It's a junction where some go to catch the night express to Leeds.

It must be eight miles further on.

The train is now due, sir, that goes there." "And it stops at the next station ?" "Oh yes, sir." I booked immediately for it, and in a few minutes arrived there.

It was, if possible, more quiet than the one from which I had just come; a more dreary place one could not well see.
I soon found the man who had issued tickets on the night I have mentioned.

Did he remember such a passenger as I described?
"Yes, sir," he said, "I do remember such a chap; partly because he was the only passenger, and partly because he looked so strange.