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Cinq minutes d'arrêt." Delafield got out and walked up and down the platform. He passed the closed and darkened windows of the sleeping-car; and it seemed to his abnormally quickened sense that he was beside her, bending over her, and that he said to her: "Courage! You are saved! Let us thank God!" A boy from the refreshment-room came along, wheeling a barrow on which were tea and coffee.
Planks were cut for the roof, and tree boughs laid down for the floor. The floor space was only seven feet long by eight wide just enough for two bunks and the walls were about as high as a sleeping-car berth. The work was done at the day's end. In the next few days Bill mostly left the two together, trying to find his consolation in the wild life of the forest world outside the cabin.
But they had the best section in the very centre of the sleeping-car, she drew what consolation she could from the fact, and the children's premature demand for lunch helped her to forget her anxieties; they began to be hungry as soon as the train started.
They felt no especial animosity toward each other; they were comfortably established in a handsome apartment house that had a name and accommodations like those of a sleeping-car; they were living as expensively as the couple on the next floor above who had twice their income; and their marriage had occurred on a wager, a ferry-boat and first acquaintance, thus securing a sensational newspaper notice with their names attached to pictures of the Queen of Roumania and M. Santos-Dumont.
Burns and Miller obeyed the order, the former leading the way into the coach immediately in front of the sleeping-car. "Let's sit here, Miller," he said, having selected a seat near the rear of the car and deposited his suitcase in a rack. "It's on the shady side." Miller stood a moment hesitatingly, but finally took the seat indicated, and a few minutes later the journey was again resumed.
The two Acrobats, the German Calculator, and the English bareback-rider maid stood on one side. My thought was that it was all an advertising trick of the Circus people, arranged for spectacular effect to help the night's receipts. While I looked on in wonder, the Manager of the Sleeping-Car Company joined me.
There we find that by treating it in a certain way it will announce to the clerk that Room 32 wants a fire, ice-water, pens, ink, paper, lemons, towels, fire-escape, Milwaukee Sec, pillow-shams, a copy of this book, menu, croton frappé, carriage, laundry, physician, sleeping-car ticket, berth-mark for same, Halford sauce, hot flat-iron for ironing trousers, baggage, blotter, tidy for chair, or any of those things.
"And that'll be fun!" cried Russ. "We can all of us sleep when the train is going along." "Can we, Daddy?" asked Laddie. "Really?" "Oh, yes, they have sleeping-cars," said Mr. Bunker. "Do the cars sleep?" asked Laddie, his eyes opening wide in surprise. "Oh, that's funny a sleeping-car. And and Say! maybe I can think up a riddle about a sleeping-car," he added.
We may not say 'comrade' as often as the Boche, but perhaps we are it all the more. I will not come further with you towards your carriage, for I have still a few things to do." He shook Hillyard by the hand and departed. Hillyard turned from him towards his sleeping-car, but though his chief anxiety was dispelled, his reluctance to go was not.
This was the substance of Hortense Petitpré's deposition, and it was corroborated in many small details. When she appeared before the Judge, with whom Sir Charles Collingham and Colonel Papillon were seated, the former at once pointed out that she was wearing a dark mantle trimmed with the same sort of passementerie as that picked up in the sleeping-car. L'Envoi
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