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The sun never shone more brightly and the air was never more clear and bracing than when Sinclair helped his wife off the train at Pawnee Junction. The station-master's face fell as he saw the lady, but he saluted the engineer with as easy an air as he could assume, and watched for an opportunity to speak to him alone. Sinclair read the despatches with an unmoved countenance, and after a few minutes' reflection simply said: "All right. Be sure to keep the matter perfectly quiet." At breakfast he was "distrait" -- so much so that his wife asked him what was the matter. Taking her aside, he at once showed her the telegrams.
"You see my duty," he said. "My only thought is about you, my dear child. Will you stay here?"