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A STATION WITHOUT A CAB.
The arrangements for my meeting with Mr.Rassendyll had been carefully made by correspondence before he left England.

He was to be at the Golden Lion Hotel at eleven o'clock on the night of the 15th of October.
I reckoned to arrive in the town between eight and nine on the same evening, to proceed to another hotel, and, on pretence of taking a stroll, slip out and call on him at the appointed hour.

I should then fulfil my commission, take his answer, and enjoy the rare pleasure of a long talk with him.

Early the next morning he would have left Wintenberg, and I should be on my way back to Strelsau.