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mention three or four more pieces of hand baggage. An hour's ride brought us to the river and we collected our other three trunks, none the worse for their sleepless night in the office. 

What with our extra carriage and trunks we just missed the six o'clock ferry, but had time to bargain on the coolie hire for getting the trunks from the shore out to the ferry hulk, a matter of a hundred yards carry. Bythis time Margaret Carey was showing signs of illness, weakness and biliousness. About seven the ferry came back and we got on with our stuff piled in one spot, nineteen pieces, including five trunks,for five of us. 

At the Pukow dock, by prearrangement,I leaped off to go up and get tickets and Louise and Mears followed me to hold a place in the train. I said to a guard, "Where do they sell tickets?"
"They haven't started yet,"said he.
"[underlined]Where[/underlined] do they sell them?"
"They start at eight o'clock."
"WHERE do they sell them?"
"Right here," indicating a window about ten feet from us, which I had particularly in mind since there was no sign of activity in front of it, an unusual thing for a ticket window about to open. Well, I went up and planted my elbows firmly on the sill to wait, and a man came and opened up. I told him what I wanted and began to pull out silver dollars and thrust them at him. When travelling I eschew local notes. By the time my pile reached a hundred or so and he began counting the coins he asked me, shoving two back to me, "Do you know how much these tickets cost?"
"Yes, said I,"$20.10 each or $100.50 for five."
"Correct," said he," and do you know how much money I have here?"
"Yes,"I replied,"You have $101, now that you have given me back the two [deletion][illegible][/illegible][/deletion] extra dollars that I thrust at you in my haste."

And it was well that I had hastened, for by the time my tickets were ready I was at the bottom and center of a pushing horde. I struggled out and gave the ticket s to the girls, or rather I conducted them to the wicket and sent them in to hold a place, keeping the tickets myself.

When I came out there was Dorothy and the little ineffectual coolie we had brought along,