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Updated: May 4, 2025
There were loud cries for buckets and water, and almost before the car wheels ceased to slide on the polished rails a score of willing hands were drenching out the fire of way-bills, other papers, and a broken chair that was blazing merrily in the middle of its floor.
When the passengers had been "picked up," the stages returned to the stage office, where they way-bills were perfected and handed to the drivers.
The interruption came from the surly porter, who stood by, and referred to the expected train, which ought to have been in some minutes before. According to the precise time, as laid down in the way-bills, it should reach Calne seven minutes before six. "They have a heavy load, perhaps," remarked the station-master.
"Talk about my making a fire out of way-bills! When I saw you lay your hand on that man, I stopped breathing can't breathe just right yet," he muttered, pulling at his shirt collar. "Do you know why you didn't get killed?" "Why, no, Bill, not exactly," confessed Bucks in embarrassment. "Because Levake was out of cartridges. I heard him tell Rebstock so when they walked past me."
Levake's lips stretched into a ghost of a smile, and his white-lashed gray eyes contracted with an effort at amiability. The operator, going inside the railing, ran over the express way-bills which, not yet entered up, lay on the freight desk.
Knowing practically nothing of my native land outside its capital, I packed a small bag at my lodging, and walked to the nearest large railway station, which happened to be Paddington. Arrived there, I spent some dull moments in staring at way-bills, and finally took a ticket at a venture for Salisbury.
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