“Watching her. You will admit it was rather queer for a woman to come out here on the platform and stand. He thought so, and so he came out to watch her.”

“Well, you can both come in off this platform!” growled the trainman, in anything but a civil manner.

They did so. The passengers swarmed round them when they entered the car, literally flinging questions at them.

“Who was the woman?”

“What ailed her?”

“Why did she go out there?”

“What did she do?”

“Tell us about it!”

Again Bart made the explanation, and then there arose a babel.

“I noticed her,” declared one. “I saw she looked queer.”