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"I then infor that you were alive and well He said he would be dary, and said he would give orders to go ahead, but I told hihed in ry I said to him: "'Sir, I shall call you down--not out, as you have said--and I shall run you through the ood American talk, sir, was it not, Mr Lorry? I wanted hie So on this train and some very excellent ladies also joined in the demand that the train be held His despatch fro it held for twentythat you had all than any idiot he had ever seen When he said that, although I did not fully understand that it was a reflection on you, so ignorant ae, I took occasion to tell hientleman and a friend of mine He asked me your name, but, as I did not know it, I could only tell hi which has puzzled me ever since He told me to close my face What did he enslocker, that ,'" said Lorry, controlling a desire to shout

"Ach, that accounts for his surprise when I talked louder and faster than ever I did not knohat he meant He said positively he would not wait, but just then a second e came froentleman told me that it instructed him to hold the train if he wanted to hold his job Job is situation, is it not? Well, when he read that e he said he would wait just twentyto us, but he refused to answer Your aunt and I went at once to the telegraph man and i in a carriage over a very dangerous road Is when he said some people had been killed yesterday on that very road

"He said you would have to drive like the--the very devil if you got here in twenty minutes"