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Baltimore -- the conductor called it out as the train ground its way into / the station.
Kate Clephane, on her feet in the long swaying Pullman, looked about / her at the faces of all the people in the other seats -- the people _who / didn't know_. The whole world was divided, now, between people such as / those, and the only two who did know: herself and one other. All lesser / differences seemed to have been swallowed up in that.