The ticket agent told him that the only train for New York that evening was due in a few minutes; in fact, it was coming then.
Emile hesitated but a minute, and then he bought a ticket, and when the train arrived he stepped on board. He had had nothing to eat since breakfast, but he would buy something on the road. As for his baggage he would telegraph for that, or he would abandon it altogether.
With a sickening feeling of fear he put Old Bruden back between the mattresses
His fear had now gained such power over him that he was impatient and restless because the train did not start the moment he entered it. The two minutes’ stop seemed like a quarter of an hour to him. But at last it moved away.
He did not go to New York that night, but stopped at a large town, got his supper and slept there, and then early in the morning he went on. This course would be wise, he thought, in case they should telegraph after him.
CHAPTER XXIII.
MR. GODFREY BERKELEY IS HEARD FROM.
When the boys arrived at Hyson Hall the next morning—for Phil thought it better to go home before continuing the search for his uncle—they found great trouble there.
Joel had not returned at all, and Susan, not knowing what had happened to him or the boys, was in sore distress. Phœnix had been obliged to go home at dark, and she had sat up all night. She had determined to send Jenny to the neighbors in the morning, but when day broke she had formed a different plan.