If the train stopped anywhere I would get out, and trust to my own wits and the standing luck of the British Army for the rest.
The chance came just after dawn, when we halted at a little junction.

I got up yawning and tried to open the door, till I remembered it was locked.

Thereupon I stuck my legs out of the window on the side away from the platform, and was immediately seized upon by a sleepy Seaforth who thought I contemplated suicide.
'Let me go,' I said.

'I'll be back in a jiffy.' 'Let him gang, jock,' said another voice.

'Ye ken what a man's like when he's been on the bash.