Then I nodded
to Todhunter and walked forward just as that old goose at
Clayville had got his trousers on, so he could come out,
and ask me if we were not ahead of time. I tell you,
sir, I did not stop to talk with him. I just rang `All
aboard!' and started her again; and this time I run
slow enough to save the time before we came down to
Steuben. We were on time, all right, there."
Here poor Joslyn stopped a while in his story; and I
could see that he was so wrought up with excitement that
I had better not interrupt, either with questions or with
sympathy. He rallied in a minute or two, and said,--
"I thought--we all thought--that there would be a
despatch somewhere waiting us. But no; all was as
regular as the clock. One palace more or less,--what did
they know, and what did they care? So daylight came. We
could not say a word, you know, with Flanagan there; and
we only stopped, you know, a minute or two every hour;
and just then was when August Todhunter had to be with
his passengers, you know. Was not I glad when we came
into Pemaquid,--our road ran from Pemaquid across the
mountains to Eden, you know,--when we came into Pemaquid,
and nobody had asked any questions?
"I reported my time at the office of the master of
trains, and I went home. I tell you, Mr. Ingham, I have
never seen Pemaquid Station since that day.
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