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Smeaton at once hunted up the time-table. There was a fast train to Horsham in twenty minutes and he could just catch it.
He ordered a telegram to be despatched to Varney at the inn which he had given as a rendezvous, stating the time at which he would arrive, and later found the young man at the door, awaiting him.