"You have been reported for trespassing on the State railway
this morning."
"Trespassing be blowed!" Guy answered. "I've got my ticket for the
frontier. We were blocked by signal about half a dozen miles off this
place, and I got down to stretch my legs. I understood them to say that
we could not go on for half an hour or so. They never tried to stop my
getting down, and then off they went without any warning, and left me
there."
"I will translate to the officer, sir," the man said.
"Right!" Guy declared. "Go ahead."
There was a brisk colloquy between the two. Then the little man began
again.
"He says that your train passed here at midnight, and that you did not
arrive until past six."
"Quite right!" Guy admitted. "I went to sleep. I didn't know how far it
was to the station, and I was dead tired."
"The officer wishes to know whether many trains passed you in the
night?"
"Can't say," Guy answered. "I sleep very soundly, and I never opened my
eyes after the first few minutes."
"The officer wishes to know whether you saw anything unusual upon the
line?" the little man asked.
"Nothing at all," Guy answered coolly.
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