An' a guard, 'e rushes up, an' 'Stand back!' says 'e; 'wait till the train stops,' says 'e, an' waves his red flag at me.

But afore I could stand back, with one foot on the step, the train sort of jumped away from me, and knocked me down like this; and they say it'll be a week now afore I'm well enough to go on to London.

But I posted the letter all the same, at Basingstoke station, as they was carrying me off; an' I took down the address, so as to return the arf-sovering." Hilda was right, as always.

She had chosen instinctively the trustworthy person,--chosen her at first sight, and hit the bull's-eye.
"Do you know what train the lady was in ?" I asked, as she paused.

"Where was it going, did you notice ?" "It was the Southampton train, sir.