27/49 Even half-indifferent sightseers dropped their voices as they told a newcomer: "You see that carriage over there? She got off the train this morning. She heard it in Boston yesterday--heard the newsboys crying it in the street." At noon Philip Horton made his way through the crowd with a tray and a tin coffee-pot from the camp kitchen. When he reached the carriage he found Mrs.Alexander just as he had left her in the early morning, leaning forward a little, with her hand on the lowered window, looking at the river. |