Lots of oder places to search, and dey most sure to tink you go right away--not tink you venture to stop in town 'til the morning." "That is so, Dan, and I think your plan is a capital one." Dan's suggestion was carried out, and at seven o'clock next morning they were standing on the platform among a number of other persons waiting for the train.

Just as the locomotive's whistle was heard the sound of a cannon boomed out from the direction of the prison.
"That means some of the prisoners have escaped," one of the porters on the platform said.

"There have been five or six of them got away in the last two months, but most of them have been caught again before they have gone far.

You see, to have a chance at all, they have got to get rid of their uniforms, and as we are all Unionists about here that aint an easy job for 'em to manage." Everyone on the platform joined in the conversation, asking which way the fugitive would be likely to go, whether there were any cavalry to send after him, what would be done to him if he were captured, and other questions of the same kind, Vincent joining in the talk.

It was a relief to him when the train drew up, and he and Dan took their place in it, traveling, however, in different cars.