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188 yet it happened——" He checked himself hastily, and the remaining words died away into a whisper.

"How many years ago did you say?" I asked, much interested in the prospect of at last learning some definite fact in his history.

"Many years ago," he replied. "The scene at the Railway-Station had been (so they told me) one of wild excitement. Eight or nine Heads of Colleges had assembled at the gates (no one was allowed inside), and the Station-Master had drawn a line on the pavement, and insisted on their all standing behind it.