_She_ was coming! The woman from the States was on this very train.

In two minutes---- But the crowd thinned and dissipated at length, and Sim Gage had not found her after all.

He felt sudden relief that she had not come, mingled with resentment that he had been made foolish.

She was not there--she had not come! But his gaze, passing from one to another of the early tourists, rested at last upon a solitary figure which stood close to the burly train conductor near the station door.

The conductor held the young woman's arm reassuringly, as they both looked questioningly from side to side.
She was in dark clothing.