1:30
But they 're ugly things to track a chap out by , you know . Why , I knew a young fellow , much your age and build , borrowed a whole sheaf of 'em and went up north , and made up his mind he 'd have a high old time . He did slip through a fiver ; but -- would you believe it ? -- the next he tried on , they were down on him like shooting stars , and he 's another two years to do on the mill before he can come another trip by the 1:30 . They all fancy this train . '' This style of talk , much as it amused my fellow-passengers and interested the man in the corner , made me feel in a most painful position . My looks and blushes , I am aware , were most compromising ; and my condition generally , without luggage , without rug , without even a newspaper , enveloped me in such an atmosphere of mystery and suspicion that I half began to wonder whether I was not an absconding forger myself .