three in the
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The `` Ooff ! '' was accompanied by one final lunge of Bones 's long legs . At midnight Bones was sitting on the platform at King 's Cross , alternately smoking a large pipe and singing tuneless songs . They told him that the next train from York would not arrive until three in the morning . `` That does n't worry me , old thing . I 'll wait all night . '' `` Expecting somebody , sir ? ''