"Probably there are h'already brakesmen on your train."
"I have no doubt."
"In that case I shall ride with you as private person."
"Ride back and forth every day?"
"Those are my h'expectations, sar."
"That costs money."
"You will be collector," remarked the negro, calmly. "I should like to see those train people h'expel me, in that case."
"Well! I can see trouble ahead for one of us," laughed Anthony. "They don't allow 'dead-heads.'"
But Allan replied with unshaken confidence: "Then you should secure for me a pahss."
Kirk found it extremely difficult to escape from his persistent shadow that afternoon, and he succeeded only after a display of armed resistance.