Peter saw his red, clean-shaven face as he spoke.
"If you ask me, I should say it was a Police Court case," said a young man with a black bag.
"Not it; the Infirmary more like--" Then the voice of the Station Master was heard, firm and official:-- "Now, then--move along there.

I'll attend to this, if YOU please." But the crowd did not move.

And then came a voice that thrilled the children through and through.

For it spoke in a foreign language.

And, what is more, it was a language that they had never heard.