Springs at two in the
morning
Quickly she took off her shoes and holding them in her hands went out into the hall in her stockinged feet . Her father came heavily up the stairs past her as she stood breathless with her body pressed against the wall in the hallway . How quick and alert her mind had become ! There was a train Eastward bound toward Chicago that passed through Willow Springs at two in the morning . She would not wait for it . She would walk the eight miles to the next town to the east . That would get her out of town .