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Besides Wood who had to be awake to do his work when the train got there and the clump of Mexicans that always hung around the deepo at train-time, there wasn't half a dozen folks with their eyes open in the whole town. Santa Fé Charley was one of the few that was awake and sober.
The oranges were unexpectedly high in price, two selling for a medio; the seller pares off the yellow skins and cuts them squarely in two before selling; the buyer eats merely the pulp, throwing the white skin away. As train-time neared, interesting incidents occurred.
After this moral lesson it was found to be dangerously near train-time; and they all hurried to the railroad station, which, fortunately, was close by. There was rather a scramble and confusion for a few moments; for Katy, who had undertaken to buy the tickets, was puzzled by the unaccustomed coinage; and Mrs.
He had a case for the defence, but defence avails nothing after sentence has been pronounced. He had waited too long. He had been tried and found wanting. He tore the letter into strips, and having sent his things to the station long before, put on his hat now and walked slowly there himself, for it lacked but an hour of train-time. At the corner of Pender and Hastings he met Sam Carr.
Several times that day he had seen encounters between the portier and guests at the hotel which promised violence, but which ended peacefully as soon as some simple question of train-time was solved. The encounters always left the portier purple and perspiring, as any agitation must with a man so tight in his livery.
One buys the bedding, with waterproof hold-all for it at almost any shop there is no difficulty about it. January 30. What a spectacle the railway station was, at train-time!
You'll dine here of course and we'll take you to the station." He judged it more prudent to dine at his hotel and meet them afterwards at the station near train-time. "Then " sighed Aurora, sorrowfully, "this is our last evening! For I heard you and the consul planning for to-morrow evening together, and he to read you some chapters of his book. A compliment, Tom.
In that event I shall shoot you with your own pistol, and take my chance of escaping afterward. In fact, you are a dead man, Yussuf Dakmar, the minute I suspect you of playing me false." "The same to you likewise!" Yussuf Dakmar answered fervently. "Then we understand each other," said Grim. "The best thing you can do between now and train-time is to see the French agent again."
As train-time drew near, the obsession pushed reason and all the scruples aside. If I could only persuade Jorkins to let me go to the bank on the drive to the station The town clock in the tower of the new city hall was striking eleven when good old John Runnels and the constable came for me.
I was beginning to be uneasy. It was nearing train-time again. "Such lovely moonlight, I suppose, has tempted them, or they may be staying at Foxcroft to tea." Indeed? I looked at my watch: I had ten minutes. A sound of wheels: the phaeton drove up. "Oh, Charlie," said Bessie as she sprang out, "you bad boy! you'll miss your train again. Fanny here will drive you to the hotel. Jump in, quick!"
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