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walk up the track to the " Junction, " and 

 be sure to tell the conductor, when the even- 

 ing train arrived, as it probably would do 

 some hours later, that I had a trunk at the 

 landing. Otherwise the train would not run 

 down to the river, and my baggage would lie 

 there till Monday. He would go down pres- 

 ently and put it under cover. Happily, he 

 fulfilled his promise, for it was already be- 

 ginning to thunder, and soon it rained in 

 torrents, with a cold wind that made the hot 

 weather all at once a thing of the past. 



It was a long wait in the dreary little 

 station ; or rather it would have been, had 

 not the tedium of it been relieved by the 

 presence of a newly married couple, whose 

 honeymoon was just then at the full. Their 

 delight in each other was exuberant, effer- 

 vescent, beatific, what shall I say ? quite 

 beyond veiling or restraint. At first I be- 

 stowed upon them sidewise and cornerwise 

 glances only, hiding bashfully behind my 

 spectacles, as it were, and pretending to see 

 nothing ; but I soon perceived that I was to 

 them of no more consequence than a fly on 

 the wall. If they saw me, which sometimes 

 seemed doubtful, for love is blind, they 



