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 and corn-beef hash and eggs. Guess I can eat most anything today, though." He paused and chuckled. "A funny thing happened last night," he confided. "Prue and Aunt Mildred were late getting into Boston; there was an awful wreck on the line somewhere near New London, you see; so we didn't have time to get anything to eat. And we were all just about starving. We tried to get the porter to go out at one of the stations and bring us something but he said there wasn't time. I don't believe I ever was so hungry! And then what do you think?"

Wade shook his head.

"Someone sent us a lot of sandwiches and fruit and cake! The porter brought them and he wouldn't tell who it was sent them. I bet, though, it was that fresh conductor. I saw him making up to sis. The porter said it wasn't him, but I bet it was, just the same."

"Well, whoever he was he saved the day, I guess."