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`` Then put it away , and open it when you arrive home . '' `` Thank you , sir . '' Fred 's attention was taken up by his duties as train boy , and he gave no thought to the package , though he wondered at the moment what it contained . The train left at 8:43 , and was not due in Jersey City till 10:10 P.M. . At Port Jervis a young lady came on board dressed in a very plain and quiet manner . In his rounds through the train Fred stopped at her seat with a pile of recent novels under his arm and asked her to buy . `` No , thank you , '' she answered courteously , and Fred observed that her face was very sad .