"Sheffield! Shef-fie-l-d! All out for Shef-f-i-e-l-d!" yelled the conductor.
The two bags once more, the conductor helping me on with my overcoat, down the snow-blocked steps and out into the night.
"Step lively!—more'n an hour late now."
I looked about me. I was the only passenger. Not a light of any kind—not a building of any kind, sort, or description, except a box-car of a station set up on end, pitch dark inside and out, and shut tight. No carriage. No omnibus; nothing on runners; nothing on wheels. Only a dreary waste of white, roofed by a vast expanse of black.
"Is this Sheffield?" I gasped.
"Yes,—all there is here; the balance is two miles over the hills."
"The town?"
"Town?—no, the settlement;—ain't more's two dozen houses in it."
"They were to send a carriage and—"
"Yes—that's an old yarn—better foot it for short." Here he swung his lantern to the engineer craning his head from the cab of the locomotive, and sprang aboard. Then this fragment came whirling through the steam and smoke:—"There's a farmhouse somewhere's over the hill,—follow the fence and turn to—" the rest was lost in the roar of the on-speeding train.
I am no longer young. Furthermore, I hate to carry things—bags especially. One bag mi
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