"Look here, we'd better interview the station-master, and have your case wired for to the next stop.

Or will yeye bullying Syrens!grow whiskers and wear pantaloons, and put us in station-houses, and clear us out of the Census altogether?

So it was arranged, and a couple of days later, with a wildly beating heart and a rueful smile upon her lips, Billie stood with Chet upon the station platform and waved good-bye to her father and mother.

Mr. Judkins, the station agent at Chazy Junction, came out of his little house at daybreak, shivered a bit in the chill morning air and gave an involuntary start as he saw a private car on the sidetrack.

" The two men thanked him and walked out to the station yard, where a porter waited with the rest of Gifford's luggage.

Wherefore, it was about four o'clock when he handed the telegram to the station operator, and adjured him by all that was good and great not to delay its sending.

It was the station wagon stopping at the Yellow House gate, and a strange gentleman was alighting.

The water tanks had been destroyed, as a result of which two men spent hours in filling up the engines by means of a water jug and basin found in the station buildings, and the Turks had the mortification of seeing these engines steam out of the station during the morning to a cutting which was effective cover from their field-gun fire.

He was gone three or four minutes, and the station-clock struck twelve as I stood there.

And forthwith out of the station-room slips the noble old hound, grey-nosed, grey-eyebrowed, who has hidden, for purposes of his own, till he sees all the rest safe locked in.

The station commandant pretended to consult the Russian and Japanese officials, and then informed me that there was not one available.

Three days with the trail and the Eternal Painter mocking him, when the singing of Spanish verses that go click with the beat of horse-hoofs in the sand sounded hollow as the refrain of vain memories, and from the steps of a Pullman he had a final glimpse of Firio's mournful face, with its dark eyes shining in the light of the station lamp.

Soon afterwards the conductor and one of the station officials put him into an automobile.

He saw the chauffeur turn his car in the length of it and send it spinning down the road and across the line into the adjoining State; heard the mellow whistle of the incoming train, and saw the station man nervously setting his stop signal; all with no more than a mild desire to know the reason for so much excitement and hastea desire which was content to wait on the explanation of events.

A station-hand, a roust-about, shearer, assistant to a travelling hawker, a gold-miner, and at last a trooper in one of the finest bodies of men in the world, the Queensland Mounted Police.

Those within had seen a station hack deposit some one at the Parmly gate.

" Pearl came down the stairs, stepping in time with Casey Jones's spectacular home-leaving: "The caller called Casey, ata half-past-four, He kissed his wife at the station door.

With a vexed expression of countenance, the first lieutenant sent a midshipman for the station bill, when, upon glancing it over, the name of Fernando Stevens was found set down at the post in question.

In the days of sailing ships especially, accurate station keeping was not very necessary, and the ships comprising the convoy sailed in loose order and covered a considerable area of water.

We also watched a boy cleaning the station windows, and Dorothy said, 'Miss Beer, isn't it wonderful that you can see through glass?'

He saw some snow that had sifted through the station roof and he was so thirsty that he began to lick it up.

As I waited for it on the platform, I looked out at the station lights, a dull orange under their dark shades, and at the red signals beyond, four in a vertical line, and beyond again at the dim outlines of houses and dark trees against a sky, at first a very deep dark blue, but slowly lighting up with the beginning of the dawn.

At length as they turned from the station approach on to the main road the stranger spoke.

Scarcely two months before I saw it, the cityI was toldhad been full of life; in the long period of calm which followed the bombardment of the railway-station quarter in November 1914 the inhabitants had taken courage, and many of those who had fled from the first shells had sidled back again with the most absurd hope in their hearts.

The Bus station murders.