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INTERIOR OF PALACE CAR. 



sleeping car, proceeded to make themselves comfortable 

 for the night. About midnight they were aroused by 

 the conductor, who had discovered that their tickets 

 were two or three days old, or, in other words, had 

 been purchased two or three days before. He pro- 

 nounced the tickets worthless, and demanded that they 

 .should pay their fares in money. This they declined 

 to do. In spite of the lateness of the hour, and the 

 fact that a heavy rain was falling at the time, the con- 

 ductor compelled them to leave the train at a little 

 wayside station, where they could procure only shelter 

 from the storm in the cold and dirty waiting-room of 

 the dep6t. 



