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The aforesaid R.T.O., sitting equably among a cloud of flies, would inform you on arrival that the train which should have been the 8.30 from Mahamdiya had only just left Port Said, and could not arrive here for three hours, that it had not run at all the day before, owing to engine trouble, and that the sea washed away parts of the line most days. He would then propose a second breakfast.
At Mahamdiya they reported to the R.T.O., a versatile officer of the 5th, whose administrative career was almost cut short by an untoward incident about this time. A great one, owning a private trolley for railway "scooting," 'phoned the R.T.O. office, Mahamdiya, to enquire whether the line from that place to Romani was clear. He received an answer in the affirmative and set off gaily.
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