The Travelling Companions

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ers polite and patient Clerks are besieged by a crow

Here-have you made out

of francs, marks, and florins; reduces them to English money, and adds them up.) First class fare

had better make it second class all through, an

he sums accordingly

teen and a penny, Sir. Shall

like to see one of your short Circular Tours f

quantity of leaflets,

ears glasses, stoops slightly, dresses carefully, though his tall hat is of the

n to ask Hugh Rose about him, and Rose said he was the best company in the world, and I couldn't help getting on with him. I don't think Rose would deceive me. And from all I've seen of Podbury,

et-book, and begins t

y promised to send 'em on for me right here, and that was last fall, and I've never heard any more of 'em, and what I want you should do now is to instruct your representative at Vernis t

better to communicate directly with the Amer

ame? Can't you mail a few particulars to your agent, so he'll identify him? No? (Disappointed.) Well, I thoug

ay in griev

t, fresh-coloured, jaunty; close-cut dark hair. Not having been

s,

shall hit it off together. Hughie Rose said he was a capital good chap-when you once got over his manner. Anyhow, it's a grea

ittle time. I wish you could have managed to come before, because they close early here to-

s an elabor

o! All I want is, to see as much as we can in the time-leave

stops long enough for refreshments anywhere, and where they examine the luggage, and if I can leave my hand-bag in the carriage, and whether there is

as many of these points as he c

coloured coupons). Here are yours. I should like you to run your

pocket). Can't be bothered

you're going? And, by the way, excuse me, but is it altogether prudent to keep your tickets in an outside pocket like that?

Dover to Ostend? Never been there-like to see what Ostend'

we'd see Bruges and Ghe

ht the good news from? Yes, we'll stop at Ghent-if we've time. Then-Brussels? Good deal of work to be done there, I suppose, sightsee

gne and up the Rhine from. Then, you see,

e toys? I know-prett

highly interesting old place. Then I thought we'd dip down

ey're worth seeing, I suppose. Think the

changed for Switzerland if you prefer it. T

run back by Paris, eh? Not much to d

There are one or two mountains, I believ

osing some quiet place, where nobody ever goes-say in France or Germany-and, sticking

ll the tickets, really. If you like, w

St. Goarshaus

countrymen, and as far as I can remember St. Goarshausen, it

e, then. Or could we push on

ike to give up

back? Too hot, eh? Well, then, we'll let things be as they

oncluded). I wish Rose had warned me that Podbury's habit

ver Culchard's manner. (He sighs.) I wish old Hughie was