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We can tell him that we want to go to New York just to see Dick and Dora," put in Tom. And so it was arranged. By consulting a new timetable, the boys found they could make a good railroad connection for the metropolis by taking a train that left Oak Run at three-thirty o'clock. This would give them about three hours in which to get lunch, pack their suitcases, and bid good-bye to their father.
When, at last, that appetite was satisfied, he and I adjourned to the sitting-room for a farewell smoke. His train left at three-thirty and it lacked but an hour of that time. He had worn my suit, the one which Hephzibah had laid out for him the day before, but had changed to his own again and packed his bag before dinner. We camped in the wing chairs and he lighted his cigar.
It lacked a half hour to three-thirty, so I made my way to the Friedrichstrasse depot on foot. Experience has taught me that the Orient Express is generally overcrowded and that unless one reaches the depot early and uses a good deal of palm oil, it is impossible to secure a decent seat. A judicious oiling of palms enabled me to get a very pleasant window seat in the middle compartment.
Four o'clock found Judith in line, a pair of dumb-bells tucked under her arms, ready to march into the gymnasium as the three-thirty class marched out. She had had two lessons already and was beginning to like her class. Last year's instructor had been adored by the girls and consequently their work was excellent.
He was sure he detected alarm in the question. She was suspecting him! "I have nowhere to go, Miss Mrs. er " She merely smiled and he said something under his breath. "I'm waiting for the eight o'clock train." "How lovely! What time will the three-thirty train get here, agent?" "At half-past three, I reckon. But she don't stop here!" "Oh, goodness! Can't you flag it her, I mean?"
"Have you just now a particularly sharp agent?... Shrewd?" "Yes, Colonel," said de Loubersac, after a moment's reflection. "Who is he?" "The man engaged on the V affair." "When shall you see him?" "This afternoon, Colonel. We have an appointment for three-thirty." "The worst of it is this affair is making no end of talk scandal it's the very devil and all!
"And I," Robinson sneered, "was aroused at three-thirty. An hour during which the police were left out of the case!" "We thought it wise to get a physician first of all," Graham said. "You knew Howells never had a chance. You knew he had been murdered the moment you looked at him," Robinson burst out. "We acted for the best," Graham answered. His manner impressed silence on Katherine and Bobby.
PERCY planned to walk to Blue Mound to take the three-thirty train that Saturday afternoon; but Adelaide's parents both insisted that she would willingly drive to the station, and the grandmother discovered that she needed a certain kind of thread which Adelaide could then also get at the store. "Certainly," said Adelaide, with some merriment, "I always enjoy our departing guests to the train."
How people can sleep under such conditions is more than I can imagine. Three-thirty a.m. I have just wakened with a start. It was five minutes past eleven when I made my last entry. I remember winding up my watch and noting the time. So I have wasted some five hours of the little span still left to us. Who would have believed it possible?
A fast train drew into Albany, on the New York Central, from the West. It was three-thirty of a chill March morning in the first year of peace. A pall of fog lay over the world so heavy that it beaded the face and hands and deposited a fairy diamond dust upon wool.
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