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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....