We started him off in twenty minutes." The station-master at Crewe was interested.

He knew very well that it is not the easiest thing in the world to bring influence to bear upon a great railway company.
"Seems as though he was some one out of the common, anyway," he remarked.

"The guvnor didn't let on who the note was from, I suppose ?" "Not he," Liverpool answered.

"The first thing he did when he came back into the office was to tear it into small pieces and throw them on the fire.

Young Jenkins did ask him a question, and he shut him up pretty quick." "Well, I suppose we shall read all about it in the papers tomorrow," Crewe remarked.