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The crossing from Dover to Calais had been rough; a drizzling rain fell all the time, and most of the passengers had remained below. Strange to say, they were few enough, as I saw on landing. It was a Sunday in late July, and there ought to have been a strong stream setting towards Central Europe. I hardly expected to find much room in the train; not that it mattered, for my place was booked through in the Lucerne sleeping car of the Engadine express.

Room! When I reached the siding where this train de luxe was drawn up, I saw that I was not merely the first but the only passenger. Five sleeping cars and a dining car attached, with the full staff, attendants, chef, waiters—all lay there waiting for me, and me alone.

“Not very busy?” I said, with a laugh to the conductor.

“Parbleu,” replied the man, polyglot and cosmopolitan, like most of his class, but a Frenchman, or, more likely from his accent, a Swiss. “I never saw the like before.”

“I shall have a compartment to myself, then?”

“Monsieur may have the whole carriage if he wishes—the whole five carriages. It is but to arrange.” His eyes glistened at the prospect of something special in this obvious scarcity of coming tips.

“The train will run, I hope? I am anxious to get on.”

“But assuredly it will run. Even without monsieur, it would run. The carriages are wanted at the other end for the return journey. Stay, what have we here?”

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