4:11
Year after year we watch strangers get off the train and turn around three times , in the way a stranger does when he tries to orient himself and locate the nearest hotel . We get acquainted with those strangers , and in the next week we discover their business and antecedents and politics and preferences in jokes , and whether they pull for the Chicago Cubs or the White Sox . In two weeks they are old-time citizens and go down with us to welcome the newcomers . Henry Broar came to us on the 4:11 . I remember he wore a loppy hat and needed a shave that day , and we did n't assess him very highly . But he had a whacking law practice inside of a year , ran for county judge two years later , and now we swell up to the danger point when people mention Congressman Broar , and let it slip modestly that we are intimate enough with Hank to trade shirts with him . I remember well the day two imposing strangers got off of Number Eleven , and made the town nearly explode with curiosity by walking out to the Dover farm at the edge of town and pacing it off this way and that .