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["I believe," said Peter irrelevantly, "that St. Paul was a single man, was he not, Pastor?"]
["Who's in the room!" he demanded]
["Sleep well," said Peter Grimm. "I wish you the very pleasantest of dreams a boy could have in this world"]
CHAPTER I
A MAN AND A MAID
The train drew to a halt at the Junction. There was a fine jolt that ran the length of the cars, followed by a clank of couplings and a half-intelligible call from the conductor.
The passengers,—dusty, jaded, crossly annoyed at the need of changing cars,—gathered up their luggage and filed out onto the bare, roofless station platform. There, after a look down the long converging rails in vain hope of sighting the train they were to take, they fell to glancing about the cheerless station environs.