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The girl was taken aback, for this was not at all in consonance with the Io myth as it had drifted back, from sources never determined, to New York. "Were you the station-agent?" "I was." She bestowed a glance at once appraising and flattering, less upon himself than upon his apparel. "And what are you now? President of the road?" "A reporter on The Ledger." "Really!"
He knew that to send a telegram up the road would be but the work of a minute; it could go over the wires to the north before the "special" had pulled away from Adairsville. At this moment the station-agent came out of his office. "The passenger is behind time," he said, and he ran quickly across the tracks to speak to Andrews, who was looking anxiously out from the cab of "The General."
The station-agent went to him, and with abrupt questions and assertions, to which the man replied in low, grave monosyllables, bought his game, as he might have done two hours before, but an Acadian can wait. There was some trouble to make exact change, and the agent, saying "Hold on, I'll fix it," went into the station just as the group from the Sicilian's boat reached the platform.
In gratitude, the man took the boy to his house and told him he must make it his home while in Mount Clemens; and then after supper the youngster went down to the station; and what was more, the station-agent took him in behind the ticket-window, where the telegraph-instrument clicked off dots and dashes on a long strip of paper. Edison looked on with open mouth.
Banneker to say. Will you turn me out, Mr. Banneker? After our agreement?" "No," said Banneker. "You can hardly kidnap me, even with all the conventionalities on your side," Miss Welland pointed out to Miss Van Arsdale. That lady made no answer to the taunt. She was looking at the station-agent with a humorously expectant regard. He did not disappoint her.
This part of the programme affected Leon Tate in a most unlooked-for manner. "Say, Smith," he remarked to the station-agent, who was gazing at Constance Drew with his lower jaw hanging, "that beats anything I ever heard in the natural artistic line. Blood's bound to colour its victims do you remember Pete's mother?" Tom Smith had forgotten the old lady.
"This queer young cub of a station-agent of yours is strangely like Carter Holmesley, not as much in looks as in well atmosphere. Only, he's ever so much better-looking." "Won't you have some tea? You must be tired," said Miss Van Arsdale politely. Somewhere within the soul of civilized woman burns a craving for that higher power of sensation which we dub sensationalism.
In front of the house of the station-agent they drew up, and while the others were at their horses, Lee Haines dismounted and rapped loudly at the door. It was opened by a grey-bearded man smoking a pipe. Haines covered him. He tossed up his hands and the pipe dropped from his mouth. "Who's in the house here with you?" asked Haines. "Not a soul!" stammered the man.
Having watched from the seat of his chariot the brief but ceremonial entry of Number Three, which, on regular schedule, roared through Manzanita at top speed, he descended, captured the mail-bag and, as the transcontinental pulled out, accosted the station-agent. "What'd she stop for, Ban?" "Special orders." "Didn't say nothin' about havin' a ravin' may-ni-ac aboard, did theh?" "No."
Philip station-agent at Manzanita does not include in his official duties that of presuming to fall in love with chance passengers who happen to be more or less in his care." "Very proper and official! Now," added the girl in a different manner, "let's stop talking nonsense, and do you tell me one thing honestly. Do you feel that it would be presumption?" "To fall in love with you?"
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