He did slip through a fiver; but--would you believe it ?--the next he tried on, they were down on him like shooting stars, and he's another two years to do on the mill before he can come another trip by the 1:30.

They all fancy this train." This style of talk, much as it amused my fellow-passengers and interested the man in the corner, made me feel in a most painful position.

My looks and blushes, I am aware, were most compromising; and my condition generally, without luggage, without rug, without even a newspaper, enveloped me in such an atmosphere of mystery and suspicion that I half began to wonder whether I was not an absconding forger myself.
Fortunately the train stopped at Willesden and I took advantage of the halt to change my carriage, explaining clumsily that I should prefer a carriage where I could sit with my face to the engine, whereat every one smiled except myself and the man in the corner.
I tried hard to find an empty carriage; but the train was full and there was no such luxury to be had.

Besides, guards, porters, and station- masters were all shouting to me to get inside somewhere, and a score of heads attracted by the commotion appeared at the windows and added to my discomfort.

Finally I took refuge in a carriage which seemed less crowded than the rest--having but two occupants.
Alas! to my horror and dismay I discovered when the train had started that I had intruded myself on a palpably honeymoon couple, who glared at me in such an unfriendly manner that for the next hour and a half, without respite, I was constrained to stand with my head out of the window.