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`` The railroad only takes ordinary messages as a matter of convenience . But wait ! That door 's open and there 's a fire in the waiting-room , you see . Just because this card says the agent and operator wo n't be here till five o'clock does n't mean that he 's gone out of town . Besides , I 'll see my friend , Jim Watrous . '' This was the gardener and general factotum at Colonel Van Dyne 's . The Poketown school-teacher hurried away , and left Janice and Marty sitting together in the railroad station .