ever, to end in a small, uninteresting village. They traversed a street flanked on each side by farm wagons and stopped at the railway depot. Having paid the driver, Sallet left Peewee on a settee in the waiting room while he bought the tickets. This meant, Peewee lugubriously decided, that they were going very far indeed. Directions were not known to him, and in his nervousness, when the train finally thundered in, he could not tell the way that it was going. Seated beside Sallet in the car, he looked uneasily out of the window whenever they passed through villages, but looked about the car when there were only fields outside.
At the end of some two hours, it became plain that the villages were getting closer together. After looking at one of them Peewee only had time to take one or sometimes two bites of the sandwich with which Sallet had provided him, before they came to another. They passed presently a wide-spread factory with many little houses grouped about it; then a whole string of factories. He put his sandwich down upon the windowsill and, forgetting it, stared out con-
