So, after depositing my cloak and bag in an empty seat, I quietly propped both doors open with a stick of wood, shut up the stoves, and opened all the ventilators with the poker.

But the celestial breeze, so grateful to me, had the most unhappy effect on the slumbering exiles.

Paterfamilias swore outright; the companion of his earthly pilgrimage said, "We must be going north," and, as the heavy veil of carbonic acid gas was lifted from infant faces, and the pure oxygen filled their lungs and roused them to new life, they set up one simultaneous shout of joy and gratitude, which their parents mistook for agony.

Altogether there was a general stir.

As I had quietly slipped into my seat and laid my head down to sleep, I remained unobserved--the innocent cause of the general purification and vexation.
We reached Freeport at three o'clock in the morning.