THE<br >PASSENGER FROM SCOTLAND YARD.<br >CHAPTER I.<br >Tu~. night mail for the ContinSnt stood ready to glide ou~ of<br >the London terminus, the leave-taking friends assembled in<br >small groups upon the platform before the carriage doors<br >were .reiterating last messages and once more exchanging<br >promises to write, when a hard-featured, thick-set gentle-<br >man who had been peering out of a second-class window<br >drew back with a slight exclamation of annoyance or disap-<br >pointment, and sank into a corner seat. Hardly a moment<br >had passed, when the rattle of the guard s key was again<br >heard in the lock, and the door fell open to admit a fifth<br >.passenger. Just in time, sir ! muttered the guard, bang-<br >mg the door after the new arrival and relocking it. tie<br >immediately signalled with his lamp, a whistle rang out<br >sharply, and the night mail for the Continent started from<br >London.<br > The new-comer installed himself unobtrusively in the<br >nearest vacant place, and at once muffled himself up in a<br >travelling-rug and a voluminous wrapper or two. Presently<br >there was little to be seen of his face but a pair of gray eyes<br >and a Roman nose. He sat with his back to the engine, in<br >the corner opposite the thick-set, rubicund, hard-featured<br >gentleman, and the latter had from the first followed his<br >movements with a singular interest. In fact, the new-comer<br >might have been justified in remarking with some impatience<br ><br >
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