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I dashed down to the platform, three steps at a time, followed by my three companions, but ere I gained it the train had begun to move out of the station.
One of the Italian police officers shouted to the scarlet-capped station-master to have the train stopped, but that stately official, his hands behind his back, only walked calmly in our direction to hear the voluble words which fell from the French officer's lips.