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latform, sunk now nearly two hundred feet below the ground level, showed the double crowd of passengers entering and leaving town. Those on the extreme left, towar

rough to the Junction. It was the last of a series of a dozen or more, each of which slid off minute by minute. Then, still watching the

nd straw hat in no way distinguishing him as a priest (for a general leave was given by the authorities to dress so for any adequate reason). Since the case was not imminent, he had not brought stoc

t, astonished, and saw by the white enamelled walks twenty feet from the window that they were already in the tunnel. The stoppage might arise from many causes, and he was

ack to the station although on the down line. This must be looked into, thought Percy: something certainly was happening; so he got up and went across the empty compartment to the further window. Again came the crying of voices, agai

heads thrust from the windows, who paid absolutely no attention to his inquiries. So he stood there, aware that they knew no more than hi

a hoot or two, and at last drew up at the platform when

ned the door a great roar met his ears, and as he sprang on to the pla

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ts towards the assembly of their fellows. The noise was indescribable, the shouting of men, the screaming of women, the clang and hoot of the huge machines, and three or four times the brazen cry of a trumpet, as an emergency door was flung open overhead, and a small swirl of crowd poured through it towards the streets beyond. But after one look Percy

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