With a lurch the train came to a dead stop and Margaret Earle, hastily gathering upher belongings, hurried down the aisle and got out into the night.It occurred to her, as she swung her heavy suit-case down the rather long stepto the ground, and then carefully swung herself after it, that it was strange that neitherconductor, brakeman, nor porter had come to help her off the train, when all three hadtaken the trouble to tell her that hers was the next station; but she could hear voices upahead. Perhaps something was the matter with the engine that detained them and theyhad forgotten her for the moment.The ground was rough where she stood, and there seemed no sign of a platform. Didthey not have platforms in this wild Western land, or was the train so long that her carhad stopped before reaching it?
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