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At Selby the quarry alighted, and passed along the platform towards the booking-office. Willis's police training instantly revealed to him the plain-clothes man, and him he instructed to follow Archer and learn to what station he booked. In a few moments the man returned to say it was Ferriby.
I didn't think he'd ha' done it, though I didn't think he'd ha' done it! Moralising in this strain, Mr. Samuel Weller bent his steps towards the booking-office.
I had a heavy oak stick in my hand, and I tell you I saw red from the first; but as I ran I got cunning, too, and hung back a little to see them without being seen. They pulled up soon at the railway station. There was a good crowd round the booking-office, so I got quite close to them without being seen. They took tickets for New Brighton. So did I, but I got in three carriages behind them.
He now approached the booking-office and apparently bought a ticket, afterwards turning back down the platform. Willis slipped into a doorway until he had passed, then hurrying to the booking-window, explained who he was and asked to what station the last comer had booked. He was told "Selby," and he retreated, exasperated and puzzled beyond words. What could Archer be up to?
This debt is so vast that the interest upon it is about sixty thousand pounds a day, the whole amount of the National Debt being six hundred and thirty-eight millions of pounds. If you went to the booking-office with the whole of this mighty sum in your pocket but stop a moment; could you carry it in your pocket? Certainly not, if it were in sovereigns.
I thought at first that he was taking a ticket for somewhere and being an astonishingly long time about it. As a matter of fact, he was discussing religion with the booking-office clerk, and had almost got his head through the hole in his excitement.
Philip was silent. They came to the station, and he went to the booking-office. "I've got my season," she said. "I thought I'd take you home as it's rather late, if you don't mind." "Oh, I don't mind if it gives you any pleasure." He took a single first for her and a return for himself. "Well, you're not mean, I will say that for you," she said, when he opened the carriage-door.
At the top of the street she crossed towards him; he let her pass by and followed closely. She entered the booking-office of Gower Street station; he drew as near as possible and heard her ask for a ticket "Healtheries; third return." The slang term for the Health Exhibition at Kensington was familiar to him from the English papers he had seen in Paris.
At the booking-office, when we tried to book the ponies, the babu in charge lost his presence of mind and turned round and round like a teetotum. I was amazed at Boggley's patience. For myself, I was conscious of an intense, and most unladylike, desire to slap the poor babu. I, who have constantly protested against any want of consideration in the treatment of natives!
The station-master and porters remember no such person. But he was no ghost; for I have met him again this week, and upon the station platform. I had started at daybreak to fish up the stream that runs down the valley in curves roughly parallel to the railway embankment; and coming within sight of the station, a little before noon, I put up my tackle and strolled towards the booking-office.
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