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Updated: June 16, 2025
He had told me all that he knew, and he had but one thing more to say, and that was in the nature of a remark with a moral attached to it. "There's a marvelous resemblance, Mr. Germaine, between your story and Bruce's story. The main difference, as I see it, is this. The passenger's appointment proved to be the salvation of a whole ship's company.
As they went in they met a portly man who stood aside for them to pass. "How are you, Mr. Buckton?" the man smiled, cordially. "Oh, how are you?" Buckton answered, with a start and a rapid scrutiny of the passenger's face. Moving on, he secured seats at a table for two.
Meanwhile Smith consulted with Rodier on the somewhat delicate problem how to make a start from the deck, which obviously did not afford more than a few feet of running-off space. Rodier hit on a solution, and by the time the passenger's seat was ready the necessary arrangements had been made. "Now, my gal," said the captain, "step aboard.
To the passenger's side has the spectre paced; For a moment he halts, they say, Then a ring from the punch at the unseen waist, And the footsteps pass away. That is the tale of the haunted car; And if on that car you ride You won't, believe me, have journeyed far Ere the spectre seeks your side. "Sylvia!" "Yes, papa." "That infernal dog of yours " "Oh, papa!"
The Cobbler had but just time to splutter out these comforting words and redescend the carriage, when the train put itself into movement, and the lifelike iron miracle, fuming, hissing, and screeching, bore off to London its motley convoy of human beings, each passenger's heart a mystery to the other, all bound the same road, all wedged close within the same whirling mechanism; what a separate and distinct world in each!
As the captured pony walked in with a sweet, church-door expression, our train moved slowly on to the station, and a passenger remarked, "That man knows his business." But the passenger's dissertation upon roping I was obliged to lose, for Medicine Bow was my station. I bade my fellow-travellers good-by, and descended, a stranger, into the great cattle land.
It was at 1:15 that the girl took her place in the passenger's seat and let Stern strap her in. "Your first flight, little girl?" he asked smiling, yet a trifle grave. The barking motor almost drowned his voice. She nodded but did not speak. He noted the pulse in her throat, a little quick, yet firm. "You're positive you're not going to be afraid?" "How could I, with you?"
'You pull both oars, I said to Reuben; 'I'll keep guard over the fellow and see that he plays us no trick. I believe that you are right, and that he is nothing better than a pirate. He shall be given over to the justices when we get to Havant. I thought that our passenger's coolness deserted him for a moment, and that a look of annoyance passed over his face.
At that very moment the porter and conductor entered the car with a steaming can of the very comforting fluid Bess had just mentioned. The porter distributed waxed paper cups from the water cooler for each passenger's use and the conductor judiciously poured the cups half full of coffee. "You two girls are very lucky," he said, when he saw what was in the lunch-box. "Take care of your food supply.
Day after day he told himself that he would have all his faculties at the ready before the train swung into the curve. But morning after morning he was still emerging from the stale fumes of the preceding night's beer, or he allowed himself to be hypnotized by the sound of the wheels or fascinated by the jiggling of another passenger's earlobe at that critical moment.
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