"Have you left Drummond's store?"
"Yes."
"Isn't that rather sudden?"
"A little so; but I didn't mean to stay long."
The shriek of the locomotive now became audible, and Walter went out on the platform. Five minutes later found him occupying a seat, or rather half a seat, for there sat next to him a brisk, energetic-looking man, of about thirty years of age.
He had been reading the morning paper, but apparently he had got through with it, for he folded it up, and put it in his pocket.
"Fine day," he said, briskly.
"Yes, sir, very fine," answered Walter.
"Some people are affected by the weather; I am not," pursued his fellow-traveller. "I feel as smart one day as another."
"It isn't quite so cheerful when it rains," observed Walter.