“Quite right, too,” replied the engineer.
“You must have had some rather unusual experiences in your travels,” prompted Jo.
“Juarez says that you have been pretty much all over the world.”
“That’s so,” replied the engineer, “but I do not know as I have learned enough to pay me for the exertion.”
“Tell the boys about that time you traveled in Russia,” said Juarez.
“Which time?” questioned Berwick.
“Don’t you know?” asked Juarez, slightly confused, “when you were riding in the railroad carriage?”
“And got rather hungry?”
“Sure, that’s it,” said Juarez, smiling.
“That’s only an anecdote,” replied the engineer. “But I will tell it if you think it will interest.”