, and after a few years discontinued.
Little more remains to be told of my five and a-half years' sojourn in
the north of Ireland. They were pleasant and profitable years for mind
and body. With health improved, experience gained in _practical_ railway
work, knowledge acquired by personal contact with men of all sorts and
conditions, I felt strong and confident, ready for anything, and, like
Micawber, longed for something to turn up.
Early in October, 1890, Walter Bailey and I took our second Continental
holiday together. We re-visited Paris, but spent most of our three weeks
in a tour through Belgium, finishing up at Brussels. When we reached
London I received a letter from my friend, W. R. Gill, Secretary of
Bailey's railway, the Belfast and Northern Counties. It was to tell me
that the position of Manager of the Midland Great Western Railway of
Ireland had become vacant, and suggested that I should return home by way
of Dublin and call upon the chairman of the company, Sir Ralph Cusack, in
regard to the succession. Now something _had_ turned up, and Bailey
declared I was as good as appointed.
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