Chapter XXII—Blind Man's Bluff
The station-master had just appeared on the platform in readiness for the train when the half-dozen waiting passengers began to dance wildly and run to and fro.
"Hi! Fire!" yelled a man in corduroys. "Station's afire!"
"Where?" cried the station-master. "What the——"
"It's the cloak-room!" yelled Joe, the porter. "That chap——"
"Get the key—quick!"
"Fire!" yelled the man in corduroys.
"Fire!" roared a ploughboy and a man with a gun.