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There followed seven minutes of ripping through the night, of people who ran yelling to get out of our way and hurled curses behind us, only a few cars meeting us like the whirling of comets in terrifying glimpses as we shot past; and, at last, the country club; strings of gay lanterns, winking ruby tail-lights of machines parked in front of it, the glare from its windows, and the strains of the orchestra in its ballroom, playing "On the Beach at Waikiki."
The young Superintendent, who stood on the rear platform, caught the man by the collar and hauled him up the steps. The train, from the tank to the tail-lights, was crammed full of passenger-people going home or away to spend Christmas.
And are you King of Colombia down there, or anything like that?" Waldron turned, laughing. His browned cheek had a touch of a still warmer colour in it, his eyes were glowing. "That certainly was wonderful luck," said he. "I reached the gate just as the tail-lights of this train were disappearing. As I turned away a man at my elbow asked if I minded missing it.
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