little, ma'am, w'en you writes on a locomotive, it makes springs of 'em, so to speak an' I writes on the back of a blank time-bill, `Molly, my dear, no more shilly-shallyin' with me.
"From Joseph Tipps, Langrye station, to Mrs Tipps, Eden Villa, Clatterby. Dear Mother, Netta is not very well nothing serious, I hope don't be alarmed but you'd better come and nurse her. She is comfortably put up in my lodgings." Mrs Tipps grew deadly pale.
We do our best for the safety and accommodation of the public, and as directors and officials travel by our trains as frequently as do the public, concern for our own lives insures that we work the line in good faith. Why, ma'am, I was myself near the train at the time of the accident at Langrye, and my nerves were considerably shaken.
Just then a happy thought flashed into his mind. He would go on to Langrye station, get out there, and make a confidant of his friend Joseph Tipps, who, of course, could easily get him out of his difficulty.
We need scarcely say that this was Joseph Tipps, the clerk at Langrye station. Locomotives and telegraphy are mere snails compared to thought. There he stands five feet four in his highest-heeled boots as sterling and warm-hearted a little man as ever breathed.
We know that you were in the Langrye accident, for I saw you there, and in consideration of the injury to your nerves and the damage to your proboscis, we are willing to give you a five-pound note as a sort of sticking-plaster at once to your nose and your feelings. If you accept that, good; if not you shall take the consequences of this!"
"Yes; I wished to ask you if that fat woman, Mrs , what's her name?" "You mean Mrs Podge, I suppose?" suggested Sharp; "she who kicked her heels so vigorously at Langrye after the accident." "Ah! Mrs Podge yes. Does she persist in her ridiculous claim for damages?"
He chanced to know nothing about them, save in connexion with the Langrye accident, but his long experience in business had given him a delicate power of perception in judging of character, which was not often at fault.
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