Chapter 24 No.24

It was about nineteen o'clock that the ruddy English conductor looked in at the doorway, waking Percy from his doze.

"Dinner will be served in half-an-hour, gentlemen," he said (speaking

Esperanto, as the rule was on international cars). "We do not stop at

Turin to-night."

He shut the door and went out, and the sound of closing doors ca