"So, so! Just where I got in. Have you had yours?"
"No, sir. I didn't want any."
"Well, you and I wear our family likeness with a difference," said Mr. Wayne. "I have had no supper either, but I want it. They used to stop at Edenton. Been a change, I suppose, since the extension of the road."
He rose up and went to the further end of the car, where the conductor was taking a minute's rest; coming back with the word that another chance for refreshments would be at Centerville Junction, where they had to wait for the train from Combination.
"Then you and I will go and sup together," he said.
"I don't want any supper," the boy repeated.
"What's the matter? You're not sick?" and the keen eyes made a closer survey.
"No, indeed, sir."
"The home station is close at hand, then, is it?"
"No, sir. It will not be near me for two years," said Magnus, trying to speak with the proper pride of a young man off on his travels, and far from home, but the boyish voice betraying itself and him.