Lucy didn’t know what he meant. “But we aren’t going to a party,” she said shyly. “We are going to meet Aunt Margaret.”
The trainman smiled. “I’ll help you meet her,” he said, and he looked so pleasant that Lucy was willing he should take the suit-case.
When the train stopped, the children followed the other people to the door and there the trainman stood with the suit-case. He lifted Dora down and took Lucy by the elbow to help her just as he did the grown-up ladies. Then he walked with them down a long platform.
Lucy and Dora were glad that he came with them. The train was standing under a big shed with a very high roof and many people were hurrying about. Huge engines snorted and made so much noise that it seemed most confusing.
Miss Chandler stood by the gate which let the people through from the train-shed into the other part of the station. She kissed the little girls and thanked the kind trainman for helping them find her.
The first thing was to dispose of the suit-case. Miss Chandler called a messenger-boy and sent him to take it to her rooms.
“Now,” she said to the children, “we will go by the elevated train.”
Lucy and Dora had read about the elevated railways in big cities, but neither had been on one. They went through the big station and up some steps and through a turnstile and along a corridor above a street where the trucks and electric cars were, and up some more steps to a platform. Soon a train of cars came, but it did not have a smoky engine. This train ran by electricity.
“Is this the evelated train?” asked Dora.
“Yes, this is the elevated,” said Miss Chandler, laughing. “We will step into this car.”