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"This old station is just full of rats," she continued, in a tone of careless explanation, as they passed the hiding-place of her brother and his friends. "I heard the ticket-man say, just before your train came in, that he was coming out with his gun to shoot some of them, as soon as the engine had backed down out of the way."
Yonder, again, he remembered the little curved counter where once upon a time a man in uniform had sold tickets to such as had wanted to visit the tower. Counter now was dust; ticket-man only a crumble of fine, grayish powder. Stern shivered slightly, and pressed on.
For she fancied somebody standing at the door of heaven holding out his hand like the ticket-man at the depot. She found her mother's purse in the writing-desk, and scattered its contents into the wash-bowl, then picked out the wettest "skipt," a five-dollar bill, and tucked it into her bosom. This would make it all right at the door of heaven.
The ticket-man stared at him a moment through his window, frowned, and curtly said, "No!" and then went on counting what seemed to poor Dennis millions of money. The man had no right to say yes or no, since he was a mere official, occupying his own little niche, with no authority beyond. But an inveterate feud seemed to exist between this man and the public.
Why, you don't mean to say that you were an hour coming that little way! Did you get blocked in the fog?" "No, daddy, but " "But what, dear?" "Anne did tell me not to say!" "But I tell you to say, dear never mind Anne!" "Anne stopped and talked to the ticket-man for a long, long time." "Oh, did she?" he said.
The tyranny of corporations, and of public servants of one kind and another, as the ticket-man, the railroad conductor, or even of the country stage-driver, seem to be features peculiar to American democracy. In England the traveler is never snubbed, or made to feel that it is by somebody's sufferance that he is allowed aboard or to pass on his way.
He held up his finger and she greeted him only with a nod. "Forgive me, Louise," he whispered, "I dared not knock, and I was obliged to see you at once." She smiled. "It is of no consequence," she said. "One is always prepared here. The porter, the ticket-man, and at the customs they all enter. Is anything wrong?" "It has happened," he answered. She shivered a little and her face became grave.
He's all right, I said to myself, and Tom was horrid to call him a "chump." He beat himself off a bit, and went in and talked to the ticket-agent. They looked at their watches. "I don't think you'll have time to go uptown," said the ticket-man. Harshaw came out then, and he began to walk the platform, and to stare down the track toward Nampa; so I sat down.
He tore into the station and out through the passageway past the beckoning hand of the ticket-man who sat in the booth at the staircase, and strode up three steps at a time. The guard shouted: "Hurry! You may get it; she's just starting!" and a friendly hand reached out, and hauled him up on the platform of the last car. For an instant after he was safely in the car he was too dazed to think.
My brother's been ill, and we are going directly on to St. Helen's. I'm very much obliged to you." Her look of pretty honest gratitude seemed to touch the heart of the ticket-man.
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