From the open door of the baggage car were tossed the mail sack and two express packages.

The conductor stepped from the passenger coach.

Following him came briskly a short, thickset man with a reddish-gray beard and grayish-red hair.
"Goin' down to the village, Mister ?" inquired Mr.Lumley.

"Carriage right here." The stranger inspected the driver of the depot wagon, inspected him deliberately from top to toe.

Then he said: "Down to the village?
Why, yes, I wouldn't wonder.