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Harlowe had gone up into the coun
try 1o spend Saturday and Sunday with
hi", who and children. They wore
staylns at a pleasant place nearly four
miles from the railway station, and it
was necessary for him to employ a liv
eryman to take him down on Monday
morning to catch the train at Merri
vale. lie was assured that he eon hi
ninV.c connections without any diili
cuity if lie started at 7:110, as the train
was not duo to leave Me'Tiva'e until
8:20. Having an impoitant business
cn;vre'er;ient in the city, however, an.'. I
in (:': ; ar.t fuere rajgnt be no rii.it,
, r.-a.:v to start an hour before
T " e -erymr-n hat! conveyed him
" :; t:.:: V" If a r.tile when something
i. " i ,n !:.;r:'f.sc get out of order, and
!") : : ;e ( s had elapsed before they
v- :va-,!y to stait oa riirriiii. They j
r.KMle. fairly good progress for about a !
mile and then a bolt e.r.e wry.. male
ing another delay necessary. The
driver had to go to a farmhouse to
borrow a monkey-wrench and other j
things, and Edward Harlowe had be
gun to be nervous before the journey
was resumed. If he had not been bur- j
dened with a heavy traveling bag he
wouian't nave cttreu. i cuum um.
walked.
"Does this train ever happen to be
late?" he asked when they broke down
again, a mile and a quarter from the
station.
"Oh, yes," he was assured, "it's
nearly always five or ten minutes late
en Monday mornings. Don't worry.
