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It was impossible to be serious with Tom Daly, and I didn't try it. Instead, I headed the procession to the dining car provided especially for our party, and after that "dull care" had nothing to do with the case. We had a special sleeper for our use, but, as I remember It, there wasn't a great deal of sleeping done that first night out. The situation was too exciting and too new to admit of it. The ladies of the party may have made the attempt, but I don't see how they could have accomplished it. Early In the evening Mrs. Spalding, A. (J.'s mother, a stately, white-haired woman, who is still living at the age of ninety-three, In behalf of the ladies of the company, accorded us permission to smoke, and by the time they were ready to retire the asmosphere was so charged with cigar mist that slumber must have been difficult. However, I can't speak from experience, as I didn't try it. I knew better. The rolling of the chipB at the further end of the car would have made It impossible.
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