“Where, sir?” inquired Jehu.
“First, take these checks and go to the baggage car and get my valise and hatbox; and don’t be half so long about it as you were in bringing up the carriage,” said Hanson.
“So many vehicles ahead of me, sir, couldn’t get here any sooner,” said the man, as he took the credentials and darted off as swift as Jove’s Mercury.
He soon came back with the properties, which he piled up on his own seat, not to incommode the inside passengers.
Then he came around to the door and inquired:
“Where, sir?”
“To the Star.”
Jehu closed the door, sprang to his seat, and started his horses.
Twenty minutes’ rapid drive brought them to the “Star.”
It was now about a quarter to twelve o’clock.