The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 27: what you’re looking at

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18 THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY: smoking compartment or else visiting some friend in one of the other sleepers. This leaves two sections. Number seven is occupied by a queer old gent whom I take to be a musician, for he has a violin done up in a case, and handles it now and then as carefully as though it were a baby. There is some- thing about his eyes that tells me I have seen him before. I know Ovid Musin and several other fine violinists, but cannot place this singular old gent with the long white locks. However, I mark him down as the Professor. Opposite to hiny sits a man whose dress is rather loud. IJ know he is the owner of fast horses, and perhaps a race-track gambler. At any rate he travels in style, and throws his money around recklessly. In the last section, I find a quiet-looking woman, who seems to be of foreign blood. I mark her down as some one’s attendant—a sort of companion, but for the hfe of me fail to discover how this can be, as the other seat of the section is occupied by a Jewish gentleman who looks as though he might be a Rabbi. : Passing beyond the drawing-room and smokers’ compartment, I get a drink of ice-water. A couple of gentlemen are smoking, and IJ take it they belong “4 the valises, or the latter do to them—in section ve. Having thus made my inventory of the car, I am puzzled to decide who it is my employer declares is _ watching the trio opposite my seat. This can only be found out by careful scrutiny, and I will have plenty of time to look into the matter as the train speeds onward. As yet, the only one J suspicion is S) “cComicboo ee Le < “: ™ é oy . The Not -" . * , 8 » y ot a Sa”