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Updated: June 20, 2025
The porter went yawning to make this inquiry, and came back by-and-by, still yawning, to say that there was such a letter, and would the gentleman please step into the station-master's office to claim and receive it. The note was not a long one, nor was it encumbered by any ceremonious phraseology.
He asked me another question or two, and then went into the station-master's office." "What was he like?" "Not much older than yourself, in a brown suit, tall and thin, with sharpish features and quick smiling eyes." Barrant! Charles recognized the description with a sinking heart. He turned away with a sickening sense of the impotence of his own efforts.
I would not for the world have it supposed that I carried anything of value. "Well, there's no help for it," said I, and, buttoning my heavy coat about me, I took my hand-bag and stick in one hand, and asked my way to the hotel. My misfortunes had broken down the station-master's indifference, and he directed me in a sympathetic tone.
It had come at last the moment they had worked and waited for and they knew not whether to exult or to despair. The wind screams down from the naked hills on to the little junction station. A platform with dining-room and telegraph office, a few corrugated iron sheds, the station-master's corrugated iron bungalow and there is nothing else of Stormberg but veldt and, kopje, wind and sky.
Would the poor boy they had all known him as a boy who had once cherished the notion of going into the army, have to wear a railway company's coat and a station-master's cap? How funny it sounded! Well, not altogether funny. There were Dora and May crying at the bare anticipation.
Scores of bullets went into the station-master's office, and the desk at which he generally sits was perforated like a cullender. In these times of siege that official would not be always on duty, and he was just then taking a lucky hour off. A Boer movement, probably of some convoy with loot from down country, was going on along the road froth Bulwaan towards Elandslaagte.
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