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On the other hand , why should they wait for the latest train , rather than proceed by the first available in the morning ? Why but because Calendar and Mulready were to wait for Stryker to join them on the _ Alethea _ ? Very well , then ; if the wind held and Stryker knew his business , there would be another passenger on that train , in addition to the Calendar party . Making mental note of the fact that the boat-train for Flushing and London was scheduled to leave Antwerp daily at 8:21 p. m. , Kirkwood rustled the leaves to find out whether or not other tours had been planned , found evidences of none , and carefully restored the guide to the locker , lest inadvertently the captain should pick it up and see what Kirkwood had seen . An hour later he went on deck . The skies had blown clear and the brigantine was well in land-bound waters and still footing a rattling pace . The river-banks had narrowed until , beyond the dikes to right and left , the country-side stretched wide and flat , a plain of living green embroidered with winding roads and quaint Old-World hamlets whose red roofs shone like dull fire between the dark green foliage of dwarfed firs .