"But he said we were going a mile a minute." "No, we don't make better than fifty anywhere.

You in a hurry, are you ?" "Only for dinner," laughed Steve.

"Where do we get dinner, sir ?" "There's a dining-car on now," was the reply.

"Or you can get out at Phillipsburg at twelve-twenty-three and get something at the lunch counter.

We stop there five minutes." "Me for the dining-car," declared Steve when the conductor had moved on.
"What time is it now, I wonder." It was only a very few minutes after eight, the discovery of which fact occasioned both surprise and dismay.