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Mr. Standfast

CHAPTER EIGHT
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I was badly puzzled where to turn, when I noticed outside the station a long line of blurred lights, which could only mean a train with the carriage blinds down.

It had an engine attached and seemed to be waiting for the addition of a couple of trucks to start.

It was a wild chance, but the only one I saw.

I scrambled across a piece of waste ground, climbed an embankment and found myself on the metals.

I ducked under the couplings and got on the far side of the train, away from the enemy.
Then simultaneously two things happened.


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